My Story
My relationship with plants began long before I ever sat in ceremony or crafted my first botanical remedy.
I grew up in a beautiful garden tended by my mother. Attached to our cozy family home, it was a place of color, fragrance, and life. My mother was raising five children, cooking fresh meals daily, baking bread and cakes, and caring for our family. She rarely had time to stop and play, but the garden was where she could breathe, where she could simply be with the plants. It was there that I learned how to connect with her and with the natural world.
Today, caring for my own garden by the river remains one of my greatest joys. Tending the soil, nurturing life, and witnessing the rhythms of nature continue to teach me some of life's deepest lessons.
At eighteen years old, I encountered one of my greatest teachers: Ayahuasca. I was amazed by the possibility of learning directly from the plants in such a profound and tangible way. Having spent much of my childhood living in my mind, trying to understand experiences that felt difficult to make sense of, the plants offered me another path. They invited me into presence, into feeling, into relationship with life itself.
Since then, plants have remained my most consistent teachers.
Walking with the Plants
Through years of ceremonial work, study, and personal practice, I have come to understand that healing is not only something that happens in ceremony. It happens through the ways we choose to meet ourselves every day. Through ritual. Through prayer. Through conscious movement. Through stillness. Through our relationship with the living world around us.
This understanding is at the heart of everything that I offer.
Whether I am supporting someone through the preparation and integration of a plant medicine journey, or formulating a botanical skincare product, I am guided by the same intention: helping people cultivate a deeper relationship with themselves, with nature, and with what is sacred in everyday life.
I don't see a bottle of oil as simply oil in a bottle. I see the plants themselves, their qualities, their medicine, and their teachings.
When I work with calendula, for example, I appreciate its soothing, restorative, and protective qualities for the skin. But I also connect with the spirit of the plant and what it teaches: the courage to be fully oneself.
Calendula blooms in vibrant orange and makes no apology for its brightness. Its message is simple and powerful: This is who I am.
My apothecary creations are an invitation to bring ritual into daily life, to transform skincare into a moment of presence, remembrance, and connection. In the same way, my integration work supports the process of embodying the wisdom and insights received through plant medicine, so that healing becomes something lived, not simply experienced.
At the core of both offerings is a belief that we are not separate from nature. We are nature.
And when we slow down enough to listen, the plants are always speaking.