I was raised with a sense of responsibility for my community and for the world, as well as lots of traditional remedies and ways. Several of my ancestors were traditional healers and midwives and it has been a natural calling for me. I began my path on the healing journey when I was pregnant with my first child many years ago, studying natural therapeutics, and at that time I first became introduced to the likes of Sally Fallon and the Weston Price Foundation, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ayurveda. After becoming licensed in Traditional Chinese Medicine, I went on to pursue other traditional healing modalities, while becoming a mother to three beautiful children. Having been through becoming severely ill and graduating from the IHF program, I now have a completely different perspective and set of expertise in healing difficult-to-treat conditions, which I feel very passionate about sharing with those in need.
What is the biggest hurdle that you’ve overcome?
After going through some major life crises and changes that upended my life as it was up to that point, I became debilitatingly ill and basically bed bound, completely lost as to what to do, when nothing that I always did before worked. This has been a major reckoning with everything I have held most dear and I don’t know what I would have done without having IHF to validate my struggle and as a guiding light for how to approach a renewed vitality and strength beyond what I had known before.
Who is your biggest motivation?
My elders, my Grandma, Zorah Neal Hurston, Miguel Leon Portilla, Rhiannon Giddens, Sonah Jobarteh, Cipriano Vigil
What are your 3 favorite books?
- El Codice Boturini o Tira de la Peregrinacion
- Tewa Firelight Tales
- The Toe Bone and the Tooth
What are your favorite hobbies?
More ways of life than hobbies, I love keeping culture and tradition alive through land-based ways such as gardening, keeping chickens, weaving, cooking, dancing, learning languages, and playing music.
What is a song that lifts you up?
Life is a problem by Sister O.M. Terrell
Favorite travel destination?
All over, getting to know what’s around me, my ancestral homelands such as Mexico and Wales, places with amazing cultures and history, you name it!
