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Jacqui Wilkins + Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine & Herbal Wisdom, Markham, ON (2025)

07/21/2025

July Moments, Desert back to the Sea 🌼 Poppy garden bringing joy & reminders of our interconnection, l1beration. Yarrow everywhere {protection}, coffee with my Mama during her first time visiting the Island {Ocean! 😭}, moments in Montana, visiting the big Ocean & connecting with Seaweed... time crafting Mugwort wands, on the Land, in the Water.

Tending the Earth {garden}, my little one, community care packages, to my inner child, my Heart. Time crafting Medicines to share, to hold us 🌿 Time recovering, nourishing {+ questioning how we can nourish while G@za, Sudan, so many others, are starved}. Noticing. Deep listening. Time coming back to myself, my body. Listening to the Stars ✨

And, so many Flowers!

It's my birthday week {on Wednesday, tropical Leo Sun babe!} & I'm feeling different this year. Of course. Aren't we all?

It doesn't exactly feel like July, yet the Land tells me it is. The Sun reminds me. The Water. Plant kin. They anchor us in a way that is true, not rigid, flexible... they are time keepers 🌿

It feels like such a blessing to have had this time with my Mama. Seeing her smile, laugh, play Jacks with my little one, be in awe of 800 year old Trees, what huge Medicine this is 🩷

I've been moving between gratitude, feeling immense beauty in simple moments, feeling held deeply by the Ocean & also feeling the depths of grief, rage, heartbreak. Continuing to move through physical/health things.

We can hold it all. We can hold deep gratitude for life, for beautiful moments if & when, they arrive. And we can hold heartbreak, anger, regret & longing. We can look at our lives, behaviors & ask if they are in alignment with the world we vision. If we are doing what is called of us... following those pulls {courage, integrity, keep coming up}. We can change. We can create change 💐✨

I haven't written a little update in awhile ~ I used to share more personal musings, but we know the algo has shifted. I'm reminded that our 'value' is beyond c0lonial + capitalistic standards. There is medicine & creativity in story, in showing up, however we are🌹✨ xo lots of Love, kin

07/20/2025

Summer Herbal latte for stress support & longevity 🌸💧Cosmic Beauty nourishing potion has been so supportive lately. Adaptogenic plant allies may help our bodies navigate stress + balance cortisol {simply, each one is unique}.

I crafted this blend to help us remember the beauty within & around us; esp during times of stress, uncertainty. Renewing vitality, energy & supporting our nervous system {not an easy task rn & valid to be 'dysregulated'}.

Nourishing our vital essence✨🌸 Supporting our bodies during times of exhaustion, brain fog, low mood. Helping recovery after acute illness, or times of stress.

Many of these Plant kin are worked w for boosting cognitive function & brain health. Clearing brain fog, increasing memory, but also remembering our way, clarity of our path + truths, vision here. Collectively.

As well as supporting overall vitality & reducing inflammation. Strengthening our vasculature to strengthen Blood, boundaries. With potent antioxidants to reduce oxidative stress.

Side note: did you know when grieving our Inflammatory cytokines increase? Leading to various symptoms including fatigue, joint pain, gut imbalances, 1mmun3 dysregulation, mood shifts, menstrual pain, chronic flares, etc.

Feat Mucuna, a Plant ally that may aid in visioning, paired w Wolfberry. Supporting the eyes + vision 👁 Mucuna also has naturally occurring L-dopa which may boost dopamine levels & help w low mood, fertility, libido {aphrodisiac} & healthy aging {always check interactions & safety}.

Lion’s Mane is a fave fungi that may help heal to the gut & digestive system as well as promote nerve regeneration. Deep nervous system nourishment & mild anti-anxiety support.

Fo-Ti is a deep {TCM} Kidney Medicine, vitality, supporting healthy aging, hair growth & overall vitality 💕 They are such a beautiful kin, with Heart shaped leaves.

