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.
In the depths of the family crisis that led to this title, my mother examined every narrative that led her down a dead end road & questioned every intervention that was sure to dehumanize 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 woman.
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 & turned unconsciously codependent. These imbalances have divorced us from the innate intelligences of both this beloved earth and our bio-individuality.
Plant medicine was what reconnected me to sacred and conscious embodiment. Plant medicine stands in for the human 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.