Welcome to Wild Moon Mama
I am a mother, wife, doula, herbalist, alchemist, Reiki Master, and business owner. Here you will find lots of info about practicing these lesser known healing traditions, as well as info on my process as a doula and mother.
Birth Work:
My doula journey began with Ina May Gaskin's spiritual midwifery. After hearing a more spiritual perspective on birth and families I was hooked. I went from DONA training to assisting a midwife with home birth, and eventually mentored under Domino Kirke. To me doula support is so much more than functional, it's a calling to be the specific presence that humankind has understood for thousands of years. It is psychic and primal. A birthing person who is unmedicated and undisturbed is in a physical state unlike any other. Much of the time communication is non verbal, and an environment of support is critical. Attending birth taught me about connections we have to others, the strength of a parent, and it taught me about my presence, and the field of energy I am responsible for. If all of this sounds too "woo woo" I understand. I invite you to take everything I say with a grain of salt. I too am a thorough, critical, and intense skeptic. I need to experience everything myself in order to believe it and understand it. I am not here to offer my advice or guide people in my own footsteps. I am here to offer my perspective and maybe scatter a few ideas that may unlock some doors in your life, and for your process. I wouldn't be where I am now without the perspectives I gleaned from my teachers. Advice is disempowering- whether it be to a parent, birth worker, friend, or stranger. But we humans are natural story tellers. So this is where I will share my story.
Herbalism:
I had the great fortune of meeting a student from The School of Evolutionary Herbalism in some of my birth work training. This chance encounter opened a new world to me. I learned why what I was doing before wasn't working. I learned how to make herbal preparations more bioavailable and sustainable, and I learned to have relationship with the native plants in my environment. The School of Evolutionary Herbalism taught me to see plants in a completely new way and taught me the history of medicinal plant use throughout the world. I had always been interested in natural healing remedies but before I was using herbs allopathically- treating symptoms and potentially covering them up. Now I practice vitalistic herbalism to balance and support all vital organ systems to prevent imbalance.
Me: Mother, Wife, Spirit
I have many roles, but I don't consider any of them my sole identity. These are roles, tools, and experiences that give my life meaning, help me to grow, and offer me endless joy. We are all comprised of so many parts. In my spare time I love to read, listen to music, watch films, experience nature, and spend time with my family. I love my son, and my husband so much it actually scares me. Nothing could have prepared me for what motherhood actually is. It's sad that our culture really has very little positive or healthy representations of parenthood. Most of the time I see cynical caricatures of unhealthy parents, living sacrificial lives and looking nostalgically back at their life before children. I also see our culture market being young and single, or falling in love as the end all, be all. In so many ancient and indigenous cultures I've studied- people would have rights of passage, and were taught how to be elders. Now aging is seen as a failure to stay young. I don't want my child to see me fight against time. I am honored by every year I have been granted on this earth, and it is my greatest honor to have been given my son to raise and protect. I want to contribute to the culture of real people navigating through this world honestly, authentically, and imperfectly.