I've been loving it slightly chilled with Coconut milk, you can also enjoy warm or in smoothies + foods. Find Cosmic Beauty at Xálish Medicines in B10✨

07/18/2025

Seaweed {Kelp} appreciation 🌊💚 These kin, they're so beautiful. I keep saying it, Seaweeds are one of the most potent Medicines of the times. For many reasons {and, as a Plant/Medicine becomes more 'popular' there is risk of over + improper harvesting & exploitation, it's vital to know how to harvest these kin in a sustainable, ethical, way w protocol💚}

The first photo is Bull Kelp, 2nd is ribbed Kelp, 5th is giant Kelp {dried}. They remind us of our origins, who we are✨ They help us remember how to be here. How to be who we came here to be. They show us how to be a good relative & care for all of Creation, all life here {human & more}.

Kelp holds vital roles in the ecosystem, home to much Sea life. Foundational species.

We sometimes think of grounding, stability, as this heaviness right? What if we could remember fluidity, flexibility, adaptability, is also part of stability?

What if we could soften rigidity & remember true stability, within ourselves, Spirit, community care, Creation? The Water. Being able to move with all that is coming up.

Kelp reduces erosion, sequesters Carbon, nourishes LIFE. This is their Medicine. Nourishment. Holding us.

I add them to topical & internal Medicines, including Tilíwal Blood Buildiing elixir. Helping restore vitality. Awakening Blood memory.

They also may boost collagen & skin elasticity. Supporting optimal aging & skin vitality + health. You can find them in Coastal Forests, Intertidal Blue Tansy skin serum & Aláyt Sea Bath Salts {back soon}💚

They're mucilagenous, Yin nourishing. Moistening dry, irritated tissues states. Soothing. Perfect for Summer, rage, irritation. Medicine to hold us.

Watching them dance in the Water feels like a gift, it's hard to put into words 🌊

They can grow up to 200 ft, fastest growing organisms in the world! Bull Kelp & Giant Kelp have pneumatocysts that help them float, again, symbolizing moving with waves that Life brings. Receiving light from the Sun, w/o shading others. Interdependence ✨

I could go on! There's SO much to their Medicine & being💧I wanted to share beautiful moments with them recently. You can find Seaweed Essence at Xálish Medicines ✨

06/21/2025

Solstice Blessings & Indigenous Peoples Day love 🌞 Walking my Ancestors footsteps ~ picking Medicines, Berries, Fishing, Nurturing, tending Fire 🔥 I feel close to them when I’m close to the Land. Our identities intimately woven w our environment.

As we turn the wheel toward the Southern door ~ Listen to Spirit, to the Land, Plants, Sun, your own Heart … honour Creation & yourself by getting outside if you’re able to. Sit w the Earth {even among mosquitos ;)} 🍓

Make some Medicine.
Dance.
Sing to the Water.
Share poems with the Stars.
Wake with the Sun & remember that fire + vitality within ☀️
Move from your Hearts ~ restoring Harmony, action. Gather, organize
Drum for the critters who come to say hi. Nourish your Body.
Tend to your Heart, associated with Summer 🌹
FEAST allll of the beings ~ Creation. Leave offerings for the Earth, your well Ancestors, your Teachers, Spirit 🍓🌌

Solstice family kin coming through ~ Hypericum, Yarrow, Mugwort, Coastal Mugwort, Wild Rose, Elderflower. This is where I'll be, on the Land. Honouring Life.

Honouring that we are still here. Honouring my child who will grow up knowing who they are, these connections & those that are home in the Stars🌌

I saw a quote by Tasha Beeds & it stuck w me “colonization was not successful.” We fight, we are tired, there are many lasting, continued, impacts, traumas, injustices ~ and, can we drop in to that statement for a moment?

Colonization didn’t, isn't going to win, look around at all the ways we are still honouring our responsibilities & traditions here. The joy & beauty here too🧡

Look around at our beautiful relatives doing good work & those healing. Can you feel that strength, tenderness, love & momentum?

Honouring that. Honouring each of you & all of the healing you are doing for yourself, community & past + future generations, one another. The seen & unseen realms. All the various ways you are reclaiming what they tried to take from us ~ reconnecting to the Land & tending to our relationship w the Earth, all of Creation, connecting to our Roots 🌱🍓✨

You are your Ancestor’s prayers embodied, Fam. Walk with that knowing 🌌🌼 Solstice sweetness & love, xo

06/20/2025

Ghost Pipe/Akiwenziimaawii ~ Monotropa uniflora Medicine ✨ They've been calling loudly to share, so of course they led me right to them this week! {last slide, emerging}

They are a perennial kin that lack chlorophyll. Mycotrophic. They receive nutrients from Trees AND fungal networks. Holding this consciousness ~ rooted like Trees & vast neural cosmic networks like the fungi. Communications. Interdependence 🕸

The Flower Essence is my fave ways to work w them. {*They aren’t one to typically be picked*} They grow in little clusters, together, reminding us of the importance of being in inter species/ elemental relation w all of Creation, of Community & alignment with those we are in relation with.

