In Home Nourishment
by Graciela
My name is Graciela Guadalupe, I support Birthing and Grieving people with nourishment for their bodies and their unfolding process. I do so in the form of in home meal preparation, incorporating vibrant, organic and healing foods into periods of great change.
While in your home I embody and emanate loving strength —some call it Abuela energy— in the midst of all that is emerging for you. I do not fear the uncertainty, overwhelm, or grief that comes with transitions. With the support of my beloved community I’ve nourished through many seasons of great change. And you can too!
I never work alone… with me, comes my lineages of birth worker and indigenous curandera ancestors. I have been blessed to continue learning from my living elder teachers the best practices and protocols for this work.
I support Birthing Bodies and their growing families who identify as Woman, Queer, Trans, Two Spirit, Non-binary, and Gender Expansive
you are deserving of postpartum care if you just gave birth 10mins ago or 20 years ago, if your baby left this earth too soon, or if you choose to have an abortion. whatever your experience you are worthy of loving care. as I have learned and believe deeply, the period after birthing is a sacred and sensitive time. it is a time when pouring love and healing care into the birthing person is the highest priority. a well nourished parent creates the conditions for a well nurtured baby.
if you are currently navigating or preparing to meet this transformative, vulnerable, sacred portal of life and are ready to be supported through it… give yourself the gift of my postpartum nourishment services. i know how vulnerable and challenging it can be to ask for support, but EVERYONE DESERVES THIS LEVEL OF CARE, INCLUDING YOU !
I’ve made it easy for you to take the first step in receiving the care you know you need…
I also support Grieving Bodies who identify as Queer, Trans, Two Spirit, Non-binary, and Gender Expansive 🦋
if you are moving through a season of grief or great change, know that you are loved and worthy of care in all your expressions… we are in ever changing bodies, adapting to great change can feel “exhausting” , “scary”, “impossible”, “too much”… yet i hold in my heart that, those narratives aren’t the whole story, we experience a multitude of sensations, textures, colors, flavors each day… delight, connection, pleasure, and relief CAN and DO co-exist with grief
I’m not booking any new grieving clients at this time, however if you are interested in working with me to Nourish your Grief please join my Interest List to be notified when I open my books to new clients in the coming months
Servicing Bay Area Families
I may be available to travel to families outside of the Bay Area for an additional fee. Email to Inquire.
“ Graciela co-created meals that were delicious, beautiful and nourishing on so many levels. I say co-created because she moves in a web of connection to sooo many aspects of life, and this feels fundamental to her offerings. ” -- HB
Ancestral Nourishment
my offering of Ancestral Nourishment …
is Remembering the healing power of food, spices, herbs, the elements and intention
is an active practice of reciprocity with the land and waters
is Life Affirming, honoring and acknowledging the gift of being in healing bodies
is an embodiment of our birthright to Sovereign Care
La Cuarentena
La Cuarentena, or "Forty days of quarantine ", refers to the Mexican/Indigenous traditional healing practices in the postpartum period dedicated to the care of the birthing person.
This ancestral practice of care includes many healing strategies that carry the intention to restore physical, mental and spiritual vitality which was compromised during the birth. One of those strategies is a very specific ‘diet’ dedicated to keeping the body warm and well nourished.
Nourishment during these first 40 days traditionally consists of warming atoles, soups, and herbal teas. The postpartum meals I prepare are informed by these traditions as well as, Anishinaabe teachings, Chinese Traditional Food Medicine and my personal love for seasonal eating.
Grief
I believe our emotions are our teachers, I was taught by my elders that all manifestations of physical illness, pain, dis-ease are unresolved emotions (aires/winds) that have become trapped in the body. One of them I have become deeply familiar with, the wind of grief.
The wind of grief can come over us and stay a while if we avoid engaging in practices of care and release. This wind often comes at transitional points in our lives… seasons where we are releasing what we experienced and preparing to face the uncertainty of great change…
When we’ve lost a loved one, are coming into new/unfamiliar ways of being in our bodies, healing from acute trauma(s), and/or other unique experiences of great change we don’t need to isolate and hide from the world. What we deeply need is to be witnessed and lovingly cared for…In many ways we as a collective have lost touch with our capacity to sit with grief in ourselves and others. Part of my work here is to rewrite that embodied narrative, to expand the collective capacity to be with grief and care for the body through it.
“ It's hard to find words to describe my experience of receiving Graciela’s in-home services because of the profound ways her care, embodied wisdom and loving intentions poured into every detail of our time together…” -- HBIN HOME NOURISHMENT PACKAGES
3 days a week for 6 weeks for Postpartum
Be well nourished in your Cuarentena and beyond...
This package assures that you will be enjoying Fresh and Delicious meals throughout the week. I curate a unique menu each week based on your unfolding needs and desires, whats in season, and always intersected with my knowledge of traditional healing foods.
I will source all organic and local grown/made ingredients and use my personal favorite speciality herbs, spices, and oils… and lovingly prepare it all in your home kitchen!
This package provides 24 servings a week ( 4 Breakfast + 4 Lunch/Dinner made on Prep days)
Your Investment of $13,000 covers it all!
Now Booking Birthing Summer 2025 Clients!!
1 day a week for 6 weeks for Postpartum
Replenish your Vitality with Supplemental Nourishment…
This package is for you if you are seeking to integrate some supplemental nourishment with support you are/will be receiving from your loved ones and/or community. Just like the offering above, I will curate a unique menu each week based on your unfolding needs/desires, whats in season, and with consideration of my knowledge of traditional healing foods.
