New Release • May 2026

Some stories
change everything.

When her husband spent 163 days in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Briar Hollis went looking for everything the discharge paperwork left out. What she found changed her family's life forever.

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The Apothecary After the ICU
One Woman's Journey from the MICU to Natural Healing and the Tinctures That Changed Everything
Briar Hollis

"Failing was not an option for her. And she made me realize it didn't have to be an option for me either."

— Dave

About the Author

Briar Hollis

Briar Hollis is the author of The Apothecary After the ICU. When her husband was admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit in the early days of COVID-19, she began a journey she never anticipated — not just through crisis and fear, but through the oldest healing traditions on earth.

What started as a desperate search for answers became a complete transformation. The food changed. The air changed. The kitchen counter filled with tincture bottles from a trusted herb farm. And slowly, stubbornly, her husband came back.

She is not a doctor, a licensed herbalist, or a naturopath. She is a woman who watched someone she loves nearly disappear — and then watched him come back. She writes about natural healing, caregiving, and the quiet power of the natural world.

Briar Hollis is a pen name.

"She went looking for everything the discharge paperwork left out."

163
Days in the ICU
17
Herbs in the protocol
120
Miles driven daily
1
Story worth telling
The Apothecary After the ICU
One Woman's Journey from the MICU to Natural Healing and the Tinctures That Changed Everything
Briar Hollis

The Book

Part memoir.
Part herbal reference.
Entirely true.

When her husband was admitted to the Medical Intensive Care Unit in the early days of COVID-19, she was told to prepare for the worst.

One hundred and sixty-three days later, he came home. What happened between that admission and that homecoming — and in the months of recovery that followed — is a story about crisis, determination, and the quiet power of the natural world.

This book follows one woman's journey from the hospital waiting room to the herb farm, documenting the protocol of seventeen herbs that became the foundation of her husband's recovery from ECMO, sepsis, candidemia, and the devastating aftermath of prolonged critical illness.

This book is for the people in waiting rooms. For the caregivers driving miles alone. For the families who came home with a stack of discharge instructions and no roadmap for what comes next. For anyone who has wondered if there was more they could do.

There was. There is.

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$19.99
Kindle eBook
$9.99
Apple Books
$9.99

The Apothecary Continues

Hollis Herb Co.

The herbs in this book are real. The protocol is real. And now you can find the tinctures, teas, and herbal preparations that were part of the journey — at Hollis Herb Co.

Coming Soon · hollisherbco.com

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Contact

For media inquiries, speaking requests, bulk orders, or wholesale information, please reach out directly.

briar@briarhollisbooks.com