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Jacqui Wilkins + Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine & Herbal Wisdom, Markham, ON (2026)

02/14/2026

L O V E Medicine 🧡 We are love. It is something we just are... to be shared & embodied just by being who we came here to be. I first shared these words years ago ~ sharing today, a day that is often focused on colonial + crrupt c@pitalistic ideas of love just bw two people.

But really, it is everything. Inter species love & kinship. Love of the Land, knowing the Land loves us too. Love of our languages, traditional foods, the Water. Love of our kin, more than human kin. Ancestral Love. Friendship love.

It is love that sustains us to continue & to show up. To disrupt systems of harm, love that is fierce, holds strong boundaries, yet tender. Love that fortifies us 💘 ⚔️

An Elder years back reminded me of teachings my Mom had shared with me growing up around Love as protection, as healing Medicine.

They shared this with me after some intensity in Spirit realm while fasting & my little one also having these dreams/nightmares. We spoke of Love.

We spoke of this Love again recently & how many are needing to really remember. To feel it, share, embody Creation’s love 🌌

We protect, nurture, tend to what we Love. Water. Land. One another. Ourselves. Traditions + languages. Plants. Youth. Families. Critters. They also protect us 🌿

Reciprocity 🍓 Sending these rememberings to reflect this Love back to you ~ the Love that keeps us here, keeps us dreaming & building supportive systems for us all, care, futures, life ways*. Love that called you in from the Stars ✨ That has held you when you wanted to give up…

Love that sustains us & nourishes us to keep going, to rest as needed (& to be able to take turns resting as we've built systems of care + organizing), to keep our Hearts awakened & open to joy {even if the smallest of moments when they arrive}, to hope ✨🌈🕯🌹 *Life ways is a fave term I first learned from

02/11/2026

Some Sweetness {Herbal} Medicine for our Hearts 💘🌹 For authentic love, remembering some joy {yes, if possible}, pleasure, the beauty here too {so needed rn, eh kin? understatement}. Intimacy with ourselves, Creation.

Intimacy goes beyond current societal constructs. It's a way of being. Presence, in connection with all that is. Meeting ourselves, our Hearts, environments, each other. It’s an openness to being present.

It can feel challenging to stay open. Yet, also vital. It allows us to experience being here through all of our senses. With our entire beings.

Experiencing the beauty of Creation. Allowing sensations of the air against our bodies, Sun warming our Hair, late Winter colours. Communing with Creation, our own intuition, bodies.

Of course we may also experience vulnerability, discomfort, grief, pain, rage, as it's also part of being human. We can be present to it all. The Plants often help us remember how to hold this balance, discernment.

I’ve been making Medicines to hold us & our tender Hearts. Reminding us of this sweetness too. Just spending time with these Plant kin is Medicine. Pouring so much Love into them 💘 Leo Sun, Ta**us Moon, coming through during Aquarius szn, a good combo🍓

Remembering Love includes inter species Love, Ancestors' love, love of ourselves & one another. Love of the Land. And the ways they love us back. Attuned to authentic, creation, Love {love holds boundaries too, a lot of these are also protection Medicines, iykyk}. Love as an action.

Find these Medicines & the LOVE bundle on Xálish Medicines tomorrow (2/12) at 9:30am PST! 💓 Super small batch with homemade Rose Marshmallows with Schisandra Cacao. So good! I hope you feel the sweetness & care in these offerings.

Átawit {Love} potion, Heart Berry tea {Soothing!}, Sweetgrass + Rose spray, Heart Song, Heart + Womb Electuary & a few Rose Cacao Revitalizing elixirs will also be there🌹

May our Hearts be held tenderly, may our love, rage move + create actual, lasting change rooted in harmony & not get stuck, may our tears bring clarity. May we get clear on what love in action truly means during this time, xo💓

02/10/2026

Many of us are not here to play by systems rules, to 'fit' in these systems. I wrote these words in 2023, after an opportunity that probably would've been good for my 'career,' but not my Spirit. Feeling called to share again as I've been reflecting on integrity & fitting🌹

Many of you are here to create different ways ~ rooted in harmony & alignment with Creation. With well Ancestral guidance. Paving the way for generations to come, while healing intergenerational trauma.

