32. Nourishing skin care rituals, finding balance and forming a deeper relationship with herbs: Sue Daly on Self Care with Herbs

Sue Daly is a Naturopath of 25 years, with a wealth of experience and a background in education. Her passion is herbal medicine and she’s recently released Sappho, a divine skincare range featuring healing botanicals. 

During our chat, Sue shares how a love of spending time in nature as a young child, led to a calling to complete a home remedy herbal medicine course when her children were young. Through this course, she felt empowered to care for her young family, which sparked a passion and led to further study. Sue experienced her first introduction to root cause medicine when her daughter was being supported by a local herbalist- this was a light bulb moment!

Sue spent her formative years as a Naturopath in the iconic Traditional Medicinals in the Northern Rivers of NSW, before opening her own practice The Bangalow Naturopath and finally settling in Illuka as The Herb Woman, where she practices and creates her beautiful skin care range.

Sue believes that ‘Self care is keeping yourself well enough to be able to do all things you need to do…’

She believes it’s about setting healthy boundaries and finding balance, both of which we discuss in depth.

Sue’s a bit of a doer and confesses to often being drawn to staying up late researching or creating her art…she’s known for burning the candle at both ends..

We chat about how it took a loud message from the universe and her body for Sue to ask...Why have I landed here again? Sometimes it’s from these moments that the most growth occurs..

Sue’s most recent passion is using herbs topically for self care. We delve into the birth of her gorgeous Sappho skincare range as well as the beautiful simplicity of herbal infused oils- Sue describes the most nourishing morning ritual, which allows her to enter an almost meditative state. 

We chat about how the benefits of self care really start to flow as soon as we make the decision to honour ourselves, before we even start to make any changes…allowing ourselves to flow into a state of receiving…

Our conversation weaves and flows into many places, we touch on how we support our clients, the beauty of drop dosing, the benefits of getting to know a couple of herbs really well and the one herb we reach for to support women in all phases of life… 

Sue is such a wise woman, and she generously shares so much during this interview, I promise you’re going to love it!

You can learn more about Sue and find her glorious Sappho skin care range (I can't live without her beautiful bio regenerative face cream!) via her website https://www.theherbwoman.com.au and also keep in the loop via her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theherbwoman/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theherbwoman.

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