Hi, I’m Laura Rubin.

Clinical Herbalist &
Holistic Gut Health Coach

My life's passion is to help you successfully feel better in your body, integrating a holistic approach to gut health. 

Similar to you, I was on the digestion struggle bus in a major way! I’ve had Crohn’s Disease since 1999 and I spent years of my life feeling incredibly sick, including undergoing two major surgeries.

Nurture grew out of my desire to find a natural way to get better.

That’s when herbalism shined this beautiful light! It makes sense, this is the way that every community healed up until recent history.

Herbalism & Holistic Health

I wholeheartedly honor the traditions that make herbal medicine available to us today.

There’s true beauty in connecting with a plant. To feel its influence on your body. To feel the joy it brings on an emotional and spiritual level. As I like to say, it’s an opportunity to romance the plants!

I honor the wisdom of the plants, my teachers and all the longstanding traditions from indigenous communities who make herbal medicine accessible to us today.

Moving along the path of herbalism, I have trained over 800 hours with incredible mentors throughout the world.  I am an alumna of the California School of Herbal Studies, established by the beloved Rosemary Gladstar. 

I am a certified Clinical Herbalist and Flower Essence Practitioner and have certificates in Trauma-informed Healing from the Herbal Clinical Perspective, as well as in Bioregional Materia Medica.

My herbal practice is rooted in Western Folk herbalism with a blend of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Wise Women Folk traditions.

Staying true to the belief of making holistic health accessible, I volunteer with Herbalists without Borders.

Growing up with an autoimmune disease has its “humorous” moments.

This is the actual drawing that a colorectal surgeon gave me about my perianum and the surgery he needed to do.

I would often play “dress-up” with hospital gowns through countless colonoscopies, MRIs, CT scans, endoscopies and more.

And I was on a heavy immunosuppressant medication for over 16 years which helped in some ways and also had big side effects.

I share these images to help normalize the experiences!

If you’re one of the billions of people who also suffers with digestive health issues, then you know that there are a variety of challenging experiences that we go through.

Freedom in gut health looks different for all of us!

I’m here to support you on your journey.

I’m here to offer you a compassionate, judgement-free space for healing!

This is about your vision for success and helping you get the results you want.

I’m never going to tell you to go off medications. If those are helping you, that’s great! If you want to try to go off them, I’ll work with integrity to support you in that, alongside your healthcare providers.

I’m here to help you integrate a variety of beneficial practices that best resonate with you.

GROWING WITH NURTURE

Herbal teas for the mind-gut connection.

I launched Nurture in 2021, as an herbal tea company that’s all-focused on the mind-gut connection. These herbal teas support digestion, sleep, energy, focus, stress and more. Every blend is consciously crafted with sustainable, 100% organic and wildcrafted ingredients.


I offer these on a separate webpage because I want to help keep this site as educational as possible. Also I acknowledge that some folks might just want teas and some may want to engage in a more robust gut health program. I welcome you to enjoy all of it, however you like!