Hi, I’m Kate. I am a storyteller, garden tender, plant and vibrational medicine-maker devoted to remembering while evolving the traditional ways.
Alongside regathering the stories and plant medicine of my grandmother and great-grandmother, I began to grow, cultivate, and reclaim this knowledge and tradition. I immersed myself in self-study via key texts, by growing the medicina in my backyard and cultural community garden spaces while attending workshops and medicine-making courses, which all led me to embark on an immersive 1:1 apprenticeship with ethnobotanist Maria Benedetti in my matrilineal land of Puerto Rico. I also now live on the west coast of the island where I tend to the land, growing medicine and flowers.
I have a background as an educator and community organizer for 9+ years, which were also interwoven with community garden work.
I am professionally trained, studied and practiced in hypnosis via Restorative Hypnosis: a deep form of energetic and somatic healing via subconscious journeying. I have also studied under Evolutionary Herbalism’s advanced clinical herbalism program. But mostly, my expertise is in my lived, embodied experience.
My work lives at the crossroads of story and plant medicine, and how both can be vehicles for us to remember our roots, and to inspire healing within our lineages that have been impacted by our disconnection. This is where story, lineage, and land meet to awaken the body’s innate capacity for healing.
My work with flower essences is both personal and collective. I am documenting the healing capacity of flowers from Puerto Rico and honoring their ability to restore harmony in sensitive beings. I see this practice as story medicine — an ongoing dialogue between multi-generational memory and possibility.