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

04/06/2026

Planting seeds of Hope, of Love, of Healing. Of liberation. Prayers & songs with each Seed planted, each seedling transferred. Regenerative growth 🌾

Growing Medicines is reclaiming our ways, is Ancestral reverence & Ceremony. It is remembering where we come from & who we are. Honouring those who’ve walked before us & generations to come 🌈🌹✨

When we tend to the Land we are also tending to ourselves, our well Ancestors, the Sun & Moon ~ the seen & unseen. The Garden as a wise Elder. A spiritual teacher.

We remember ourselves, we feed (all of) our children, our community. We (re)learn the stories & Medicine {the Plants like to talk, esp the Trees}. It is an act of ‘resistance’* against oppressive forces; tho, paradoxically it is rooted in flow, cyclical living, trust & co-creation 🐝

It is "decolonization" work {a now buzz term, watered down similarly as resist@nce}.

We must return to the Land if we've forgotten.

We must care for the Soil, the Water, our more than human kin. More than just care for them, deepen relationships & get to know them. Care for them. Listening to their needs & allowing them to inform us too, to care for us, to share Love.

It is a living prayer to tend to a garden, the Land ~ a prayer rooted in so much Hope & tenderness. In a time where it may seem frivolous to speak of hope, I truly believe the Earth, the Seeds, the Flowers remind us *why* we keep going.

With each seed Planted, each drop of Water, prayers that all of our relatives are safe, fed, nourished, sheltered. That all beings are free.

Prayers that the Medicines find their way to those who need them. Prayers for the Water, for our mama Ocean, the Rivers & Salmon. Prayers that alll the babes around the world know clean Water, know true safety💧There’s so much to say about growing our own Food & Medicine. It is everything... it teaches me, everything.

Are you growing any foods or Plants medicines this year, loves? Sign up for Grow Your Own Medicines today (doors close tomorrow!!) to receive your gifted SEED bundle 💛🌷

This is the last time I'm offering GYOM🪴 Let’s remember together 🌱 {Suitable for urban gardens & pots; p@y m3nt options available, See B10, xo}

04/04/2026

🌎 Earth is the original Healer. Humans are meant to be in relationship with the Land, with Nature 💚

Learn all the ways our physiology & cells actually shift when we just spend time outside!

Be sure to Save this post!! ✅ Listen or watch as you would a mini podcast ~ there's so much wisdom & nerdy neurotransmitter info here, kin. Comment & lmk how you like it {yes, video quality could be better but hey, life isn't perfect}

When we come back to the Land, we come back home to ourselves & all of our relations. We heal & ripple out this healing ~ to our families, our lineages, our more than Human kin, the Waters & Sky 💐 Our bodies, hormones, gut biome actually changes when we return to the Earth!

When we tend to the Earth, we tend to ourselves too. We remember our responsibilities, and belonging 🪴💚

As a Naturopathic Doctor I love the physiology of people + plants, our inter species relationships & how our health is woven ~ how we co-regulate, how our physiology is made to be in good relation with Creation. At a very physical level too.

If you’re interested in deepening those relationships, healing & connecting with the Plants you will love Grow Your Own Medicine.

It is a course I created to help us remember how to tend to the Earth, ourselves, our community ~ to save Seeds for future generations, honouring Ancestral wisdom, embody Hope & be in Ceremony with the Land.

How to work with herbal medicine, make medicines & empower ourselves with knowledge of how we can work with Plants for our health. 🍃 It's my last year offering this course! Don't miss it.

Check out my B10 to sign up & begin {or deepen!} working with the Plants this Season 🧡 P.S. New P@yment plan added! P.S.S. Did you spot the Eagle coming & going behind me?? It happens a couple times 🦅

04/03/2026

Find the ones who are listening to the Land 💚🌼

I wrote this after spending time, and in conversation, with various friends & soul kin. There are so many truly beautiful, amazing, people here. I felt called to share again today, after feeling some extra (valid) rage the last few days.

On the days where despair, rage or wanting to leave is intensifying, or I'm extra annoyed {understatement?} with Humans - I think of all of the kin who are doing so much to actually create change. To pour in beauty. To move from our Hearts. To protect & tend to all Life here.

Who continue to show up & create... to shift humanity back to harmony, and truly care for the Earth, human & more than human kin.

