My name is Gwen. 

Born from a place of deep need, Hearthstone Herbal came to me when I was at a very lost and untethered point in my life.

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Once, while I was in the middle of the woods hunting, bone tired and weary of heart, I sat down on a log and watched my hawk above me settle into a beam of rare mid winter sunlight. I decided to take some rest and think about everything that was happening at the time. Amidst the feelings of being uprooted, disoriented, and in the middle of grieving the loss of my mother, something sparked in the peripherals of my imagination and I immediately felt a glimmer of what I was missing. 

 

Community. Any idea of what I was meant to do next. Long needed peace between my mind and my heart.   Acceptance of the fact that sometimes we start down a path we think will bring us to a certain place, only to find out it's not quite what we were hoping for.

 

In my mind's eye I saw a fire. A bonfire in the woods, a crackling flame in a hearth, I'm not sure. What I did know is there were people all around it who were tied together with a common purpose.

 

Self determination. A desire for truth. A desire for healing on the personal, community, and planetary levels. A commitment to honouring traditional lifeways, a vow to return to our inner knowing that lives in our bones, surviving through the disharmony that binds us to the demands of the modern world.