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Tuesday 9am - 5pm Wednesday 11am - 5:15pm Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 10:45am - 5:15pm

http://www.sacredgrovenaturopathic.com/

Dr. Rachel Worth-Cappell, 1864 Oak Bay Ave, Victoria, BC (2025)

06/24/2025

Do you like moving your body but need a little external motivation? Same! That’s why I started the chill a** run club (CARB).

Join me and other sort-of-motivated individuals for a lowkey weekly run/walk meetup in pembroke and Barry’s Bay.

This run club is not for you if you are wanting to seriously train for running races, unless you wanna be real chill with us!

This is for you if you can run and want to, but are unmotivated, get bored, or just exercise to hang out with others in a fun and supportive environment.

I won’t provide any training or education, just good vibes, laughs and a sprinkling of organization.

Starts August 26th in Pembroke and 27th in Barry’s Bay and will run until October 1st, or until it’s no longer pleasurable to run outside.

I do ask that you sign up by August 25th! Link in bio ☝🏻

🏃Tuesdays meetup @ Nourish U Wellness Clinic, Pembroke

🏃‍♀️Wednesdays meetup @ Sacred Grove Naturopathic, Barry’s Bay

03/20/2025

In case you’re feeling totally alone with your concerns about the wellness space and its direction, I’ll just share some reactions to my last post.

Was this the universal sentiment? Nope. Was it the very great majority? Yep.

It’s just a little reminder that you’re not alone. Grifters be griftin because they’re good at getting noticed, but remember that the loudest doesn’t speak for everyone.

Keep making good things happen in your communities, in your own way, with the collective as your North Star. Don’t ignore your gut feeling when something feels scammy and don’t feel scared to call us into changing our ways. You’ve got a whole community behind you❤️

03/17/2025

Hi, it’s me for the algorithm. Contrary to this photo, I am at my limit. I simply cannot over the grift of the health and wellness industry.

It has, since day 1, struck me as a conflict of interest that business and healthcare coexist in the same space. This has become abundantly clear watching the wealth and hellness industry (tysm whoever coined this term, ilu) preys on vulnerable people through religious-adjacent purity cults to sell stuff — “your food is contaminated! Your water is dead! Your sunscreen is killing you! Your blood is toxic!”

“All all you need is…a $5000 hydrogen-rich living water machine.… a $3000 investment in this low-tox organic diet program…to invest in my Priestess Retreat in Bali to release your star seeds.”

Look, I’m not here to shade sick people looking for answers. Nope, this is not for you. I’m in the industry myself. I know there are many, many ways to help people feel better

and, hear me now:

if you are in the industry actively peddling wellness wares and your end goal doesn’t include structural and systemic care, if your political alignment is with fascist government leaders because it suits your bottom line, or if you don’t think it’s your job to

✨socially locate yourself and distribute power accordingly
✨protect access to clean drinking water
✨dismantle barriers to your care or healthcare in general
✨protest government involvement in human rights violations
✨or have even a rough sketch outline of the social determinants of health…

what you are doing is bad faith pleasure-seeking with a capitalistic end game.

What you are doing is co-opting and distorting healing modalities that very likely still have intact cultures and whole social networks within them.

Your disdain for the dominant system draws on the same ethos as the dominant system. You are no different than “Big Pharma,” you’ve only painted your capitalism green.

You’re a pig wearing lipstick, and we see you.

02/28/2025

F@!k capitalism.

I’m over here dreaming up ways to show up during turbulent times. Maybe it’ll be the spark that lights a fire in you too. Here’s what I’m in process with right now:

🪽direct lobbying

I’ve been exercising my civic (American) duty and calling the offices of Ohio legislators. Thank you for showing me the app, which has been an absolute game changer (thank you for existing). If you’re Canadian, drop in the comments how you’re showing up👇🏻

🪽sliding scale

This has been available since day 1 of opening in 2020, but I’ll remind folks that I offer a three-tiered sliding scale as one tool for economic justice. Fine print on my Financial Access page. Link in bio☝🏻

🪽barter&trade

Starting March 1, 2025, I will open 1 patient spot on the 1st of each month that will operate on barter&trade = no 💰 exchanged. For more details, you know where to find the link☝🏻

🪽food security

I am looking for a location in Barry’s Bay for a Community Fridge to create anonymous, accessible and 24-hour access to food, including pantry items, select refrigerated essentials and surplus garden and hunting harvests.

