From the Roots

Last year, I began collecting seeds. It wasn't something I intentionally set out to do. I had returned to the lands where I was born, in the mountains of southeastern British Columbia, for a deeply personal reason. My father passed away a couple of years ago, and I had come back to scatter his ashes at the ski hill in Kimberley, probably his favourite place in the world. Being there brought me back into a landscape that holds so much of my own history. There is so much I love

Acupuncture is a second career for me. Before this, I spent many years in a profession that offered stability and valuable lessons I still carry with me today. It was a chapter that supported me in important ways, and I’m deeply grateful for what it gave me. After an illness and a period of leave, I found myself at a natural pause point. It created space for reflection and for listening more closely to what I needed moving forward. In my early twenties, while living on the We