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In 2021 Tara and her family got the knock on their door that every parent fears most. In the days that followed they discovered eighteen-year-old Mila’s journal and were able to piece together the shocking and devastating chain of events that led to her death. Tara’s Instagram and Substack, Slowdown Farmstead, is followed and admired by tens of thousands of people. Tara and her husband raised their three daughters on their beautiful Canadian farm, lovingly tending to and butchering their own livestock in order to nourish their family and community. Deeply acquainted with the cycles of nature, Tara has a perspective on the interconnectedness of life and death that was the daily reality for our ancestors but eludes most modern people. But that did not prepare her for what could happen when a drug that is now bred to be as strong as any pharmaceutical- and which is often misunderstood as being a benign herbal medicine- snuck its way into her daughter’s life at a vulnerable time and completely rewired her brain in a matter of months. It is our hope that sharing Mila’s story will make more people aware of the increasingly common psychosis that is a side effect of the new high-THC strains of cannabis on the market, and especially of its dangers for the developing teenage brain. Please read the articles linked below for more. Tara's essay What Happened To Our Daughter- don't miss the dozens of resources about the risks of cannabis at the end How Weed Became the New OxyContin: Big Pharma and Big Tobacco Are Helping Market High-Potency, Psychosis-Inducing THC Products as Your Mother’s ‘Medical Marijuana’ Patreon bonus conversation- What We Want Our Daughter To Know: women, restriction, chronic illness & more on Tara’s metabolic journey Learn more about Tara’s book Radiance of the Ordinary Slowdown Farmstead on Substack and Instagram Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy? My website MythicMedicine.love  Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 9 April 2025

My most beloved herbal elder and I talk about our favorite subject- women throughout time using plants for self care, family healing, and community connection. After nearly 4 decades as a practicing herbalist and teacher, and in an age of informational overabundance, Kami has seen what actually works when it comes to truly embodying herbal knowing. Find Kami’s freebies & learn more about Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils (including the peek at what you see when you log in to the course). Two Patreon bonuses for this episode- an extended conversation with Kami where we share our stories of Mothering Without Elders, and two free videos with Kami entitled Garden Herb Walk- meet 9 favorite garden herbs that can calm the nerves, help with digestion, heal the skin, kick a cold, and more! Let’s meet beautiful edible and medicinal flowers, weeds, leaves and seeds and find out which ones are used for what. Kami’s book The Herbal Kitchen Amber’s website MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Amber/Mythic Medicine on Instagram Amber’s Nourishing Motherlines Substack Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 1 March 2025

Suuzi and I continue the discussion sparked by my last episode about culty trends in the wellness space by talking about her past with Kundalini yoga- what drew her in and, eventually, how noticing the state of nourishment of those deepest into the cult precipitated her exit. We then catch listeners up on our midlife metabolic meltdown hEaLinG jOuRnEyS and what path we’re taking forward as we continue to recover our vitality and deepen our understanding of why women’s bodies are so metabolically expensive. Patreon bonuses for this episode include an extended conversation w/ Suuz about the reaction to the German New Medicine episode (114) & how it surprisingly kindled a discussion amongst patrons about a remarkably similar ideology, a 10% off coupon code for Suuzi’s grass fed, grass finished liver pills, and a chance to ask us questions. Also photos of Suuzi in turbans! Dr. Suuzi on Instagram Mother’s Best Liver Pills Amber’s Nourishing Motherlines Substack Amber’s website MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Amber/Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Mentioned in this episode: Kimberly Ann Johnson on Whose Body Is It Breath of Fire Kundalini cult/Guru Jagat documentary The Rooted in Resilience podcast and specific Minnesota Starvation Experiment episodes with Kathleen Stewart The Energy Balance Podcast Cronometer nutrition tracking app How to Not Get Fat on the “Pro-Metabolic Diet”: a guide for switching to nourishing foods while avoiding fat gain by Kaya of Fundamental Nourishment Eating a “Pro-Metabolic Diet” Will Not Heal You: an appeal for having context to understand the big picture by Kaya of Fundamental Nourishment

