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Hello & Welcome to Sassafras Healing Arts!
My name is cheré (rere) suzette bergeron. I am a healing arts practitioner located in Occupied Dakhóta + Anishinaabe Territory, otherwise known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. I create medicine + magic for healing justice + collective liberation. I am an Herbalist, Bodyworker, Doula / Companion, Traiteux (traditional Cajun healer) + aspiring Völva. My pronouns are they / them. Co-Founder & Co-Director, SPIRAL Collective Co-Founder, Herbalists for Racial Justice OFFERINGS sliding scale herbalism & flower essence consultations craniosacral bodywork cupping therapy full spectrum doula care placenta encapsulation trainings & advocacy MY PRACTICE My practice is based out of my home office. My approach is rooted in emergent strategy, disability justice, + healing justice. As someone with white settler ancestry & who identifies as a non-binary, queer, chronically ill witch, this means uplifting femme folks, queer & trans folks, sick, disabled, chronically ill folks, black folks, indigenous folks, & people of color as healers, as well as to center these communities in my practice. I strive to bring my whole self to my clients & meet them where they are at, respecting their decisions, honoring their intuition, & working to co-create a container for them to see themselves as the powerful healers & magic-makers they are. I strive to bring an ethic of communal care to my practice, recognizing that we cannot "self care" our traumas away, & that we do not survive alone. I started Sassafras Healing Arts in 2012 after many years of supporting myself with herbal medicine through a variety of health crisises. When a sweet friend of my told me that they loved the winter solstice salve I made for them so much that they wanted to get more from me for some of their beloveds, I decided to begin offering herbal medicine to folks in my community. In 2017 I began studying craniosacral bodywork + cupping therapy. I have been studying tarot, astrology, and ancestral healing since 2015. I work these divination practices into my work with clients as well as my medicine-making practice. I completed my training intensive + initiation into the practice of Death Midwifery in May of 2018. MORE ABOUT ME: From what I know, I come from a line of Cajun, Norse, Prussian, Belgian, German, + Roma farmers, caretakers, healers, herbalists, nurses, blacksmiths, jewelers, clockmakers, + merchants. I am a disabled, trans, non-binary, queer, femme, southern transplant. I spent my childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana (Chickasaw, Chitimacha, + Choctaw Territory) & my adolescence in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin (Anishinaabe, Dakhóta + Ho-Chunk Territories). COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Since 2012, I have been a Co-Founder and Co-Director of SPIRAL Collective (Supporting People in Reproduction, Abortion, & Loss), a sick, chronically ill, & disabled, queer, trans, BIPOC-centered full spectrum reproductive justice collective aiming to provide radical, compassionate care in all pregnancy outcomes and experiences with the intention of empowering bodily autonomy. I provided hormone injection assistant & HIV testing at The Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition from 2012 - 2017. EDUCATION + TRAINING In 2009 I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Gender / Women’s Studies & International Studies from the University of Minnesota Duluth. In 2017 I graduated from the Master Herbalist Program at the Green Wisdom School of Natural & Botanical Medicine in August 2017 after completing over 3,000 hours of herbal studies, including 700 hours of clinical herbal practice. I'm graduated from the University of Minnesota's Masters of Nursing Program in December 2018 and I currently work as a Bilingual Registered Public Health Nurse at a local community-based primary care clinic in West St. Paul. Learn more about my background, training, and teachers here. AFFILIATIONS I am a member of the Minnesota Holistic Medicine Group. Find my listing my clicking here. Want to know more? Visit the Frequently Asked Questions page. |