You aren't here to fit into these systems. It is exhausting to continue trying, to have to try.

I used to wonder if doing it "xyz" way {fitting} may be easier, then I remember: no, it wouldn't be easier because it would go against integrity.

It would go against the Land/Teachings. Against Life. Against what I believe & what I am really try to share in this life. Against myself.

We have to be conscious of the choices we are making, they have impact.

Some of us are here to dream outside of these systems & remind us we can create different paths. We can create change {I sit with this often bc I am still living w/in these systems, I'm far from perfect & still am working toward change,unlearning,relearning daily}

If the only way to belong is to abandon who we are, to mask ourselves or to conform, then it is not really belonging.

If it asks you to hide parts of your full self, it's a no. If it asks you to exploit parts of yourself, the Land, other people, your teachings, it's a no. If it sits funny in your Heart or gut, it's a no. If you have bad dreams after the convo, it's (probably) a no. (Adding: If it ignores current gemohsides + oppression at home, worldwide, it is a no)

Discernment. Sometimes we choose what & how to share parts of ourselves, or not 💚

Some of you are here to create new ways of being, paths, rooted in our Ancestors love + teachings. Rooted in the Earth's wisdom + guidance. Rooted in healing + liberation. Listening your Hearts, Spirit, moving from Love & integrity. The Land helps us remember. I'm here alongside you 🌻

02/05/2026

Feed your Ancestors & nourish yourself💧As we move through late Winter it is a time of tending to our Spirit, roots. Well Ancestors. Our Blood, Essence. Kidney energy may be feeling more depleted right now, nervous systems (understandably) activated.

In TCM Winter is aligned with Kidney energy. The emotion is fear & element Water. Kidneys hold our vital essence, magic, genetic codes. The root of Life. Supporting us in aligned aging, vitality. In our purpose, our path.

Directly passed down from our Ancestors. Origin of Fire + Water. They filter our blood, waters, discernment.

They also produce a hormone, erythropoietin, which stimulates bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Nourishing our bodies with life giving, oxygen rich Blood. Merging Air element {Oxygen}, with Earth {Bone}.

Our Kidneys are also important for our 1mmun3 & nervous system. If Kidney is imbalanced you may feel tired, accelerated aging, anemia, low back pain, excess fear*, lack courage, lack stamina to keep going, poor memory, libido imbalance, fertility issues, depression, stress, etc. {of course, we know health also weaves w systems + our environment, not just individual}

When we share stories in the Winter, honouring Ancestral wisdom + traditions, we tend to our roots, honouring Kidney energy. We also may strengthen our sense of belonging & trust, our place among Creation, which strengthens vitality.

When we balance rest + action & nourish our bodies we strengthen our Kidneys, our vitality. When we share warm meals & tend to one another, we remember this has always been the way.

I'm sending out an 3mail today with some fave Seaweed + Kidney nourishing recipes; see b10 if you'd like to receive it!

A few Plants* {see captions}:
Fo-Ti: Kidney tonic. Builds from deep w/in, supports vitality & longevity. Heart leaves, calming
Red Date: Deep & sweet nourishment. Not exactly kidney, but nourishing
Nettle: Rich chlorophyll, minerals & vitamins, nourishment of the Earth. Nettle seeds strengthen adrenals. Nettle Leaf is diuretic, helping us process water/emotions/‘toxins’/build up
Schisandra: Adaptogen. Protects Kidney essence & leaking energy. Calms Spirit. Memory {Ancient codes}
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02/04/2026

Anyone else?? 🌹🌸 add some Sweetgrass + Yarrow too ✨ {some levity here, though scent has been esp grounding & connecting lately ~ those ancestral memories & connections}

Latít {Flower} is one of my fave Hydrosols, the scent is so beautiful & soothing. I feel my chest/Heart expand, tension softening. Returning to myself. Feeling held by the Land.

