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Tell me, where does it hurt?
Hi. I'm Abby.
I’ve been in conversation with plants for as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories is talking to the honeysuckle bush next to my childhood home when I was five. This was a spirit that would find its way back to me years later. To me, the Earth has always felt alive, responsive, and relational. Relating with the Earth is how I relate to God, or whatever you'd like to call the grander scheme of things here.
For a while, though, I lost my way.
Like a lot of sensitive souls, I moved through long stretches of anxiety, depression, burnout, and the particular exhaustion that comes from trying to survive a society that wasn't built for deep thinkers and feelers. Trauma narrowed my nervous system's capacity, and I was on edge. Disconnection dulled my senses, so I was numb. Life was too loud, and in response I oscillated between panic and shutdown.
What helped me out of all that wasn’t just one thing. Trauma-informed therapy and energy work gave me a foothold when I couldn’t see a way forward. Studying herbalism reawakened the intelligence I had always related to in plants. It's that sense that Life already knows how to heal when it’s met with the right conditions. Over time, a relationship with the natural world stitched me back together.
Today, Bloom is how I share what nectar I’ve gathered along the way with others. I am an Integrative Health Practitioner, herbalist, and energy healer, and my work is for people who feel deeply, think a lot, and are tired of forcing themselves into strict routines, or otherwise weird wellness boxes, and not feeling any better. I support souls in finding their way back to joy as a felt sense of safety and aliveness.
I offer one-on-one sessions, workshops and events, and I handcraft small batch herbal remedies. I also host seasonal gatherings, offer wholesale partnerships, and curate botanical elixir menus. Finally, I teach energy work, and I see horses for acutherapy and energy healing as well.
Welcome to Bloom Apothecary
Everything you'll find here is designed to bring us to fullness of spirit. I say “us” because I’m included in that. Every herb, blend, tincture, and modality has been tried and tested with me first. Working with plants has literally gotten me out of bed on my hardest days. Outside, in the garden, at the creek... these are the places where I felt closest to God as a kid, and where I still do as an adult. These days, sharing that plant connection with other people is what keeps the soil of my own heart nourished.
What is Plant Spirit Medicine?
Every plant has a spirit, just as you and I have our own. And like humans, plants are relational, spiritual beings. Their spirit is the essence that gives them their unique presence and energy. Think about someone who lights up a room. Being around them feels like sunshine, right? Being near them is something you would probably describe as uplifting, grounding, or joyful. That’s the spirit, which lives in the hollow of the heart, that you're noticing.
Look to Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Indigenous peoples all over the world, and even Western Herbalism, and you'll find mentions of the spiritual, energetic, or otherwise incorporeal parts of us that need tending. Plants are key allies in this work. Throughout human history, they always have been.
Again, each plant has its own distinct spirit. Being around it—or better yet, connecting with it intentionally—can have profoundly healing effects. It's my personal experience that plants are divine emanations of God, each coded with and carrying spiritual functions the same way their seed contains all of the genetic information for life and growth. Put simply, plant spirit medicine produces healing through relationship with plants.
Healing the Spirit
Are you in touch with your own spirit, or have circumstances broken your connection? Is your life full of meaning every day, or does it feel dull? Are you fully alive, or is there heavy weight on you? What has happened to you? Has your heart, your self-esteem, your joy, your vitality been shattered? Have you given yourself away too many times for others and now feel numb? Spirit wounds are a profound pain, so we do our best to lie to ourselves and others, to hide, shove down our hurt, and distract ourselves with work, religion, sex, drugs, or whatever the vice of choice may be rather than to address the searing pain we've neglected. And so many numbing agents, covert and not-so, are available at our disposal to keep us in this state. Plant spirit medicine can help us be brave in the healing process, face our pain, and reconnect to our wholeness—gently and full of beauty.
Soften chronic tension | Reconnect to joy | Build resilience in the nervous system | Feel like yourself again
Located inside Mindful Counseling + Wellness
2449 Fort Worth Dr, Denton, TX 76205
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(972) 897-9299
“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore, the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.”
— Paracelsus