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 oracles toward 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.

My work is about connecting you with plants that lovingly go back for what got swallowed - so it can finally move, and so you can move more fully into health , life itself, and building the world we dream of.

Welcome. I’m so glad you’re here.

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.

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.

I felt defeated, often. And I almost wrote myself off — "this is just how my body is."

The plants kept calling to me anyway. Over many years and a great deal of trial and error, I began to untangle the web of my body until I found the root of it.

It turns out that decades — and ancestral patterns — of swallowed feelings and self-abandonment create serious bodily responses. As I learned, imperfectly, to feel my feelings, I often felt fear first. Flower essences sat with me there, showing me a map that hadn't been available before, untangling one thread at a time.

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 a mirror, reflecting back the feelings I'd missed throughout the month.

I often wish I'd had someone sooner who had walked this path to guide me through it. I hope I can be that for you.

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 are sick of hearing that your labs are "normal" when you don't feel normal

🐚 You find yourself in the same patterns, the same relationships, the same walls, wondering why nothing seems to shift despite awareness of the pattern

🐚 You're carrying grief that won't move. 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

🐚 “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, in a room where mind body and spirit all have a seat at the table. Through flower essences, herbal medicine, and community ritual, we go to the root.

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

Ways to Work with Of Earth and Sea

1-1 Work Flower Essence Therapy

1-1 Herbalism Consultation

Community Offerings & Retreats

Downloadable Guides

Training and Certifications

MAHM/DAHM - Daoist Traditions Collge of Classical Chinese Medicine- Expected Graduation 2030
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

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

Of Earth and Sea Core Values of Service

Bodily Autonomy

Too many of us have been told what our bodies mean by people who never really listened to them. Here, you're the authority on your own body.

Compassionate Curiosity

We don't rush to an incorrect fix or to silence a symptom - we get curious about it first. What is this trying to tell you? What is it protecting you from, or asking you to finally notice? Symptoms are compasses to our true health. This also extends to your spirit and being, as well as the plants. We move at the speed of trust all together.

Liberation Devoted

This work seeks to serve, directly and indirectly, those who are marginalized: women, LGBTQIA+ people, people of the global majority, disabled folks. It is my hope that through the little healing here, things can ripple out into our wider systems. Of Earth and Sea always seeks to iterate in its growth and devotion to liberation for all beings.

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