From Uprooted to Rooted
Hi, I’m BRITTNEY.
I never set out to get sober — plant medicine demanded it of me. What began as a desperate attempt to quiet my anxiety became the axis on which my life turned. Overnight, alcohol lost its grip. My mind rewired. The noise went silent. That transformation — undeniable, irreversible — is what birthed Rooted Again.
But I needed to understand why it worked. Curiosity became study, and study became mastery. I trained as a trauma-informed facilitator of plant medicine. I completed Wilfrid Laurier University’s Neuroplasticity Approach to Mental Health and Addictions course, deepening my understanding of how the brain heals and creates new pathways.
Today, I weave science, plant medicine, and intention into one path: a system of rituals, coaching, and integration that dissolves old patterns and restores nervous system balance. Plant medicine changed me in ways that were undeniable and lasting. Science explains it as neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to rewire and heal. Ceremony gave me the doorway, and integration gave me the foundation. That’s the work I now guide others through: turning transformation into a rooted way of life.
I didn’t turn to plant medicine because it sounded magical. I turned to it because my anxiety was running my life, my prescriptions weren’t working, and alcohol had become a way of numbing instead of healing. By August 2024, I was at a crossroads: increase the medication, or try something radically different.
Reluctantly — almost like dragging a cat into a bathtub — I chose ceremony with plant medicine. It wasn’t glamorous. It was raw, vulnerable, and terrifying. But the morning after, something inside me was different. The noise in my head, the looping thoughts, the constant static of fear… it was gone. My nervous system felt quiet for the first time in years.
At first, I didn’t trust it. I thought it would come back. But as days passed, I noticed more shifts: I no longer wanted to drink, I was eating differently, I was moving my body, I was making decisions from a grounded place. It was as if the soil of my brain had been tilled — heavy, dry dirt turning into something fertile again.
That’s what led me to microdosing. Ceremony cracked me open, but microdosing gave me the continuity — the daily, gentle rhythm of neuroplasticity. I paired it with supportive supplements, nervous system practices, and mindful rituals. Bit by bit, I built what has now become the Rooted Protocol: a guide and a pathway for women who want to feel themselves again, without numbing or performing.
Rooted Again was born from that soil — from the quiet that plant medicine gave me, and the choice to start living, not coping.