Transcribed - Published: 17 February 2025

GNM is an alt health trend that has grown in popularity in recent years. It is attractive to so many (including me and my guest, once) because it acknowledges the role that emotions and trauma play in physical health and symptom manifestation, something that mainstream medicine still somehow refuses to do. But just because some aspects of an ideology are true and helpful does not mean that the entire framework is valid. Critical thinking and humility are essential tools for navigating information overload and complex frameworks, especially when it comes to health. The allure of certainty and specialized knowledge can lead people to adopt rigid belief systems that don’t hold up to critical thinking, and the the zealotry of believing that your group’s belief system will save the world only further strengthens unconscious confirmation bias (along with other logical fallacies common in GNM- loading the language, heads you lose tails I win, us v them thinking, bizarre antisemitic conspiracies, etc). But what might be most worrisome about this growing movement is the purity mindset demanded of its more extreme adherents- the belief that nothing outside of us can affect us if only we believe strongly enough in our own omnipotence and prove our righteousness and purity by attaining a total lack of symptoms. What is viewed as radical sovereignty and empowerment is really just outright magical thinking reinforced by an absence of humility, mystery, and the reality that ultimately we are not in control of what happens to us. The body is not a closed system; we are deeply embedded in overlapping ecologies. This episode has been years in the making, and I have been asked time and time again for my take on GNM. When I was sent Demetra’s essay on the subject I knew that I had finally found the right person to have this conversation with. Her past cult experience, and my years of deep dives into culty thinking and behavior, provide a lens through which to view this phenomenon. Though we do not claim that GNM is a cult in the traditional sense, cultishness is a spectrum and GNM is definitely on that spectrum. Also its tenets are demonstrably false, and have led to death in some cases. NBD. In our Patreon bonus conversation Demetra shares her cult story- joining what she thought was a good thing, slowly realizing it wasn’t, leaving, being attacked by the leader and other members, and the long “deprogramming” and stabilization process that all cult survivors undergo Demetra’s essay The Culty Fraud of German New Medicine Dr. Moss’s report German New Medicine- Hope or Hoax? Demetra’s podcast Impolite Company on Spotify and Apple Amber’s Nourishing Motherlines Substack Amber’s website MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Mentioned in this episode: Tension Myositis Syndrome Cell Danger Response A Little Bit Culty podcast (the best!) Cult documentaries (by no means an extensive list)- The Vow (NXIVM), Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, Breath of Fire (Kundalini yoga), The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin Steven Hassan’s BITE model Cult expert Robert Jay Lifton  

Transcribed - Published: 5 February 2025

What metabolic patterns did you inherit from your parents, and what may you have passed down to your own children? Many behavioral issues, and even what are usually considered personality traits (like that of high sensitivity), can be linked to mineral imbalances and overall health.  Heavy metals often accumulate in individuals due to stress, compromised metabolic function, or ancestral imprints, not necessarily always due to direct exposure. Heroic detoxification protocols should be approached with caution, as forcing the removal of metals without addressing underlying nutrient deficiencies can have unintended consequences. Let us welcome in the medicine of sitting with the right questions as we collectively navigate information overwhelm, and walk slowly together toward ever deeper levels of self attunement and inner resourcing. Links for Niecia: Niecia’s HTMA packages Eat To Go Deep course membership Niecia on Instagram Links for Amber: Medicine Stories Patreon (extended convo w/ Niecia + more) Nourishing Motherlines Substack Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz MythicMedicine.love  Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Mentioned in this episode: Lead Safe Mama  

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2025

Fertility is not just the ability to conceive, but is an indicator of overall health and the capacity to nurture life; it is how we extend genetic strength across time and space into generations we will never know. Pregnancy and menopause are transformative states that reveal underlying metabolic and hormonal imbalances, emphasizing the complex interplay between biochemistry, psychology, and lifestyle. In an age of rampant metabolic dysfunction, let us together find our way to renewed vitality, for ourselves and for those yet to come. Eat To Go Deep course membership HTMA packages Medicine Stories Patreon (extended convo w/ Niecia) Nourishing Motherlines Substack Niecia on Instagram Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz My website MythicMedicine.love  Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Get the transcript here Mentioned in this episode: Wise Women Diaries podcast interview w/ Niecia telling the story of her first birth, instagram of podcast host is Trusting Life Casey Means Niecia has learned about biomechanics in pregnancy and birth from Adelaide Meadow Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage by Rachel Reed Mary Lou Singleton on early motherhood  

Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2024

St. John’s Wort has evolved over millennia to capture sunlight and turn it into the molecule hypericin, which has numerous profound effects on our human bodies. Our St. John’s Wort Oil is HALF OFF until sold out (as of June 2024)! From deep nerve healing, relaxation, and pain relief when applied externally to its antidepressant, antiviral, and liver supportive properties when taken internally, SJW has always occupied an exalted place in the medicine cabinet of the ancestral humans who were lucky enough to live where it grew, and is one of the most used and loved herbal medicines in the world today. IN THIS EPISODE: St. John’s Wort acts as an extension of sunlight The endless external uses include the healing of wounds, bruises, burns, blisters, cuts, eczema, growing pains, inflamed skin, muscle pain, nerve pain, neck tension, spasms, back pain, neuralgia, sciatica, insomnia, anxiety, and stress The oil is indispensable for menstrual pain, pregnancy, postpartum, babies, children, elders, empaths, and highly sensitive people Photosensitivity, precancerous skin cells, and using SJW as sunscreen Internal uses: notes on the antidepressant, antiviral, and liver supportive effects (including my shingles story) Hypericum feeds our inner radiance and summons forth our purpose and power This ancient herb has always been associated with fairies and other magical beings How empire co-opted pagan rituals and herbal practices The widespread ritual use of St. John’s Wort as a protective herb A word on wildcrafting and non-natives v invasives Making your own high potency, shelf stable herbal oils Herbal medicine is so simple, yet also endlessly complex Kami McBride speaks about St. John’s Wort RESOURCES: Mythic Medicinals St. John’s Wort Oil (half off!) Medicine Stories Patreon (patrons can download Rosalee’s ebook here) Cute, short video showcasing our St. John’s Wort garden Learn to Make Your Own Herbal Oils: Kami McBride’s Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils online course My video Sneak Peak at the Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils online course from Kami McBride Podcast Episodes & Books Mentioned: Episode 23 The Profound Medicine of Herbal Body Oils Episode 53 with Kami McBride Healing Herbal Oils: How to Make and Use Them Episode 55 with Lola Pickett Highly Sensitive People are the Psychedelic Plants of the Human Realm Episode 67 with Nadine Artemis Harvesting Light: the Alchemy of Sun & Human Episode 65 with Rosalee de la Foret Wild Remedies: Tending Relationships with the Land Around Us Episode 17 with Sajah Popham True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant & Human Consciousness Episode 62 with Sajah Popham Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, and Human Ecology The article Feeding Your Inner Sun with St. John’s Wort from The School for Evolutionary Herbalism Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine by Rosalee de la Foret and Emily Han The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present by Wolf D. Storl The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants by Wolf D. Storl A Modern Herbal II by Maude Grieve The New Healing Herbs: The Essential Guide to More Than 130 of Nature's Most Potent Herbal Remedies by Michael Castleman More Good Stuff: Kathi Keville’s website My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2024

In which I read a few pieces from my new Substack. Bone, blood, milk, and marrow... Nourishing Motherlines is a collection of memoir-adjacent personal writings exploring my evolving understanding of nourishment (not nutrients), how my mitochondria and minerals were inherited from my motherline (and yours from yours), my hEaLiNg JoUrNeY as I navigate hypothyroid and hypoadrenal exhaustion and a host of related symptoms, what I am focusing on as I prepare to help my daughters with seemingly inevitable future health issues as women alive in the 21st century, and your garden variety midlife self-concept implosion. My new Nourishing Motherlines Substack 50% off Mythic Medicinals Herbal Oils (until sold out) Energy booklet from the 80s Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2024

Bone, blood, milk, and marrow... Nourishing Motherlines is a collection of memoir-adjacent personal writings exploring my evolving understanding of nourishment (not nutrients), how my mitochondria and minerals were inherited from my motherline (and yours from yours), my hEaLiNg JoUrNeY as I navigate hypothyroid and hypoadrenal exhaustion and a host of related symptoms, what I am focusing on as I prepare to help my daughters with seemingly inevitable future health issues as women alive in the 21st century, and your garden variety midlife self-concept implosion. My new Nourishing Motherlines Substack 50% off Mythic Medicinals Herbal Oils (until sold out) Energy booklet from the 80s Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2024

In which I read a few pieces from my new Substack. Bone, blood, milk, and marrow... Nourishing Motherlines is a collection of memoir-adjacent personal writings exploring my evolving understanding of nourishment (not nutrients), how my mitochondria and minerals were inherited from my motherline (and yours from yours), my hEaLiNg JoUrNeY as I navigate hypothyroid and hypoadrenal exhaustion and a host of related symptoms, what I am focusing on as I prepare to help my daughters with seemingly inevitable future health issues as women alive in the 21st century, and your garden variety midlife self-concept implosion. My new Nourishing Motherlines Substack Energy booklet from the 80s Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz My website MythicMedicine.love  Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2024