🪽land connection

There are complexities of being a settler on stolen land, and I still imagine ways to leverage my privilege. More hands on the dirt, more seeds, more access to food, more relationship with Land. I’m dreaming of a community garden alongside a health cooperative that provides culturally-relevant, LGBTQ+ positive, disability-oriented and multidisciplinary care in Barry’s Bay.

In sharing my process, I’m simply sharing how I want to create my world. This is A way, not THE way. It’s messy, imperfect and evolving, but I want to make a world worth living in.

What do you dream of?

📸: .mater.photography

02/24/2025

I’m not playing.

January felt like a whole year and February has turned out to pack a punch too.

As far-right political movements are on the rise in Canada and the US, I want to restate very clearly (inspired by ) that I will continue to support community members, regardless of age, gender, race, sexual orientation, citizenship or socioeconomic status. I will not willingly comply with any legislation that actively perpetuates racist, colonial, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, ageist or otherwise discriminatory ideologies. If I am forced to comply, I will do so while registering my dissent to my college, my educational institution and the responsible legislators.

I will not be quiet.

In spite of the shock and awe tactics of current political regimes, I will continue to move in ways that root my medicine in collective well-being, guided by spirit and the many movement workers who have come before me.

Who’s with me?

11/07/2024

You are made of earth. Remain steadfast.

04/22/2024

When folks work with me

we weave a net of support, a container, where cues of safety can land.

We become safe enough to breath a little deeper and plant wildflower seeds in the places that feel like wastelands.

We reach out our hands to the parts of us that are ready to come home and bring fresh water back to those are not yet ready with a song: “I’ll come back soon.”

As we call ourselves home, we see there is enough for everyone, that individual healing is collective liberation of our human and more than human kin.

Always, always we ask for grace in the process of becoming.

Together we become curious.

What needs to be tended?

What is being born?

What is ready to be let go of?

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04/10/2024

Catch rise n’ shine, an ephemeral and seasonally rooted workshop April 21, 2024 from 2:00-4:00 PM, EST with me and Carly Travers in Combermere, ON.

Spring is liver time in Chinese Medicine, a rising, heaving and highly mobilizing energy. Left untended, this time of year can feel chaotic and overwhelming; rise n’ shine is an invitation to pause, take stock and allow the energy of the season to move with and through us.

rise n’ shine begins with seasonally-oriented movement, followed by acupuncture and guided meditation to ease us into the spring and early summer season.

Where?
Combermere Community Center, Combermere, ON

When?
April 21st, 2:00-4:00 PM EST

How much?
$65*

*There are 3 seats available at Pay What You Can

~ if you choose this option, you can etransfer your PWYC amount to rachel.worthcappell.nd@gmail.com ~

The sliding scale is offered in good faith and on an individual basis. Payment plans are available for everyone who asks.

02/09/2024

✨Host✨

Been thinking lots about how often folks show up in my office wanting to heal a part of themselves, while shutting down so many other parts (obviously relatable).

Don’t get me wrong, this is ok. Of course this is ok. It’s a strategy that helps us stay safe, bear the pain, or cope with life as we know it.

AND when we hold the possibility of healing in one hand, may we also hold in the other all parts of ourselves who are messy, who wake us up at night, who makes us cringe and worse. They will come forward eventually, whether we invite them or not, especially when we begin to tend to the garden. We have begun to make our home warm again, of course they will come.

May we welcome them with open hands; the continuous renewal of an opening to ourselves every morning. When we’re ready. As we become ready.

