Nurturing Naturals was founded from a place of longing.

Longing for something outside of my reality. Longing for something I, “didn’t have.” Longing to return home to a feeling of wholeness. A deep knowing that living a linear life was detrimental to our cyclical being’s. The Nurturing Naturals brand serves as a guide back to self. Back to home. Back to source. To Re-Member ourselves. To connect past to present and remind each and every one of you that you are connected to your creator. 

As a young girl, I was diagnosed with ADD and was medicated from 2nd-10th grade which in turn left me with an inability to cope with my feelings and the world around me. Growing up I was very self-conscious and insecure. As a result I put up walls and guarded myself in unhealthy ways which ended up doing me more harm than good. When I was 12 or 13 years old I told my father that I wanted to open a retreat center and hold Mother - Daughter classes and workshops. Perhaps because I unknowingly knew then, that each and every one of us had the Mother/Sister Wounds living on within us.

My approach is guided by my Ancestors, and my relationship with my family and Mother Nature. Through healing my relationship patterns, learning to communicate authentically and strengthening connections in relationships. I have been called to share this gift with all of you. I like to call it, ‘The Gift of Communication.’ 

Connection and relationships are how we all came to be. Relationship – to the earth, to our inner and outer worlds, our community, to the animals and the plants, to our food and our medicine and to each other.  The unknowing of oneself is a fast track to consumption, competition and self sabotage. To be truly held and seen by others is raw and it's vulnerable, but it’s the building blocks to healing. 

One of my love languages is cooking. I love to nourish people through food, it quite literally runs in my blood! As a Jewish woman born into a family of amazing cooks, I have been blessed with a slew of recipes but more importantly, a deep remembrance of food bringing us together and the kitchen being the focal point of the home. 

My journey to a more natural lifestyle arguably began as a young girl. My mom worked full time and provided for my brother and I almost solely by herself in a lot of ways. She cooked home cooked meals and showed us the importance of nourishing our bodies through healthy foods. Since she was the breadwinner she was often gone which meant I spent a lot of my spare time at my neighbors houses. 

My first, “Second Mom,” April who lived across the street from me, was the fairy godmother the Universe knew I needed. Her backyard was a sunflower maze, she grew herbs to make tea, and danced naked under every Full Moon. She held pregnant women in reverence and treated Mother Nature as god herself. Through April’s way of living, I knew that plants were meant to be used as medicine. I would spend hours in her backyard, turning the rich soil to mud, rubbing it all over my body and basking in the sun. We’d mash roses and plants into ‘potions’ and dance naked with crystals under the moon. I didn’t grasp the importance of it until my later years in life but it certainly laid the foundation for who I am today. 

Across the street in the other direction was my second, “Second Mother,” Jane. Jane homeschooled her children, baked homemade bread daily, wrote books and sewed homemade napkins, clothes, etc. She was and is the epitome of slow, sustainable living. Similarly to April, I didn't know how admirable her way of living was until later in life. However, as I look back at the early years of my life; I use Jane’s family's way of living as a teacher, every day of my life. 

As a teen I met a woman named Blair who lived around the corner, she completed the trinity of my, “Second Mother’s.” Blair’s relationship with her own Mother and her at the time, young daughter served as a guide into what I wanted my future relationship with my daughter to be. She held a licensed daycare in her home, had a deep love for the natural world and connected with me in a genuinely, Mothering manner. In so many ways, I looked at her life and wanted exactly what she had. 

A few things that April, Blair and Jane all had in common were a devotion to ritual, a love of Nature, and a connection to their creator/creatrix. Along with things I learned from my own family. I have taken tidbits of each of these three influential women’s ways of living and turned my life into what it is today. When they say, “it takes a village,” it really is true.

In my free time I enjoy cooking, gardening, swimming nude in natural bodies of water, herbalism, music, dance, art, animals, journaling and any/all time spent in nature. 

If this all feels in alignment, I hope we can connect soon!