Cheré Suzette Bergeron,

AHN-BC, RN, PHN

Advanced Holistic Nurse, Board Certified

Clinical Herbalist

Somatic Bodyworker

Folk Historian + Memory Worker

I create medicine + magic for healing justice + collective liberation.

I am an herbalist and holistic nurse living on Occupied Dakhóta Land, otherwise known as Minneapolis, Minnesota.

As an herbalist, I feel honored to carry the medicine-making tradition in my ancestral lineage. This includes my mother’s father’s father’s people — specifically my Great Great Great Great Grandparents Sigrid Torstendatter + Isak Vilhelm Erickson Brommer who lived in Valdres, Norway in the mid 1800’s. Together, they traveled the Norwegian countryside selling their medicines made from roots, barks, + berries.

I’ve been making medicine, maintaining a community apothecary, and offering herbal consultations since 2012 – with a focus on trauma-informed and queer + trans-centered herbalism.

In its first decade, Sassafras Healing Arts has grown into an integrative, ancestral, bioregional, and community-rooted practice which includes holistic nursing, clinical herbalism, land-tending, stav-carrying, somatic bodywork, writing, researching, teaching, folk history, death midwifery, memory work, grief work, and mentorship. I situate myself as a lifelong student of these deeply interconnected crafts, practices, traditions, + lineages. I strive to center queerness, gender liberation, and crip theory in my offerings.

My practice is driven by my desire to live and embody my values of authenticity, animism, decoloniality, disability justice, healing justice, interdependence, + non-linearity. I question the ways in which authoritarianism, absolutism, and fascism are perpetuated in movement work and ancestral healing practices. I aim to provide care and support in ways that undermine the wellness industrial complex. I believe deeply in the power of witnessing, co-regulation, embodiment, and relational healing as essential elements of collective liberation.

I love working with people to recognize their own intrinsic belonging, intuition, and interdependence. I support folks to cultivate a sense of curiosity in their lives – especially as it relates to their healing. I specialize in shame – acknowledging it as well as transforming it through acceptance of self as inseparable from the wild + holy world.

I am queer, nonbinary, and disabled. I live with C-PTSD, chronic pain, and long COVID as a post-viral fatigue illness. These experiences and aspects of who I am deeply inform my practice, worldview, and unique gifts.

I weave my work into the well as a strand in the web of wyrd as a race traitor in service of dispelling + dismantling myths + structures of white supremacy + capitalism.

tintype by Carla Alexandra Rodriguez of Blkk Hand