I’m Winter DeWolf — a Western Herbal Medicine practitioner, nutritionist, and somatic-awareness guide in Houston, Texas. Everything I make and teach grew out of the years I spent trying to get my own body back.
In 2015 a car accident left me in chronic pain the doctors told me I’d simply have to live with. I was told I might never carry groceries normally again. The medications barely touched it — and the ones that did took more from me than they gave back. I was twenty-something and quietly grieving the body I used to have.
Then a friend handed me turmeric. Just turmeric. It worked better than the opioids I’d been prescribed — and something in me cracked open. If a root from the spice cabinet could do this, what else had I been taught to ignore? That single moment turned into a decade of study, and eventually into Lunar Clover.
Chronic pain has a way of stripping everything down to what matters. It made me a careful listener — to plants, and to bodies. I don’t chase symptoms. I look for the pattern underneath them: where there’s heat or cold, damp or dryness, tension or depletion, and which plants speak to that. It’s the tradition of Western Herbal Medicine read through tissue states — and it’s grounded, every step, in the nutrition science I studied formally.
These days you’ll find me in the garden, teaching, blending oils by hand, and pouring tea at recovery events. The work is the same as it ever was: helping people find their way back to the wisdom their own bodies never stopped speaking.
The measurable half. My A.S. in the Applied Science of Integrated Health Sciences — specializing in Herbal Medicine — anchors every blend in real phytochemistry, pharmacology, and nutrition. I read the body through tissue states, matching a plant's known actions to your pattern, not to a single symptom.
The half science hasn't caught up to yet. Plants carry energetics, the moon keeps a rhythm, and intuition is its own kind of knowing. I honor the sacred and unseen threads in healing — without ever asking you to trade away reason to reach for them.
The living half. Healing happens in the body, not just the mind. Somatic practice is learning to hear the quiet signals your nervous system has been sending all along — and to trust them.
“Lunar Clover is the name I give to that sacred in-between space — the place where science and magic aren’t opposites. Where a clover growing by moonlight is both a plant with measurable phytochemistry and a messenger from something older than us.”
Specialization in Herbal Medicine — American College of Healthcare Sciences (ACHS), with continued study at Hawthorn University. Focus on aromatherapy integration and advanced tissue healing.
Trained in the tissue-state framework (Matthew Wood) and the American Herbalists Guild tradition of pattern-based, root-cause formulation.
Co-founder of Three Leaf Clover, co-instructor at RPM Classes, and facilitator of Tea & Recovery events — herbal care for real communities.