…and I’m delighted to host you in my little nook of the World Wide Web.

One night, after working on this website and my bio earlier that day, I awoke and began to think. While it has never been commonplace for me, nighttime waking is no longer something I fear, avoid, or find anxiety-provoking. I consider it a gift, even when it is inconvenient, and I surrender to it as a time for transmission and reflection. This particular night, I started to have thoughts about this very bio. I eventually got up and went, in the dark, to my backpack and grabbed my journal. Before returning to bed, I went to the hallway nightlight to check that I had opened to a blank page. I crawled back into bed and wrote down the darling sentence I had been constructing in my mind.

When I went to read it shortly after, I found that I had written on top of other writing. Despite my best intentions, all my words were layered over other words. The only ones that ended up written on a blank space were “life cycle.”

I looked down at the page in a state of awed disbelief and curiosity—did that actually just happen?! I had even identified a blank page before I began. Yet somehow, on the way back to bed, the pages had turned.

The use of words to describe experience and feeling has always been problematic, both from a systemic perspective in regard to power, privilege, and authority, and also what we really feel and experience in both the organic realm and the realm of the soul. The territory of the mind lends itself best to words, but even then, when we find ourselves in the process or overtaken by feeling, the meaning of words can become elusive and existential.

Despite the challenges, I find myself wedded to the work of writing and communicating, even right now as I attempt to share a little bit “about” myself and my offerings. A member of Lunatic voiced it well:

“It is hard to describe the true impact and experience of [Lunatic], and it is simply because the nature of Brittany’s service and work is that it touches those indescribable places in us—the sacred, the liminal, the lunar, the places where, especially in our culture and language, there really are no words available.”

My commitment points, at least in part, to the ways in my work where I serve as a translator—of the divinatory language of astrology, of the sacred and spiritual landscape of ceremony, of the layers of consciousness of the human psyche, and of the transmission of plants and the more-than-human world. I am a devotee to processes of meaning-making and understanding, and an apprentice to, as my nighttime antics so clearly highlighted for me, the life cycle.

I have committed my life to these various scapes of the psyche, the body, the natural world, and the ethereal. These territories are not easy to describe, and in our society, we often need help accessing and validating our experiences with them. I offer gentle yet direct guidance into these territories and companionship through the process. There are many ways to get there. There is much to be revealed and validated—you bring your stories, your experiences, your beliefs, your wisdom, your longings, and your cultural and ancestral heritage, and I will serve as midwife to whatever is being born.

I am in the continual process of reclaiming my personal relationship to the organic realm and the territory of psyche as an act of healing and self-care that embodies a will to decolonize and recover from the influences of structural authority, trauma, and separation from nature and self. These commitments are part of my personal path of growth, as well as one of my paths of service in this lifetime. My commitment to my own healing is personal and unavoidable. I’ve felt the instinct and a sense of faith in that instinct since my first conscious moments of trauma awareness. This personal devotion is also societal, cultural, and spiritual—wedded to a vision of collective healing and liberation that underpins and nourishes all my offerings. 

My training is as an herbalist, an interspiritual minister and spiritual counselor, and an astrologer. I am also a student of deep listening—to the earth, the moon, plants, and the life cycle; and of seekers, clients, and participants in the groups I facilitate. As a facilitator, ceremonialist, companion, and counselor, I serve as a disseminator of my apprenticeship to these forces and meaning-making cycles and as a space-holder for you to define, connect with, and stand in the authority of that which you are apprenticing and transforming yourself. We each have our own meaning-making systems, desires and longings, and paths of service. Astrology, spiritual counseling, and ceremony can help each of us find our way to what is authentic to us and, consequently, serves us and the greatest good.

And, as shared, I am a writer. I have written four books and am the author of a series of herbal and self-care posters that I create in collaboration with my dear friend, Chelsea Granger.

I have spent over 15 years practicing as an herbalist, and many of you know me through this practice. While I no longer have an active clinical practice or teaching schedule, my most beloved curriculum is available online, and my books on herbalism and seasonal wellness are available through the Thyme Herbal website. I incorporate my intimate knowledge and experience with plant medicine and the human body, including direct transmission from plants, in all of my current offerings as a group facilitator, ceremonialist, and astrologer.

Whatever brought you here today, welcome. I look forward to working together!