From the fall of 2020 to the spring of 2023, I took an extended and important sabbatical from herbal consultations and what it means to fulfill that particular aspect of my role as an herbalist. During this time, have continued to study and teach, I have been present with some powerful healing work for myself, and I have devoted myself to integrating what I have been learning from the wild world, through my personal healing, during my years of study with Jeffrey Yuen, and from new teachers I’ll share more about soon.

transformed

I come back to this work with a renewed sense of connection with the living world and even more wonder at what it means to engage healing from this place of connection.

I bring a fresh understanding of humans as ecological beings, existing not inside of or despite our environment but as essential parts of earth, contributors to the ecology within which we dwell, cocreators of every day.

I bring a profound trust in the potency and depth of plant medicine and a commitment to working with plants in a relationship of respect and trust. For so many of us, this medicine is exactly what we are needing to bring our vital gifts into the world. For so many of us, these relationships are a bridge home to ourselves.

I bring an awareness of our interconnections and our independence as conscious and present creatures. I trust that we heal together, and we continue to discover the ways we contribute to and receive in collaboration.

I bring a transformed consciousness of what it means to listen. I hear the voice of the earth in the pulse in our veins. I feel the guidance of this home in the breath that stirs each morning. We belong here. 

Our healing is part of this place.

I am eager to shape my in many ways new practice around wide definitions of healing. I want to explore what it is we’re really up to, how we soften our attachments to fixing ourselves and tend the places most precious in us, most in need of care. I want to have these conversations with you, to be curious and explore, to listen with the plants, to stir our own deepest knowings. 

in practice

Are you drawn to this work? If you would like to enter or continue healing conversation with plants, with earth, with me as a mediator and guide, I would love for you to join me for this energized and emergent way of herbal medicine consultations. 

You can find more information about what this medicine looks like at rootdeepliving.com/herbal-consultations or schedule a session at rootdeep.as.me/consultations.