Who We Are
Welcome!With an intention to expand, Wildish currently focuses on herbal support for the postpartum mother-baby dyad. Our remedies are tried and true - the same plant allies that many of your great-great-great-great grandmothers were likely using to promote wellbeing for the birthing families in their communities.
Our products are as much for the wild mother whose connection to their wildish nature runs deep as they are for the wild mother who seeks to deepen their relationship with the wise one within.
The plants will always guide you… if you listen closely enough.
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Meet Clara
A doula, lactation counselor, and herbalist, Clara Miller founded her birthwork practice, Portal Birthwork, in 2022.
Seeing the way the plants supported her clients through the joy and grief of the postpartum period merged with her love of farming+gardening and her unending reverence for Mother Earth to catalyze continued education at the Berkeley Herbal Center.
Her greatest hope is that the products in the Wildish Medicine line leave womb-bearers feeling held and supported by the natural world around them. WM is not about selling products. It’s about facilitating reconnection to our inherent Wildish natures. And making being alive in this overwhelming world feel just a little bit more easeful.
Why Wildish
In her seminal work, Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes of the wildish nature of women. She asserts that “within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species” and “when women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower… a maker, a creator, and inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds.” The best way that I have found to reconnect to my wildish nature is through connection with the Wild Mother herself: Mama Earth.
Plus, our name serves as a bit of a tongue-and-cheek reference to how, as humans in the modern age, we exist somewhere along the wild to cultivated spectrum. We are wild…ish.