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I was fortunate to have wonderful teachers in herbal medicine. As a child, my Cherokee Grampa Ray opened my eyes to the sacred
nature of plants and animals. The land where I was raised, the Carmel/Big Sur area of California, was alive with powerful
plant and animal spirits as well as the power of the Pacific. The awareness that humans are but a small part of the overall
power of the universe came early and easily. I learned much on a back to the land commune on the Canadian border in Vermont.
I first read Culpepper by kerosene lamp there in 1970. In Vermont I was also taught by Mary Carse, an herbalist from Hinesburg,
VT. I continued to read, study, grow and practice in Vermont for 10 years. I then moved to Boston, received my Masters in
Art Therapy and continued to grow my herbs in community gardens and began to integrate them into my psychotherapy practice
as well. After many years of psychotherapy practice I co-founded the Boston School of Herbal Energetics. I have now moved
back to California, to beautiful Anderson Valley, where I live amid the redwoods and am beginning new herb gardens.
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