the Sacred Spiral of Healing
The healing journey unfolds over time, with gentleness, patience, and compassion. It is time to let go of our unrealistic expectation that our goal is to reach a place of completion of being “healed.” There will always be opportunities to look deeper within and for continued growth on our healing journey.
It is also time to let to go of the idea that we should be able to heal ourselves alone without support. Yes, our bodies are fully equipped to heal themselves and hold essential keys of wisdom and inner guidance; but the traumas, psycho-spiritual work, and core pattern shifts are often too much to navigate safely and effectively alone. Having support can allow us to move through these otherwise inaccessible shadows and traumas, and restore our capacity to tune into this inner wisdom which may be otherwise obscured. Even the wisest spiritual healers must seek external support to navigate the inevitable challenges and shadows that arise as one walks the healing path.
Our healing capacity is strengthened and catalyzed when we allow ourselves to humbly receive and acknowledge the support that is always available to us.
It is a privilege to be able to heal our wounds, as they are a portal to our divine power and purpose. We don’t heal by hating or judging our wounds, but rather by holding them with unconditional love and surrendering to our unique healing journey. With each turn on the spiral, we are rewarded with mystifying healing blessings.
Journey wholeheartedly on the sacred spiral of healing. Your desire for continued healing and growth is to be honored and celebrated as a courageous lifelong commitment to yourself and your sacred life on this earth.
It is an honor to walk this path with you.
~Cassie.
Photo: “Small World” by Geo Grafics
Meet Cassie
Medical Herbalist, Dip. Phytotherapy, BSc
Cassie is a medical herbalist, medicine-maker, artist, dancer, and eternal student of nature. Moved by her deep-seated calling to pursue a career in natural medicine in her adolescence, she began her studies at the University of Victoria, obtaining her Bachelors of Science in 2014. Her insatiable curiosity and fascination by the patterns of nature on microcosmic and macrocosmic scales led her to the worlds of cell biology, biochemistry, human anatomy, psychology and neuroscience. Her love and reverence of the human body naturally became her love and reverence of plants, both as embodiments of the macrocosm of nature.
She discovered plant medicine as the root of medicine itself, and begun her studies at Pacific Rim College, the most comprehensive and recognized program of Western Herbal Medicine in North America. She graduated with a Diploma of Phytotherapy in 2022, with over 1630 hours of biomedical and therapeutic herbalism training, 500 hours of practical clinical training, and extensive experience hand crafting custom formulas in the dispensary.
Cassie is a certified Herbal Therapist with the British Columbia Herbalists Association. The association provides standards of practice, a code of ethics, and regulation for duly qualified herbalists who wish to practice Western Herbal Medicine under a set of unifying professional guidelines.
Cassie was born in the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples, and raised in the traditional territories of the Ligwiłda'xw people of Vancouver Island. Her childhood was blessed by the adventurous and hard-working spirit of her father and the intuitive, spiritual and psychosocial emotional depth of her mother. She has spent the majority of her childhood and adulthood exploring the expansive beauty of Vancouver Island through hiking, camping, kayaking, rock-climbing, as well as embodied practices of horticulture, wild-harvesting and sacred ecology mindfulness. Over the years, she continues to deepen in her connection and devotion to this land, the earth, and to the local plant medicines of the Pacific Northwest.
Cassie is honored and humbled and to be sharing her knowledge, passion and medicinal offerings with her community. She strives to meet you with unconditional compassion and curiosity, therapeutic presence, authentic transparency, and respect for your unique self and wisdom. She is available for private herbal consultations which include a personalized treatment plan and custom herbal formulas from her dispensary, which are mostly grown, harvested or prepared herself. She welcomes all people from all walks of life, to explore the significance of incorporating plant medicines on their healing journey.