Letting go, or releasing, people/energies/things/patterns/work/relationships/systems, etc. that aren’t aligned w that authentic harmony.

The Flower Essence may help support healing patterns that may be draining our life force ~ this may be physical, energetic + spiritual. To me, they help hold this energy from w/in. They help re-harmonize, so that we can see those energies & act. For folks who feel like they are drained, deficient, burnt out.

They may help us break relational patterns that keep us stuck in the same loop, perhaps helping us create new solutions + ways to move outside of these patterns, systems. Allowing us to see & receive teachings needed to move.

Some say they resemble a spinal cord & brain stem. They have physical properties that help to relieve pain {emotional}. Attuning our discernment as our nervous system are our ‘feelers.’ Energizing, balancing,re-wiring. Diffusing any stagnant energy that may be lingering ⛈

They are extra potent for navigating shifts. Fortifying this energy, re-aligning the nervous system to be able to FEEL our way through the Truth & disharmonies. To not get stuck in the feelings phase, but to let them catalyze. To find & create systems & ways of change, aligned for all of Creation. To move into those shifts, rooted in Ancient Earth + Cosmic energies ✨{Find them at Xálish Medicines}✨

06/17/2025

Go to the Water to remember 🌊 Take yourself to the Water when you forget. Sing to the Stars.

Bring offerings of love, sweetness, flowers & care.

Let the Ocean play with your hair. Let the Water Mother, parent, hold you. Move you.

If you need advice, or feel heaviness in your Heart, take yourself to the Stone kin. Listen to their stories for perspective. They will guide you back. They will give you tangible instructions, perspective, ways to move.

If you’re longing for tenderness & comfort, take yourself to Water and let your emotions flow. Tears flowing like Rivers which bring new Life. Nourishment. Honouring that love that weaves us together. To keep going.

Submerge into the mystery of being. Re-pattern & remember. Shed patterns that no longer align, collectively & individually. Rebirth.

If you feel confused on your path, on why you came here, take yourself to the Standing ones. The Stars. Ask them for council. Listen to their wisdom. Listen to the stories they share of grief & change, and how we can act. How we can show up. What needs to be done & how to activate + be in our Medicine.

If you aren’t sure if you can withstand the storm, take yourself to Seaweed, to the Grasses, they may teach you how to sway & weather the Elements as they come.

If you are feeling disconnected, seek Fire. Place your hand on your Heart, speak gently & with care. Feel the Heart beat connecting you to that of the rhythm of our Earth Mother, to every human & more than human kin, warmth … remembering your way back to yourself, back to each other ♥️🌊

Allowing that sacred Fire to move us to create change, to honour our sacred rage without burning ourselves, or others unintentionally. Remmbering some seeds only birth through the flames.

{words, a prayer, that feel resonant again ~ returning to the Waters, the Elements, to hold us & guide us. This can also be a bath, a cup of tea, our own waters within. remembering we are woven & our sacred responsibilities to one another, to the Land, Creation, our Ancestors, here. The Ocean has been holding me daily always bringing me back 🌊}

06/16/2025

Deep gratitude for your support in the Xálish Medicines Strawberry Moon update, kin! 🩷 Many of the Medicines went *fast,* I hope to have more coming in August 🌿 Your support is so felt 🥹

Your orders are being bundled with love & intention by myself & my partner. I just wanted to give an update that they're coming :) They'll continue going out over the next 2 weeks ✨ Grateful for your patience with these Medicines, kin. It was our largest Spring update, ever!

This time of year is also harvest Season for many Plant kin, so some days we also have to be on the Land, or gardens ~ tending to & gathering, making Medicines 🌸

We are working all day/night to get them out asap, while hand wrapping each one, bundling with care & intention. Honouring rhythms.

I appreciate you all so much. It warms my Heart to see many familiar names & to send these Medicines to so many of you 🌹 I hope they hold you & offer depths of support.

