My Wyrd Story

My journey to Wild Wyrd Well has been anything but linear. Like many healing journeys, it began in hardship. Cycles of unhealed family patterns and trauma shaped my early years, and following familiar patterns, I found myself pulled into addiction. At the young age of 17, I entered recovery, a turning point that began my lifelong commitment to healing.

Though recovery freed me from addiction, the echoes of trauma and pain surfaced as disconnection, anxiety, and depression. Conventional band-aids like prescription antidepressants were ineffective, leaving me feeling like a shell of myself. Longing for deeper healing, I was drawn toward holistic ways: homesteading, gardening, reiki, yoga, organic eating, detoxifying my home and, most profoundly, herbal medicine.

My herbal journey truly began in a local herbal class. One afternoon early in the series, I was invited to wander the apothecary and choose whichever herb “spoke” to me. Hesitant and unsure, I finally reached for skullcap. On my way home from class that day, I received the call that my father had died from a heroin overdose. Shaken and grieving, I brewed my first cup of skullcap tea and slipped into a bath where I first experienced the gentle grounding herbal medicine offers.

What I didn’t know then was that skullcap, and the community of herbalists around me, would carry me through that painful season. Looking back, I see how the plants and the people who gathered with them, reconnected me with myself. Where intergenerational trauma had severed ties to self, family, and community, the plants re-threaded the weave: anchoring me in self, rooting me in belonging, and grounding me in the soil. That profound experience planted the seed of what would eventually grow into Wild Wyrd Well.

Growing Into Herbalism

From that moment forward, I immersed myself in herbal study. While I was unsure of exactly where the path would lead, I was certain it was the one I was meant to walk. Over the years, I’ve grown my practice through home study, community learning, formal education, and clinical training. My foundation is rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition, approaching wellness in a holistic way through Western Herbal Medicine and the integration of other supportive modalities like meditation, healthy lifestyle practices, and energy work. Herbs have become not just personal medicine, but my passion and mission to walk beside others on their healing journeys with the support of plant medicine.

Motherhood & the Birth of Wild Wyrd Well

Herbs have walked beside me in the most sacred seasons of life. Through conception, pregnancy, home birth, postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding, I leaned deeply on my herbal allies. In many ways, the birth of my daughter was also the birth of Wild Wyrd Well. Motherhood sharpened my vision: this work was not only about my healing, but about ensuring I didn’t repeat the cycles of disconnection and pain I had inherited. The herbal path has become part of how I choose to mother differently, rooted in presence, resilience, and relationship. This choice grew into a deep desire to support other women in their own sacred seasons, weaving herbs into their lives in meaningful and empowering ways.

The Wyrd Unfolding

Wild Wyrd Well is the embodiment of that vision. Through private consultations, community workshops, and handcrafted remedies, the intention is to make herbalism accessible, embodied, and woven back into daily life. It is both a practice and an invitation: to return to the plants, to reconnect with self and community, and to take part in the collective weaving of wellness.

Wyrd reminds us that fate is not fixed but woven through threads of choice, chance, and connection. Wild Wyrd Well carries that spirit forward, with each consultation, workshop, and remedy becoming part of a larger tapestry of healing that pulls individuals, community, and the living world together.

Looking ahead, the vision continues to grow. At the heart of this dream is Wyrd Acre, a food and medicine forest designed to give the community direct relationship with plants, a place where learning, gathering, and healing can take root. From this land, the Wyrd Acre Apothecary will deepen its offerings, creating remedies that reflect the wisdom of the plants and the people who tend them. And in time, a formal herbal school will open within Wyrd Acre, where people can learn directly from the plants, grounding knowledge in experience, community, and care.