chris siegriest : they/them

i come to this work through dreaming a future into possibility filled with freedom for all beings. freedom to heal, transform, and be in full expression and belonging. i come to co-create relationships and communities centered in vulnerability, right-sized power and liberatory vision and action. i come to stare empire in the face, and not collapse. i come for the death rites. i come to grieve. i come for the messiness. i come to know my own complicitness. i come to repair. i come with humility, bravery and fierce rage. i come with love. i come to become deeper with the ancestors who have harmed and been harmed and become a good ancestor myself.
i come to heal myself, my lineages, with you and for the collective.

i am a queer and trans non-binary witch from irish, welsh, isle of mann, briton and german descent. i have loved and tended and listened to plants my whole life with a deeper dive into herbalism starting seven years ago through the gaia school of healing, then with three years of clinical training at the vermont center for integrative herbalism. i call myself a community and clinical herbalist. i am a somatic experiencing advanced student through somatic experiencing international, working toward my SEP. i am a ritualist and teacher of liberation and earth based spirituality, with roots in the reclaiming tradition. i am a community organizer and street medic. i am a street liaison with houseless folks and NADA acudetox practitioner at another way peer support community center. i am a co-creator and member of the herbal solidarity project:
rose core collective.

i am a wild one, edge tender, bridge, defender of what i love, care-worker, priestx of possibility and complexity, joy fire dedicated to re-enchanting myself and this world.