I used to love making things as a child while imagining they were mystical potions that could bring about some kind of change or transformation.
I do not think that part of me ever truly went away.

Now as an adult, I find myself brewing teas blended by my own hands instead. Each one still feels like a small potion to me – steeped with intention, carrying comfort, healing, warmth, or some small kind of magic back to the drinker.
I am currently enrolled in a beautiful clinical herbalism program through Heart of Herbs, but my relationship with plants stretches much further back than school.
It goes back to childhood curiosity.
To wandering outside and wondering about the things growing around me. To noticing how nature works together so beautifully. To realizing that the earth so often provides exactly what we need.
In class, I spend time learning about plants, herbs, and all the ways they support the body’s systems. I learn about their actions, energetics, constituents, and traditional uses.
But when I am standing in my kitchen working with the herbs in my own pantry… that is where they begin to feel alive to me.
That is where I feel they speak.
Not just through science or healing properties alone, but through spirit too.

It is one thing to craft a tea blend for gentle digestion or stress relief. It is another thing entirely to work with herbs and feel their deeper presence – the way some seem to roar into our lives urging us to slow down, while others feel like warmth, comfort, courage, or love.
The more I grow in this practice, the more I find myself reconnecting not only to the plants themselves, but to that childlike wonder I used to carry so naturally.
And somehow, because of that, these teas feel even more magical now.
Especially when blended slowly, intentionally, and lovingly by my own hands.
What is one way you have found magic in herbs, plants, or ingredients?
Do they speak to you too?