Flourishing Roots Wellness

01/13/2026

As part of the Keepers Circle (planning committee) I’m super excited to share this info. Because three years ago I was terrified to join any kind of business networking group. I was afraid the people there wouldn’t understand what I was trying to bring to life with my business. I was afraid that I would be outcast, a dreamer in a room full of numbers and bottom line people.

What the Keepers Circle of the Guild realized is that we can make a space tailored for holistic practitioners to find the support they need for their businesses. What’s happening here is birthing a new way to run our businesses and still keep our heart, soul, and values in alignment with the work we share. That’s powerful.

And you’re invited to join us!

01/07/2026

Just a little heavy metal song about Moldavite. 💚🎶

01/06/2026

✨ Free Community Event at South Side Library! ✨

Join me for an Introduction to Reiki: Ancient Healing Energy for Modern Wellness

📅 Wednesday, March 25th

⏰ 6:00pm–7:00pm

📍 South Side Library (1111 Porter Avenue)

Have you ever been curious about energy healing? In this interactive presentation, I'll share:

- The fascinating history of Reiki and its founder, Mikao Usui
- How Reiki energy healing works and its benefits for physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing
- A brief guided group energy healing demonstration—experience it firsthand!

No prior experience necessary. All are welcome, regardless of spiritual or religious background. Please wear comfortable clothing.

→ Learn more & add to your calendar:
https://www.dmpl.org/event/introduction-reiki-130236

Hope to see you there! 💚

01/02/2026

If you’re nodding along to this, you’re not alone.
You’re not broken. You’re not too much. You’re not imagining it.

You might be an empath—someone whose energy field naturally absorbs what’s around them.

The first step to working WITH your sensitivity instead of against it? Understanding your unique empathic gifts.

Take the free 5-minute quiz (link in bio) to:
✨ Discover your empathic sensitivity profile
✨ Understand why you feel everything so deeply
✨ Get personalized insights for your specific wiring

Your sensitivity is a gift. Let’s help you honor it. 💚
energyprotection spiritualawakening empathawareness hsps intuitivegifts

12/19/2025

What are you doing on April 18, 2026? How about getting fancied up & attending a gala to benefit bring FREE mental health therapy to Des Moines! 💎

Buy a ticket for yourself or get some friends together and get a table!

🔗 https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/2nd-annual-diamonds-and-donation-gala

You'll laugh, cry, enjoy good food, hear some heartfelt stories and it'll be a great time! 💖

12/16/2025

Some of you have had a chance to check out the Radiate Light Collective in its construction state, and we truly appreciate your patience! While working for myself has always been rewarding, there's just an excitement that comes with knowing that soon I'll be going in to an office culture that's in alignment with who I am and the people I serve. The Radiate Light Collective will be an even bigger space where YOU can feel supported by a TEAM of awesome people too. It's wild to think about how much of my life I felt like an outsider, but now we're creating a place where everyone belongs. Truly special.

12/04/2025

Yaaassssss 🪴

11/27/2025

Since Thanksgiving is a word of action...
Happy Thanksgiving friends! From my table to yours. John

11/27/2025

11/27/2025

While much of America celebrates a holiday rooted in genocide and erasure today, I will use my voice to educate about our National Day of Mourning and Remembrance.

The screams and cries of our ancestors still echo in the stillness of the sunrise and sunset. Our spirits cry out for justice. The spirits of our unci (grandmothers) and ina (mothers) still mourn for their stolen babies and children, lost to the boarding schools.

Our pain manifests in our addiction rates, in our shortened life expectancy.

Our suffering is ongoing in the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Indigenous women are taken, r***d, and murdered at a higher rate than any other group in the United States.

Rarely are their cases investigated.
Rarely are their murderers held accountable.
Rarely are their families given the answers they deserve.

How dare we speak our truth? How dare we reveal our pain? How dare we expose the ugliness that has been inflicted upon us and continues to exist today?

We are still uncovering the remains of our stolen children at boarding schools—children who were ripped from their families, stripped of their identities, and silenced.

We are the narrative that has been silenced.

I shout it into the world, even as my voice trembles and tears stream down my face. We are still here.

We burn sage.
We prepare spirit plates.
We pray.
And we celebrate this truth: We are still here.

wówakiš’ake — resilience
blihéič’iyA — to gather one’s strength

We are still here.

11/27/2025

“This week, if you are gathering; Eat. Laugh. Hold the people you love close. Give thanks for the food, the warmth, the improbable fact of still being here. And let that thanks be sharp enough to cut through denial. Let it widen enough to include the people—and the more-than-human kin—whose lives have made your life possible. Let it be inconvenient enough that it nudges you, even a little, toward solidarity, toward learning, toward action.

I really pray that our gratitude stops being a costume for conquest and starts becoming a vow. A vow to remember. A vow to listen to the First Peoples of this (and other) lands. A vow to honor the old ones, human and antlered and root and wing, whose stories still run beneath our holidays like underground rivers we are truly thirsty for. A vow to let our holy-days grow teeth again, so they can actually protect what is sacred.”

Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and the quiet work of telling the truth without losing the joy.