I reach to them, they reach to me, we hold one another, weave & co create these worlds together 🕸️

If you're ever feeling especially despondent, find the ones who are listening & embodying that wisdom, the Earth's calls. Those who are moving from their Hearts. {support them too 💜}

Gratitude to the Earth keepers + stewards, the healers, caregivers, Water protectors, teachers, poets, those on the front lines, the artists. Gratitude to my close circle, too. To all who are living in ways that nourish & honour life, that honour sacred responsibilities here 🌊

It's also the last few days to join Grow Your Own Medicine (the last time it'll be offered) & journey with me, the Plants, the Land this Season 🌸✨ Our Seed altar is up & I'm packing Seed bundles in ritual + gratitude all weekend ~ see b10 to get yours & join! Gratitude kin🪴

04/01/2026

Full Moon + Garden, Venus in Ta**us meme dump 🦋 All over the place, just like the energies. Swipe to the 2nd to last slide to see my fave though 🥹 It gets me every year...

Sometimes being a very sensitive {attuned, these days just paying attention} person feels like a lot, esp rn. But we are not here to fit, to disconnect. There is gratitude in the depths of feeling. The Daffodils coming up with the Sunrise on the Ocean... it's *felt.*

This sensitivity allows us to tune in & also discern, it is a gift. To know we are connected with our Hearts, our humanity. To show up for one another, the Land, more than human kin too. The Plants hold us.

A little reminder: Tuesday (4/7) is the LAST day to join Grow Your Own Medicine plant medicine course, kin 🌸 YES there are some Seed bundles left!! I'm bundling them up all week to send to you!

Come grow with us, kin. Lots of love & tenderness this week 🧡🌱 If you're able to get outside and make some offerings to the Earth, to the Water, to well Ancestors, it might be a beautiful time to do so. {and screaming + moving energy in a safe place may also be needed this Liver, aka Spring, season. see previous post on anger + liver} Xo

03/31/2026

The Earth is our Spiritual mentor, teacher, Elder 🪴 The Plants guide, show us the way, they've *been* showing us, we just have to listen 🌸

You don't need to be an herbalist to grow & tend to Plants for your family, community, yourself. We are all stewards of the Earth. We all have responsibilities & roles here.

It's easy to lose hope some days, the Land reminds us how to keep going. Reminds us that we have agency, we have impact 💚

Our Ancestors exist here, our origins exist here, and yet ~ many are so disconnected (intentionally, yes, colonization aims to disconnect us from the Land, Water, ourselves, Seasons, ceremony....).

Tending to the Earth teaches us so much about being human, about being a good relative here. About true healing & harmony.

Growing Plant Medicines is divesting from systems... It is community sufficiency, caring for one another. It is remembering hope as we tend to our collective futures. It is community health care.

Getting our youth, children, involved is another layer. Generational healing.

Growing our Own Medicines is all encompassing. Tending to the Earth & being in good relation. Returning to the Land, the Plants, ourselves & our Ancestors. Taking care of our Communities, our families & moving outside of systems.

When we connect with the Earth our bodies shift, we release Oxytocin, the hormone of LOVE. Our blood pressure goes down, anxiety lessens, hormones may balance, cortisol harmonizes... we remember belonging.

It begins with relationship, reciprocity. Listening & speaking with the Plants, the unseen.

In this offering all of the practical aspects of growing a Medicine garden are included ~ from Seed to Harvest. To medicine making.

Our intention is connection & building relationships, reclaiming Medicines + ways. We cover how to harvest, preserve, store & make your own Herbal Medicines! Building your home herbal apothecary 💚

Grow Your Own Medicine is open! See L(I)NK in B1O to enroll & receive your GIFTED Seed Bundles!! Doors closing soon 🌿 NEW p@yment plans available! 🦋

03/30/2026

Protection Medicine ⚔️Wapin-Wápin/Waabanoowashk/Yarrow are often worked with for supporting our boundaries. For protection. Healing.

They have an affinity w the Blood. They may help bring on me**es, stop heavy flow {they stopped a hemorrhage for me post birth}, as well as stop bleeding from wounds + healing tissues. This. They stop the bleeding while holding space for healing. Protecting energy so that healing may happen. Boundaries.

Blood also tying into our Blood memories. Our DNA. Deep healing to reweave harmful patterns held over generations. Both traumas inflicted & traumas endured.

Blood reminding us of the Medicine we carry, our Traditions & Wisdom. Our true *authentic* ways of being.

Blood also nourishing the Heart, our Brain, Consciousness, our vitality+life force.

They are also supportive for transitions. When my pup was passing I was his d/th doula. I asked my Ancestors for guidance & I saw to wash the area around him w Yarrow + Cedar.

