About me…
How do I speak of who I am without beginning with how I am woven into the ecosystem of the natural world? This doesn’t make me special, we are all part of the wider wild, whether we think so, or not. But, if you looked, you would find a little bit of seaweed stuck against my skin, or some moss in my hair, and certainly my boots by the door are most often graced with mud.
I was born in Quw’utsun (also knows as the Cowichan Valley) on Vancouver Island. My early years were lived in a house powered by a generator, lit by kerosine lamps, and the surrounding forest was my teacher and playground. The nights were were so dark that the stars, viewed from rooftop with backs warmed by tar-shingles, were dazzlingly bright. I learned early on to face my fears of wild beasts (inner and outer), to trust my humble place and belongingness on earth, and to be quietly observant.
Who I am feels more like an unfolding river, a murmuration of starlings, or the surprising emergence of skunk cabbage from the muck, than a fixed story or set of identities.
My adult life has been a swirling dance of left foot in science, right foot in The Mystery. A song of service to those who find themselves at Thresholds- birth, death, motherhood, grief, the myriad of changes that we encounter- wanted and unwanted. A reverence for the right question, instead of answers. Dedication to expanding my capacity for trust within the unknown rather than controlling and fixing.
I’m turned on by diving into taboo topics and challenging what’s “normal”. I hope my legacy will be that I made the world a better place by simply being a good villager. Someone who noticed the suffering of others, showed up for those in need, bravely accepted help in my own moments of vulnerability, and remembered the wisdom of interconnectedness.
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We are not just standing on the earth.
We are rising from it.
The salt in our blood remembers oceans.
Iron drifts through us like a red river, star-born, stone-bred.
Calcium holds our bones upright with the patience of mountains.
Breath enters - not as air alone but as leaf-gift, green exhale, the soft astonishment of trees
Coving through our lungs.
My ribs are branches opening
My pulse is tidal.
Under the skin, forests hum - fungal threads of thought, rooted and reaching.
When I kneel to the soil
it is not devotion to something outside me.
It is a homecoming.
The earth is not beneath our feet.
It is inside our breathing.
-Brigit Anna McNeill
My Bio.
Education | Training | Workshops
Introduction to Massage training (2002)
Usui Reiki Levels 1 & 2 (2010) Myorei Healing
BSc Biology major (2011) UBC
Birth Doula training (2011) Douglas College
Postpartum Doula training (2011) Douglas College
Birth Doula training (2011) Wise Woman Way of Birth
Childbirth Educator training (2012) Hypnobabies
Introduction to EFT (2013) Larisse Goldstein
In Our Hearts perinatal loss support group facilitator (2016) Vancouver and Bowen Island
Mothers Unfolding group facilitator (2017) Bowen Island
Home Herbalist Certificate (2023) Pacific Rim College Online
End-of-Life Educator (2024) Willow EOL Education and Planning
After-death body washing ritual workshop (2024) with Rebecca van der Giessen
End of Life Doula Certificate (2024) Douglas College
Understanding Dementia and Medical Assistance in Dying (2024) with Dr Stephanie Greene
Conscious Love Certificate (2025) The Embody Lab
Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate (2025) The Embody Lab
Life Coach Certificate (2025) Rhodes Wellness College
MAiD in Canada: where we are, where we are going (2026) with Christa Ovenell
Grief Educator Certificate (2026, in progress) David Kessler
