Rebecca Rozelle Pressnall is a Wise Woman Herbalist with many years of experiential learning through organic farming, trail building, shamanic herbal apprenticeship, natural birthing, motherhood and her ever evolving journey with plants, mushrooms and earth medicines. Rebecca was first introduced to the healing of herbal medicine at the age of 9 after having an anaphylactic reaction to amoxicillin as a child. After conventional treatments were only making matters worse, a Jehovah’s Witness friend brought over some very bitter tinctures that soothed the 15 additional pounds of inflammation and hives almost immediately. Rebecca held a deep remembrance to the ancient wisdom of plant medicine that lives inside us all that was captured through this experience.

Growing up with a family history of much abuse and addiction, Rebecca set out on a long and rewarding healing journey at a young age, a journey that has not been without some major twists, turns, and somersaults. Having to learn independence and self-sufficiency early in her life, Rebecca moved out of her mother’s home at 13 to live in her father’s trailer until 15 when she moved in with her boyfriend. Through all of this, Rebecca graduated high school on her own at age 17 while living with two college students that were attending the University of Idaho. Moving to Seattle, Rebecca started working in strip clubs and then moved out to Baltimore. Knowing deeply she needed a change, she joined a wilderness trail-building program in her homeland of the Northwest. This move, indeed, changed her life. The turmoil and chaos of her childhood and adolescence still stirred inside her, but she knew that being close to and within nature was her calling. This realization led her to working on organic farms in Oregon and Northern California, where she learned much of healthy soils, plant cycles and the hard work of cultivating herbs and vegetables. More doorways began to be revealed, and through one, Rebecca found her way to her long time teacher Susun Weed’s farm-homestead in 2004 for a life-long Herbal Shamanic Apprenticeship.

It took many years for Rebecca to cultivate enough internal strength to stand in her power and give up alcohol. Through becoming a mother, participating in Shamanic ceremony, and the use of one very potent plant medicine, as well as witnessing two people in her own family struggling with heroin addiction, Rebecca decided to give up alcohol completely (except for the very small amounts in the tinctures she makes to extract medicinal properties of plants). This powerful and fateful decision transformed her life into one of much more subtle work with plant energies, empowering her to create a fulfilling and nurturing life path. Continuing on this path, Rebecca found her way to Shamanic Therapist Shonagh Home who helped Rebecca hold space for herself to love the little girl in her enough to set firm boundaries for not allowing the addictive patterns of abuse to continue.

Rebecca has her own herb business that she manages through Etsy at www.etsy.com/shop/nourishwholeness. She utilizes her wisdom and passion for cultivating relationship to old plants that connect us to ancient parts of ourselves that are ready for healing and to be brought into wholeness. Rebecca cultivates and wildcrafts plants at the peak of their medicinal potency, gathering all of the elements of nature and the akasha into these one of kind herbal remedies.

Rebecca also managed a weekly radio show for 7 years with her long time teacher Susun Weed on Blog Talk Radio at www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

Rebecca’s vision is to create a safe, nurturing sacred container with the help of our plant allies, the green nations and mushroom people to open the space for divine wisdom to come through, activating and initiating lost and forgotten parts of ourselves that can bring about shifts in consciousness and the dying of denial patterns clearing the path for healing to take place.