017. Conscious wellness: Nurturing ourselves to true health

When We Are Healed

017. Conscious wellness: Nurturing ourselves to true health – with Valerie Robinson

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017. Conscious wellness: Nurturing ourselves to true health – with Valerie Robinson

Navigating health & wellness through a spiritual lens

Rieko Yamanaka

Apr 30, 2025

Transcript

True health is this deep, spiritual understanding that we are not the victims of the world that we’re in.

—Valerie Robinson

There’s a very exciting movement taking root in the health & wellness space – one that’s guided by the energy and wisdom of the divine feminine. It’s a call to soften, listen, and flow with natural rhythms instead of pushing ourselves harder. To love and nourish ourselves instead of whipping ourselves into shape. To become quiet and turn within for guidance instead of inundating ourselves with external information.

Today’s guest is someone who not only leads this movement but really lives it. Please welcome my dear friend Valerie Robinson!

Valerie Robinson is a holistic wellness coach, homeschooling mother of two, and founder of Wild Hope Botanicals, a small-batch skincare business. Her work is guided by deep trust in the body’s wisdom, the cycles of nature, and the divine support always available to us.

In this episode, Valerie shares about her journey from victimhood to freedom as she navigated through allopathic and holistic medicine, and how she found her own gentle, loving approach to health by reconnecting to nature and her true self. We dive into subjects that are seldom talked about in the health & wellness space, and offer insights that higher spiritual perspectives can bring to the challenges on our healing journey.

We talk about:

From victimhood to freedom: Valerie’s journey from a traumatic experience with dermatological treatments to discovering holistic health
How fear can hijack the pursuit of health, including attachment to control, obsession, loss of freedom, and even eating disorders like orthorexia.
Honoring the cycles and rhythms of nature in our bodies
The dance between spiritual and practical: knowing we are not the body yet having a body
The challenges of learning to love and nurture ourselves first instead of over-giving

… and more!