What I’ve Been Up To
Incorporating my business into a more online focus rather than primarily being in person has not been the easiest transition. For years, I simply threw information out into the world for the people who needed it. I taught what I was learning, shared what I was discovering, and followed the little threads of curiosity wherever they led me. Now I’m going back through all of it, slowing down and adding a deeper thought to the things I’ve put together over the years.
Reorganizing years of online projects and sitting still long enough to really focus on them has felt a little daunting. There is something different about looking back through your own work and asking, Where does this belong? What was I trying to say? What have I learned? What else was underneath what I was trying to share? But in the middle of all that organizing, something unexpected has happened. I’ve begun to understand myself a little better, and I’ve begun to understand why I teach such a vast variety of things.
I am not just a single piece of paper. I am an entire book.
My business reflects that. I do a bunch of “stuff.” Herbalism, plants, medicine making, the body, trauma, movement, meditation, Reiki, baking, fermentation, creating, learning, and following my curiosity. For a long time, I wondered how all of these different pieces could possibly fit together. Now I’m realizing that they don’t have to be separated into neat little boxes. (I've never fit into a box before.) They intertwine beautifully within each page of the book, and when you step back and look at the whole thing, the connections become much easier to see.
I’ve also been learning to emphasize more of what I’ve been saying all along: to open up a little more and find better words for thoughts I may not have been able to articulate at the time. Sometimes you have to live something, learn something, sit with it, and come back to it before you can finally find the words for what you were trying to say. Going back through my work has given me the opportunity to revisit old ideas with a little more understanding and allow them to become something deeper.
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