Real By Nature by JB

10/02/2026

🌿✨ **THE WAIT IS OVER — MY INCENSE SALES ARE OFFICIALLY LIVE!** ✨🌿

I’m so excited to finally share something I’ve been creating with my hands, my curiosity, and a whole lot of intention. 🥰🔥

**Real By Nature handcrafted incense is officially available!** 🌸🌿

Each batch is unique and thoughtfully created using **at least 5 different herbs and essential oils**, bringing together different aromas, properties, and intentions to create an experience that feels meaningful and intentional.

For me, this isn’t just about making incense. It’s also a creative way for me to share what I’m learning as I continue to **study herbs, explore their traditional uses and properties, and deepen my understanding of the intentions behind them.** 🌱📖✨

Every blend is part of that journey — a little piece of what I’m discovering, creating, and connecting with along the way.

Whether you're looking for something to accompany your **meditation, prayer, grounding, peace, reflection, focus, or simply a moment to slow down**, there’s a blend waiting for you. 🕯️💫

🌿 **SHOP THE COLLECTION:**
👉 https://www.realbynature.net/store

And before you choose your scent, **be sure to check out my Incense Description page** to learn more about each blend — including its **herbs, oils, overall makeup, and intended purpose.**

Thank you for supporting this little piece of my creative journey. 💚
I hope these blends bring a little more intention, beauty, and connection into your space.

**Real By Nature — made with nature, creativity & intention.** 🌿✨

Welcome to the Real By Nature apothecary shop. What began as a deep love for herbs, fragrance, nature, and spiritual ritual has grown into handcrafted botanical incense made slowly and intentionally in Dayton, OH. Crafted in small batches with carefully selected botanicals, aromatic herbs, essential...

09/28/2026

💫Orders for Incenses are going live this Friday 💫
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09/20/2026

The more that I pour into the universe, the more that the universe pours back into me. 💫

09/17/2026

🌍🌿 MOTHER GAIA SPEAKS THROUGH ME

What if growth doesn’t mean leaving your roots behind?

What if the Earth has been teaching us all along—through the trees, through our bodies, through our ancestry, and through the cycles of life?

I wrote this piece as a reflection on roots, growth, ancestry, divine connection, and the power that already exists within us.

The deeper I go inward, the more I recognize that nature isn’t separate from me.

I am nature.
I am rooted.
I am growing.
And I am becoming. 🌱

Read my newest reflection, “Mother Gaia Speaks Through Me,” on Real By Nature.

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https://www.realbynature.net/blog/3359941_mother-gaia-speaks-through-me

I wrote this poem as a poetic personification of the central themes that have been unfolding throughout this most recent chapter of my life: forward movement, spirituality, root-work, growth, grounding, and the quiet wisdom that comes from learning to trust the direction in which life is leading me....

09/15/2026

🔥 INCENSE IS MORE THAN A SCENT.

For centuries, incense has been used in spiritual practices as a way to create sacred space, set intentions, honor the moment, and transition into a deeper state of awareness.

🌿 Transformation — Fire transforms herbs, resins, and woods into smoke and fragrance, symbolizing release, change, and renewal.

🌬️ Intention — Rising smoke can represent prayers, gratitude, manifestations, and intentions being released into the universe.

🧘🏾‍♀️ Mindfulness — The aroma, smoke, breath, and ritual of lighting incense can help signal to your mind and body that it’s time to slow down, reflect, meditate, or reconnect.

🌹 The Plants Matter — Every botanical carries its own history, aroma, and symbolism. Rose may evoke love. Jasmine, intuition. Sandalwood, grounding. Lavender, peace. Frankincense, devotion.

✨ And sometimes, it’s simply about creating an atmosphere that feels good.

For me, incense represents the meeting place between the physical and the spiritual — something tangible that helps give form to an intention.

So when you light your incense, don’t just smell it.

Set an intention.
Take a breath.
Be present.
Let the smoke remind you that transformation is always possible. 🌿🔥

Handcrafted with intention. Made to help you create your atmosphere, your ritual, your moment.

What intention would you burn for? ✨

08/21/2026

What if the thing holding you back isn’t a lack of ability… but fear?

I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting lately, and I’m realizing just how many parts of my personality I once accepted as “this is just who I am” were actually shaped by fear.

People-pleasing.
Self-doubt.
Isolation.
Choosing safety over possibility.
Making myself smaller without even realizing I was doing it.

