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A precedent of wholeness.

Mental health oriented to our wholeness across time - approached with nuance, receptivity, analysis, and wholistic empowerment.

A TETHERED GOD centers an approach to mental health that embraces emotional fullness over banishment or stigma. A journey of inquiry, of both/and instead of either/or. A reconciliation. Bypassing none, here we find both rich light and immense dark. Encompassed within this is a precedent of wholeness rather than exile or abandonment of all our interacting parts - an embracing of the beauty of rich nuance.

The interwoven pieces of this space recognize the complex picture that makes up the word wholistic health - physical, mental, spiritual, communal nourishment, collective action & care that reaches both backwards and forwards through time. The remedies offered here approach this idea through multiple pathways, both physical (organ systems, water, blood, nutrition) and corporeal (routine, spirit, connection) as a means of coming into a dream of wholeness, integration, and supported ease.

Small-scale reverence as interdependent action.

A TETHERED GOD’s herbs are grown small-scale, in reverence and responsibility, on stolen land of the Penobscot nation in so-called downeast Maine. An immense amount of care & consciousness goes into the planning, tending, harvesting, and overall relating that goes into the endeavor of working with plants on a business scale.

What’s in an effort? When we say that we value the trees and bees, how do we show it? How do we align our actions in a myriad of small and big ways to reflect our belief in the world? How do we divest from legacies of extraction, exploitation, and death?

Wholistic means acknowledging all of our parts as conspirators, yes - but it also means evaluating the large-system impacts on our emotional & physical health and asking ourselves how we can participate in the reconciliation & birthing of a broader, better world.

a tour of the medicines —

+ tea blends +

Tea blends have a particular affinity for the waterways of our bodies (the gut, lymph, mucous lining) and act in ways that are supremely grounding & nourishing. We are creatures of water - of curiosity, undulation, engagement - of change cresting and falling. Tea is a beloved drink across the world, and for good reason. Brewing a cup of tea tends to facilitate rituals of connection to self & others, and mirror to us our ability to flow through the waterways of change.

+ tincture blends +

The process of making a tincture seeks to extract physical constituents with a solvent (in this case alcohol), capturing the benefits of a medicinal plant in a potent formula. Tinctures take quick action in the bloodstream with a variety of physiological effects, working in both acute and chronic efforts.

+ essence blends +

Essences are the energetic personality of a plant imprinted on the highly-intelligent medium of water. While no constituents are “active” on a physical level, working with essences is no less potent in contrasting ways. Being in communication with plants on a micro scale tends to be both subtle and profound. Essences convey our trust in the entire animate world, and asks for the presence of plants to walk beside us as mentor, teacher, confidant, friend.

+ drop-dosage elixirs +

Elixirs tend to blend tinctures and essences with other ingredients such as infused honey, glycerin, or vinegar. Intended for use on a drop-dosage scale, elixirs offer contemplation on a particular theme - a bit akin to taking small drops of metaphor. Working with elixirs tend to rearrange our systems of organization, meaning-making, and myth in a way that reflects the vast, beautiful broadness of the world both backwards and forwards through time.

+ salves & balms +

Oil-based remedies bring hands-on connection to our bodies - through their obvious skin-healing effects, but also through the facilitation of touch. Touch can be a measure of comfort, affinity, atunnment, repair, trust, and connection. Salves offer a dose of the medicine of the sensual, connecting us back to our bodies in times of intentional or unintentional self-abandonment. And they sure do make a nice, easeful herbal accompaniment to most daily routines.

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