About Madeline

My training is rooted in Western Herbalism vitalist and folk medicine traditions. This foundation is currently being expanded through the in-person Fundamentals of Medical Herbalism program at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, where intuitive, relational learning meets clinical study.

The plants entered my life like disruptively wise angels over a decade ago, during a time when I was living more in the clouds than on Earth. Through a series of synchronicities, I found myself immersed in an herbalism apprenticeship that awakened me to herbs as sentient beings and wise teachers. During those early years, I drank daily Nettle infusions for nearly five years straight, learning - slowly and somatically - how to inhabit my body with clearer boundaries and deeper presence. Through relationship with plants, the sacred revealed itself not as something distant or abstract in some otherwordly realm, but right here, in the world within and all around us.

In our fast-paced, over-stimulated lives, what I most crave - and seek to offer through The Apothecary - is a space to slow down beneath the surface noise and listen again to the subtle song moving through plants, body, and breath. I believe this kind of listening has the power to subtly and profoundly change how we meet life.