Paula Fortier, Formulator and Owner of Hummingbird Therapeutics and Mother Anita's has  lived in NH since 1978, grew up in New England. I have spent many days and evenings experiencing a connection with the ocean, forests, fields and mountains that define this region. I have lived on the land with limited technological resources for periods of time, studying local environments and experiencing them in my heart. The indigenous people, native to New England and throughout the world have for thousands of years valued nature for the healing gifts it offers to the mind, body and soul. I have been fortunate to learn from the oral traditions of the elders of various nations, and to participate in their healing work. These teachings have magnified for me the power and the grace of a relationship with Mother Earth. I have also worked providing health and mental health counseling services to terminally ill, physically ill and troubled teens, families and with those working through addictions. These experiences only deepened my conviction that many of us today can benefit from reconnecting to Nature.

   Today my work is teaching and providing services and products to people that enhance and enliven our connections to the powerful comforts that nature provides. For Mother Earth to be able to offer her full potential, she must be treated with respect, be honored and cared for. The process of researching, assembling and verifying the quality of rare and vintage oils is one which I carry out with the diligence of understanding that these products can offer nature’s support even when we can’t be in nature.

   My vision of personal healing holds our involvement with and understanding of nature as the key. I have a commitment to assist people in developing this relationship with ease: families, individuals, children, and people recovering from illness, or with those who are older or beginning the transition to afterlife. I offer simple services: wellness coaching, career coaching from the heart, stone massage, Maya Healing, guided experiences with nature (gentle walks, active meditation, and participation in activities of nature), and workshops. This intention is placed in each joyful product that is hand produced by Hummingbird Therapeutics.

   Nature reminds us that we can always create a new story. A new season will emerge; a new day will dawn in which we can engage with the magical interplay of the sun, earth, wind and waters with our spirits and in our lives. Nature reflects light and love back to us. As my clients in the health and mental health arena shared portions of their lives with me, I saw the urgent need to have this simple experience.

   Being with nature means age and past experience have no bearing on someone’s ability to find comfort in any of these approaches. A desire, however undeveloped, for finding the healing and restorative powers in a relationship with the Mother Earth is the only pre-requisite. Nature offers a bounty available to all. It is my dream that everyone can return home, can find within themselves, the ability to reconnect to Mother Earths gifts and support. I am committed to sharing the comforts and healing powers of nature with all that I meet.

As I’ve worked with Mother Anita’s Products and spoken with many folks over the years about both my Mother and the products she inspired I’ve realized a great deal of personal healing. I thank you all.

This poem below reflects  the Mother Anita I now know. I offer this poem to others and to their “Mother Anita” stories and wish you the blessings to achieve healing in your life from your losses.

In Peace, paula

Who is Mother Anita?

Mother Anita is every one of us. She is the joy we find in living. She is the beauty of the rose. She is the love of life, the smell of the ocean. Mother Anita was a mother, a wife, a daughter, a healer.  

She is each one of us living in connection with life……. Celebrating, noticing, giving thanks, being in sorrow.  She is the joy of a snowflake melting when it touches your hand,

A wolf roaming the plains with the pack, A dolphin communicating miles away with another pod, A baby emerging into the light of the day from its mother’s womb.

I wish for us all the chance to be touched strongly with the energy of reawakening ourselves to joyful living…to connecting with life more and more each day.

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