#35: Eyren Powell
"Everyone is part of the great mystery. Anything that triggers you in others points to a wound within yourself.”
Eyren (@empyrealsubstance) is a lymphatic drainage practitioner and student of herbalism at ArborVitae. This feature contains some extras — scroll all the way down for some lymph love :)
#35: Eyren Powell
Cancer/Taurus/Sagittarius
New York, NY
What does health, or being healthy, mean to you?
The etymology of health derives from hælth or hale, which means “whole.” To me, this means to be in the world sound and in accordance with mind-body-spirit. True to you. Indivisible.
How would you describe your current lifestyle?
My life is very full. I work in the city as a lymphatic drainage practitioner, go to herbalism school upstate, and am very social when I have any time off. For years I was running around and partying hard. That’s all come to a halt as I have given myself the gift of the proper education I always longed for. It’s a very blessed full life, brimming with self-leniency and compassion.
How do you start and end your days?
I wake up at 6 every morning to walk my dog and watch the sunrise while wearing a HigherDOSE red light cap. Make myself ceremonial cacao with reishi decoction I have simmering in my slow cooker and add Perfect Supplements bovine gelatin (I like the consistency, as it is thicker than collagen). I light Tibetan rope incense and speak aloud what I am grateful for while sipping my cacao. I give myself a face massage with topical transdermal vitamin C, coenzyme Q10, carnosine+DMAE.
I then make four pasture-raised eggs with za’atar and cultured ghee from Pure Indian Foods. I take justthrive Joot, which is a probiotic with bifidobacterium longum, a specific strain to reduce stress, anxiety and depression (wink to the gut-brain axis). I take Thorne Vitamin D + K2, and tinctured herbs that I blend, currently: schisandra, dong quai, white peony, rose petal, skullcap, and prickly ash.
I do lymphatic work from 8:00-2:30 and then go home. Once home, I take a long walk with my dog then get back to do homework (which consists of doing herbal consultations) and read. I make wild-caught salmon and sauerkraut to eat while doing this, then I take my dog and meet up with friends to embrace and belly-laugh, maybe we eat dinner out. Once in for the night I turn on all my red light lamps to help wind down. I make myself tea which currently consists of meadowsweet, plantain, lemon balm, cleavers, and tulsi. I throw on my silk bonnet, massage my face with topical transdermal glutathione, cycloastragenol, and resveratrol, then slide on my silk eye mask and sink into bed to listen to a book on tape (most likely something alchemy-related). I am asleep by 9:30.