I love this poem, so I’ll share it with you. Sometimes I read it in clinic; sometimes it’s for my patients, sometimes it’s for me🤲🏻

“Invite it all.
Invite the discomfort, the messy, even the icky.
Invite the exposed, the embarrassing, and the not-so-graceful.
Invite the miscalculation, the unrealistic, and the sass.
Invite the dramatic, the poor-form,
And don’t forget the hypocritical.
You might as well laugh. Do more than laugh. Enjoy it.
I’d say invite the ego, but it already invited itself,
So rather, treat it nicely.
Give it a seat at the party, like anyone else.
Invite fear. Be kind to it.
It never meant to hurt anything,
It just loves you a great deal.
More than it can stand, sometimes.
Invite the ache. In fact, give the ache the comfiest chair.
Keep its drink full and hang on its words.
This is your first of honour.
We owe this whole party to the ache.
That’s where we strive from. It’s the emptiness we fill.
Where art is put on canvas. Where songs are born.
That’s where we’re raw.
Invite the blood. It’s full of life. Edgy. Inarguably real.
Be a good host. Invite it all.
Maybe courage will shop up.
I hear it loves a good party.
Maybe wisdom will recognize the opportunity.
Maybe peace will be drawn to the gathering.
Maybe.
May be.
Outside, the owl is watching. Content. Full of love.
Invite it all.”

~”Host,” by Shayla Paradise

01/25/2024

✨Hi, hello, hey!✨

I’m Rachel/Dr. Rachel. I wear many hats (this one being my fave), but on this account I’m a Naturopathic Doctor and human working at the intersection of Land, medicine, justice, and spirituality.

Since 2006, I have worked with rivers and humans trying to heal. As a canoe guide, I witnessed the profound power of the Land as healer and had my eyes opened to *some* of the inequities within our healthcare system.

I now see the intersecting systems of oppression that work against our health, for some much more than others, and work in my small corner of the world to bring about systems change.

Some of my healthcare philosophy revolves around the need respectful, lineage-based reconnection to land and community, all while working towards dismantling systems of oppression. Systemic care > individual care.

I am grateful for the many activists, mentors, healthcare providers, philosophers and ancestors who have shaped my way of being, but at the core of it, the Land has always been my best teacher; in listening to them/her and those who have tended them/her, I learn how I can best show up for my patients and my communities.

As a naturopath at Sacred Grove Naturopathic, I lovingly weave traditional medicine, functional medicine, and a pinch of trauma-informed magic to support people coming home to themselves.

This is a profound privilege.

Outside of Sacred Grove, I teach wilderness medicine with and have co-founded and collaboratively run with my dear sisters.

Welcome to my little slice of the internet. So much gratitude to those who have been here along the way🤍

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01/04/2024

✨Deep Rest✨

Join me and Carly Travers for Deep Rest, a two-part restorative movement and acupuncture series in Combermere, ON. Deep Rest is an invitation to restore yourself during the dark nights of the year.

We’ll begin with gentle movement to use the body as a doorway to deepen awareness, followed by seasonally-oriented acupuncture and a guided meditation to orient to the winter season.

Winter is the time of kidneys in Chinese Medicine, a time that asks for us to be in stillness, contemplation and rest so that we can spring forth with the energy of spring. Deep Rest is an invitation to…rest, both because rest is our right, but also so we can continue to create a kinder, gentler world built from a foundation of abundance.

Where?
Combermere Community Center, Combermere, ON

When?
January 14th and 21st, 1-3 PM EST

How much?
$100 for the series (2 sittings), or $65 for one sitting

*Community care:
There are 3 seats available at Pay What You Can. The sliding scale is offered in good faith and on an individual basis. Payment plans are available for everyone who asks.

12/27/2023

Summons by

“Last night I dreamed
ten thousand grandmothers
from the twelve hundred corners of the earth
walked out into the gap
one breath deep
between the bullet and the flesh
between the bomb and the family.
They told me we cannot wait for
governments.
There are no peacekeepers boarding planes.
There are no leaders who dare to say
every life is precious, so it will have to be us.
They said we will cup our hands around each
heart.
We will sing the earth’s song, the song of
water,
a song so beautiful that vengeance will turn
to weeping.
The mourners will embrace, and grief replace
every impulse toward harm.
Ten thousand is not enough, they said,
so, we have sent this dream, like a flock of
doves
into the sleep of the world. Wake up. Put on
your shoes.
You who are reading this, I am bringing
bandages
and a bag of scented guavas from my trees. I
think
I remember the tune. Meet me at the corner.
Let’s go.“

Dr. Rachel Worth-Cappell

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