And the deeper I’ve gone into that reflection, the more I’ve started asking myself a different question:

What would happen if I stopped being afraid of my own potential?

A few nights ago, I had a dream about a tiger standing at the edge of my driveway, staring directly at me.

But the strange part?

I wasn’t afraid.

I was captivated.

And somehow, that dream became a mirror for everything I’ve been realizing about myself—fear, power, intuition, courage, purpose, and the parts of myself I’ve spent years suppressing.

Maybe power isn’t something to fear.

Maybe power without wisdom is the problem.

Maybe the goal isn’t to become less powerful… but to become conscious enough to use that power with integrity, love, and intention.

I wrote about it.

“Be Not Afraid of Your Own Power” 🐅✨

If you’ve ever felt like you were meant for more but somehow kept finding yourself shrinking, retreating, or talking yourself out of it…

This one might speak to you.

Read the full reflection on Real By Nature. 🌿

Read “Be Not Afraid of Your Own Power”

“COURAGE doesn’t mean we are never scared. Courage is ACTION in the face of fear.” - Ruth Soukup

08/14/2026

**What if your journal is more than a place to write? What if it's a record of who you're becoming? ✍🏾✨**

I recently retired one of my journals.

And as I closed that final chapter, I realized just how much had changed between the first page and the last.

The person who started that journal isn't the same person who finished it.

Her thoughts changed.
Her boundaries changed.
Her discernment changed.
Her relationship with herself changed.

And somewhere between all those pages, she was becoming.

In my newest post, **“Writing My Way Into Alignment,”** I reflect on journaling, personal growth, spiritual alignment, divine timing, and what it means to consciously close one chapter while creating the next.

Sometimes we don't realize we're evolving until we have the opportunity to look back at the words we left behind.

Maybe the blank page isn't asking you to have the whole story figured out.

Maybe it's simply asking you to begin.

**Read the newest post on Real By Nature by just clicking below 🖤🌿**

https://www.realbynature.net/blog/3323345_writing-my-way-into-alignment

I am a person who loves to journal, but I didn't always use to be this way.

08/11/2026

I used to think setbacks were things that happened to me.
Now I understand they're often things that happen for me.
My recent car accident forced me to stop and reevaluate everything: my finances, my goals, my relationships, my faith, and the future I want to create.

What started as one of the most frustrating experiences of my life became a catalyst for change.

I poured those lessons into my latest blog post, and honestly, it's one of the most personal things I've written in a long time.

If you're navigating a difficult season or searching for your next chapter, I hope it resonates with you.

❤️ Read here: https://www.realbynature.net/blog/3314831_the-power-of-pause

"No one ever told me that the back steps were a part of the dance rountine."

07/01/2026

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to exist in a world that doesn’t always feel gentle.

As I drew this tree, I saw more than branches and roots—I saw a woman. A presence. A quiet kind of suffering that doesn’t always have words.

So I gave her some.

The Weeping Willow is a poem about exhaustion, softness, and the search for peace.

If you’ve ever felt like there’s no place for you to just be—this is for you.
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Quote: "This is what knowledge does. It doesn't bring anything closer to you. It separates you. Drowns you in loneliness."

06/18/2026

🌳 New Blog Post: What the Trees Taught Me

It's been a few weeks since I've written, and for a while I felt guilty about that.

But through reflection, nature, and a lot of personal growth, I came to a realization: not every season is meant for producing. Some seasons are meant for healing. Some are meant for shedding. Some are meant for becoming.

In this post, I share how a lesson from the trees changed the way I view growth, self-compassion, spirituality, and the transition I've been experiencing in my own life.

Sometimes the strongest thing we can do isn't hold on—it's let go.

If you've ever found yourself in a season of change, this one's for you. ❤️

🌳 New Blog Post: What the Trees Taught Me

It's been a few weeks since I've written, and for a while I felt guilty about that.

But through reflection, nature, and a lot of personal growth, I came to a realization: not every season is meant for producing. Some seasons are meant for healing. Some are meant for shedding. Some are meant for becoming.

In this post, I share how a lesson from the trees changed the way I view growth, self-compassion, spirituality, and the transition I've been experiencing in my own life.

Sometimes the strongest thing we can do isn't hold on—it's let go.

If you've ever found yourself in a season of change, this one's for you. ❤️

https://www.realbynature.net/blog/3231829_what-the-trees-taught-me