My journey to becoming an intuitive facilitator ironically took me through a small country school called Rabbitt School and I’m sure
my herbal studies started before
I was aware of it.
Born on a working dairy farm with many siblings and at a time when folks still took care of their own needs (except for the exceptions) I learned to be self-reliant. Doctors were basically non-existent in my growing up years. With a farming father who also sold Watkins products we had the “back room”, a room full of products that served as the medicine cabinet. Mom had Aloe Vera and False Sea Onion plants that served as my introduction
into plant medicine.
 Being part of a large family on a dairy farm life kind of looked like this for me: gardening, weeding, cooking and baking, baking, baking, driving tractor, helping with field work, feeding animals, washing dishes, canning, hiding behind doors to read, weeding, helping with butchering, picking eggs, weeding, sausage making, weeding, jam/jelly and wine making, sewing and embroidering, weeding,
4 – H club, weeding, playing in the woods and the stream, mushroom hunting, weeding, throwing hay bales, weeding, escaping into my art and books, weeding, weeding……
we also ate a lot of so called "amazing" food.

 Leaving home and wandering off into the mid 70’s when the radical changes of the 50’s & 60’s were starting to make headway into the so called normal world, I picked up my first herb book. “Rodale Herbs” one of the few herb books written at that time. And so began my addiction of book buying.

I tumbled into my 20’s and the birth of my first daughter. After choosing a home birth I proceeded to care for my little love in a way that made sense to me as I saw it, only to come face to face with the medical world and antibiotics. Frustrated I started to read and searched out herbal health care, in the 1980’s there wasn’t much written about herbal medicine especially pertaining to babies and children. Then I began the long slow process of observing, listening and caring for the child, trusting that I could know the way.  Three and a half years later another wonderful daughter came into being and so did my first herbal study course. Then began the collection of bottles and jars for all the teas, tinctures, oils and plant matter that came to be made and harvested.
On again 6 years to the birth of another wonderful, my son, then massage school which opened the door into the intuitive energy healing arts.
This took me into meeting many wise and different people with wide perspectives on what it means to “heal” and what healing is all about.
This path included studying
with a Huna healing group, channeling,
to becoming a Reiki Master through (un)-conventional methods and a disincarnate Shinto Monk. Also through sweat lodges & medicine circles, late nights rants under the moon,  20 years of massage practice, to being open-hearted & vulnerable with the many people who came to “Go ask Alice” about their concerns. Working with Spirit is very much like this picture, you need a great sense of trust & humor!

And then came the amazing move back
to a rural resident in the middle of
an Amish community.
 Hearing that a woman “who knows stuff” moved into the neighborhood, my Amish neighbors soon started knocking at my door for herbs and information. I proceeded by hanging up my sign for Massage Therapy and my business slowly bloomed. I owe a lot to the Amish community for their encouraging patriotism as it helped me to keep studying. Most if not all of my products grew out of someone’s need and if the product proved the test of time I kept making it.
The business quickly grew from one small shelving unit and a massage table to choosing to add an addition onto the house to hold my herb, consulting and massage business. The business grew through a name no one has heard of to now being called Alice’s Rabbit Whole which is very fitting and much more fun! Playing with the “whole” means there is always room to stretch for new ideas and ways to make life work for one and all.
A person can’t stay home and raise children forever, at some point they grow up and it’s time to go forward with the rest of one’s life. So now many, many books later, many classes and conferences later, many clients/friends and neighbors later it’s time to bring all this wisdom out of the rabbit hole into the  Whole so I that I can continue
my journey of relation………..

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 And as she sang she wondered if that was not really the essence of life,
to serve at the source of power, to do what had to be done,
and if the gallows became the logical end of your behavior, to accept it….
but above all else, to participate,
to be at the center of life as a participant…… 

“The Drifters” chapter Gretchen – by James Michener
 
 

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