clinician / educator / wordsmith
Cunning Woman
Birmingham, Alabama + Edinburgh, Scotland
This space is an invitation…
…to reflect on what “healthy” even means - for YOU - in this mad world of tiktok detoxes and dr. google and a planet on fire.
If you want to be challenged to define what the most vibrant, thriving version of yourself looks like, you’re in the right place.
If you’re dying to apply some critical thinking to how your health as an individual interweaves with the health of the collective and the health of the planet, welcome home.
I’ve been waiting for you.
What does the most vibrant, thriving version of ourselves look like,
and how do we get there?
We do not choose between science and magic here.
We respect the Old Ways as having much to offer the New.
We don’t separate ourselves from the suffering around us, but we know that healing and taking excellent care of ourselves is how we’re able to make our highest contribution to building the world we want.
We honour the ancestors, past and present.
We’re grounded in the belief that when you invest in women, the world changes.
Hiya,
I’m Alyssa.
My praxis integrates the rich tradition of Western Herbalism with movement and exercise therapies, clinical nutrition and functional medicine. I draw from the the best of these fields while working to deconstruct the aspects of healthcare and its history that are colonialist, patriarchal, extractive, and otherwise problematic.
Each day, I lay a brick in the foundation of a compassionate, preventative model of care that addresses the root cause, views the whole person within the unique context that is modern life, and holds that we can demand more from our health than simply the absence of disease. I am a chronic care girlie, and saludogenesis is the game.
With a bottomless and enduring love for movement and an affinity for wild things, I nourish myself by salsa dancing, cooking GF treats, practicing mixed martial arts and searching the world for *glimmers* great and small.