04/07/2026
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Indigenous Apothecary ENJOY 20% off sitewide this week as an anniversary gift from us to you
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What a journey, and one that truly began nearly two decades ago, long before these seven years.
At 25, with a cancer diagnosis, my path shifted. At the time, I was working as a surgical tech in surgery, finishing my undergrad, and studying for the MCATs with the end goal of medical school. What followed was years of being sick, searching, questioning, and then years of healing, rebuilding, and applying everything I learned. And I still study, every single day.
Every hospital stay, every scar, every weight struggle, skin issue, wound, and dark corner I have ever walked through has been alchemized into helping others.
Indigenous Apothecary is the most intentional path I have ever taken, and also the one that never left me.
It survived a pandemic in a town of less than 2,000 people, because people were searching for something deeper, something the medical system was not giving them. That little shop brought people from all over the state, and even across the country.
And it has survived the last three years, an unexpected transition, delays, and plans that halted along the way.
And yet we are still here.
We have the most loyal customers, clients, and patients, but nothing compares to the support of our local community. I have made late night calls to meet someone with diaper rash cream for a struggling baby. I do so because of that local support that continues to show up, and that is what this has always been about.
In about two more years, I will hold the title of doctor. But a title is just that. A piece of paper does not make a healer. It is the honoring of the gift, the knowledge, and the responsibility to use it well that does.
I am grateful Indigenous Apothecary still held a pulse through my darkest seasons, while I was crawling out of the ruins left behind in the aftermath of the cannabis industry.
And the truth is, part of that ruin was a gift, because I would not be studying the medicine I am now, the medicine that will help so many, had I not walked through that darkness.
Here is to spreading knowledge.
Here is to healing.
And here is to the medical system finding its balance again, one that includes the natural order.
Here is to opening our farm store and my medical practice on the same land that healed me 🌱
Happy anniversary Indigenous Apothecary.
I love you, and I am so deeply thankful for this path.~Leslie
