Rooted & Resilient Wellness Collective focuses on helping people cultivate resilient health through a wholistic approach, centered on what we call the Roots of Resilience: 
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  • Rhythm (daily/monthly, seasonal, life stages)
  • Nourishment (mind, body, emotional/spiritual heart)
  • Movement (body, digestion & elimination, breath)
  • Renewal (sleep, rest, stress management)
  • Connection (self, relationships/community, nature)
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Herbalism is at the heart of everything we do. Plant (and mushroom) allies support every one of the Roots of Resilience. We are matchmakers, matching each person with the plants that will best support their unique needs and goals. 

We support people in cultivating more resilient health through one-on-one consultations, group programs, wellness circles, and educational classes.

We are located in Bismarck, North Dakota, but many of our offerings are available virtually, as well as physically in the Bismarck-Mandan, ND area.

Our Vision

Rooted & Resilient Wellness Collective envisions providing services, programs, and educational offerings that are centered on compassion, trauma-informed care, honoring the unique needs of each individual, and providing a safe space where people feel heard. 

We envision creating community around cultivating resilient health. From our clients and students to our collaborations with other practitioners and teachers and to our relationships with plants and mushrooms, we view all as partners and co-creators--each bringing their own unique contribution to the collective.

We envision herbal and wholistic health care that is accessible to as many people as possible. We will strive to accomplish this by creating free and low-cost offerings, sliding fee scale options, scholarships, and trade options. Making our offerings accessible as much as possible is mutual aid, not charity. 
We envision creating a space where diversity is honored and valued. Each person who crosses our path is a unique person with their own unique life story, culture, beliefs, challenges, needs, and desires. A one-size-fits-all approach won't work. Having a diversity of approaches, tools, and resources to call upon is essential to our vision of honoring and valuing diversity. 

We envision planting the seed of knowledge that the health and well-being of individuals is interconnected to the health and well-being of other humans and the more-than-human world. 
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Image by Paul Breiner
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Photo credit: Shane Rounce via Unsplash

What is Resilience? 

Resilient health isn't about some state of perfection where you never get sick, always bounce back quickly, or nothing ever makes you angry, sad, etc. We're human--things will happen despite our best efforts. But we can always create a little more comfort, ease, and strength. We can give our bodies more of the resources it needs to be a little more resilient. Herbalist Tammi Sweet, in a talk she gave about resiliency, says wellness isn't a state of being, but a state of action. It's also about flexibility.

Cultivating resilience is a lifelong practice. Our needs will change daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, and yearly, so resilience can never be a static state. We must learn to change and adapt, to work with transformation. 

The goal of resilience is not to cheat old age, suffering, hardship, or death, but to instead recognize that the bitter parts of life actually help us build resilience, wisdom, and a deeper appreciation for the sweet things in life. This doesn't mean we should seek out suffering and hardship, but that we should practice accepting the ebbs and flows of life and not become overly attached to any part of it.

Plants and mushrooms are, and have always been, here to partner with us. We have only to decide to cultivate a respectful relationship with them. They are resilient and they can help us be more resilient too.

Resilience is built into all life on this planet. What matters to individuals facing adversity, as herbalist David Hoffman discussed during his keynote address to the American Herbalists Guild 2021 Symposium, is a sense of meaning-making, and what matters to resilience is a sense of hope that life does indeed make sense, despite chaos, brutality, stress, worry, or despair. And Rooted & Resilient Wellness Collective believes that wholistic herbalism can empower each individual to be a little more resilient.
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Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) Photo credit: unknown
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Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum) Photo credit: Paul Breiner

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