I'm Valisha, the woman behind On Behalf of Nature

I didn’t set out to build a business. I set out to answer a calling, one that whispered through garden soil and sang in the rustling of leaves.

During the early days of the pandemic, I lost a dear friend and had to close the doors of my wellness center. Grief arrived like a season I didn’t know how to prepare for, stripping everything bare.

What began as a way to survive, to stay connected to life through soil, ritual, and breath, slowly became something more. Not a business in the traditional sense, but a devotion. A way of tending to what hurts and what heals.

My work grows from a simple belief: that in our hurried world, we've forgotten how to tend. How to pause. How to let the natural world be our teacher instead of our backdrop.

I spend my days in memory care facilities, watching ninety-year-old hands remember the feel of basil leaves. I volunteer in hospice rooms, where lavender oil becomes a bridge between fear and peace. I tend indoor gardens because plants, like people, thrive when someone notices their needs.

This isn't about perfection or productivity. It's about presence. It's about remembering that we belong to something larger, slower, more sacred than the noise that surrounds us.

My training includes herbalism through the Wise Woman tradition, breathwork practices that honor the body's wisdom, and death doula work that sees dying as sacred as birth. But my real teachers are the elders who show me that joy can bloom in the smallest moments, and the plants that demonstrate patience in a world that's forgotten how to wait.

Personal Philosophy

I believe:

  • Healing happens in the space we make for it

  • Every plant has medicine to offer

  • The Earth holds us, even when we forget to hold ourselves

  • Slowness is wisdom, not weakness

  • Death is not the opposite of life, but part of its sacred unfolding.

  • Intergenerational communities thrive by sharing wisdom, skills and stories