How do we connect to the wisdom of our elders in the absence of their presence? How do we alchemize their traditions into our modernized culture? These are the living, breathing questions that have shaped what is now Matriarch Medicinals.
I became the oldest living woman in my maternal line when I was 27 years old. Until the moment I birth my firstborn, the motherline begins and ends with me.
My mother and I found ourselves fighting for her life side by side when I was in my 20s. In the depths of our family crisis, we questioned every narrative that promised no other options. We refused harmful interventions while researching ways to holistically support those we simply could not turn down. Time and time again, we found resilience in natural therapeutic alternatives.
During her most vulnerable moments, my mother said “no” to the pressures of a system designed to dehumanize her and profit off her suffering. She held her boundaries more times than I can remember. Witnessing this fire-like clarity as a young woman birthed within me a bedrock of principles that have since, in their own unique fortitude, grown to mother me in her absence.
It is through the discovery, education and application of plant medicine that I learned how to alchemize these principles into everyday life. Matriarch Medicinals is how I live in integrity to them.
To embody sovereignty as a woman is perhaps one of the most important acts of resistance in our current times. Our societal reliance on modern medicine has fallen deeply out of balance and turned into something unconscious and codependent. These imbalances have divorced us from the innate intelligences of both this beloved earth and our bio-individual selves.
Plant medicine was what reconnected me to sacred and conscious embodiment. Plant medicine stands in for the human elders I no longer live among. I created the Medicine Circle series with the intention to help others see where in their life they can tap into personal authority.
Plant medicine has always been the people's medicine, and I feel called to guide others back to this centuries-long truth.
I feel most called to guide parents, children, caregivers and birth workers.