They showed me how they help protect us as we transverse liminal spaces - spaces where entities can attach easily. Endings. Transitions. Protection. Building new worlds requires us to navigate the liminality.

Of course, there’s so much more to them. They are also lovely for fevers & releasing heat. If you’re a sensitive soul & are struggling to discern boundaries; Yarrow may offer support.

They may help us perceive clearly. Wisdom. Holding keys to unlocking our consciousness through divination practice + connection to Spirit. Helping see beyond facades.

Yarrow is good Medicine for many right now. Keep your energy clear, Fam. ⚔️ ♥️

Calling Yarrow to walk w us through endings & transitions ⛈ Offering protection as we commune with the unseen & continue visioning new ways ~ disrupting harmful systems {including those we hold w/in} 🧿

We grow them together in Grow Your Own Medicine online course in all things herbalism + remembering these ways. Join us now to receive your Seeds! Doors close 4/7!!
You can also find them in Xálish Protection & Cosmic Weaver Flower Essences 🌸

03/28/2026

What ancestral roles & responsibilities have you inherited?

How are you honouring them?

Maybe it's seed saving, making Plant Medicines, 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, resonance, 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 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 to the Earth 🌹🌸 When we are in this alignment, we understand that this care also extends to ourselves.

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 🍓

03/27/2026

A vital skill for this time is finding stability amidst chaos, collapse🌀It requires a different, reimagined, definition of stability. A more fluid, flexible, inner + *source* anchoring stability.

We must get comfortable trusting our roots are tethered, nourished, while we navigate uncertainty. Even while we may feel like we're in a free fall 🪶

We think of stability as this very heavy, static, thing. Yet, nothing in Nature, Creation, is static. The stability we seek, in current definitions, doesn't fully exist. And things we thought were stable we soon (already) will realize, are not.

We can find stability within our beings ~ within our Hearts, Love, within integrity, congruence, within Creation. Our songs. Stories. Our humanness. Finding stability in the Land {even when it shakes, burns, floods}, in the Winds, the Water, the Sun.

What do we turn to when things feel unstable? What practices hold us & help us to return here? To our bodies, our being. To each other.

To continue finding & creating beauty. Dreaming. Showing up to actually create change.

We must find those anchors & not superficiality. They exist in the Spirit of Creation, in each of us. In the Plants. The Earth. Water.

This doesn't mean it will be easy. It can be painful. Yet, there's a deeper thread of being held by Creation & really knowing that.

A fave whisper that came many years ago: "rooted in the Earth & anchored to the Stars.”

We can anchor to Creation, to the expansiveness of the Stars, Cosmos, while still being deeply rooted here, on Earth. In our bodies, in who we are. We are being asked to remember how.

The Land teaches us this, the Plants show us how to do this, so beautifully. I'll share soon on some Plant kin that can help us find stability on unstable ground 🩵🌊 *Video first recorded in 2023! I haven't ever shared it as it's a little vulnerable & I may change some things. But the message still rings true 🌀🌲 What do you think of it kin?

03/26/2026

As systems continue to collapse, we remember that we've always taken care of each other 💚🪴 We build sustainable futures.

We need more folks who are connected & know how to listen to the Land, environment. Grow food + Medicines. Care for the Water. Bring (true) healing & harmony.

Grow Your Own Medicine is open for enrolment kin ~ join before April 7th to receive your GIFTED seed bundle!🌸

Grow Your Own Medicine is beyond just a gardening course ~ it is Plant spirit communication, ceremony, teachings on each of the Plants, how to work with them for healing & wellness, craft delicious recipes, how to make Medicines w the Plants you grow~it is Ancestral reverence & reciprocity. Remembering.

It is therapy lol. {but actually, it has helped my mental & spiritual health so much}

This is a course about reclaiming our ways & embodying these connections, deepening relationships to Land. It is Medicine for the times.

Esp right now. We need to remember how to tend to one another, more than human kin too. How to be stewards of the Earth. How to care for our fam, communities. How to come back to our bodies & prevent burn out, attuning our nervous systems, remembering beauty, so that we can actually BE here. Creating the changes we vision.

The gardening aspect is vital, but it's not the main 'why.' I created it to help us (re)connect back to the Land & learn *directly* from the Plants. From the Moon, Seasons...in a regenerative way.

It is the root of restoring harmony & healing both within our own Bodies + Spirits; but also within the collective.

At the foundation, my hope with each offering is to inspire you to connect deeply with Land or a Plant & FEEL 💚🌲 Remember what has been forgotten {and/or taken}. Deepen relationships. Keeping our Hearts open.