I will source all organic and local grown/made ingredients as much as possible and use my personal favorite speciality herbs, spices, and oils… and then lovingly prepare it all in your home kitchen.
This package provides 8 servings a week ( 4 Breakfast + 4 Lunch/Dinner made on Prep days)
Your Investment of $5,200 covers it all!
IF YOU ARE SEEKING… Intimate care that meets you where you are, Empowers you to integrate nourishment beyond our time together, Recognizes and Honors the role that the earth, water, fire, and wind play in co creation for our nourishment and healing… while centering earthly grounding delight through activating the senses with Delicious meals !!
then we might be a good fit ✨
My Story…
My name is Graciela Guadalupe, I am a queer brown daughter, sister, and auntie of Jewish & Mestiza Ancestry. I identify as a Care working Artist and Nepantlera ….
It is from the devotion to my own healing and becoming that this work emerges from me. I went through many seasons of my life between the age of 8 - 23yrs old having a very difficult relationship to food and my body. It deeply impacted my well being… physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Over the past 12+ years I have been re-membering my sacred relationship to life, my body and the food ways that nourish me deeply. This journey of cultivating intimacy with my nourishment has not only shown me how profoundly it impacts/informs my wellness and sense of Self, it has also revealed to me how deeply disconnected many of us have become from our bodies, our land, our water and our Ancestral Cultures of Care™.
Ancestral Nourishment speaks to our cells, activating our cellular memories of connection to the love, nourishment and healing that is available to us. When we choose to care for our bodies and open our hearts to being cared for, we get to live into the embodied healing that some of our ancestors may not have had access to…
It is with immense passion, inspiration, joy and honor that I am here in this iteration of the journey to share what I have learned, practiced, and cultivated for my self, with you.
Giving thanks to my generous and brilliant teachers: Estela Roman, Doña Enriqueta Contreras, Doña Soccoro, Raeanne Madison of Post Partum Healing Lodge, Teyler Wallace of The Foodie Doula, Ivy Lee of Luminae Wellness and my beloved community for informing so many aspects of my Nourishing Care work… and Giving thanks everyday to my spirit guides and ancestors who walk this path with me .
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IF YOU ARE NOT CURRENTLY POSTPARTUM OR GRIEVING BUT ARE INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH ME PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH YOUR INQUIRY . . .
T E S T I M O N I A L S
✨ HB … Beloved client & friend
“It's hard to find words to describe my experience of receiving Graciela’s in-home support services because of the profound ways her care, embodied wisdom and loving intentions poured into every detail of our time together.
Thank you to her ancestors and her deep relationship to food as medicine and the body as a primary site of remembrance. Her wisdom honored both the fractures/blessings that often stay hidden in the shadows as well as the light/warmth that is needed to hold them. Graciela co-created meals that were delicious, beautiful and nourishing on so many levels. I say co-created because she moves in a web of connection to sooo many aspects of life, and this feels fundamental to her offerings.
I felt whole, rooted, and lifted all at the same time. I loved Graciela’s ability to creatively remix some of the same ingredients or leftovers into new meals later in the week. Starting mornings off with Cacao Atole ( sometimes mixed with lavender, white tulsi rose, or fresh orange zest) opened my heart to the possibilities present in each day even in a time where my state of being has felt the most limitations because of the intensity of the multi-layered trauma I have been recovering from.
Thank you Graciela, for meeting me exactly as I was each day with gentleness, groundedness and curiosity. While this is the most limited my body has ever been, you held space for me to find divinity exactly where I am. Terima kasih. I could go on for a long time because I honestly believe the support you offered me will continue to reveal medicine to me for the rest of my life.”
✨ Iya Oyalade … Beloved client & friend
“Graciela is a gift from the ancestors. There is so much I can say about her as a human and our time together during the most vulnerable time of my life but I’ll try to be succinct.
Graciela was a part of my postpartum care community plan. She traveled to take care of me and my tiny human during the last two weeks of my cuarentena and I know it was the ancestors who aligned our time so wisely. I had a traumatic birthing experience and my motherhood journey did not start off how I had envisioned and planned. The first 40 days are a time of deep healing and bonding between birthing person and baby, yet mine was layered with also processing a near-death experience and initial separation from my child while I recovered in the ICU. Graciela walked into my home with her bright, warm, and grounding energy ready to hold space in ways I knew I needed and in ways I didn’t. She held me and my tiny human with such grace, making her care seem easeful.
She provided nourishing meals, encouraging words and just overall love that left me in tears when it was time for her to go back home because I just didn’t want her physical presence to leave. She was with me on day 40 and lovingly performed a closing ceremony and allowed me to come back into my physical body through her healing hands. She made me beautiful posters of affirmations for me to hang on my wall so that I can say them out loud during my hardest moments. There is so much I can say about her. Graciela is a gift. And I am grateful for her. ”
✨ C. Godinez… Beloved client
“ In the first meet and greet with Graciela, I felt a sense of peace and calmness. Her energy is just right and her level of professionalism and compassion was shown from the beginning. She listened to my trauma and experience and from there we discussed the services she provides. We chose from the menu what we wanted her to cook and she did not disappoint. The chicken pozole; the quinoa and chicken with cilantro sauce; blueberry muffins; breakfast chia pudding with compote, etc. Each dish had a unique flavor that exploded in my mouth and in each bite you tasted the love she puts in her cooking. The whole experience was amazing and healing. Graciela, keep up the good work in helping those who need healing through your delicious food. Thank you :) ”
✨ V. Godinez… Beloved client