Herbalist · Author · Embodied Living Educator
You don’t need
another religion.
You need to
come home.
For the woman who has deconstructed everything and still hasn’t found something real. Not a new system. Not a prettier performance. Just the body, the land, and the thing that was always alive underneath.
Begin Here“The body was never the problem. The severing was the problem.”
— Sacred Embodied Human Animal
You’ve been spiritually homeless twice, and you’re done performing belonging.
First the church couldn’t hold you. Then the aestheticized spiritual world with the moon journals, the crystals, the aesthetic, turned out to be another costume, another set of rules dressed up differently. You saw through both. That clarity cost you another space in which you thought you could belong.
You’re not looking for a new label or a new leader. You’re looking for something that doesn’t require you to buy a starter kit or memorize someone else’s framework. You want the thing underneath all of it. Yhe thing that is older than any tradition and belongs to no one.
This work is for the woman in post-deconstruction who hasn’t found her ground yet. The exhausted, over-scheduled woman who senses something deeply wrong with the world and suspects the answer has something to do with her body, the land, and a way of living that empire has been trying to make her forget.
You already have everything you need. This is the remembering.
Wildcrafted medicine, embodied cosmology, and maps for living beyond empire.
I live on 22.2 acres in rural Missouri where the Milky Way is visible most nights and the plants that become medicine grow from soil I know by name. This land is where I wildcraft the remedies, where my children learn by doing, where people gather seasonally to practice something the modern world has nearly made us forget.
I’m the author of The Living Spiral Series — a multi-book collection offering frameworks for rewilding human animal nature and living beyond the structures of empire. The foundational book, Resurrecting the Sacred Embodied Human Animal, begins here: you are not meant to transcend your body. You are not broken. You are an animal woven into stellar rhythms that have guided life on this planet for billions of years.
My herbal medicine practice serves those ready for root-cause healing. Eighty-plus wildcrafted formulas, harvested from this land in relationship and respect, addressing the body systems that when balanced will allow conditions to resolve as nature intended.
20 acres · Rural Missouri
Wildcrafted · Seasonal · Land-rooted
Embodied spirituality. Not transcendence. Not performance. Remembering.
Every tradition, every single one, is a human construction layered over something far older. Something the body still carries. Something that doesn’t need to be believed in because it was never absent.
The Sacred Embodied Human Animal is the framework I’ve spent years developing through doctoral research, daily land practice, and the lived experience of leaving systems that asked me to transcend what I am. It names the wound: the severing of humans from their animal nature, their somatic knowing, their direct relationship with land and cosmos.
This is not New Age spirituality. It is not reformed religion. It is not the witchy aesthetic with better branding. It is the argument that you are already whole, already woven into something real, and that the work is not becoming something else, it is remembering what you are.
Post-deconstruction embodiment
Somatic wisdom · Ancestral knowing
Beyond dogma · Beyond performance
The stars are not a personality system. They are a living map.
The Western zodiac is approximately 2,000 years old and now misaligned by nearly a full sign due to precession. We have been navigating by an outdated map.
The 28 Celestial Sanctuaries system is built on Earth’s actual current position in fixed stellar coordinates, real Right Ascension measurements, not zodiac-relative or sun-centric abstractions. Each of the 28 sanctuaries represents a true 12.857° arc of sky, with the moon moving through one sanctuary per day.
From this land, on a clear night, the Milky Way is visible overhead. Sanctuaries 21 through 23 hold the galactic center. Cosmology taught not as a personality quiz but as direct relationship with the living sky.
28 Celestial Sanctuaries
Fixed stellar coordinates · Real sky positions
Galactic center visible from this land
“You were never meant to transcend your body. You were meant to come home to it.”Stephanie Bacquet Mathews
Ways to Work Together
Medicine, books, gatherings, and teaching: All pointing toward the same thing.
Wildcrafted Herbal Medicine
80+ formulas addressing root causes, not symptoms. Plants harvested from our Missouri land in relationship and respect. No pesticides. No intermediary. Direct from earth to remedy.
Visit the Apothecary →The Living Spiral Series
A multi-book series mapping the Sacred Embodied Human Animal framework: embodied cosmology, rewilding, post-empire living, somatic spirituality. For those done with systems and ready for something real.
Read the Books →Seasonal Land Gatherings
Retreats on our 20 Missouri acres timed to Earth’s actual rhythms. Practice in community, living as sacred embodied human animals.
Upcoming Gatherings →Sacred Embodied Human Animal School
Deconstructing societal programming to awaken innate intuition, instinct, and wild intelligence. For the woman ready to stop performing and start inhabiting.
Learn More →28 Celestial Sanctuaries
Daily embodied cosmology based on actual current star positions. Real sky. Real coordinates. Stellar navigation as somatic practice, not personality typing.
Explore the Sanctuaries →Patreon: The Ongoing Work
Exclusive book chapters, embodied cosmology readings, and geopolitical frameworks through the Sacred Embodied Human Animal lens. First home for sensitive material and prophetic writing.
Join on Patreon →You already know what you are.
This is just the remembering. Start with the medicine, the books, or find your way to the land.