My path into this work began through pain, unraveling, and the search for a way back to myself. For over a decade I struggled with the ability to hold the sensations of pain — physical and mental. My life path and body gave me opportunity after opportunity of painful experiences, each time a chance for me to master the craft of alchemy. It wasn’t the complete death of my ego that I was able to shift my perspective on pain from one of helplessness to one of acceptance and transformation.

Through intentional work with plant and fungal allies, I reached a deeper understanding of caring for the body and soul in all chapters of life, especially in chapters of death and rebirth. As I deepened my relationship with the plants, I began receiving strong messages through badger medicine. I came to understand Badger as a keeper of roots, descent, persistence, and the sacred act of digging beneath the surface. I was shown that alchemy begins below, in darkness. This understanding transformed the way I approached my work as an herbalist. I began growing my own medicines, tending to the plants from seedling to harvest, learning through direct relationship, ritual, observation, and devotion.

As I found my way back to a baseline of steadiness with these medicines, somatic work became a necessary practice in my continued work as an alchemist of pain and death. Over time, the plant and fungus allies have become comets within my orbit of soul care, while somatic work holds my field like a lunar body.

Today, my work is rooted in supporting others through cycles of death, release, reclamation, and becoming. As a ritual death worker, I hold space for the parts of ourselves that are unraveling, shedding, grieving, or asking to be transformed. I believe there is sacredness in these threshold spaces, in the deaths that return us to ourselves.

Through ritual, plant medicine, intentional guidance, and the fortitude to hold the field at thresholds, my work during this timeline is to midwife you through your deaths and rebirths.