Alchemy of Water + Flowers {Plants}, a blend of Sweetgrass, Rose & Yarrow Medicine.

🌿 Sweetgrass ~ remembering sweetness here too, connection with our well Ancestors, knowing we are held, returning to our bodies, Hearts. Clearing energies & bringing healing, harmony. Honouring our place in Creation. Our responsibilities here, to life. Anti-inflammatory & wound healing, easing inflamed, red skin
🌹 Rose ~ maternal lineage healing, Heart Medicine, honouring the beauty that exists here. Rose is a cooling Medicine, increasing circulation, reducing redness. Studies show the smell of Rose alone may reduce pain (!), anxiety & boost memory recall.
✨ Yarrow ~ a close Plant kin, Protection Medicine. Holding us in d1smantling harmful systems {w/in as well}Topically anti-inflammatory, easing red + inflamed skin. Potent wound healing abilities & also are an analgesic (mild pain reliever)

This Hydrosol can be worked with so many ways. I work with them throughout the day when my skin is feeling dry esp in Winter, or when I need a little mental boost (always?). Protection.

May be worked with for minor scrapes or bruising. After a shower/bath with Body Oils to make an emulsion of the two (this one with our Coastal Forests Seaweed + Cedar oil, so good).

A customer shared they spray this on their face & ears when they feel anger + irritability rising, that heat! It helps ease the irritability & soothe. I love this way of working with them!

Latít may also be worked with as a room or linen spray, sweetness, beauty, protection medicine & clearing energies.

Just a few bottles left in st0ck of this one, you can find it in my b10 🌸 May the Medicines we need to continue showing up always find their way 🌿

02/01/2026

Imbolc, Candlemas day & Full Moon Blessings, kin 🕯

A time of quickening, stirrings within & around us, the Sun’s light lengthening. Our own energy shifting, half way b/w Solstice & Equinox. A time of visioning potential.

This transitional time feels extra potent with a Full Moon in Leo. Love, courage, continuing to discern illusions. Shedding as we prepare for Year of the Horse. Stirrings of hope as first Snowdrops have just emerged here.

Snake year reminds us of the importance in listening/perceiving with all of our senses, our bodies, esp to the Land & hidden truths. Discerning. Connection.

For many Feb is a difficult, cold month. In the depths of Winter, lacking Vitamin D & waking in the dark. We may still be in Winter, but, if you pay attention to those subtle energies you may notice shifts.

Soon the sap will flow & the Spring ephemeral Flowers will bloom 🌸

A few ways to honour the energy of the Season, yourself, energy & Land:
🕯Light a Candle ~ connecting to the flame, Fire. Calling in that light to guide your/our way forward; to show us the path
☀️Bathe in the Sunrise/Sunset if able. Notice over the week how the Sun shifts little by little, reminding us that small shifts accumulate
🔥Light a hearth Fire in the home or outside. Cooking over Fire or just sitting w their energy. Give thanks for the warmth, protection
🌸Make tea from Summer harvests. Remembering sensations in the body while picking Medicines in warmth. Work w Plant kin that warm/move/womb connection: Calendula, Cinnamon, Hypericum, Rose
🌱Just BE. Be wherever, however, you are today
💦Run a bath, maybe an herbal bath w Flowers/Plants that call. Cedar, Rose, Yarrow, Angelica ~ clearing stuck energy, heaviness, blocks … held by the Waters, our Origin. Giving gratitude
🌹Call a Mother figure(s) if that feels supportive, or sibling, kin that have nurtured & loved on you

There are many ways to connect. A hand on the Heart & lower abdomen, feeling warmth ~ connection, that flow & releasing any stagnant energy or tension, patterns of disharmony. Attuning with the Earth 💐

Lots of love, kin. Keep going ✨ 🕯️ We are more supported than we know, there are more of us when we remember...