Chinese Medicine holds that women’s bodies are 10x harder to heal than men’s, as our reproductive system is biologically much more precious and metabolically more intensive to maintain. In this conversation my good friend, third time guest, and Doctor of Chinese Medicine Suuzi and I catch up one year after we both underwent severe energy loss to share how we’ve rebuilt and healed. We talk about shifting away from the mindset of achieving “optimum human health” (an illusion that contributed to our health crises), working and mothering in a state of total burnout, how our childrens’ metabolic patterns can mirror our own & how we’ve helped our own kids heal, the link between high sensitivity and mineral depletion, why we’ve chosen a metabolically appropriate approach to weight loss even though it takes much longer, and so much more. RESOURCES: Join Amber & Suuzi for the Medicine Stories Retreat in Croatia, August ‘24! Register for our Croatia Curious Zoom Call on April 10th (replay available for those registered) Suuzi’s website Mother’s Best Liver Pills and her Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? The Science of Human Energy newsletter book from the 80s Suuzi’s previous interviews- episode 103 Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse and episode 18 Land Based Living, Mothering, & Eating Women whose work has helped us- Niecia Nelson- Eat To Go Deep course and Instagram (my guest on episode 100 Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life) Sena Maria- Offerings and Instagram Jenna Hamm- Offerings and Instagram Sarah Kleiner- Offerings and Instagram (my guest on episode 104 Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, and Metabolic Wellness) My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2024

The times are unprecedented and there is no template for the future. We all feel this, and we feel the overwhelm of information, influence, and opinions. Herbalism, as it always has, offers us sanctuary from everything vying to take hold of our attention and life force. Not so that we can check out in an endless fog of self care, but so that we can be truly present and embodied as we navigate this time of rapid and radical change. The plants call us home to ourselves. Kami’s Free Workshop The Art of Arnica: 7 Steps to High Potency Oil & Healing Benefits and Safe Application (week of 3/3/24 only) Kami’s Free Webinar How to Use Kami’s Top Herbal Oil Blends to Soothe Anxiety and Support Daily Nervous System Reset (week of 3/3/24 only) Kami’s revered Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils course Video Sneak Peak at the Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils Course from Kami McBride (what it looks like when you log in) Medicine Stories Retreat: Croatia w/ Amber Magnolia Hill (August ‘24) Mastery by Robert Green Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 3 March 2024

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Transcribed - Published: 25 January 2024

Nothing exemplifies the magic of nature more than honeybees. They are insects yet their colonies are akin to a mammalian being, they produce numerous healing substances from their bodies and within their hives, and they have been revered and mythologized since time immemorial by countless cultures. Beekeepers live longer than folks in any other profession, and being in relationship with bees is deep medicine for the spirit in these frazzled times. Let us relearn ancestral ways of tending and listening to bees so that we may maximize our chances of reclaiming a vibrant and thriving Earth. RESOURCES: Ariella’s website Honey Bee Wild Medicine Stories Patreon (3 bonuses for this episode- our extended conversation, 100% off coupon code for Ari’s 14 Kindred Bees classes, and a list of my & Ari’s favorite beetending resources) Take our quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World by Jacqueline Freeman The Buzz About Bees: Biology of a Superorganism by Jürgen Tautz Medicine Stories episode 9 w/ Ariella Know Thyself: Weaving Myth & Magic Into Everyday Life Check out our Mythic Medicinals herbal & mushroom remedies Mythic Medicine (me) on Instagram The Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 1 January 2024

“I pray to the dead to help me remember who I am while I’m still alive.” To be in relationship with those who’ve gone before us is a deeply human way of being. Our ancestors knew that the “departed” never left, and that they answer when called. The way modern Western people conceive of the dead is a deviation that discards millennia of human knowing. Let us pray to the ancestors to help us sober up from civilization, remember what we’ve always known, and reclaim the long story of the soul. RESOURCES: Perdita’s website Take Back the Magic Medicine Stories Patreon (book giveaway & course coupon code) Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds by Thomas Halliday Waking Up to the Dark by Clark Strand My podcast about my mother’s passing What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, and Legacy of Love The Madonna Secret, a novel by Sophie Strand Perdita and her husband Clark Strand’s website The Way of the Rose Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Our website & herbal medicines MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 11 December 2023

