If you don't have this reset space, this love in your home, the self-sanctuary space, it's really easy to just start aligning with whatever the message is out there.

So it's like what's me and what's not me?

How do you find that? How do you actually get to that?

And it's not with the brain.

It's like the body provides the compass.

There's no template for what the future holds

or what's coming.

There's no template for anything really.

And if we don't have this drop-down space, you know, to

fortify our and strengthen our intuition where we can tap into you know

discerning lies. I mean really how I feel now oh my gosh I'm

getting chills the only compass I have is my body.

Hi friends welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast, where we are remembering what it is to be human

upon the earth today through one of our favorite ways which is herbalism. I am interviewing my

teacher, Kami McBride today. You know her, you love her or or if you don't, you're about to.

You can hear we both get emotional during this interview, Kammie,

because, well, she shares a story I had never heard before from her life and about how the plants saved her life.

And me it was just really reflecting on the incredible luck I had in meeting her in 2005 and then starting

an apprenticeship with her in 2007 and just you know what it means to be truly mentored by someone in this age.

I remember over like Christmas break time I was embroidering trying to learn how to embroider something I've always wanted to do

something I really love doing but you know it was like trying to master the stitches

and I'm watching YouTube videos to do that and I just felt angry but under the anger a deep sadness that I didn't have

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