Biofeedback is one tool under the Mind Body Medicine umbrella. Biofeedback uses external feedback from various sources such as a mirror, verbal feedback from me, or visual feedback from computer sensors. This information will help you start to recognize your own bodily signals. By gaining recognition of your body signals you can self regulate physiological reactions that are usually considered unconscious or automatic.

This learning of how to regulate your nervous system is the foundation to rewire learned or automatic responses. It allows us to shift how we are in the world to align with our values and goals.

Bodywork is the use of therapeutic touch as a healing modality.

In visits with me, I use light touch fascial massage (craniosacral therapy and visceral manipulation) and gentle acupuncture (placement of filiform / acupuncture needles in specific locations in the body) to shift your somatic experience and relieve tension and pain.

Sometimes talked about as herbalism or sometimes plant medicine, Botanical Medicine means working with or using plants to assist in the healing process. It’s essentially the study and use of the therapeutic and medicinal properties of plants.

Plants have a wide range of uses: well-researched, specific constituents for specific conditions or symptoms; traditional uses of the plants and the specific context they were used in; esoteric uses of plants, involving the building of relationship with a sentient being to shift the narratives that you have.

I understand that fat people are a natural part of body diversity and human diversity. There is nothing wrong with fatness or fat people, and fat people deserve to be celebrated and to live their lives in a joyful way.

I work from a HAES (health at every size) perspective and will never recommend weight loss, dieting, or restriction as a treatment plan, or intervention. I consider fatphobia and diet culture as part of kyriarchy, specifically antiblackness, ableism, healthism, and white supremacy.

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On a superficial level, Indigenous Honoring means to know and acknowledge that this land now called North America/USA is a stolen, violently colonized land that should still belong to its original inhabitants. Here in what is known as Seattle is the unceded land of the Coast Salish people. You can find specific tribal information here.

On a deeper level, being Indigenous Honoring means that I am moving through the unlearning of settler colonialism and in all the ways possible looking to the native people of this land for leadership when making decisions about resources, land use, and how to be in this place. It means looking to cultivate and create equitable relationships with various tribal leaders and entities, and to build relationship with the land itself, to shift my views from land as a resource to be used and taken, to land as a sovereign entity that I can be in deep and meaningful relationship with.

It also means that I regularly give to a variety of local indigenous led groups.

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In my definition, Magic comes from our relationships. Magic is pulling our intention through the lens of relationship to enact change or shifts in the world around us. An honest relationship to yourself is the best resource in magic.

What Magic is NOT:
Magic is not instantaneous, or a snap, or unexplainable.
Magic is also not tied into our access to dominant culture or privilege. So often “magic” or “manifestation” is just a code for your ability to access white privilege, generational wealth, and current beauty norms.

Mind Body Medicine is based on the understanding that there is an intrinsic connection between our mind, body, and spirit. By cultivating and noticing this connection we can then modulate our thoughts, sensations, and feelings.

Mental or emotional stress causes physical changes in the body, and the reverse is true as well: physical stress can lead to mental or emotional changes.

The goal of Mind Body Medicine is to create balance in the nervous system and appropriately use our nervous system. We all have a set of hard wired responses to the world and our experiences, and by understanding our values, the narratives (stories) we have, and through practice, these responses may be rewired. Mind Body Medicine will help to train you to live in a way that would most benefit your well being as a whole-person.

Mindfulness is noticing without judgment or elaboration.

In many ways mindfulness has lost most if not all meaning in common language. It is often thrown around to describe basically anything, with little to no definition of what is meant. I work with the practice of noticing without judgment or elaboration as a foundational skill in the work that I offer.

Naturopathic Medicine is a diverse and wide ranging collection of modalities. In Washington State we are licensed and trained as primary care providers. While I do not offer primary care, I have been trained as a physician and work from the perspective that you are more than just your symptoms. As a whole person, you need whole person care.

For me, offering sliding scale is a route to economic justice. I want this work to be available to as many people as possible (not just the rich and white) while making this work sustainable for myself and allowing me to also survive under capitalism.

Sliding scale is about paying what you are honestly able to afford, and that is more complex than just what is in your bank account right now. Where you fall on sliding scale is an assessment based on your earned assets and debts, your privilege and roadblocks, and your access to generational assets.

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A witch is someone who is actively doing magic, using their attention and intention to shift the world. A witch is also someone who is actively standing for liberation, who is doing the work of unwinding from capitalism, settler colonialism, and white supremacy so that we can call forward a new future and new systems that are liberatory and aligned with the values of community and connection.

A witch is someone who is connected with their own ancestral work and traditions, someone who is actively reconnecting with where they have come from, so that they can move into the future with sovereignty.

A community witch has a focus on building connections and community. Part of their magic is remembering how to and helping others to be in community.