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a hummingbird prayer

Grief Tending & Medicine Writings for women navigating death, loss, & the threshold spaces. Remembering through herbalism, ritual, & curiosity; it's all a mystery anyway.

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Consecrated by bereavement

being changed by grief, wildfires as nature's rage, the collective betrayal of women

Hawthorn — the Grandmother of Grief

A tincture recipe to hold the heart

The Earth as a Teacher of Death

A recorded contemplation

Don't call me Resilient

Grief didn't make me stronger - it birthed a new woman entirely

Omega 3's - A pillar for trauma

My theory about fish oil supplements & grief

Continuum instead of Healing

A new way I'm walking with grief

Mother's Day has always included grief

On the sacred, uncomfortable truth at the centre of motherhood

The grief garden

A practice of mothering what remains

Ashes & Bone Broth

Veganism, morality, and a personal reckoning with death

The Shamanic Nature of Women

Our blood, bones, and birth; mystical tools of the wild feminine

A Letter to My Postpartum Grief-Filled Body After Abdominal Surgery

The challenges of being present amidst suffering.

My Grief informs My Joy

on feeling literally anything positive when you're mourning

When Fear and Intuition Sound the Same

What if it was never about choosing the right voice — but about trusting the one who listens?

I broke an arrow with my neck...

a story about hope.

Grief as Medicine with Amber Wolf Moon

A ceremonial conversation on healing grief with a Somatic Therapist who has experienced a life-time of walking alongside death.

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The Sacred "I Don't Know": An honest Reflection on our experiences with Freebirth

A transparent dialogue with Eden Elizabeth

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I prayed to the River

A conversation with grief, water, and the wild sacred truth I didn’t want to hear.

No Time Machine, Just a Tree

A mother’s story of loss, truth-telling, and planting prayers for the future

Dark side of the moon

Grief, rainbows, & the boy we named Floyd

"When a woman prays to her ancestors, a thousand grandmothers answer her call" - unknown

This is the retelling of that prayer