Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025The Flexner Report marginalized midwifery & established the domination of obstetrics. It also shut down all medical schools that were accessible to Black people. Their misogyny exceeded their racism, but only just. A mutually consultative relationship between midwifery & obstetrics is vital. 020
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025We can afford food, clean water, housing, health care, a living wage & education for everyone. We just can't afford endless welfare for billionaires. Serve the needy, not the greedy. 🌿💜🌿 140
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Add spice & nutrition to your cooking. Fresh organic herbs that taste amazing. Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 010
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Come for a weed walk with me! What can you do with Dock?? (Rumex crispus) 010
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I use Calendula to make infused oils for my skin salves. From my garden today: 010
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025For your bathing bliss. Bath salts & botanicals. Me, I'm a bath tragic & I much prefer this luxury to bubble baths. Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 020
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025When you have a pain in the bum, there's this. Dunno why it works so good, but customers keep coming back for more. Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 010
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Home-made Elderberry Syrup from fresh organic elderberries. This stuff is amazing for coughs, colds & sore throats. Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I make all my umbilical cord ties myself, using hand-dyed threads. These are a lovely & gentle alternative to the usual plastic clips. Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 100
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025My Divine Bath & Body Oil contains Magnesium to really help you relax & take the kinks out of your muscles. Plus - how cute are these Egyptian blown-glass vials? 010
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Umbilical cord ties are easy to use. Wait til the cord is flat, empty & white. Then tie nice & tight & sever with sterile scissors. This set of 10 is $85.00 AUD Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Mood Lift Tea with St John's Wort. To support your liver, nourish your nervous system & lift your spirits. Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Baby Sadie, just born, with her organic cotton "Born at Home" onesie Shop at www.blissfulherbs.com.au 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025"I loved your After Pain-ease tea. I got them pretty bad even after first birth. So doubtlessly going to have them again. I will definitely be replenishing anything I need again!" - Stephanie This tea & tincture eases those intense uterine cramps, as the uterus is involuting. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Omg I'm gonna spam you with videos now!! My daughters both have partners, who are beautiful humans who just happen to have been born somewhere other than Australia. This is what happened when they stood up for immigrants - in Australia, a NATION of immigrants. And why N@zis attacked my socials. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025If you want to know why neo-Nazis attacked my socials & deactivated my accounts & lost me 50K followers (and of course Meta are useless, do nothing except give me the runaround) - it's because I defended my daughters, who were assaulted when they counter-protested a racist anti-immigration march. 120
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025This is Jacqueline with her newborn baby boy, taken by her eldest daughter just after he was born. Jacqueline messaged me: "Hi Julie, Just a quick message while bub is asleep. I can't thank you enough for the gift of your tinctures. I gave birth to my son almost 2 years ago now .... 1/ 100
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Cord burning bowls & placenta bowls, for the gentle third stage & slow post-partum. Hand made by my beautiful friend! www.blissfulherbs.com.au/product-plac... 010
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Look what my precious daughter picked for me! I can't believe the bounty that the beautiful countryside around here offers us! These violets grow wild all over the place at this time of year (early spring). Their scent is just divine! 110
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025This one is purely just for fun. I love baths, and I just felt like a really lovely, luxurious bath oil. And, I love these hand-blown Egyptian glass ornamental bottles! There's something just Narnia about them. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025"And rain will make the flowers grow" - and it did. This is today's crop of Calendula & other petals. The Calendula is magnificent for using in bath blends & to make infused oil - it is rich in saponins which are anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial & antioxidant ... 1/ 110
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Well this is encouraging! My inbox: "I just wanted to say that after a few days of using the herbal liquid I have more milk to give! Your stuff was recommended to me by my lactation consultant. I will be purchasing more! Your products are amazing. I love the taste of the liquid by the way!" 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025When the winter lurgy strikes, it's good to have these in the house. With all natural ingredients & no nasties, these teas & herbal Cough Syrup - oh, and the Elderberry Syrup of course! - are our go-to remedies. Available now at: www.blissfulherbs.com.au 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I want you to appreciate my pretty cat inviting you to tea. She's called Poppy but sometimes we call her Hashbrown ... 050
