Get to Know Us...

Hello, I’m Melissa 🌿

I am a nature-loving science geek, intuitive practitioner, homesteader, and lifelong student of the human body.

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Basically, I am somewhere between a researcher, an old soul, and the person who stops mid-conversation because a bird flew by and I need to know what it is. 

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Nature has always been my greatest teacher.

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Long before I studied nutrition, minerals, facial analysis, or energy work, I was the kid exploring creeks, climbing trees, collecting treasures from the forest, and learning that the natural world always has something to say when we slow down enough to listen.

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My first career was in environmental education, where I spent nearly two decades helping people reconnect with the earth. Over time, I realized my curiosity about ecosystems was expanding into another ecosystem, the human body.

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Because we are nature too.

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And somewhere along the way, many of us forgot that.

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My journey into wellness came through my own health struggles and years of searching for answers. Like so many women, I knew there was more to the story. I wanted to understand why the body loses balance, why we become disconnected from ourselves, and how we begin rebuilding from the foundation.

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That path led me into functional nutrition, orthomolecular mineral work, facial analysis, energy practices, and studying the old ways humans have supported health for generations.

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What I discovered is that the body is constantly communicating.

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Through our energy.
Through our symptoms.
Through our skin and face.
Through the quiet signals we often overlook.

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My work today combines mineral restoration, facial analysis, nervous system support, energy work, and intentional living to help women reconnect with their bodies and rebuild vitality from the inside out.

But honestly, this work is bigger than minerals.

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It is about remembering.

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Remembering that your body has wisdom.

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Remembering that slowing down is not failure.

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Remembering that you are part of nature, not separate from it.

In 2009, my husband Mark and I purchased 24 acres in the hills of Prattsburgh, NY, built a yurt, and started living the lessons we believed in.

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Over the years we have grown gardens, planted orchards, raised animals, kept bees, tapped maple trees, grown mushrooms, and learned a whole lot from Mother Nature. Mostly that she is always right and humans like to make things unnecessarily complicated. 

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Today, I created Fika Wellness and The Regenerative Woman as a space for women who know there is another way.

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A slower way.​

A more connected way.​

A way that honors both science and intuition, modern knowledge and ancient wisdom.

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Because maybe healing is not always about searching for something new. Maybe sometimes it is about remembering what we knew all along.​

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Welcome. I am so glad you are here.

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Melissa

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P.S. Yes, I still climb trees. Some things never change. 🌳