Wild Tree Wellness

Wild Rose 🌿 A plant of resilience.
A reminder that strength and softness can exist together.

I’ve been noticing these little beauties everywhere lately.
As a medicine gatherer, I never know exactly when I’ll be harvesting. It’s a process of watching, listening, and paying attention—to the plants, the weather, the moon, and the rhythms unfolding around us.
It looks like this is the week for wild rose.

Its petals have traditionally been used to soothe the nervous system and support the heart, while its hips provide nourishment rich in vitamin C and antioxidants.

Wild rose feels especially meaningful to me. My Métis great-grandmother’s last name was La Rose, and each of my children carries Rose within their name, continuing that lineage.

My children usually harvest with me but they are away this week, however I’m still looking forward to heading out with my snippers and harvesting basket this week. For me, it is always an enjoyable honour (and part of the medicine) to gather for my family and my community:)
🌿

LiveWell. LiveWise. LiveWild. Live.

When things move too quickly

There is sometimes a tension

Gripping my chest

Thief of breath

Soil, touch, lead of my pencil
Stills the moment.

Slows it down

Until it feels like love

Ease

the signature of presence
Just might be
love

🪴e
Have a wonderful week.

This is one of the areas of BCST I’m most excited about right now.

The mouth holds so much more than most people realize. 🌿

Not just dental history.
Not just clenching.
Not just tension.

The mouth can reflect how the body has been organizing around stress, breath, bracing, overwhelm, trauma, and long-held patterns in the nervous system.

In Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, gentle intraoral work can offer a way to listen to those patterns differently.

This work can be deeply supportive for people who feel like they are holding a lot in the jaw, face, throat, or head…

For people who don’t fully relax.

For people who clench without realizing it.

For people whose body still seems to be carrying something, even when the mind understands the story.

It can also be a surprisingly powerful support in trauma healing.

The mouth is one of the earliest places we experienced soothing, contact, regulation, and nourishment.

It is also a place where many people have learned to hold back — words, emotion, breath, sound, and tension.

So when this area is met gently, slowly, and with consent, it can create meaningful shifts not only physically, but emotionally and neurologically as well.

This is not just infant work.

And it is not “just” about the mouth.

It is about the whole system.

If this speaks to something you’ve been noticing in your own body, I’d be happy to talk more about whether this work may be supportive for you.

🌿
LiveWell. LiveWise. LiveWild. Live.