One of the most important ingredients in healing of any kind is one too easily discounted or overlooked. Drawing us to herbalism, filling us with purpose, and activating our lives’ formulas is a distillation of hope from the stretch and reach of plants as they sprout and spread. Their active elements not only survive seemingly insurmountable heat, but are vitally transformed by it—purified and propelled. It’s at the very heart of any kind of healing work, as we’re impelled by empathy and concern to hope for the best results, for reductions in suffering, for the fastest and longest lasting recoveries.

A Code of Honor is a personal standard of conduct measured, attributed, and continuously tested not by convention or authorities, but by us ourselves. It’s an unbreakable agreement that we make to our missions and our world, containing standards and stipulations we can’t just weaken or amend depending on shifting circumstances. It’s always evolving as our self-awareness and understandings of the world grow, yet it remains uncompromisable and resolute—an oath reflecting our values and priorities; our calling; purpose and aims.