A Nature-Inspired Gift Guide for the Holidays

Gifts That Empower

If you’re looking for gifts that go beyond the usual sweaters and candles, this year’s guide gives you fresh ideas for cultivating health, hands-on learning, and reconnecting with the natural world. From DIY herbal remedies and wilderness survival resources to foraging essentials, online courses, and books that inspire self-reliance, these gifts are perfect for anyone who loves learning, creating, or simply feeling more grounded. Whether you’re shopping for a seasoned outdoor enthusiast or someone just beginning their wellness journey, you’ll find thoughtful, practical ideas to support a healthier, more empowered year ahead. Here’s to a bright and joyful season!

Holiday Guide at a Glance

Anxiety & Stress Blend | Travel Pack | Eastern Blend | Apothecary Gift Card | Books | Herbal Academy Master Course | SuperCube | Wilderness Long-Term Survival Academy | Bushcraft Firestarter Necklace | Foraging Bandana

Keep reading for full details below!

Happiness, Energy, & Clarity

The holidays are often filled with happy family gatherings and joyful memories, but it’s also a season of heightened stress and anxiety with long to-do lists and jammed-packed schedules. This is why I turn to our Anxiety & Stress Blend to calm the nervous system, promote restful sleep, and ease feelings of overwhelm. It also helps to clear any brain fog so that I can move through these busy days with clarity and focus. Needless to say, this blend is an excellent gift for anyone who is feeling the pressures of the season and needs an extra level of support!

Supporting Robust Health

Along with gatherings, shopping, and travel, there is oftentimes an unwelcome guest during the holidays: contagious illness. Our Travel Pack is an outstanding ally in helping to maintain health during and after seasonal celebrations. I never leave home without these herbal remedies found in the Travel Pack: immune-supporting Elderberry Tincture, Usnea throat spray, and a tin of our All-Purpose (First Aid) Salve. Each helps to support the body when contagious bugs are making the rounds.

Next is our Eastern Blend, a powerful formulation of Chinese Skullcap, Japanese Honeysuckle, Japanese Knotweed, and Cordyceps Medicinal Mushroom. These research-backed herbs support a wide-range of health concerns, support anti-inflammatory action, and promote a robust immune system to help you and your loved ones stay healthy this holiday season.

For a last-minute gift idea, consider sending an apothecary gift card. It arrives via email in minutes and can be used for our entire line of tinctures, salves, and bundles.

The Holistic Guide to Wellness is another excellent option for family and friends who appreciate a comprehensive, holistic, and natural approach to wellness. This book serves as an invaluable guide in providing a clear, integrated roadmap for supporting health and wellbeing at home.

Young Explorers

For over 30 years, I have shared my love of nature and plant wisdom with kids of all ages — sparked by childhood moments exploring the outdoors. My First Plant Book turns that same wonder into a playful adventure, inspiring children to unplug, head outside, and start discovering the world around them. It is a unique, fun, and educational gift for those young explorers in your family.

Energized Mornings Without Caffeine

As someone managing an autoimmune condition, I’m careful about what I use — and SuperCube™ has become a staple in my morning routine for over two years. This delicious, caffeine-free blend gives me steady energy without crashes, supports immunity, balances hormones, and calms stress with potent adaptogens that nurture adrenal health. It’s rich in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, plus keto, IMF, and OMAD friendly. Made with 13 powerful ingredients like heirloom cacao, MCT oil, ghee, and medicinal mushrooms (cordyceps, lion’s mane, reishi, and turkey tail), it’s the perfect complement to my Mushroom FOURtress Bundle and Balanced Gut Blend.

Interested in giving it a try? Use the code “NICOLEISSUPER” for 20% off your order!

DIY Natural Health

Do you have friends or family members who prefer a more hands-on approach to natural health? The Forgotten Home Apothecary, Lost Book of Herbal Remedies I & II, and my online Herbal Academy are perfect for gifting!

The Forgotten Home Apothecary is a beautifully illustrated book featuring full-color photos and more than 250 time-tested remedies — including recipes for poultices, tinctures, decoctions, salves, syrups, infused oils, and more.

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies is for both beginner and seasoned herbalists. It covers identification with color photos, edible and medicinal uses, harvesting instructions, a medicinal index, and much more! The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies II is packed with hundreds of new plant profiles, clear ID tips, harvesting advice, high-quality photos, and simple remedy recipes; this book expands on the first with entirely new herbs and remedies.

My online Herbal Academy Master Course is an excellent gift for those who are a beginner eager to explore the world of medicinal herbs and foraging or looking to expand existing knowledge. This course is tailored to empower everyone to take charge of their health and self-sufficiency, while reducing the need for costly medical visits.

Exploring The Natural World

For those on your list who would like to deepen their knowledge of wilderness survival and foraging, the following resources and tools are unique and useful gifts!

Learn to survive and thrive with my online Wilderness Long-Term Survival Academy. Lay a strong foundation and gain the peace of mind of being prepared to survive just about anything with little more than a well-made backpack and the knowledge in this course.

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods will become a favorite reference on the journey into foraging. Learn how to ethically harvest, store, and use the abundance of wild foods that surround us.

My Wilderness Long-Term Survival Guide helps to cultivate deep self-reliance in nature, transform the wild into a second home, create a self-sufficient sanctuary away from the demands of modern life, and much more!

Inspired by traditional flint and steel, the Bushcraft Firestarter Necklace is wearable, functional, and ready when it’s needed most. It’s one of my favorite tools that looks good too!

Part bandana, part field guide, part conversation starter, this wearable Foraging Field Reference Bandana highlights 12 of the most common wild plants and fungi in North America with clear icons and uses. Whether you’re a seasoned forager or just getting started, it’s a hands-on way to learn, reference, and share the art of wild food gathering.

Giving the Gift of Wellness, Wisdom, and Self-Sufficiency

With holiday shopping in full-swing, choosing gifts that nurture health, spark self-sufficiency, and build real confidence in the natural world can make this season special for your family and friends. Whether it’s herbal allies, DIY online courses, wilderness tools, or books that inspire resilience, these gifts support a lifestyle that’s grounded, capable, and connected. Explore the full collection of our handcrafted remedies in the apothecary, along with my books, courses, and favorite things at NicoleApelian.com.

Here’s to gifting empowerment, wellness, and a sense of readiness for whatever the new year holds!

Nicole Apelian

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