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? I became the oldest living woman in my maternal line when I was 27 years old. The motherline currently begins and ends with me.
I was blessed with the gift of a mother who, during her darkest hour, examined every hopeless narrative handed to her. Time & time again, she found resilience in natural therapeutic alternatives.
I watched my mother say "no" to the pressures of a system designed to profit off her suffering, holding her boundaries more times than I can remember. Her clarity was as clear cutting as fire & has proven over time to be the most invaluable gift for me to witness as a young, evolving woman.
To embody sovereignty is to embody how I was mothered. To model personal authority as a woman is one of the most important acts of resistance in our current time. Our reliance on modern medicine has fallen deeply out of balance and prohibited us from experience such authority. These imbalances have divorced us from the innate intelligences of the lands we inhabit as well as our own bio-individuality.
Plant medicine carries a maternal torch, standing in for the elders I no longer live among. Plant medicine has always been the people's medicine, and I feel called to guide others back to this centuries-long truth.