It is estimated that half of all Americans have chronic health issues, and yet these conditions are new to the human species. What has happened? And how does an afflicted individual navigate a medical system that dismisses them and offers little help, embedded within a culture obsessed with self improvement and the hero’s journey of triumph? Sarah and I talk about the multifactorial nature of chronic illness and what has changed between generations, walking the fine line between self-responsibility and acknowledging that we’re all embedded in toxic systems that are out of our control, navigating the mythic underworld of autoimmune and chronic illness, and telling our stories without the need for a heroic ending. All Mythic Medicinals products are 20% OFF Nov 24th-27th (add coupon code WINTERSUN for an additional 15% off St. John’s Wort Oil) RESOURCES: Sarah’s website Medicine Stories Patreon (enter the book giveaway by 12/14) Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Whitney Dafoe’s website Medicine Stories episode 105 w/ Sophie Strand Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock My post about my father’s life and death My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 20 November 2023

Healing is communal. Settle in softly for this wide-ranging conversation with my most requested guest. Sophie and I talk chronic illness and trauma, diagnosis as blessing and as hex, the theater of medicine, the aquatic nature of memory, and the entanglements of time. RESOURCES: Sophie on Instagram Sophie’s newsletter Make Me Good Soil Sophie’s books and more The Lady’s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey ACE- Adverse Childhood Experiences quiz The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van den Kolk (giant trigger warning; read the book below instead) Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupam Maria and Raj Patel Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Erik Wargo The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich The Emerald (a podcast beloved by both me & Sophie) Read The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics & the Entanglement of Matter & Meaning by Karen Barad Time, As a Symptom by Joanna Newsom (lyrics here) My blog post Ancestral Voices, women’s Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear Time Episode 82 What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, and Legacy of Love Come relax at my Costa Rica Forest Bathing Retreat- last day to book is August 4th ‘23 Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 28 July 2023

The sun rules the rhythms and the well-being of all life on Earth, and humans are no exception to this rule. With the very recent (evolutionarily speaking) advent of indoor living and the even more recent advent of indoor lighting, we have inadvertently shut down the vital communication between sunlight and our cells. This is as upstream as it gets when it comes to health, and when we come back into relationship with the sun all manner of issues (insomnia, obesity, infertility, and so much more) can resolve. Let’s talk about the science behind circadian rhythm and practical ways to heal with sunlight. RESOURCES- Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Connect with Sarah: Free Guide: Building Your Perfect Quantum Day - https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/pl/2147664711 FAQ Guide - https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/faq-skw Courses - https://sarah-kleiner.mykajabi.com/store (code PODCAST for 10% off any course!) Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarahkleinerwellness Podcast -https://anchor.fm/sarahkleinerwellness Website - https://sarahkleinerwellness.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd1xxofTziySu0F9oG7G67g My Costa Rica Forest Bathing Getaway (Sept 2023!) The Human Cosmos: Civilization & the Stars by Jo Marchant Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Related Medicine Stories episodes: Episode 67 Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human w/ Nadine Artemis Episode 71 Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health w/ Dr. Carly Nuday Episode 72 Life’s Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper w/ Isabel Friend Episode 102 The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart w/ Lindsay Courcelle

Transcribed - Published: 30 May 2023

Suuzi has been one of my best friends for 15 years, and our lives have taken parallel tracks recently- deeply interested in health & natural living for decades, we have nevertheless both found ourselves in total burnout at the edge of collapse in our early 40s. We share what got us here (and the irony that so much of it is doing things we truly believed were making us healthy), the current state of our metabolic/thyroid/mineral health, and our paths going forward. We hope this inspires others feeling stuck and confused- despite tremendous effort to be healthy- to quiet the outside noise, self attune, and more deeply understand your own biochemistry. Dr. Suuzi Hazen is a wife, mother, farmer and founder of Mother's Best Liver Pills. She holds a doctoral degree in TCM, graduating in 2009 from ICTCM Vancouver. Suuzi completed extensive internships in Anhui Hospital of TCM in Hefei, China. She also interned with Dr. Katrine Heigelmann (Victoria), and Dr. David Li Lam (Vancouver). She brings a grounded yet radical, no-nonsense perspective to ancestral health and wellness. We’d love for you to join us at the chillest retreat ever, my Costa Rica Forest Bathing Retreat this September 23-28th. RESOURCES: Mythic Medicinals Herbal Body Oils are half off! Video of Niecia interpreting my recent HTMA results is at the Medicine Stories Patreon Dr. Suuzi on Instagram Mother’s Best Liver Pills Sena Maria’s post on Why Your Healing Work Isn’t Moving the Needle Sarah Kleiner Wellness on Instagram Niecia’s post of Alison Luterman’s poem What Is Mineral Balancing? Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Related previous episodes: 100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson 91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar 87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden 63. Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 7 April 2023

