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Jessica LaBrie is an herbalist, educator and Wise Woman, an old-fashioned job title that means she supports her community with the information, affirmation, and old-world skills we need to bring our modern lives back into balance: emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. She is the founder and owner of Blackbird’s Daughter Botanicals and co-owner of Mama’s Kiss Cannabis, LLC (both in Barrington, NH), as well as past president of the New Hampshire Herbal Network (AHG). Her artisan apothecary, gardens, and woodland trails (located on 125 acres in scenic Barrington, NH) are a place of healing, prayer, and joyful reconnection with the harmony and abundance of Nature, and a registered United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary. She offers:
Trauma informed, holistic Wise Woman Counseling, Nature Therapy, Herbal Consultations, Spiritual Support, and Wellness Coaching.
Sacred Gaian Herbalism and sacred studies apprenticeships, community classes, workshops, and presentations/lectures (Blackbird’s Daughter Botanicals is an American Herbalists’ Guild Registered Herb School and United Plant Savers Partner in Education)
Small-batch and custom-blended wildcrafted/organic sacred plant medicine, apothecary remedies, bulk herbs, tinctures, body care products, tinctures, teas, cannabis products, and ritually-crafted aromatherapy and flower essences.
Sermons, celebrations, ceremonies including nature blessings, weddings & handfasts, gender transitions, private healing rituals, funerals, and rites of passage (Jessica is a Universal Life Church ordained minister)
Jessica began her training as a young girl, when her father taught her to dowse and to feel for ley lines and Earth energy as they walked the fields and woods of New England. As a Green Witch, her awareness of and reverence for the planet and nature is present in all she does.
She began teaching at age 17, and received a B.A. in Transpersonal and Counseling Psychology in 2006, before beginning to study herbalism and aromatherapy in earnest in 2007.
Since then, her herbal work has grown to incorporate a host of botanical, healing, spiritual, and multicultural wisdom traditions, including Indigenous herbalism, Eclectic herbalism, Wise Woman herbalism, folk medicine, Ayurveda, shamanic journeying, plant communication, Green Wisdom, permaculture, and organic farming.
She works hard to honor without appropriating and to give credit to the teachers and wisdom holders whose work has shaped her journey. Some of the many gifted teachers she is grateful to have learned from include Kelley Robie (Horsetail Herbs), Darrell Martin (Blue Boy Herbs), Lynda Baker (The Essential Herb Cottage), Leslie Wood (co-author of Common Ground with husband Fredda Paul), Rebecca Boucher, David Fischer, Ken Mudge, Margi Flint (EarthSong Herbals), Rosemary Gladstar (Sage Mountain), Dr. Rocio Alarcon, Dr. Lisa Greyshield, Ricky Simaratana (Medicine Wheel Matrix).
Since founding Blackbird’s Daughter Botanicals in 2009, she has traveled nationally and internationally, training, teaching, and sharing botanical medicine and healing with those in need, from the streets of New Orleans and the Mayan jungles of Mexico to the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock.
Her many public speaking appearances include NOFA-NH Winter Conference (2016, 2019, 2020), Bernie Sanders Barnstormers (2020), Keller Williams Reality (2019), The Portsmouth Public Library (2019), New Hampshire Herbal Network (2013, 2018, 2019), Holistic Nurses Association (2018, 2019), NHHN’s Herb & Garden Day (2014, 2018, 2019), The Red Circle Summit (2017), and many others, including the Blackbird’s Daughter Radio Show, WOMM-LP (2007-2008).
In addition to supporting her clients’ physical health through botanicals, Jessica specializes in unraveling inherited/ancestral trauma through a multi-disciplinary approach based in narrative therapy, the Heroine’s Journey, and the power of ceremony and Nature. She deeply enjoys working with children and adolescents with learning differences and emotional struggles, families and partners looking to heal together, individuals with trauma histories, and folks who are experiencing life changes. Her apothecary is stocked to the rafters with home-grown and wildcrafted herbs and an ever-evolving selection of small-batch and custom-blended tinctures, teas, salves, perfumes, spices, smudges, and other herbal delights.
Jessica meets with clients in her home apothecary and in the community, visiting homes, gardens, coffee shops, schools, and places of worship - anywhere where people are ready to welcome the wisdom of the Earth into their lives. Her sacred perfumes are treasured healing talismans for those who wear them. Jessica is dedicated to aiding people on their sacred life journeys and guiding them to their most authentic selves. Jessica shares her undivided connection to the Divine with joy, honesty, and validation of the hard and beautiful work it takes to be Real.
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