I feel so much deep gratitude & awe during updates, I don't take any of it for granted ✨

To know that folks choose to support, repeat purchase, to hear how you, your fam, wider community are supported by these offerings is really everything. Kw'ałanúusha matash, thank you kin.

The Plants* really have a way of holding us, supporting us, guiding. Yes ~ their physical support can be deeply healing, sustaining us. But it goes beyond. They help us remember our original instructions. To truly care for one another, the Land, Water & create lasting change. Knowing we are interwoven ~ not just cognitively, but knowing in our blood. Being able to actually feel the Land calling us to action.

When we truly know this ~ it becomes impossible to not fully show up in all the ways we are able & called. For one another. From this love & deep knowing.

May we all remember our Medicine, our way here, the vibration of true liberati0n & harmony for all of our kin {human & more than human}, may we remember we are always held by Creation 🌊💐 xo {I hope to have a few of the Medicines in a mini restock, likely August, as some of the Medicines went so quickly!}

06/13/2025

Time & time again, the Land reminds me who I am 🌹
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The Land remembers who you are even when you forget ~ Robin Wall Kimmer.
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I heard this driving through so called Montana many years ago. The Mountains, Sagebrush, Pines & Yellowstone outside my Dad’s Truck’s window that he let me borrow. Driving alone on my way home after my first solo night since becoming a new Mama. I needed to be on the Land, ‘alone.’

My little one was 2. The day spent in the Mountains, the Water, helped me remember who I am & why I’m here.

The last few years, on hard grief days, on days where I am feeling unsure about it all ~ I’ve gone to the Land, the Water. To the Tree & Plant kin. Getting clear of the noise. Being. Listening.

The Land helps us remember. The Land remembers us. We remember too. Our Blood Memory awakens as we smell the soil, minerals, moss, the Plants, the knowing that we belong to & are part of the Earth. When we press a seed into the soil, or harvest our dinner. Kinship.

Even if we are displaced from Ancestral Lands, we can still connect - in a good, respectful, way rooted in care for all of Creation - to the Land that holds us. I believe this itself can be healing as we remember. The Land misses us too, Fam.

Reconnecting & remembering who we are. What is means to be human, to be a part of Creation & live in harmony. The Land reminds us. We are so intimately connected to all that is. Our origin.

When we connect with the Earth, the Plants, Water, we remember that we belong. We remember what harmony & balance may feel like, within ourselves too. To truly care for one another while we are here. Attuning our nervous system to the Land + Elements. We begin to heal.

To reclaim all that has been lost, stolen & taken, & heal ways we may cause harm(s) as well. Returning home to ourselves, to Creation 🌲🌊 {Get outside and share your Heart & listen to a Tree, or the Water this weekend if you can Fam, or even just from a window}

06/13/2025

Strawberry Moon love 🍓 Gathering Yarrow, Wild Rose, on the Land, making Medicines, Hummingbird visits & watching Strawberries {a relative of Wild Rose} ripen with the lengthening days 🌸

This, presence. Being open to the beauty that exists here too, amidst the pain, devastation.

This Moon reminds us to keep our Hearts open. To continue returning to them, to the Land, to what is truly important. Love. Relational healing. Compassion. Standing in our most authentic selves. Standing in action, in integrity. Aligning our daily habits with our values, our words congruent with our behaviours, ways of being. Standing fully in who we came here to be.

I had a whole long caption written ~ but I think I will leave it 🩷 The transmissions coming from the videos & photos ~ attuning with Hummingbird, Moon rise on the Ocean, Bird song. Returning. Remembering.

Love.

Last night I showed my little one a photo of the convoy from Algeria to Gaza ~ I said, "look how much Love there is." You know? Of course the hate, greed, disconnect that makes the it even needed. The continued g3noside, each life, a whole universe ~ how do we hold the paradox of it all existing simultaneously?

This Moon, Rose, Strawberry Medicine helps hold us. Helps us remember love, compassion, sweetness. Healing lineages. Healing relationships, including to the Land, to each other, ourselves 🍓 Going to the Water, going into the Water, is welcome Medicine right now. Speaking, singing, your prayers into the Water knowing they will be carried in the currents...