We can’t talk about fascia, the connective tissue that touches every single cell in the body, without talking about water, memory, and the quantum information that travels along this network at speeds 1000x faster than biochemical/neuronal signaling. When we bring tactile witnessing to our fascia through presence and touch, mountains move. Get ready to have your mind blown and, if you’re anything like me, to spend the rest of your life diving deeper into these subjects. RESOURCES: Lindsay on Instagram Amber on Instagram Lindsay’s website Lindsay’s Myofascial Breast Care Workshop (use coupon code MEDICINESTORIES for 66% off) Get the Off-Grid Homestead Bundle- 100+ ebooks and online courses to help you start your homestead and live free, for just $50 (a 99% discount!), available from 3/22-3/31 Join me on my Costa Rica: Forest Bathing Eco Retreat in September Medicine Stories Patreon- Two bonuses for this episode: 1. Singing w/ the Ancestors- an extended conversation w/ Lindsay about the resonance of the human voice, making pilgrimage to ancestral lands, connecting with the Earth by breathing with plants, calling in our dreams, and the landscapes that our bodies recognize. 2. Holy Witness: The Story of My 101 Year Old Grandmother's Beautiful Death- My sister and I were touching our grandmother as she left her body on my mom’s, her daughter's, birthday. My six year old daughter was in the room as well. It was peaceful, sacred, and offered healing in light of how my mom died in such a shocking and unexpected way. Plus 5 years of podcast bonuses & resources related to herbalism, ancestry, health, and much more! Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Lymph Love Club w/ Leah Levitan on Instagram Interoception: The Emotional Side of Trauma video w/ Dr. Emily Splichal Strolling Under the Skin- visceral surgery fascia video Human Garage on Instagram John Barnes Myofascial Release Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant Carrie B Wellness on Instagram The HeartMath Institute Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working w/ Consciousness by Pam Montgomery The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Buhner The Resonance Effect: How Frequency Specific Microcurrent is Changing Medicine by Carolyn McMakin Dr. Catherine Clinton on Instagram Medicine Stories Episode 95 Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind My website MythicMedicine.love Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 20 March 2023

Our modern disconnection from land and lineage mirrors the culturally normal- but biologically abnormal- separation between mother and baby, parents and children. The consequences of these intertwined attachment wounds are vast. But many of us are dreaming into a different way forward. Let us speak truthfully about what isn’t working, divest from the systems that break our sacred bonds to the Earth and to one another, and heal into the wholeness that is our ancestral inheritance. Join me on my Costa Rica Forest Bathing Retreat in September. RESOURCES: Aimee’s website The Stoned Chrysalis Aimee on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom w/ Modern Knowledge by Rachel Reed Related Medicine Stories episodes- Episode 38 Healing Our Indigenous European Ancestors w/ Lyla June Episode 48 Matriarchy in Action & Ancestor-Assisted Birth w/ Emilee Saldaya Episode 51 Maternal Mammalian Ecstasy: The Ancient Hormonal Blueprint for Optimal Birth & Bonding w/ Sarah Buckley Episode 52 Decolonizing the Mind: You Belong to Your Ancestors w/ Tamira Cousett Episode 61 Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness are One w/ Rachelle Garcia Seliga Episode 75 Learning is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing w/ Akilah Richards Episode 76 Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing w/ Rachelle Garcia Seliga My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2023

Want to go on retreat with me? Take this survey to help us decide what that would look like! How we eat (not just *what* we eat) is how we receive life, and our state of nourishment determines everything from our fertility to how we perceive the passage of time. Disembodiment and dietary confusion run amok, but beneath the noise is the quiet wisdom of our biology. When we create safety in our systems we allow ourselves to sink into the spaciousness that we crave. Let us slow down, expand our sensory gating channels, and bathe our every cell in nourishment from the deepest source. GET RESOURCED: Niecia’s course Maternal starts February 20th- listen till the end for a $100 off coupon code! Patreon bonuses: Extended conversation w/ Niecia about restrictive eating and purifying the channel of lack, orienting our lives to nourish our childrens childrens children, and much more A recording of me sharing personal stories, my experience of motherhood & nourishment, plus my favorite parenting resource Niecia’s Instagram account I Am Altar Previous bioenergetic/prometabolic Medicine Stories Episode 87 with Kymber Maulden Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2023