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Omg I better get Kaz's menopause book too! It's TIME! 🤪😭🙄 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Kaz Cooke wrote a fabulous book on pregnancy called Up the Duff & another brilliant book with Naturopath Ruth Trickey called Women's Troubles (I refer to it often). She's a wonderful Australian & a bloody good follow. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025The personal is political, and the political is personal. I'm a woman living in a patriarchy, & I've known this for a long time. I'm for equality, social justice, human rights for ALL humans, and for the Earth. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I talked to my lovely Bosnian farmer friend who grows the elderberries I use to make this syrup. I'm so relieved, as I hadn't heard from him in ages. He's having surgery next year so we have hopes that's going to help his serious diagnosis. He's such a beautiful soul. 1/ 100
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025It blows me away that my 14yo boy is flying around in that lil plane up there. We live in the mountains, far away from decent opportunities for sports, dance, the arts etc. But - we're close to an airfield! And he's obsessed with planes! He won't read fiction but he will read his flight manual! 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Organic bamboo breast pads. You won't know you'll need them - until you do! #breastfeeding #nursing #blissfulherbs www.blissfulherbs.com.au 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 17/08/2025NEW! The Blissful Herbs shop now has this luscious kit to help you get through the queasy months of early pregnancy. This triple-pronged approach of liver support, herbal tea to soothe & protect the mucous membranes & settle the stomach, plus hydration electrolyte sachets 100
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I made this nutritious seed sprinkle with the pregnant vegetarian in mind It's a delicious way to keep up your protein in pregnancy - or anytime Nuts & seeds are nutrient-dense powerhouses. This sprinkle contains superfoods like Sesame seeds, Hemp Seeds, Flaxseeds, Dulse & Mountain Pepperberries 100
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 17/08/2025I just made up my last batch of Elderberry Syrup for the season. It's bitter-sweet, because the lovely farmer friend from Bosnia who grows these wonderful organic berries, is very ill with a serious diagnosis. He's no longer answering my texts & I'm so worried for him. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025It's the time of year when wild violets pop up all around our part of the world. That means two things: - time for me to pick, dry & infuse violets - and time for me to brave the icy waters of the upper Yarra. #herbs #violets #herbalmedicine #yarrariver 030
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I think they will discover that FORCING women to reproduce, and removing all other options, is not an effective way to improve reproductive outcomes & increase the birth rate. It's almost as if treating women decently is the only effective tactic!?? Imagine. 🙄 010
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025It's funny the positive effect that having an affordable house in which to *put* the babies has on birth rates. I'm trying to think, why haven't they thought of that? Let me see ... hmm ... Nah, got nothing 🤷♀️ 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025 If you're scared of giving birth - then good. You should be. It's only reasonable. Because USA has the worst maternal mortality rate of any similar peer nation. And it's even worse for Black women. So, scared is the most sensible position to start from. 1/ 110
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025This is my Immunity Bliss Tea - one of the organic herbal blends I use Calendula in. Who knew that the petals of the pretty Cornflower & Calendula offer immune system support! Herbs are miracles. This delicious tea also has Ginger, Lemongrass, Echinacea & Elderflower. 100
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Spring is coming, and that is when I will pick fresh green herbs, such as Sage, Calendula, Rosemary, Lavender, Plantain, Comfrey & Thyme, dry them, then infuse them in raw local honey for a month or so - to make this fabulous herbal honey. Great for a sore throat - or for the healing perineum. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Yes indeed. It was always about power. Not morality. We see the exact same dynamics now. 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025My birth affirmation cards come with bakers twine & craft pegs so you can hang them in your birth space. Available here: www.blissfulherbs.com.au/product-kit-... 000
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Can you guess what it's for? It's a cord burning bowl - you use candles to burn through the umbilical cord, an alternative to severing it with sterile scissors. This bowl was handcrafted by my friend Renee, the talented ms_potter #cordburning #cordburningbowl #thirdstage #pottery 131
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Why I crochet ... And what I crochet #cordtie #umbilicalcordties #wristbands #thirdstage 040
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I made some unique birth affirmation cards. They're quite different to the usual. Each had a particular focus word that is about REAL birth - such as, 'Strength' 'Deep' or 'Move', with an encouragment based on that theme word. #ancientgates #birth #birthaffirmations #birthaffirmationcards 030
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Someone wanted Lemon Balm lip balm to help them with their cold sores, because Lemon Balm has anti-viral properties that are active against Herpes simplex. So I made them this: 050