I felt the plants change me in slow, subtle ways - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

As I integrated into the community here in Southern Oregon, I met women who shared beautiful, powerful birth stories. My fascination with birth was awoken again and I knew that birth work was a part of my path. I found the work of Whapio Diane Bartlett and Rachelle Garcia Seliga and studied with them, learning to serve mothers holistically.

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 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 under-resourced on a cellular level.

As we integrated mineral balancing into our lives, 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.