ARIANNA BLAKEMORE
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You Can't Heal What You Don't Feel
Arianna Blakemore knows what it feels like to be the student no one knows how to reach.
As a child, she was diagnosed with ADD, placed in special education, and put on medication. The system labeled her. It managed her symptoms. But no one ever asked what her body was trying to say.
No one connected what she was eating to how she was thinking. No one told her that the soil held answers that the prescription pad never could.
She had to find that out herself.
As a kinesiology student at SIUE, Arianna worked as a Rehab Aide at Athletico Physical Therapy. There, she noticed something that troubled her deeply: the same students, patients, and community members kept returning with the same struggles — fatigue, inflammation, brain fog, and emotional dysregulation. The system was treating symptoms. No one was addressing the root.
Then came a revelation: “Rehabilitation and exercise mean nothing without the proper fuel.”
She began asking a bigger question — how can students be expected to focus, learn, and regulate their emotions when their bodies aren’t properly nourished? How can educators be expected to lead and inspire when they’re running on empty?
While studying exercise science by day, Arianna quietly devoted herself to herbalism, nutrition, and detoxification. She applied everything she learned to her own body — and started to heal herself. The same mind that was once medicated and labeled became sharp, focused, and free. She became a living testimony to the power of plant-based food as medicine.
She knew there had to be a better way.
In March 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Arianna made a defining decision: she left her Human Resources career to walk fully into her life’s mission. Ancient Healing Root was born. In May 2020, she embarked on a plant-based whole food journey — releasing all flesh foods to renew her mind, body, and spirit. As she puts it: “In order to guide others to escape the societal chains, I have to free myself first.”
Then came the land.
On November 11, 2022, Arianna was divinely chosen to be part of the Southern Illinois Farm Beginnings Program — receiving a full scholarship. She became a first-generation farmer and an extension of Phi Global Farm in Spanish Lake, MO. Her farm, Seeds of Hope, is more than a garden. It is a vision — a restorative sanctuary where students, educators, and families reconnect to nature, to food, and to themselves.
Her teachings blend Ancient African Traditions and Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern nutritional science — bringing ancient wisdom into today’s classrooms in a way that is practical, powerful, and transformative.
Today, Arianna brings her signature Three Brains approach — gut, heart, and mind — directly to students who can’t focus, educators who can’t breathe, and families ready to reclaim their vitality.
Because she was once that student sitting in a special education classroom, wondering why her mind wouldn’t cooperate.
Reconnecting People to Food, Soil, and Self
Our mission is to help students and educators overcome chronic stress and
unhealthy lifestyle habits to improve focus, regulate emotions and thrive in school.
Why Organizations Trust Arianna
Arianna’s work is deeply personal — because she’s lived it.
As a child diagnosed with ADD and placed in special education, Arianna experienced firsthand what happens when a student’s body and mind aren’t properly nourished. She was labeled, medicated, and managed — but never truly healed. That experience never left her. It became her mission.
As a Holistic Health Coach, Detox Specialist, Herbalist, first-generation farmer, and founder of Ancient Healing Root, Arianna has spent years at the intersection of food, education, and healing. She knows what it costs a student to sit in a classroom with a dysregulated nervous system and an undernourished body. She knows what it costs an educator to pour into others while running on empty.
She’s been both.
Through her powerful personal story of overcoming a learning disability, healing herself through plant-based nutrition and herbal medicine, and building Seeds of Hope farm from the ground up, Arianna brings a deeply relatable and transformative approach to school and community wellness.
Her signature Three Brains approach — gut, heart, and mind — gives students, educators, and families a practical, science-rooted, and ancestrally grounded roadmap to regulate emotions, sharpen focus, reduce burnout, and reconnect to food, soil, and self.
Organizations trust Arianna because she doesn’t just teach wellness. She is the testimony.
