Hi, I’m Kelsi.

Birth & Postpartum Care Provider. Herbalist. HTMA Practitioner.

Growing up, I was immersed in the mainstream narrative of birth, postpartum, really womanhood as a whole, being filled with suffering. Pain. Martyrdom. I was surrounded by women who were disconnected from their bodies and abandoning their feminine strengths in attempt to thrive in a masculine world.

In my early twenties, I began to walk my healing path and moved across the country to Oregon attend an herbalism program. In a little cabin on a mountain, surrounded by gardens, my world changed forever. I learned the names and medicinal properties of plants I’d only known as “weeds”. I learned the history of western medicine as we know it today. I understood for the first time how deeply connected we are to all living beings, and how our bodies are ever-evolving terrain, just like the earth. I felt the plants change me in slow, subtle ways. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

As I saw behind the veil of so many aspects of modern life, I began to feel that there must be another, more beautiful story of birth and motherhood as well. I began watching home birth videos, reading birth stories, and listening to the words of mothers who lived radiantly and joyfully. I found the work of Whapio Diane Bartlett and Rachelle Garcia Seliga and studied with them, learning to serve mothers through the childbearing continuum.

Learning about postpartum traditions and how far we’ve strayed from truly caring for mothers in their most vulnerable moments lit a fire in my heart to tend to families in the childbearing year. While sitting at the feet of mothers and serving them through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, I witnessed firsthand how deeply under-resourced and undernourished most modern families are - even those who have the means and awareness to invest in postpartum care. Six weeks of care is simply not enough to buffer us against the weight of parenting in isolation, generational trauma, nutritional deficiencies, and so on. My own postpartum experience embodied this knowing, from the absolute pleasure and bliss of resting with my newborn and being cared for on every level, to spiraling into deep depletion in the first year of his life.

My depleted state, along with health imbalances my son was experiencing, led me to dive deeper into studying nutrition, mineral balancing, and hair tissue mineral analysis. I began to understand on a new level why so many mothers are burned out and exhausted: we are literally under-resourced on a cellular level. As soon as we began our first mineral balancing protocol, we saw profound changes and I knew that I wanted to offer HTMA & mineral balancing to other families. Replenishing our minerals, particularly as mothers, is such a profound gift to offer ourselves, our children, and our matrilineal lines. It is truly generational trauma work embodied.

This work is my prayer woven into service: that mothers and families may be honored, empowered, resourced, and nourished.

ETHOS

When mothers thrive, their families thrive. I believe in centering the needs of mothers so they may be nourished, healthy, and serve their families from a full cup. I weave my own motherhood and work together in hopes of remembering a culture where this is the norm.

Mother-Centric Care

Though they are now physically separate, mother and baby still function as one in the early days. Rather than supporting in ways that separate motherbaby, i.e. overnight baby care, I help mothers feel resourced so they may tend to their own babies and foster healthy attachment.

Protection of the Motherbaby Dyad

I believe intuition is our most powerful tool as mothers, and I will always encourage you to step into your power and listen to your inner knowing first and foremost.

Trust in Intuition

Women, and especially mothers, don’t need more stressful protocols, strict diets, or regimens that are only realistic on their best days. Healing should be slow, gentle, and sustainable.

Regenerative Healing

I hold deep gratitude for the mentors who have guided me on this path:

Rachelle Garcia Seliga, Whapio Diane Bartlett, Tyler Wauters, Pearl Sites, Mark Disharoon, & Alexis Durham

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