My story, my journey to the holistic path isn’t a new one.

Most of my twenties were spent in a highly stressful corporate job working 16hour days with very little sleep, and a lifestyle where I partied too much and generally ignored even the most basic of my body’s needs, pushing myself to burnout because that’s what I’d been told success looked like.

Of course that is never sustainable, and my rock bottom looked like complete collapse, days where the thought of washing my face or dressing felt unachievable, and barely being able to drag myself out of bed. Dr’s diagnosed me with CFS/ME and although I tried medication it only served to make my symptoms worse and left me feeling alone, disconnected from who I was and feeling like there was no hope. Abandoned by Dr’s, told this was “as good as it was going to get” I refused to give up.

My recovery started slowly.

Finding small joys in the pieces of my day, noticing the little things on the short walks I managed to take; a new flower, a beautiful butterfly…. Slowly but surely, I reconnected with nature in a way I never had before. And it became my lifeline in a sea of darkness. Learning who this new version of me became intrinsically intertwined with this new relationship with nature and the seasons, helping me understand parts of myself and my needs, awakening my spiritual side, and eventually leading to my holistic health and herbalism journey.

But I still struggled with this concept of productivity and tying my self-worth to how much I achieved, ending up in a never-ending cycle of crash and recovery. I knew something had to change, but it wasn’t until I really deepened my understanding of the seasons, the moon phases & astrology that I saw the pattern & it finally clicked.

Seeing how it all connected, that WE are all connected, we ARE nature, was like a lightbulb moment for me.

And so the seasonal alchemy path was born.