01/22/2026

A note for our Hearts, keep going kin. Your Medicine has impact💚🌬️

Sometimes something we share, create, write can move someone years later. Can hold someone. Can awaken parts of those who connect with it.

We are so hard on ourselves, if we don't see immediate results or outcomes we want, so much of colonial ways are this immediacy.

What about the waves of the Ocean who over time carve the sandstone? Are they less impactful when their medicine is one of consistency, 'slowness'?

As practitioners, medicine folks, organizers, artists, teachers we may wonder, are we making a difference? As people working toward systematic change, sometimes we wonder the same. For myself I've had wisdom reach me many years after it was shared.

Perhaps folks may not ready to receive it fully at the time? Perhaps there is cognitive understanding but the body needs time to integrate & really embody the wisdom. Sometimes it may be a seed planted. Ripples.

I'm always amazed at how the Medicine finds us, at the right time. And sometimes we never even know how it's held someone 🩷

I went in for a treatment that my body needed, and Rose oil from another maker was used. Something about being held by another Indigenous kin's offerings & medicine felt so tender.

I think about this with Xálish Medicines when you share stories about how a Medicine shows up, how they support you, your communities.

A simple thing, but it reminds us how connected we are. When we share something, we don't always know where it will land.

How these threads weave us together. How we each have impact. Have agency. Sometimes we see direct results. And sometimes we may never fully grasp how they ripple, but they do.

Whether the Medicine is mobilizing, teaching our children, physical Medicines, art, writing, disrupting, making meals for kin, words of truth/wisdom, stories, skills, sharing Medicines… we never know how what we share may impact the World 🌹

And so, we keep showing up, we keep going. May we be resourced in our path, may we be a spark for others when they forget their brightness, may all the Love we pour into this time be felt by generations to come, xo 🌀

01/20/2026

Presence helps us to meet each moment, trusting we do have time 🌿 Notice how you feel when someone says, "don't rush, take your time ~ or, we can move slowly." I notice how my child's energy shifts when I allow space. What a gift we can give one another.

Notice how your body feels when you remember you have time...

It can feel like pushing against something sometimes, can't it? These systems that continually exploit, drain, our time, resources, attention, energy. And. We have to consciously untangle & be aware of the insidious nature of them.

Time is something I've always been fascinated with. We know that all time exists, is here, present, now. Our well Ancestors are present through us. Time is not linear. Yet, and, the systems have created so many artificial constructs of time, urgency, "productivity" (to feed the machine not our soul) 🌊

What if we could find ways to give one another more space? To give ourselves more space? Not rushing.

Moving slowly, in alignment with Creation's rhythms. Taking our cues from the Land, remembering we are part of our environment. Not outside of it.

And of course, sometimes we must move quickly, sometimes a moment does call us to act with urgency ~ and when we are attuned with the Land, when our nervous systems are nourished, we are able to discern those moments & act.

How would this impact our nervous systems? Our irritability? When we could *flow* with Earth time? {the Liver in TCM benefits greatly from this, and correlates with irritability + anger} ✨

There have been studies done showing how time feels like it has sped up collectively, in large part due to social media/phone use. It is impacting our neural networks, our tracking of time. Of Seasons. Of rhythms.

We are meant to live Seasonally, cyclically.

When we are living out of alignment with Creation ("nature") this shows up in our bodies. Our fascia. Our digestion. Our energy levels. Our mood. It impacts us at every level.

The Earth always shows us the way, how can we orient to this rhythm? Even in small ways, small moments? Remembering we do have time, and meeting each present moment with connection 🌹

01/18/2026

Wasikayk-łá/Mullein Medicine 💚 They've been calling to share this New Moon. A potent Medicine story for this New Moon as we navigate so much uncertainty, continued destabilization. We can look to the Plants to guide, show us, support. {I recorded this video 2 years ago now & it's so resonant}

Often they are considered a “lung herb,” though, Plants are so multi-faceted.

