What does Hedgewitch Holistics do?
Hedgewitch Holistics offers a modern-day, urban spin on the hedgewitch tradition. I strive to help those in my community prevent illness and disease, maintain wellness and thrive through natural, holistic healing methods. Using herbalism and energy work as forms of activism against the inaccessibility of affordable healthcare and medications to many, the goal of Hedgewitch Holistics is to provide everyone who wants it with the tools, knowledge and encouragement you need to feel empowered to make the decisions that are right for you in regards to your health and well-being. And, if you desire, to build a better relationship with the plant allies around you.
Like good quality food and clean water, I believe that everyone in my community should have access to natural wellness, so if you are a Detroit/Highland Park/Hamtramck resident, I offer alternative payment arrangements if cost is making my services or products inaccessible to you.
Hedgewitch Holistics is committed to inclusivity, accessibility, anti-racism, creating brave & judgment-free spaces, the principles of Healing and Disability Justice, and doing my absolute best to honor and give back to the Highland Park/Detroit/Hamtramck communities of which I am a part and to the land (Waawiiyaatanong), stolen from the Anishinaabe people, on which I work and live.
What is a hedgewitch?
A hedgewitch is a solitary practitioner of the herbal arts – both medicinal and spiritual. She is the person you call when you develop a rash or get a toothache and the doctor or dentist is unavailable. She is the person you consult when strange things go bump in the night or you are certain that someone just gave you the evil eye.
Her cupboard contains the remedy for what ails you – physical and spiritual.
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Founder
Heather Mourer (she/her) is a Highland Park, Detroit-based community herbalist, herbalism teacher and reiki practitioner. Mourer studied energetic folk herbalism, while building deeper relationships with the native plants of the Great Lakes bioregion and apprenticed with jim mcdonald; studied holistic nutrition therapy with KP Khalsa; and trained in Usui Reiki I & II with Adela Nieves Martinez and Paula Terrero. She has continued her herbal education through courses with Rebecca Altman and Rosemary Gladstar. Mourer is also an alumna of the SEED Wayne Fellowship in Community Food Systems Planning at Wayne State University – with her research focused on food access and food as medicine in the Banglatown neighborhood of Detroit. In addition to formal education, Mourer has two decades of self-taught experience in working with plants and food to help friends, family and herself and continues to attend workshops and classes with some of the most revered herbalism teachers in the country, as often as possible. Mourer's specific areas of interest in herbalism include: mental wellness, grief and matters of the heart, abortion and miscarriage care, and LGBTQ+ health.
In addition to running a growing community herbalism practice and online/pop-up apothecary, Mourer is also a co-founder and co-producer of the Witches Night Bazaar, along with Shiva Honey of Serpentīnae and The Pentacle Path. Together, Mourer and Honey produce seasonal vendor market/ritual/performance events for the community and smaller ritual events throughout the year. Learn more about the Witches Night Bazaar here. In 2022 Mourer contributed a chapter on Herbalism for Death + Grief to Honey’s book, The Devil’s Death. You can order your copy here.
