Welcome to Our Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals!
Our Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals is a Grass-Roots Spiritual Movement to make the promise to devote time and give sacred space to our healing, our internal processes.
To show the way with words and images steeped within my subconscious tea brought to life on canvas, in songs, stories and spirit journeys.
How to live more deeply within our awareness and connection of the microcosmic world, and in turn our macrocosmic universe.
I share my personal practices and medicine stories in real time as they are happening… complete with ideas, resources and sacred space activities for you in hopes that it inspires you to create your own devotional practice to build the life you want and need.
The Inspiration…
My devotional practice that I share with my subscribers is a way for me to be the change I wish to see in the world. It is my hope to serve as an inspiration, and perhaps, to be a more practical guide to living a deeper life in this crazy world.
The title “Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals” started out as just a hashtag at the bottom of my Facebook and blog posts: #sweetestgrassrootsdevotionals, and then it seems to have just exploded from there in all of its possibility.
I chose this hashtag name for two reasons. First, as a way to honor my Grandmothers’ Sweet Grass Medicine that has made such a difference in my own life.
It is a way for me to reconnect with my ancestors; almost all of whom had access to sweet grass for their own spiritual practices. It creates lines of connection through the different countries, continents, cultures and faiths that make up my ancestral spiral.
Yes, there is the assumption that they actually utilized sweet grass in their daily lives. I like to think so.
I do know that when I smell sweet grass, I can feel a deeper connection to my Grandmothers every time. I am instantly transported. Standing with all my female ancestors in a spiral…
My first female ancestor stands in the center, and I am on the outer edge of the thread that continues walking her legacy (our legacy) forward…
Into our Grass Roots Movement to live deeply while spreading healing light into the world.
Secondly, I have always loved the term Grass Roots Movement. It represents the every day people, the struggle, rising up from beneath the earth somewhere. As a child, it felt so earthy, hopeful, connected, and filled with community (the life I longed for). It smelled of the essential essences of life; a mixture of dirt and vanilla.
Imagine my suprise the first time I smelled Sweet Grass and it filled my lungs and nostrils with the same scent as the phrase Grass Roots Movement.
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IEM trying a new thing where I send out a Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals Letter every week highlighting my own weavings and sources (experiences that inspired my current practice), poetry and art work.
Along with suggestions on how to apply what I've learned to Your Weavings (practices/experiences), Crow Calls (divination), Musings & More!
For Summer 2025, I have New Projects in the works that I'm very excited to share!
A little bit about me…
Hello! IEM… Isabella E McClellan
A few of the lables I've gone by over the years… Writer, Philosopher, Artist, Mystic, Reiki Teacher, ULC Inter-faith Clergy, Lover of Learning — Culture, Mythos, Language, and Science.
Before undergoing decades of training and label-defining as an adult, I spent my childhood simply being me in all that IEM with a mother who warned against labels and boxes that would later become traps of the Mind, Heart, Body and Soul.
Turns out she was not wrong.
While most of The World is still trapped in labels that I cannot seem to avoid, IEM striving to live a life with fewer defining boxes, and simply allow the space to open for my Soul to unfold and simply Bee.
My parents (for all their imperfections) gave me the freedom of running through the mountain ranges of the United States, and for this I will always be grateful.
A few of my childhood haunts and aspects that have followed me into adulthood…
The Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, the Carolina's deep auburn fall leaves, upstate New York's Bear Mountain filled with blue slate stone, our own beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountain Range where the humming bird roams free, and the awe-inspiring Redwood Forests of California/Oregon. I am a day-dreamer who whispers with the flowers, speaks to the trees, and sends messages on the wind.
All of which will definitely show up in my writing and daily practices for living a deeper life in this crazy world.
Talk about a Crazy World!
My immediate surviving family, is a blended family with eight humans, an elderly service dog, and a service pup in training! Half of our kids are just starting out as adults on their own, and the other three are still running around here somewhere. :)
So it is no small thing for us to say…
Thank YOU for Your Support of My Life's Great Work with Sweetest Grass Roots Devotionals!
❤️ Light & Shadows,
Isabella (that’s me!), Mr. Figgles (service dog), Lady Shadow (pup in training) & Family
💚 Brain Injury Warrior 💚
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