Rachael Faust is the Founder of ANIMAMA and is a woman on a mission, to provide women and birthing people the care they truly deserve and need through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

As a Medical Herbalist and a mother of three children, she is well versed in providing herbal therapy to support women through childbearing.

When she was a new mother with her first child, there was a lack of botanical therapy to support women’s concerns through pregnancy, birth and postpartum so she made her own products to nourish herself. With her knowledge of herbalism and guidance from Doula Samsara Tanner and other wise and wild women of ‘the Village’, she created ANIMAMA to provide nourishing botanical formulations for mind, body and soul, with a focus on the tender moments of the early postpartum.

Her work is grounded in Oriental Medicine, in which she is trained, which has an unbroken lineage of medicine for Women, womb care and childbearing which stretches back literally thousands of years. It also emphasises the importance of postpartum care and the ‘golden window’ for women’s health across their lifetime, which is how they manage the postpartum period. As a British person having studies this medicine, she is incredibly grateful for the knowledge she now carries which has been shared with her by this medicine tradition.

Now she uses fusion herbalism, blending botanical medicines from across the globe as well as from Europe and carefully wild-crafted herbs from nature in Sussex, to make important and essential botanical medicines for women during this particular period of their lives. Oftentimes, woman do not have access to the knowledge or support to prepare themselves for this time and Rachael acts as a guide, a medical herbalist and botanical formulator, to support and nourish those who feel called to work with her.

For more information on how to work with Rachael and her role as a herbalist supporting individual mamas, in preparing for this time, please contact via the contact form.