May all standing against + amidst 0ppresive systems & moving us towards harmony be fortified, be protected, be held + resourced. May they know they aren't alone. May they be shielded ⚔️ May well Ancestors uplift. May power return to the stewards of the Earth.

May we return to the Land in all ways, refocusing priorities.

May we all find some sweetness, moments of beauty, tenderness & experience the Love that is here too this Summer Solstice time. May our Medicine be amplified. May we act with courage & determination, with integrity 🍓🌹 *more to come on Heart medicine, rage, as we near the Solstice... find Wild Rose in Heart Song 🌸

06/10/2025

What ancestral roles & responsibilities have you inherited?

How are you honouring them?

Maybe it's seed saving, or stewards of Salmon & Water, or protection work, record keeping, Plant medicine wisdom, front line organizing ...

What skills do you feel called to learn? Perhaps seemingly coming from nowhere ~ those are the skills we most need. Listen to those whispers. From the Land, from your Dreamtime, from your well Ancestors & the depth of your being.

We are all being called into our most aligned selves, can you feel that? It's been amplifying for the last 5-10 years.

How are you preparing has been reverberating within for as many years; spiritually, energetically & also very practically. Water, food, defence, community, safety... as systems continue to collapse, we must prepare & create systems of care + life outside of them.

Medicine folks, practitioners, seers, ones who work in healing & energy work arts ~ we need your Medicine, your ability to hold space, prayer, craft, spell work, frequency/vibration, now more than ever.

Keep returning to the Earth, the Water, Spirit. Keep holding that alignment. Keep visioning. Keep returning to Ceremony, prayer. Deep gratitude for all you do & are.

What Medicine, magic, spell work, energy work/healing skills, tangible knowledge + wisdom, collapse skills, do you already carry? How can you share that? Your gifts are needed here 💚

When we come from this place of empowerment, we remember we have agency to create change & to be of service here ~ to the Earth, Spirit, to one another {around the world, knowing it is all connected, just as the waters are all connected}. It activates us from Love.

The responsibility is one to Creation, not a guilt ridden obligation, but rooted in deep care, love, shared belonging on this Earth 🌹🌸 When we are in this alignment, we understand that this care also extends to ourselves ~ we nourish, we rest, we allow joy when we are able.

Keep going, kin 💧🌊 Tune out the noise & distractions. Get clear on your unique, beautiful ways of being here, of moving us towards collective harmony, l1beration 🍓

06/07/2025

Xálish Strawberry Moon Medicine drop L I V E Fam!! ✨🍓 30 Medicines new or re-st0cked 🌸
{Please share this post w kin who may feel Plant Medicine love, to amplify if you're able, it helps so much}

This update feels so beautiful. All of the vibrant colours, lifting our Spirits. Holding our Hearts. Nervous systems. Remembering, together.

I sit in awe + gratitude for moments with the beauty, and care from our Plant kin. Remembering that pleasure of being here too ~ awakening senses. Inspiration. Vitality.

I made some larger batches of some of your Seasonal faves & I'm so excited to share them with you all! These slow Medicines made with love, many grown from seed and/or harvested with care 🍯

Sweetgrass & Rose is back in stock! As well as Sacred Space energy clearing & protection spray ✨ And NEW Coastal Forests Seaweed, Cedar + Nettle Body oil!
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Magnolia Oxymel, Elecampane Oxymel & Makwa Cottonwood Salve, Lilac + Fir Honey, Wormwood salve & Calm glycerine are all back, as well as Record Keeper, Tilíwal {Blood building syrup} & Heart Song ~ Oh, and the fave Adaptogenic Elixir Strawberry Moon Elixir with Rose + Reishi🌹

There are too many Medicines to list, head to my B10 to read more about each offering 🦋
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Deep gratitude to you all, for your support in all the ways both seen & unseen. I feel it. Thank you for helping me create these Medicines & support my Fam, my path 🌼 Every update I think the whole time I’m getting things together “I really hope they love everything!!” lol
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Lots of Love {& reminders that shipping from this small maker is sometimes slow, 7-13 business days to pack usually w an update}, trusting the timing. Please double + triple check addresses 🧡

L1NK in B10 for Xálish Medicines 🌌

May the Medicine we need always find their way, xo

Jacqui Wilkins + Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine & Herbal Wisdom

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