Kendra Ward

Kendra Ward, L.Ac., MAOM, is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and herbalist. From 2003 to 2020, she co-owned the Whole Family Wellness Center in Portland, Oregon, immersing herself in a busy private practice with over 25,000 patient visits.

Kendra’s primary teachers are not the long-dead figures of history or dogma, but the land where she lives, her lifelong meditation and spiritual practices, and the complex, honest, radiant human beings she has been fortunate to hold space for in her healing practice.

Kendra’s writing has an ecospiritual, Earth-honoring focus and has been featured in Yes!, Nature Evolutionaries, Rebelle Society, Elephant Journal, and elsewhere. Throwing Thunder is her first book.

Kendra now lives with her family in western Vermont, which is the unceded territory of the Abenaki peoples. When she is not in the clinic or writing, you can find her conversing with the many barred owls in the forests near her home.

Visit her website: KendraWard.com