Herbal and ritual wisdom for your healing journey.
Ritual, Herbal, Intuitive Healing
We all have an innate knowing about what we need to be well. The Well and The Wheel LLC helps you tap into that knowing, and feel free and empowered in your healing journey. With herbal and ritual support that honors your path, your ancestry, your body, and your highest self, we weave together mindfulness, the abundant medicine of plants, and ancient healing rituals.
We combine the knowledge of science with our own intuition to work with modern medicine, not against it, and we empower you to advocate for yourself, honor yourself, and heal in the way and pace that’s right for you, with all the possible tools you could have in your hands.
We believe in the well of healing: digging deep within us to find the clear and bountiful waters of vitality.
And we believe in the wheel of healing: that healing is cyclical, not linear, a spiral that ebbs and flows, and as we evolve, we are further out from our origin point than when we started. And that is beautiful.
Meet Courtney Merage
After years of trying to fit my body into a mold of health and living created by others, I found a liberating path of trusting my own wisdom in healing. I suffered from chronic pain for 17 years, “pushing through” to complete law school, two bar exams, and “achieve” in all the ways I could, despite my body’s messages otherwise. I was tossed around from medical practice to medical practice that didn’t have answers for me, and was misdiagnosed and not heard. I finally took my healing into my own hands.
I’ve had to learn how to heal and solve challenges with almost every one of my body systems, from immune, digestive, musculoskeletal, reproductive, even through mental health journeys and personal spiritual reckonings, and much more. I’ve been through it all and had herbal and ritual medicine as my allies along the way. And now I have the tremendous honor of supporting others in their healing, too.
I found that, surprisingly, healing can be joyful. I am constantly learning, each week, new ways to infuse this powerful medicine into my life and the lives of others, by learning from experienced elders and those who have paved the way before me - about the biology and chemistry of this medicine, ancient folk remedies, even methods for somatic release. And now as a community and folk herbalist, offering integrated one-on-one herbal remedies and rituals as well as communal education and experiences, I live in alignment with my values and my body’s wisdom and empower others to do the same.
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Read my vows to my practice and to life here.
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Some examples of my experience & education in herbal and ritual healing, among many others:
Completion of Tonja Reichley’s Ancestral Herbalism Apprenticeship
Yelala Doorways to Life Course, and many other Hebrew ritual and herbal healing courses to tend to all beings, especially womb carriers
Herb-Drug Interactions Course with Ember Peters, and many other herbal safety courses
Ongoing learning communities I’m proud to be part of:
Dr. Aviva Romm’s Herbal Medicine for Women
Rowan & Sage’s Herbaria, Vitalist Herbcraft, Kitchen Herbcraft, Seasonal Herbcraft
Rocky Mountain Professional Doula Program
Samantha Zipporah’s Fruit of Knowledge Program
…and much more.
Listen to a conversation about plant consciousness on the Awaken Together Podcast!
Tune in to hear Kat and Courtney talk about the non psychoactive side of Plant Medicine. They discuss how herbal allies can help us holistically heal our nervous systems, hormones, and connection with the feminine through deep connection with nature.
Our Values
Honoring Ancestral Wisdom
Herbal and ritual wisdom has been used by people all over the world for hundreds and hundreds of years. While we believe in the value of modern medicine, we also believe ancestral medicine can be woven into the healing process in a way that your body already knows.
You deserve to have care that is informed about all aspects of your story, if that’s what you need. We can help you heal with medicine rooted in your ancestry, and if we’re not the right people with that knowledge, we will help you find the herbalists and healers who are.
Honoring Your Own Wisdom
You know what’s best for you. You know your process, your boundaries, your pace. Your body is wise and each part of you is alive and knowing and is telling you the care it needs. We’re here to help you hear it. We support you to trust yourself each step of the way.
No matter your background, age, gender, race, heritage, or any other aspect of your lived experience, we are here to hear you and help you live fully on your journey.
Honoring the Wisdom of the Planet
The wisdom of the planet is about equilibrium, and as stewards of the planet, that means choosing sustainability. We use organic materials to minimize chemical exposure in our bodies and the environment. We minimize waste by maintaining a cyclical creation process, composting what we can’t keep using, sterilizing and reusing, and creating only what we need.
We also recognize the wisdom of nature, and of herbal and ritual medicine as powerful and effective, the people’s medicine, the earth’s medicine.