
Hi, I'm Madison McCoy - herbalist, flower essence practitioner, and student of the messy and miraculous.
I started Of Earth and Sea rooted in a simple belief: a liberated world is built by liberated people. And our bodies are one key place we can cultivate that liberation.
So much of what we carry never gets to be spoken. The anger that wasn't safe. The grief with nowhere to land. The needs that got swallowed so many times they started to feel like they didn't exist. Many of us were taught, early and often, to make ourselves smaller - to manage, to accommodate, to hold it together. And the body listens. It holds what we couldn't express. Over time, that holding becomes fatigue. Hormonal chaos. Chronic pain. Anxiety. A persistent sense of being cut off from yourself.
That's what happens when feeling becomes dangerous. And it has everything to do with the world we live in.
My work is about gently going back for what got swallowed - so it can finally move, and so you can move more fully into your life, your relationships, and your values.
Using flower essences, herbal medicine, and community ritual, I support people in getting underneath the symptoms - to the emotional and spiritual root system that conventional care rarely reaches. Flower essences in particular have a quiet, profound way of softening the places where we've gone numb or gotten stuck, making it possible to actually feel again.
Because when we stop swallowing our feelings, we get access to ourselves again. We can show up more truly - in our bodies, in our relationships, in the work of building a more just world.
Healing yourself is a political act. That's the thread that runs through everything here.
I came to this understanding through my own body. After years of being dismissed and misdiagnosed, I was handed a litany of diagnoses - Generalized Anxiety, OCD, Chronic Migraine, Insulin Resistance, Eczema, PCOS - doctors insisting, despite all evidence, that none of it was connected.
No roadmap. No support. Just a door.
So I turned to the plants and my community. And slowly, through herbalism and many wise teachers (plant and human), I stopped fighting my body and started listening to her.
It turns out that decades of swallowed feelings and self-abandonment creates some serious bodily responses - activating patterns we didn't know were waiting. As I learned, patiently and imperfectly, to feel my feelings, I often felt fear. Flower essences would sit with me there -showing me a map that hadn't been available before, untangling one thread at a time.
And from there, real change became possible. My rashes cleared. The weight I'd been carrying began to release. The migraines became few and far between. And my cycle became an oracle - reflecting back the feelings I'd missed throughout the month.
I stopped fighting my way through and started building a life around what actually mattered: the plants, my health, my community, my truth.
Of Earth and Sea exists for anyone who is ready to stop managing symptoms and start understanding them.
Maybe you recognize yourself here:
You're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix. You're doing the work -therapy, the supplements, the routines - and still feel stuck. You find yourself in the same patterns, the same relationships, the same walls, wondering why nothing seems to shift at the root.
You're carrying grief that won't move. Or emotions that feel so big and close to the surface that you've learned to keep the lid on tight - because if you start feeling, you're afraid you will drown.
You grew up learning that your feelings were too much, too inconvenient, or simply not safe and “it’s fine” is your catchphrase (when it’s really NOT fine).
You're ready to break cycles that were handed down to you - generational patterns of silence, of shrinking, of survival - and you sense that the healing runs deeper than talk alone can reach.
You don't have a name for what you need yet. You just know something has to change.
You're in the right place.
This work meets you in the place beneath the symptoms - where the emotional and the physical are actually the same conversation. Through flower essences, herbal medicine, and community ritual, we go to the root.
The body. The heart. The soul. The story underneath. The world you're trying to help build.
The plants have been doing this work far longer than any of us. They know the way - and I'm honored to make the introduction.
Gra Mor,
Madison
Flower Essence Consultations: Personalized, intuitive sessions to explore emotional healing through flower essence blends
Herbal Support for Hormone Balance: Grounded, body-based tools for reclaiming wellbeing
Somatic Support: Herbs, routines, and ritual designed for the wellness of our soma
Workshops & Retreats: From cyanotype workshops to seasonal women’s circles and day-long retreats, Of Earth and Sea offers playful, meaningful spaces to connect with plants and each other.
Restorative Justice Circles: For organizations, communities, or couples seeking community-based repair, Of Earth and Sea facilitates justice work rooted in care, accountability, and transformation.
Care that goes deep: This work centers softness, dignity, and your full humanity.
Connection to the earth: The plants are teachers. Whether through tea, ceremony, or flower essence, they show us how to return to ourselves.
Collective liberation: True healing isn’t individual, it ripples. This work is part of building a more just world, where all beings can thrive. This also means healing is political and our politics are interwoven in all that we do.
B.A. in Conflict Analysis & Consciousness Studies - George Mason University
Restorative Justice Circle Keeping - RJ DC
Narrative Mediation & Conflict Transformation - George Mason University
Trauma-Informed Somatic Arts Facilitation - One Common Unity
Folk Herbalism Year 1, 2 and 3 - Wild Ginger Herbal Center
Flower Essence Practitioner Certification - Twin Star & Wild Ginger Herbal Center
Consciousness Transformation Certificate - PTC Institute
Gallup Strengths Finder Facilitation - Gallup
Cultural Humility & Community Inclusion - One Common Unity