HEAL THE ROOT — Steph C Cosby

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HEAL THE ROOT $800 24”x24”, oil on birch panel.

WE WILL KEEP EVOLVING II

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Based in Corvallis, OR, also providing online pelvic steam consultations.

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✨💓ELLIOTT IS 19 appreciation post!!! 💓✨

A sweet lunch in Portland at a smash burger 🍔 place they love (Wolf’s Head PDX) then Powell’s big mystery/horror section ☠️📕 and some platform Docs. ✨

Finally, they let me share my fave selec

REPAIR, 2024, 4’x4’, oil on canvas

How to trust that repair is possible in the middle of man-made hell, in the middle of evil, violent destruction…

I tried to paint this fast enough hoping the destruction would be over by the ti

Merry Winter Holiday friends! 🫶🎄 Last week there were high winds so yesterday (on my solar return!) we gathered wind-fallen Usnea and Lobaria pulmonaria and I processed them for maceration.

Shooo the land and their offerings of medicine are incre

On this darkest night portal we move our eldest to her new apartment. The house will feel so weird without the song of ✨her being✨floating through. Luckily, we had a year with her here in our new location, so the memories are strong…and she&rs

✨🕯️👁️🕯️✨ Protection ✨🕯️👁️🕯️✨ a photo of our front door altar that changes with the seasons. This winter mistletoe, an ancient protection plant, and amanita were added.

Today at work we celebrate Santa Lucia with some cardamom and current buns

Our Sunday morning dog walk took us through a little protected mini forest in the middle of a nearby neighborhood…crushed gravel foot paths and some recycled material “board” walks…through a haven of medicine! It was ✨stunni

Forest communing always helps 🌲🍂 there are some throwback themes in this photo set!! Visit hastags to see them explored in Tennessee. Photographing with so much texture is a rad challenge, maximalism at its best. 🫠 (I know I have made a LOT of pho

Eff the system, but voted today as an act of resistance, even when I know the madness will not stop anytime soon. We’re just a moment in this movement toward something different. Before I drove to the ballot drop-off box I indulged in morning l

Not the content of this photograph, just the shapes ⏩⏩⏩⏩🚩You know, blur your eyes and read the composition of shapes and patterns to relax 🫠 Fall 🍂Fridayyyyyy🤎

Beautiful mucilaginous marshmallow roots, the Brasilian amaryllis endemic to my birth state still in sync with southern hemisphere early spring bloom times, and the first year I will be able to infuse homegrown sugar leaf into oil to add to my body a

We made it to Friday - to the post about the soft, tender side of the shoreline. Photo in there of false chanterelles and false Solomon’s Seal together. Cute falsie besties gathered together…last slide are two medicine friends of mine gr

💧 OCEAN MEDICINE💧 in these dark times…the water was wild, choppy and intense on Saturday, gobbbs of jellyfish waiting for the tide to come in to return to their comfort zone, long tangled kelp - heavy, solid, strong whips…the message