I first met Jamie back in 2010 in Ithaca, NY. I was fresh out of graduate school and took the first art therapy job I could find which happened to be at an eating disorder treatment program. Jamie was the program manager. We quickly got to know each other and became close friends, bonding over shared interests in mental health, yoga, and creativity. In 2012 we both left Ithaca and went our separate ways—Jamie moved to Seattle where she opened her yoga studio, The Grinning Yogi, and I moved to Gainesville, FL where I took a job as an art therapist at an inpatient eating disorder treatment program…

Veronica “Vero” Light is an herbalist, plant educator, medicine maker, aromatherapist, Reiki practitioner, gardener, plant lover, dirt worshiper, and co-founder of Spirit Wise Herbs & Magick in Portsmouth, NH. My husband met her in October at a Witches Market and brought me home some Spirit Wise dream balm which smells divine and has now become an essential part of my evening ritual and dream work practice. I wanted to learn more about herbalism as it relates to sleep and dreaming and asked Vero if she would let me interview her. She said yes!