In this way we can bring change & harmony. Re-Indigenizing how we relate to the Natural world (ourselves & one another)...

Growing your own food & Medicine is an act of moving outside of systems. Of healing. Sovereignty. It is community health care, spirit work, it is who we are 🌱🌹

Join me this Season for Grow Your Own Medicine, kin {new p@yment plans available!} 🦋💐

03/25/2026

You don't need huge acres of Land to grow Plant Medicines 🌱

Some of my favourite Herbal remedies thrive grown in pots, on balconies, in community garden plots & urban yards/apartments. Even with more space, or raised beds, I love container and gardening in pots for a variety of reasons.

Esp when short term renting, or needing to overwinter certain Plants indoors. Reclaiming the ’perfect’ grass lawns with Medicinal + Native Plants ~ supporting pollinators, biodiversity + community through growing healing herbs.

Plants are resilient & adaptable, just like us. They find ways to grow... in cracks of sidewalks, between buildings. They remind us that life finds a way, even in challenging times or circumstances. We keep going. Finding our way, together.

In Grow Your Own Medicine, I guide you through growing 9 potent Plant Medicines that can be cultivated in containers or small spaces as well as in ground & larger beds/gardens. Plants that support the nervous system, 1mmunity, sleep, common kid ailments, digestion, hormone imbalances & overall wellbeing through the Seasons💚

Plant Medicine connects us to the Land, the Earth, including in urban spaces. They remind us that Nature is not something separate or distant, it is who we are. Always present, wherever we may be. We too are Nature.

The Sky still holds us, the Water connects us. The Plants find us. We can return to this knowing, anytime. That we are never separate from Nature, we are held.

Some of my sweetest Plant connections {and guidance from the Plants to stay my path} have been in city parks {I still miss those kin!}, in pots growing in my tiny studio apartment downtown Toronto, or in city community gardens tended to with care. The Plants are waiting for us, we just need to open our perceptions to them, to their wisdom, to tend these relationships 🌿

Are you growing any Plant Medicines where you live? What Plant relationships are possible in your living situation? Who is growing in your community that you may pass by everyday, or often?

Grow Your Own Medicine is open for a short time!! Join us (l1nk in bio), connect with the Plants this Season & receive your BONUS Seed bundle when you join ✨

03/24/2026

Plants for Sacred Rage ~ needed this Aries + Spring Szn 💚

In TCM (studied as a ND) our Liver is connected w emotions of anger & irritability. Herbs that support Liver flowing may also support moving through anger & irritability. Of course there are many ways, other Plant kin, lifestyle, etc.

Spring is correlated with the Liver in TCM. We may need to move stuck energies... we may be feeling increased irritation/anger. Esp with collective + individual rage, grief. This is not to pathologize anger, but to honour & let it move us to sustained action so that we don't burn out 🌧️

Here are a *few* Plant kin that may support*:

✦ Burdock~Rooting, Liver supportive, nutritive, when we are feeling burnt out in every sense {find in Nourish coffee sub}
✦ Rose~cooling, soothing, loving, protecting our Hearts {protection + boundary Medicine🌸}
✦ Milky Oats~soothing nervous systems, sometimes irritability is heightened by sympathetic over stimulation
✦ Cheldonium Essence~a fave, helping through anger, intergenerational trauma & harmful patterns
✦ Dandelion root + leaf~bitter, grounding; helps move water through body, releasing held energies/memories, yummy roasted & switch w coffee for extra liver support + reducing heat from coffee
✦ Diaphoretic Plants {Elderflower, Catnip, Yarrow} helping release heat
✦ Mugwort~ liver support, moving stuck energy or burning as smoke medicine to clear, making into a mist & spraying around yourself + space {find in Vision + Spirit, cooling, calming}

Cooling foods such as berries, green tea, hibiscus may also help in the heat; as well as demulcents like chia, nopales, purslane. Soothing excess heat held in our bodies 🌱🌊 Of course, balancing dampness/dryness.

Going near & in Water, esp at Sunrise or Sunset. Or a Flower bath.

Deep breaths & hands in damp Earth/Soil, planting Seeds, rooting our energy & releasing-just being w the Land, in our bodies. Sometimes we may need to lean in & know that anger also holds wisdom. Lots of love & tenderness this Season 🐚

P.S. Grow Your Own Medicine is open!! If you want to learn more about Plant Medicines & tend to the Earth, come join us! See b10 🌿💚

Jacqui Wilkins + Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine & Herbal Wisdom

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