Seeking Healing
This began in my own kitchen, out of necessity. My skin would flake and burn, my energy was gone by noon, I caught every cold that passed through, and a low hum of anxiety followed me through every day.
So I did what everyone does. I shopped my way through Sephora, then the big box aisles, then the premium bottles and the Korean routines. Some of it worked for a month or two. Then the symptoms would come back, and I was out another few hundred dollars on products that never truly helped me heal.
Somewhere in this process it became clear. Products you find on store shelves were designed to only manage symptoms, not address root causes. So I stopped buying, and started looking somewhere else entirely.
Back to My Grandmother's Kitchen
Luckily for me it started close to home. My grandmother's kitchen remedies. My mother's tinctures. A practice that had been quietly set aside for a generation, and that I picked back up.
That search to understand my grandmothers remedies took me on journey to work with curanderas in Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Chacala, where I spent weeks at a time learning regional and ancestral remedies firsthand. Lavender, rosemary, cactus, aloe vera, and prickly pear.
Then came the formal study. Two years of herbalism, including thirty-day plant dietas where you live with a single herb long enough to understand its wisdom and benefits. Another 12 months of Ayurveda, focused on spices, seasonal cycles, and bringing the body's dominant elements back into balance.
From then on I saw first hand my body begining to heal itself. I saw how products and remedies made with intention can give us the building blocks we need to bring us back into balance.
Everything in our products comes from this journey to finally find healing for my own body.
