The Handmade Life offers personalized wellness consultations and coaching for the mind, body and spirit, handcrafted goods, healing traditions, and other “old ways” via virtual and in-person workshops to preserve knowledge for future generations and, most importantly, to foster well-being and a love of the natural world.
About Katie:
Katie Hanus is a community herbalist and founder of The Handmade Life. Katie has trained to date with Sacred Journey School of Herbalism in Austin, Texas and with The Herbal Medics Academy in San Antonio, Texas, with an emphasis in empowering healthy lifestyles in women and children. Additionally Katie has supported her own family’s complex health, learning and developmental needs for 17 years through a variety of modalities and therapies. She has certificates in herbalism, permaculture design and nature-based coaching, as well as additional training in homeopathy and life-coaching. Supporting caregivers who embrace creative routes to allow their kids to thrive is one of Katie’s passions.
“When the instincts are injured, humans will "normalize" assault after assault, acts of injustice and destruction toward themselves, their offspring, their loved ones, their land, and even their Gods.
This normalizing of the shocking and abusive is refused by repairing injured instinct. As instinct is repaired, the integral wild nature returns. Instead of dancing into the the forest in the red shoes until all life becomes tortured and meaningless, we can return to our handmade life, the wholly mindful life, re-make our own shoes, walk our walk, talk our own talk."
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes,Ph.D.