Ecopreneur, Beekeeper, Organic Homesteader, Mother
Year born: 1980 (33 in ceremony)

Amy Love, an herbalist, mom and organic homesteader, was 33 when she went to Peru seeking ayahuasca's healing for post-traumatic stress following a series of painful events she and her family had suffered the previous year. There, she experienced a life-changing vision and healing from within the heart of her own maternal lineage, which brought her to terms with the abuse and exploitation passed down through the collective psyche’s feminine archetype. Amy discovered that "One Divine Mother lives within us all” and that “in the healing of our own individual wounds, through the web of our interconnectedness, we allow for others to heal theirs as well." A vision of a grandmotherly anaconda settling into her central meridian reminds Amy daily of her restored connection to her intuition and provides a deep, grounded sense of calm. When she accepted the Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant, Amy was a single mom with two young children, working round the clock to get her start-up business off the ground. Upon her return home, she sent the father of her children to Nihue Rao to do his own healing work in the moloka, and they were able to reunite their family. They now have a third healthy baby boy and are working together on their family farm in Western Massachusetts. Amy's earth-friendly home business, GreenLove LLC, is rapidly growing and evolving, and she just launched Homebody™, a line of aromatherapeutic cleaning solutions.

“My experience in the Amazon catalyzed my decision to make my all-natural cleaning products widely available to consumers as a chemical-free alternative to the earth-destroying products that now dominate the marketplace. I am bringing healing into the home through green lifestyle choices.” – Amy Love

Amy is the first recipient to sponsor another Cosmic Sister's Plant Spirit Grant. Part of the Cosmic Sister vision is a 'pay-it-forward' model of abundance, so we are very pleased about this. Amy’s experience in the Amazon also inspired her to launch a beautiful brand of all-natural cleaning products as a chemical-free alternative to the earth-destroying products that now dominate the marketplace. “I am bringing healing into the home through green lifestyle choices,” she says.

Amy Love, an ecopreneur, was 33 years old when she was awarded the second Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant. In this photo she stands in front of a hummingbird totem mural at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual after enjoying a pre-ceremonial “floral bath”.

THE SPIRIT OF THE HONEYBEE

Amy Love (36), a Pioneer Valley-based homesteader and ecopreneur, was a single mom with two young children, working round the clock to get her eco-friendly cleaning business off the ground, when she was awarded a grant. Her breakup with her partner and a sexual attack by a man she dated briefly had Amy “frozen in survival mode,” she says. Ayahuasca allowed Amy to release the trauma, reconnect with herself and remember her dream of “being self-sustaining while working in a symbiotic relationship with nature.”

Upon her return home, she sent the father of her children to Peru to do his own work with the ayahuasca, where he experienced transformative healing that “allowed us to repair our relationship and become better co-parents.”

Amy’s entrepreneurial spirit soared. Just after her third child, Silas, was born, Amy launched Homebody, a line of earth-friendly aromatherapy cleaning solutions that are “purely safe and clean with a conscience.” She was accepted into to the Valley Venture Mentors Accelerator Program, an annual intensive boot camp program that “prepares high-potential startups for serious growth,” where she won a high-stakes pitch contest and walked away with a sizable cash prize.

Long fascinated by honeybees, Amy also became an apiarist. The bees’ cooperation and organization provide a great model for leading a company. “Something really clicked into place for me on a more instinctual level,” Amy says, “about what it means to lead with grace, living by example.”

Amy’s message: “It is time to move forward in what I know to be true and right.”

Plant Spirit Grant 2013
Ayahuasca Retreat: Nihue Rao