from Scout:
I graduated with a B.S. from the Evergreen State College with a focus in Health Science, as I planned on attending a nurse midwifery program. After graduating, and before setting off for grad school, I traveled south and had the privilege of working with local indigenous herbalists and midwives in western Guatemala and northern Mexico. it was a soul awakening. I realized there was a deeper source of truth, one both ancient and from the future.
While I was attending college I had the wonderful opportunity to apprentice very closely with an amazing woman and healer. She taught me how to trust the wisdom of the plants and to move freely with them in the realms of healing. She trusted the wisdom attained only through listening to the plants, and she guided and taught me how to hear their wisdom. I realized it was with this same spirit that I needed to lay down my midwifery matrix rather than a more conventional method of nurse midwifery school.
The Matrona philosophy supported this opening to alternative sources of information, and helped me trust and follow birth. It allowed a deep sense of peace during the birth of my own children, and allows me to sit at the feet of women with my basket of herbs and trust. It allows me to follow and witness the great unfolding of birth with a peaceful and joyous heart,
in deep gratitude.
Tattoo ceremony at Temple of the Moon, Peru
Planting and decorating our placenta tree
Harvesting hawthorn with her family
