Healing through plant medicine isn't a quick fix. I am not here to "fix" you. Embarking on a plant medicine journey is all about listening to your vessel and asking for support and guidance along the way. The plants cannot heal us if we do not look inside ourselves. No diet, regimen, or retreat will heal us if we do not pay attention to the path and the wisdom our bodies are always teaching us. 

9 years I have been on this journey, and if I have learned anything it is that the medicine and the "healing" starts within. I have learned that not everything is one size fits all---that the body will send me the plants that my body needs intuitively (the best moments of all). It's all about trial and (sometimes) error. This is how I get to know my body and its needs. No matter what "good", "healthy" thing I put into my body, it will not activate if I do not love on those parts of me that need it most.

In my practice I aim to come from a lens that is decolonized, and not just centered in the clinical or even just the spiritual components of the healing. I aim to also consider the systemic oppressions that cause some of the most common chronic and auto-immune diseases.

Every fiber, organ, bone, system, and cell in our bodies has a story. A story that traces back to a memory, a place, a land, a portal. Whether it be a trauma, a pleasure, a pain, a wisdom---it is all there to help us. There are no parts of us that are here to shame. A hot exhausted liver, an imbalanced hormone, a displaced, trauma-filled, transitioning womb, and so on. Some of us may carry rage and anger in our gut and liver that may have been carried across the trans-atlantic oceans, and through generations of chattel slavery. Perhaps some of our bodies have suffered from violence which have brought on deeply embedded dis-ease to our bodies. 

I think it is silly to frame dis-ease as just an individual thang. Or perceive that there something suddenly wrong with a person because they didn't eat the "right thing", or stick to a certain "regimen". "Dis-eases" like hyper-tension, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes--or auto-immune dis-eases like type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and so on, are not sudden, or happen by coincidence. These dis-eases are also systemic and have been passed down through systemic oppression. Dis-ease can always be traced from something or somewhere. It can be passed through generations of traumas, & systemic oppressions such as chattel slavery, colonialism, racism, sexism, & all of the phobias you can think of.  This dis-ease is not always brought on by our habits or lifestyles. Thus, this is a WE thang, not just a YOU thang. We are ALL facing and are subject to  dis-ease because we live in a society that thrives off of the dis-ease of people, animals, plants, and all of nature.