My path began as a seed in my childhood, sung to me through the sounds of my mother brewing ginger tea on the stove when I had a cold and my little feet hitting the ground as I ran alongside the ocean. It was a simple and innate curiosity for the world around me, and a safety I found hidden beneath the conifers that grew adjacent to my home.

As a teen and into my early 20s, I experienced chronic stress, severe menstrual pain, and gut issues, which highlighted my desire for sanctuary in not only the isolation and hurt I faced, but the residual complexity, fear, and dissociation that came with it. I wanted peace, somewhere I could finally take a deep breath, and answers. Plant medicine and earth-based ceremony greatly altered my experience of life. It is from this place that I weave ritual, elemental connection, and my ancestral roots into my daily life and practice here.

When I was initiated into motherhood, I very quickly fell ill during my pregnancy with Hyperemesis gravidarum, which persisted until my daughter was born. I was overcome by the constant GI discomfort, the struggling to eat the “right” foods, the guilt, the sadness, and grief of not functioning in the way I always knew how. I felt like a stranger to myself as I morphed through those months, navigating many practitioners as I searched for a way to support myself. And, at the time, I had wished for more community around it. Working with plants is and has been a well of hope and support leading into greater trust of myself and body.

What I bring forth now is a culmination of all of my lived experiences and studies, a bridge between worlds, an ode to the magic of woman and earth.