About alyssa hard *
We have found each other in this vast and changing world, and for that, I am grateful!
ABOUT ME
I am a certified clinical herbalist, artist, teacher, caregiver, death doula, and earth tender. My heart is devoted to the medicine path, preserving wisdom, and helping us remember that we too are nature. I am ruled by venus and/or mars depending on my chart (tropical vs sidereal). This means I am a loving, strategic, and empowering guide who knows when to hold space and when to fan a flame.
As a mixed race individual (Black, Japanese, Irish/English), ancestry plays a major role in how I understand generational wounds and gifts.
Whether selecting herbs, or understanding a person's story, your ancestry can inform our work together in beautiful, medicinal, and/or magical ways.
As a deep listener - I can hear your story, your body, the unspoken, the unseen, and the messages of beings like plants, animals, ancestors, and the cosmos. Everything is connected and in acknowledging this connection we can learn how our body adapts and communicates its needs. I enjoy working with people long term to help them learn this language and realize they are their own healer. My background in childcare and education are the foundations of how I work. Here you have found a gentle and patient teacher who helps you remember what you deeply know.
Where did my journey begin?
Well, my health journey started as an infant. I was a premature baby born to a teenage mother, and I had surgery on my digestive system before leaving the hospital - I understand how our story begins in utero and shapes our lives. I struggled with digestive and emotional issues my entire life until I found healing through food and herbs, which offered me something doctors could not. The nuance, harmony, and connection I found working with food, ritual, and plants not only healed my symptoms - it also fostered a sense of wholeness and belonging in my spirit.
MY APPROACH
My approach is loving and graceful - rooted in science, anatomy, traditional wisdom, earth intelligence, and our emotional/spiritual response to the world. There is no spiritual bypassing here! This world can honestly be a difficult place to survive, and at the same time the earth provides endless medicine to help us keep going. We must hold the joy and the grief as we navigate thresholds and tend to our physical vessels. There is room for all of you, and there is nothing to "fix." Instead, I am here as a guide to help show you ways to live and plants to work with that will ultimately become your toolkit to help you feel more at ease as you navigate it all.
Whether you just want to alleviate a pesky symptom, or you want to reimagine how you can move through the world - there is medicine here for you. If you feel the call, I am here as a humble guide. May you find balance, safety, empowerment, and belonging in this virtual hut in the woods.
Are we a fit?
Schedule your 15-minute discovery call to share where your hurting, tender, or just curious about herbalism.