Yes, they may be supportive for respiratory conditions. Ensuring to filter out any infusions as their little ‘hairs’ can irritate mucosa. They are slightly demulcent yet also astringent, & anti-inflammatory. Making them really lovely for dry/chronic coughs/irritations/sore throat. They may also help to dispel & bring up mucous.

I have worked with them for other inflammatory conditions as well ~ a poultice with fresh Marshmallow leaf for chronic Mastitis. A poultice w fresh Comfrey for a shattered finger. Etc.

One of my fave aspects of their Medicine is their ability to guide… they’ve always felt like they are deeply connected w the Ancestors. A for their wisdom & healing. Paired w the Lung, grief.

I held a Plant Medicine Ceremony with them a few years back. A vision after was of me standing in the dark. A pitch black forest. I wasn’t sure where to go… I was ‘lost.’

Mullein showed up & reminded me that I didn’t need to “see” the entire forest in order to be able to move, take action, to know my path. They help illuminate to take the next step. Moment by moment. Protecting.

Sometimes life can feel overwhelming, we may not know exactly what the future holds or looks like. What we can aim to do, is align with each moment. Moment by moment walking our path, listening & moving gently. In this way we can find our way through the dark, together ☀️

This imagery is feeling supportive collectively as we are dreaming & building new ways together. As we are dismantling. We may not be able to know, perceieve, the entire way, but we can be present each moment & continue 💚✨

01/16/2026

Xálish Medicines re-st0ck!! ✨ Sh0p open after a little Winter break, with Plant Medicines to hold us & nourish. I hope they feel supportive, kin 🌼 They've been holding me this month especially.

With extra focus on Nervous system, Qi tonics, Heart Medicines, sleep, tension & also delicious Medicines. Remembering beauty & tenderness here too {needed some days} 🍄

❊ Of the Forest Bitters ~ it's back! Alcohol free bitters to support digestion, gut healing, gallbladder. Also, so yummy! Add to Herbal mocktails. Last batch of the year ✨
❊ Sweetgrass + Rose Ritual spray ~ everyone's fave, needed Medicine rn 🌸
❊ Maple {Mushroom} Magic ~ by request! So glad you all love this one 🍄
❊ Heart Song ~ because our Hearts really need some support esp rn. Grief. Heartbreak. Boundaries. Moving from Love
❊ Gingerbread Electuary ~ I'm still enjoying this one daily in my coffee, with Qi Tonic herbs. Warming. Delicious 🍯
❊ Elecampane Honey ~ this one. Respiratory, cough & gut support. Rooting.
❊ Celestial Dreams {sleep tincture & easing tension} ~ Passionflower + California Poppy & Skullcap
❊ Hypericum salve ~ easing tension, nerve pain, protection, wound healing ❤️‍🩹
❊ Spirit Moon Sleep syrup ~ w Plant kin that support circadian rhythms, sleep cycles & improve overall mood + energy✨soothing to help us come back into our bodies, spirits & receive REST
❊ Record Keeper ~ for cognitive function, memory boost, brain fog... deep remembering

Peppermint Revitalizing Adaptogenic Cacao is back by request, I got a new batch made. I’m still enjoying it & it sounds like you are too✨ As well as Golden Elixir with Lion's Mane + Marshmallow root for GUT healing, Costal Forests Cedar + Seaweed oil {this batch is so good!}, Intertidal rejuvenating Seaweed skin serum & a few others...

Gratitude for all of your support, kin, it warms my Heart to be back crafting some Medicines to hold us rn. I hope they're supportive ❤️

Lots of love & tenderness. May we remember our way, together. May we be resourced in showing up & find moments of connection that sustain us🕯 {head to website to find these Medicines & see what's back 🌹}

Jacqui Wilkins + Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine & Herbal Wisdom

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