A Message from Kristin, Your Founder

Hello there! I’m Kristin, the somewhat feral, definitely weird, but deeply passionate founder of MoonWoven Sanctuary Church. I have been nurturing and expanding my spiritual practice for over three decades. Much like a stubborn weed that finds its way through concrete.

I was raised on a small farm with my hands always in the dirt and my heart always connected to the rhythms of nature. But growing up Gen X with undiagnosed ADHD, chronic illness, and an empathic nervous system that felt absolutely everything, I spent most of those years doing what so many of us did. I masked. I pushed through. I performed “normal” so convincingly that even I almost believed it. I hid my differences, buried my sensitivity, and lived in a near-constant state of fight or flight, quietly feeling like something was wrong with me at the core.

It took the earth to remind me there wasn’t.

My journey into natural healing started as a rebellion against the idea that my brain needed fixing. ADHD isn’t a dysfunction. It is my superpower, the force behind my creativity and my curiosity. Prescription medications only dulled that spark, and my body never took kindly to them anyway. So I turned to the earth instead. Through herbs, energy healing, and holistic practice, I learned to support my body and my mind in ways that actually honored how I was made. I worked with my Fibromyalgia and autoimmune issues the same way. Trial, error, and deep study became my medicine.

I have been practicing earth-based spirituality most of my life, Wicca-adjacent but with my own peculiar twists. I got ordained at 21, though those papers went up in smoke in a house fire, so I got re-ordained in 2018. Now I am on the other side of 50, still gardening, still foraging, still mixing herbs, and still following the moon cycles with the same wonder I had as a child.

The difference is that now I do it out loud. I no longer shrink to fit spaces that were never built for me. I no longer apologize for the way my mind works, the way my body moves, or the depth at which I feel things. That liberation is exactly what MoonWoven was built to offer you too. Because if the earth has taught me anything, it is this: nothing that grows wild was ever meant to be tamed.

Why MoonWoven?

I have always been a bit different. Too earthy for the church folks. Too structured for some pagan circles. Too intense for the casual crowd and too scattered for the disciplined ones. I never quite fit the mold, and for a long time I thought that was the problem.

It wasn’t.

I created MoonWoven because I got tired of waiting for someone else to build the sanctuary I was looking for. A place where the misfits could gather. Where the spiritually curious could wander without apology. Where you didn’t have to choose between being deeply devoted and being a beautiful, glorious mess.

My path here was never straight. It meandered like a creek finding its way downhill, which is honestly just how my brain works and I have made peace with that. My ADHD sends me down rabbit holes that most people would never think to follow, and what I find there is usually extraordinary. I have spent years doing furious, obsessive, joy-filled deep dives into herbalism, energy healing, earth-based spirituality, mythology, natural medicine, and the sacred patterns woven through all living things. I collect wisdom the way some people collect stamps. A little from here. A thread from there. Until something whole and true starts to take shape.

What drives me is simple even if the path to get here was anything but. I want to share what I have learned. I want to build a community where people feel genuinely seen. And I want to help others heal and grow into their truest selves, the unmasked, unfiltered, gloriously weird version that the earth has been waiting for all along.

The Vision (Or What I See When I Close My Eyes)

MoonWoven isn’t just another spiritual center. It is a living organism. It breathes with the energy of everyone who finds their way here.

I envision a place where everyone feels welcome regardless of where they are on their spiritual journey. Where knowledge flows freely. Where community grows naturally, like plants reaching toward the same sun. Where self-sufficiency and nature-based wisdom become practical tools for modern living, not relics of another time.

That vision is still unfolding, the way all good things do. Slowly, seasonally, and with intention.

What We Offer

At this season of MoonWoven, my focus is on resources and connection. You will find free downloadable guides, publications, and tools designed to support your healing and spiritual growth at your own pace. The shop carries digital resources created with your nervous system in mind, including self-paced programs you can work through in your own time, on your own terms.

Whether you are here to learn about herbal remedies, explore earth-based spirituality, or simply find a community that accepts your beautiful weirdness, there is space for you here.

Spiritual counseling, coaching, and guided classes are coming. That part of the sanctuary is still being built, with the same care and intention as everything else. If that is something you are waiting for, you are welcome to get on the list and be the first to know when the doors open.

A Little Personal Story

I was raised going to Sunday school like so many kids of my generation. I sat in those hard pews, listened to the stories, and genuinely tried to find myself in them. After confirmation I dove headfirst into theology, not out of obligation but out of that particular ADHD obsession that comes when something catches fire in your brain and will not let go. I needed to understand and I needed to find where I belonged.

What I found surprised me. It was not one path. It was pieces of many. Threads from different traditions, different wisdoms, different ways of understanding the sacred. I stopped trying to fit myself into a single box and started weaving something that actually fit.

My spirituality looks like full moon rituals and plant medicine. It looks like hands in soil and conversations with trees and following hunches that science cannot quite explain. Yours might look like meditation or prayer or dancing wildly under the stars at two in the morning. It might look like all of those things or none of them yet.

I have never fit the normal category. Not spiritually, not neurologically, not in any way that really counts. And I spent far too many years thinking that was something to fix. It wasn’t. It was just who I was, waiting for permission to stop apologizing.

The most profound thing I have come to understand is this. Our spiritual journeys are as unique as our nervous systems, our bodies, and our fingerprints. That is not a flaw in the design. That is the whole point.

Join Our Growing Community

We’re just sprouting right now—a seedling pushing through soil toward the light. Our content might be limited as we start this journey. Like all living things, we’ll grow with time. We will also grow with care and your energy.

Whether you’re looking for healing, knowledge, or community, you’ve found your spiritual home. This is also a place where your quirks are celebrated rather than tolerated.

Come grow wild with us.

—Kristin, Founder (and resident plant-whisperer)

Professional Certifications & Qualifications

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Certifications? Yep, I have gathered a few. Because even the delightfully feral need official paperwork now and then.

Honestly the certificates are fairly new. The knowledge behind them is not. I have spent decades doing what my brain does best, falling completely and utterly down rabbit holes. Holistic healing, life coaching, shadow work, various therapeutic modalities. If it had the potential to help myself and other people heal and grow, I needed to know everything about it immediately. The formal certifications just finally caught up to what the obsession already knew.

And honestly? Taking those classes has been a blast. The deep dives had already filled in most of the picture, but getting those final missing pieces through actual coursework was its own particular kind of joy. If you know, you know. Nothing quite like that dopamine hit when something finally clicks into place.

The collection is still growing. A diploma from Place of Bliss Academy is currently in the works, because apparently I am not done yet. Honestly I probably never will be, and I am perfectly okay with that.