Why This School Exists
Somewhere along the way we became a people who wait for permission to heal.
Permission from the doctor. Permission from the prescription pad. Permission from somebody else to tell us what is good for our own bodies. That is not how God intended it. God freely gave the plants of this earth · to all of us · so that we could care for ourselves, our families, and the people he places in our path. The knowledge of how to use them was never meant to be a secret kept by a few. It was meant to be passed down.
So I built a school where the gate stays open.
I learned this the hard way. When I lost my son Elijah, herbalism was one of the threads that pulled me back to myself. The plants. The teas. The salves. The slow, sacred work of preparing something with my own hands. These were the ways my body remembered it was still alive.
Out of that healing, Elijah Broke The Gate was born · a parent organization for women and families who have walked through the fire of child loss. From it grew creative arts therapy and holistic health offerings. The apothecary came first · where the medicine itself takes shape. Medicine Crafts Collective is the school division of Elijah Broke The Gate · a sister to the apothecary · where we pass the craft down so the healing has somewhere to live.
This is an empire being built brick by brick. One graduate. One jar of oil. One cohort. One walk in the woods.
If you are here, you are part of it. Welcome.
