Stephanie Bacquet Mathews
Herbalist, Author & Guide for Wild Embodied Living
I wildcraft herbal medicine, write maps for post-empire living, and guide humans back to remembering they’re sacred embodied animals.
The Work
I live on 20 acres in rural Missouri where I wildcraft herbal medicine, teach embodied living, and guide humans back to their animal instincts. This land is where I harvest the plants that become remedies, where the Milky Way is visible most nights, and where people gather seasonally to practice living as sacred embodied human animals in relationship with Earth’s rhythms.
I’m the author of The Living Spiral Series, a comprehensive multi-faceted book collection offering maps for rewilding humanity’s animal nature and living beyond empire structures. The foundational book, Sacred Embodied Human Animal, establishes the core teaching: you are not meant to transcend your body or rise above Earth. You are animal. You are Earth. You are woven into the stellar rhythms that have guided life on this planet for billions of years.
My herbal medicine practice serves those seeking root-cause healing rather than symptom management. These 80+ wildcrafted formulas address the body systems that, when balanced, allow conditions to resolve naturally. The plants are harvested from this land and surrounding wilderness, receiving no pesticides or human intervention beyond respectful gathering.
What I Offer
Wildcrafted Herbal Medicine
80+ formulas addressing root causes, not symptoms. Plants harvested from our land in relationship and respect.
The Living Spiral Series
Books mapping embodied cosmology, rewilding, and post-empire living for those ready to remember what they are.
Seasonal Land Retreats
Gatherings on our 20 acres to practice living as sacred human animals in Earth’s rhythms.
Sacred Embodied Human Animal School
Teaching people to deconstruct societal programming and awaken innate intuition, instincts, and wild intelligence.
13-Month Chakra Journey
Year-long program through 13 chakras with monthly potions, workbooks, and video teachings. Embodied, not transcendent.
Embodied Cosmology
Stellar navigation based on actual current star positions, not outdated zodiacal frameworks. Cosmology for embodied animals.
The Approach
This isn’t New Age spirituality or corporate wellness. This is remembering that humans are animals, sacred and embodied, designed to work in relationship with plants the way all animals do instinctively.
I homeschool my children using spiral learning approaches that honor indigenous wisdom and collaborative education. We raise rabbits, tend gardens, and are building infrastructure for hosting seasonal gatherings where humans can practice what it means to live beyond empire’s demands.
The work integrates:
- Wildcrafted herbal medicine from direct plant relationship
- Embodied cosmology mapped to actual stellar positions
- Ancestral wisdom without spiritual bypassing
- Nervous system rewilding and somatic practice
- Living in Earth’s seasonal rhythms, not calendar’s artificial structure
- Post-empire frameworks, not reform attempts
This work is for the remnant: those who aren’t trying to fix empire but learning to live beyond it. Those ready to remember they’re sacred embodied human animals and act accordingly.
The Land
Our 20 acres in rural Missouri is more than property. It’s relationship. It’s where the plants grow that become medicine, where children learn by doing and discovering, where the Milky Way teaches cosmology better than any book, where rabbits breed and gardens grow and people gather seasonally to remember what humans actually are.
The garden will produce enough food this year to host seasonal sacred embodied human animal retreats. The books are written. The publishing company is forming. The rabbits are producing. The medicine is proven. And we continue walking the spiral.
Ready to Remember What You Are?
Explore the medicine, read the maps, join the gatherings.