Most skin care advice starts and ends at the surface. This workshop starts somewhere else entirely.
Your skin is the largest organ in your body, operating as a living barrier, a detox pathway, a hormonal messenger, and a reflection of what is happening in your liver, your gut, your blood sugar, and your nervous system. When any of those systems are under strain, the skin speaks up. This webinar is about learning to listen.
In this deep-dive, I bring together pharmacy, herbalism, and functional nutrition to walk you through the root causes of common skin conditions — and what you can actually do about them. We look at acne not as a hygiene problem but as a chronic inflammatory condition with internal drivers. We trace the liver’s role as the body’s primary detoxification system, and what happens to the skin when that system is overwhelmed. We explore the gut-skin axis, the impact of high glycemic foods on insulin and sebum production, and the nutrients your skin needs to repair, protect, and glow.
Then we get into the plant medicine: liver herbs, demulcents, bitters, astringents, anti-inflammatories, and the specific botanicals that support each layer of the healing process.
Beauty is not skin-deep; it’s the result of building the right foundation.
What we cover:
- The skin as a living organ: its functions, its relationship to detox, and what it is trying to tell you
- Common skin conditions and the internal imbalances behind them
- Liver health in TCM, Ayurveda, and Western herbalism — and why it matters for your complexion
- Liver-supportive foods, juices, and botanicals: milk thistle, dandelion, turmeric, schisandra, white peony, dong quai
- Bitters for digestion and liver-gallbladder activation
- The gut-skin connection: food triggers, elimination diets, and healing the gut lining
- High glycemic foods, insulin disruption, and acne — what the research actually shows
- Gut-healing foods: bone broth, collagen, L-glutamine, vitamin C
- Key skin nutrients: vitamins A, C, D, E, K, zinc, magnesium, selenium, and how to get them from food
- Demulcents for soothing inflamed tissue: marshmallow, licorice, calendula
- Anti-inflammatory herbs: turmeric, meadowsweet, willow bark, licorice
- Astringents for leaky gut and pore health: berberine plants, witch hazel, oak bark
- The cortisol-testosterone-acne pathway and how stress drives breakouts
- Lifestyle foundations: mindful eating, movement, and avoiding the dietary triggers that keep skin inflamed
This workshop is for you if:
You are dealing with chronic skin issues and tired of surface-level solutions, or you are a practitioner who wants a more integrative framework for supporting clients with inflammatory skin conditions.
Clear skin is a downstream effect of a body that feels supported. This is where that work begins.
If this way of looking at medicine resonates with you, I go much deeper into plant medicine, the body, and evidence-informed herbalism inside my Herbalism 101 program.
I also host live paid webinars that go deeper into specific topics like herbal tradition, phytochemistry and clinical approaches — you can find the current offerings linked below.