Hi! I’m Rachel Lieberman…

Wife to Buddy Lieberman.

Mama to two boys (one in Heaven, and one in my arms).

Forever a student of whole-person health: nutrition + food sensitivities, herbs + essential oils, exercise + alignment, women’s health, pregnancy + birth, emotional + spiritual health, and martial arts. (Currently an advanced herbalist in training.)

I often choose a “focus word” for the year. For 2023, my word was inspired by my martial arts training: kiai, which means “spirit shout.”

A kiai is like a battle cry that collects everything from your core—emotional and physical—and projects it outward toward the obstacle in front of you. (Think Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song” vibes.)

It amazes me how often the word I choose ends up being a little prophecy…a hint of the still, small voice I’ll hear behind me saying, over and over, “This is the way, walk in it” (Isaiah 30:21).

The last few years have held some heart-pounding leaps of faith, some breathtaking blessings, and some staggering losses. I married my best friend. I lost my relationship with my parents. My first son never breathed after he was born. My second son started crying before my husband could even hand him up to me.

And through all of that, I have felt a persistent call to keep using my voice. To “speak the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:11-16). To “write the vision [and] make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it” (Habbakuk 2:2-3).

I never expected this to be my testimony, my spirit shout, but here it is:

If I didn’t have my own very personal faith in God, my own 25-years-strong relationship with Jesus, and a love too deep both ways to walk away from…I would’ve happily walked away from Christianity by now.

But God is gracious beyond measure. He has provided unfailingly for every true need, and He has met needs and bound up wounds I didn’t know I had.

And He keeps calling me out into the Wilderness with Him…asking me for more trust, more faithfulness, more courage.

I’m Rachel Lieberman, daughter of the King, bought with Jesus’ blood.

Still broken…

But still healing and growing.

My Education (So Far)

As someone who is perpetually curious about whole-person health and wellness, I’m often working through a book or coursework about a topic I want to understand more deeply. Below is a summary of the education I’ve pursued so far (not counting my associate degree in English and Communications).

If you want to know my whole educational journey so far, read my post Herbwifery, My 3rd Childhood Dream: A Little Background on How I Got to Where I Am Now.

For more information on the birth-related coursework I studied recently, read my post (Pt. 2) The Birth Story of Ioannes James: Finding (and Studying) "Freebirth".

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Childhood and Teen Years:

• The Complete Medicinal Herbal, by Penelope Ody

• Library books. All the library books.

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Adulthood:

• School of Natural Healing:

  • Family Herbalist Certification

• Aromahead Institute School of Essential Oil Studies:

  • Intro to Essential Oils

  • Aromatherapy for Natural Living

  • Body Butters and Lip Balms

• The Human Path / Herbal Medics Academy:

  • Austere Medicine - Trauma Focus, w/Intro to Herbal Medicine for Beginners

  • Wilderness First Aid Certification Course (certification expired), w/Herbal First Aid Course

• Freebirth Society

  • The Complete Guide to Freebirth

• Indie Birth Association

  • 13 Moons: Epic Education for the Birthing Year

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Currently:

• The Herbal Academy:

  • Clinical Herbalist study path

    • Introductory Herbal Course - complete!

    • Intermediate Herbal Course - complete!

    • Advanced Herbal Course - not started yet