MATRIARCH METHOD: RESTORING BODIES + RELATIONSHIPS + THE ENVIRONMENT
What if the solutions for healthier people + a healthier planet were one and the same?
What if we chose to cultivate health and flourishing in kitchens + gardens + around tables?
What if health was more collaborative than competitive? More about the health of the community than the diagnosis of an individual?
What if we could hold together today's nutritional knowledge with the nourishing wisdom and traditional skills passed down by women?
MATRIARCH MANIFESTO
- Women feed the world. When women are supported and empowered to lead the health movement from the context of the home and the community, everyone will live a healthier life.
- We value traditional food wisdom: revitalizing inclusive + communal food culture, ancestral health knowledge, whole food preparation, interconnected and sustainable cultivation.
- We learn from nature. Mother Earth is the original Matriarch.
- We're choosing to be intentional + interdisciplinary + interconnected.
- We believe in the power of hospitality + generosity + community.
- We aim to support + empower + inspire hope.
- We respect biological individuality, embracing and encouraging that everyone is on a healing journey with varied genetics, stressors, microbiome, lifestyle, and history. Only you know what it feels like to thrive in your own body, but we're excited to support you along the way.
- We can't flourish in isolation. We grow better together.
“The earth, the first among good mothers, gives us the gift that we cannot provide for ourselves."
"Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
"As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Photo Credit: Annie Spratt (cover), Rachel DeBoer (garden)