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Dr. Rachel Worth-Cappell, 43 Dunn Street, Victoria, BC (2026)

12/21/2025

Happy Solstice ☀️ 🌚

We’ve entered into the time of Major Snow – dà xuě – on the 24-point calendar, deep in the energy of winter and kidneys these days.

I’ve noticed people wrestling with the paradox of slowing down in the darkness and moving into the brightness of community during this time. The questions sound like:

“Should I, or should I not, go to the party?”
“Am I isolating, or am I taking care of myself?”
“Am I filling my cup, or am I emptying my cup?”

These questions are relevant as we arrive on the cusp of the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. They are accounting questions, and they are reminders that winter is a season of community care. They boil down to “do I have enough in my stores to share with others, or do I need people to share their stores with me?”

Both emptying and filling the cup are necessary — a cup too empty can’t pour, a cup too full wastes its bounty.

It’s my hope that in this dark season, surrounded by light inside your home, you are able to be quiet enough to listen for the needs of those around you and safe enough to have needs of your own. While Winter presents us with the proverbial fear that Spring will never come again, deep down in the centre of us, we know that it will.

11/18/2025

If the shape of the year was a rollercoaster (and wow was it ever one), we are well into the downward arc of the ride. In the 24-point solar calendar of Chinese medicine, this is Beginning of Winter, lì dōng. We are in the descent now.

See you in the spring, flowers 🌺

Try your best to treat yourself like the tender little mammal that you are - stay warm, protect against the cold, nourish your fire, and guard your stores. The Kidneys - Adrenals - Bladder are working hard for us these months and it’s no surprise that we take care of them through rest and sleep this season. Notice how the Land knows how to rest.

Consider ways to nourish the kidneys, adrenals and bladder through food and herbs:
✨substitute raw vegetables and cold foods with soups, stews and bone broths
✨enjoy warming and sweet foods like oats, roasted nuts, ✨steamed winter greens and root veggies
✨add in (reasonably) salty flavours, like miso and soy sauce

my go to herbs are tossed into a pot of water for herbal chai during the cold season:
✨cinnamon sticks
✨cloves
✨ginger
✨black pepper
✨digestive aids like fennel seeds and cardamom
✨a touch of reishi for tonifying the immune system

‘Tis the season of the Sleeptytime Bear 🐻

10/13/2025

Today I am grateful for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Even in this small relief, I know this is only the beginning as P@lestinians in G@za are still trying to survive. I have very few good words, except to express my responsibility to point to, and dismantle, systems, powers and people that allow for the horrors of white supremacist colonial capitalism to occur.

There is no pride in gen0cide — here, there or anywhere.

These are both/and times. Both grief and praise exist in the same world. In the midst of immense pain, the flowers bloom, the sun shines and Beings — here, there and everywhere — create beautiful things and in doing so, make a world worth fighting for.

Free P@lestine, free C0ngo, free Sud@n, Land Back.

09/28/2025

Let’s talk periooods!

and I recently did our first AMA on menstruation this past week and we did the recon for you. Here are some takeaways:

⏰ Cycle length

What’s normal?
Consistent cycles that range from 21-35 days.

When should I talk to my doctor?
Anything shorter than 21 or longer than 35 days, or sustained shifts of >7 days of your cycles.

🩸 Menstrual flow

What’s normal?
Flow that ranges from 3-7 days and less than 80 ml/cycle — consider that a light tampon/pad holds 3 mls, a regular holds 6 mls, and a super holds 10-12 mls.

When should I talk to my doctor?
Flow longer than a week, or frequent spotting throughout the month, or more than 80 ml of bleeding each cycle.

😓 Pain

What’s normal?
Mild cramping is common because of the inflammatory signals that are released during this the premenstrual and menstrual phase. This kind of cramping should be able to be managed with anti-inflammatories (at worst).

When should I talk to my doctor?
When your pain is debilitating, causes you to miss work or school several days each month, or if anti-inflammatories don’t cut it.

💩 GI symptoms

What’s normal?
Looser stool and bloating are common in the premenstrual and early days of me**es because of those inflammatory signals.

When should I talk to my doctor?
When you have bowel incontinence, blood or mucus in your stool (at any time of the month).

📣 MOST IMPORTANTLY, talk to other people who menstruate! All those “cringey” details are actually essential for yours and others’ healthcare. When we hear each other’s stories, we start to understand what is normal and not normal with our cycles and can help us, and those around us, make empowered choices to pursue help when we need it.

09/25/2025

✨Hi, hello, hey!✨

I’m Rachel/Dr. Rachel. I’m a Naturopathic Doctor and human living uncomfortably at the intersection of Land, medicine, justice, and spirituality.

In my small corner of the world, I do my best to push back against intersecting systems of oppression, and as I enter my middle years I try (with varying success) to do so at the pace of my nervous system.

I am grateful for the many activists, mentors, healthcare providers, philosophers and ancestors who have shaped me. At the core, the Land was my first, and will always be, my best teacher.

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.

Those who benefit from working with me resonate with the following:

🌸Community + systemic care > individual care
🌸You can be evidence-based AND witchy
🌸Plants are people too
🌸There is no such thing as a magic wand/pill
🌸Colonial capitalist cis-heteropatriatchy SUCKS
🌸Fascism, racism, ableism SUCKS
🌸You do not need to tenderly accept other’s bu****it

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

📸: (stole this from a Geddes’ Girls photoshoot🌚)

09/11/2025

Join myself and Dr. Taylor Brohm, ND for an AMA to dispel myths and ask your curious, embarrassing, “TMI” and cringey questions about periods.

Wanna know what the heck is happening to your hormones? We got you, no question too silly. AMA is a loose framework to ask…anything. If you’re shy, we have options for you to ask anonymously.

Not sure you have a question? No problem. We guarantee you’ll still learn something. This event is for bleeders and non-bleeders alike, who include past, present and future bleeders and the never-have-never-wills.

Come for the info, stay for the laughs. Bonus: we’ll do it while sipping on herbal mocktails.

Can’t drive to Pembroke? No problem, we’ll send out a zoom link for those who want to join virtually.

Registration $5. Link in the bio ☝🏻

09/10/2025

The season of earthly delights🌞

May you find yourself outside, with friends, with plants, with plants who are friends, singing at the top of your lungs, making beauty, sharing gifts.

You are cringe and you are free🫶🏻

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?

Dr. Rachel Worth-Cappell

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