The Handmade Life offers coaching, consultations, healing traditions, and other old ways via phone, virtual and in-person workshops to support mindful living, to preserve knowledge for future generations and, most importantly, to foster well-being and a love of the natural world.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, who coined the term, describes it as the “wholly mindful life”. The Handmade Life offers support for ways of living and be-ing that are rooted in self-trust, living in alignment with one’s values, and feeling supported by a healthy community.
About Katie:
Katie Hanus is a coach, community herbalist, mother to two teens and founder of The Handmade Life. Katie has studied with Sacred Journey School of Herbalism in Austin, Texas and The Herbal Medics Academy now located in Taos, NM, with an emphasis in empowering healthy lifestyles in women and children. Additionally Katie has supported her own family’s health, learning and developmental needs for nearly two decades through a variety of modalities and therapies. She holds certificates in nature-based coaching, herbalism and permaculture design, and is a graduate of Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coach training.
“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.