Many of us yearn for the lifeways of our ancient ancestors, and evolutionary mismatch can account for the majority of today’s health issues, yet we cannot go back in time nor fully recreate their lifestyles in our modern world. Let us find well-being, nourishment, and the richness of community in the here & now, and stop buying into the false dichotomy between Earth connection and technology. Get the Holistic Health Bundle- over 100 ebook, online course, and membership site resources for just $50 from January 1st-10th ONLY Carly Rose on Instagram Two podcast bonuses for patrons at patreon.com/medicinestories (thank you!) Extended convo w/ Carly- Heavy Metals in Chocolate, Shilajit, Falling Sperm Levels, & Your Fertility is Your Health Carly’s eBook- Natural Beauty: Foraging Plants to Replace Conventional Beauty & Hygiene Products Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant The Healy shop (message me if you have any questions) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 1 January 2023

Kids today face more challenges- and are showing more signs of distress- than ever before. Parents must learn to effectively co-regulate, repair when things go awry, and create the right environments for our children (be they dandelions, orchids, or somewhere in between). When trending cultural ideologies come to replace ancient biological reality, we must refuse to check our brains at the door and do all that we can to protect childhood. It is the only compassionate, fair, and kind thing to do. Wrongthink: Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy; related to thoughtcrime, doublespeak, and other Orwellian concepts. RESOURCES: Teva’s website Teva’s Substack Teva on Instagram Teva’s Amazon Shop (tools for neurodivergent kids) Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2022

Medicine Stories turns five years old! And you’re just gonna have to listen to hear what else I talk about (you’ll understand why…) LINKS: Three Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sales 2022- 35% off Mythic Medicinals St. John’s Wort Oil 50% off Confessions of a Well Nourished Woman: Ancestral Wisdom, Sacred Foods, Deep Healing 50% off The Confessions Money Bootcamp: How to Sell Anything (w/ Integrity), Master Collaborative Partnerships (Affiliate Style), and Finally Understand the Feminine Energetics of Money to Create the Life of Your Dreams 6 most downloaded episodes ever, in order- 91. The Mineral Matrix and the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar 87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women- Kymber Maulden 67. Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human- Nadine Artemis 69. Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft With Yourself- Rupam Henry 86. Generations, Gene Codes, and Entheogenic Earth Medicine- Mikaela de la Myco 79. Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort The kids aren’t all right- 42% of Gen Z Diagnosed with a mental health condition The Teen Girls Aren’t Going to Forget by Common Sense Media The Aftermath Part 1: Kids, Schools and the Crime Surge and The Aftermath Part 2: The Haves and the Have-Nots on the Honestly podcast with Bari Weiss How Weed Became the New OxyContin: Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’ by Tablet Magazine What Happened To Our Daughter, because I don’t want it to happen to anyone ever again by Tara of Slow Down Farmstead

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2022

The plants have so much more to teach us than what has been written down by others; there is another level of wisdom that can only be accessed by direct communication with the living Earth. When we cultivate an embodied knowing of the natural world we realize that we don’t need any special gifts or gurus or long lists of memorized plant constituents to mediate our relationship with our more-than-human kin. A nervous system and an open heart are all that’s needed. Let us open our channels of perception and reclaim our ancestral birthright to be in direct communication with our mother planet and those we share it with. RESOURCES: Kami’s free workshop: Plant Communication Inspiration & Stories Kami’s webinar: Your Personal Plant Communication Experience Kami’s online course: Plant Wisdom: Activate Your Plant Communication Skills Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? My website MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Stephen Buhner’s Facebook post about entering hospice Buhner’s personal book collection fundraising sale Episode 8 with Stephen Buhner Planetary Intelligence, Ancestral Resonance, and the Perception of the Heart Episode 17 with Sajah Popham True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant and Human Consciousness Episode 62 with Sajah Popham Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, and Human Ecology WildOmen.com

Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2022

My family’s slow, meandering, imperfect journey toward what semblance of ancestral living we can scrape together in the 21st century. Get the Off-Grid Homestead Bundle for $50- over 140 resources (ebooks, guides, and full online courses, programs, and membership sites!) covering these topics: - How to start homesteading and live off the land - Permaculture, organic gardening, and holistic garden planning - Foraging for mushrooms, nettles, and herbs safely and sustainably - Seed starting and seed saving for flowers and vegetables - Canning and food preservation with water baths and pressure canning - Self-sufficiency and thriving off-grid with smart solar-powered solutions - Online income, Airbnb rentals, and how to make money from a homestead - Urban gardening and how to start a micro homestead from your apartment - Creating chemical-free home products from natural ingredients - Composting methods and how to repurpose scraps in your garden - Organic farming, beekeeping, and animal care - Medicinal herbs and home remedies for a sovereign medicine cabinet - Prepping, emergency preparedness, and how to survive in the wilderness - How to make your own skincare and beauty products from plants - Farm-to-table recipes, sourdough baking, brewing, fermenting, and cheese making - Sovereign womanhood, homebirth, breastfeeding, and holistic postpartum practices - How to start homeschooling, nature groups, and forest schools It is available until 9-25-22, but will become available again in the future! Take out fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? to be added to our email list & be alerted when it’s back.

Transcribed - Published: 16 September 2022

A cathedral to nature, ancient standing stones, highlands & islands, our lost luggage saga, and the only city in the world I’d want to live in… Our two new medicines! Kinship Woven in Deep Time Earth Essence & Cosmic Convergence: St. John’s Wort & Mugwort Herbal Body Oil Take my survey for podcast listeners (just 5 quick questions!) Photos from our trip can be found on my Instagram For more on the ancient history of Britain check out the Love Letter to the British Isles podcast by Neil Oliver and his book A History of Ancient Britain

Transcribed - Published: 25 August 2022

Earth-centered cultures have always held that each person is born into this world with their own unique gifts and strengths, but this knowing has been put aside by our modern, disconnected overculture. The consequences of this mass self forgetting are profound. But nature is always there to remind us of who we are, where we come from, and why we’re here. Let us come back into relationship with the earth- the truest mirror of our most sacred inner selves. TOPICS: Naming babies & birthing books How spaces live inside us: ancestral pilgrimage to sacred sites When you’re connected to your deep self you can most powerfully serve others Self compassion is a force for healing in the world It is through the non-stop nurturance of the natural world that we remember who we are Rewiring our neurology through relationship with the earth can create the space the body needs to heal Reflections on our inherent goodness & the original beauty of being Musings on narcissism, ancestral humans, & our toxic overculture There’s nothing self-centered about seeking self knowledge and cultivating self love The truth about magic You can choose peace and still grow LINKS: Asia’s website OneWillow Apothecaries Asia’s book Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self Healing from the Living World Asia on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon Podcast Bonuses! Mythic Medicinals St. John’s Wort Oil Episode 4 with Asia- Multidimensional Plants & The Fabric of Consciousness Episode 42 with Asia- You Are Your Own Healer: Earth Intuition & Self Healing Episode 79- Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta The CryptoNaturalist on Instagram Cartoon Saloon’s beautiful mythic films Carolyn Hillyer Our herbal & mushroom medicines MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 26 July 2022

Ten years ago I was a broke single mom; next month I’m taking my daughter on the European trip of our dreams. I cringe at abundance/manifestation talk, and yet there’s no doubt that shifting your mindset is the first step to making more money, which allows you to take care of yourself, your people, and the causes you care most about. Quite simply- if you want something to grow, you have to put your attention on it. A plant, a child, your bank account. They need attention in order to grow and thrive. No mystical New Age nonsense belief system required. Just simple attention. Here is my story, which I hope inspires you to step into the expansion that is our human nature. I TALK ABOUT: Where I was financially a decade ago, where I am now, and how I got here A matriarchal v patriarchal framework of wealth creation When women get money, their communities thrive Why I hate MLMs and how they’re different from affiliate marketing You being broke does not serve the world, does not make you more effective at helping attain social justice, does not make you more spiritually advanced. The overculture tells women to stay small- both financial and health/body/beauty advice drive this message deep into our subconscious You don’t need outside permission to step into the expansion that is your nature and birthright (but if it helps- I hereby give you permission! done! now let’s change the world) We warmly invite you to join us inside The Confessions Money Boot Camp- How To Sell Anything (with Integrity), Master Collaborative Partnerships (Affiliate Style), & Finally Understand the Feminine Energetics of Money to Create the Life of Your Dreams Patreon audio bonus- Money Mindshift: my step by step story & links to my favorite money resources

Transcribed - Published: 10 July 2022

We were made from our mothers, who were made from the earth, which is made of stardust, which is made of minerals. A well mineralized body heals itself by providing our cellular metabolism what it needs to create energy and clear exhaust. Our ancestors didn’t give their mineral status a second thought, but modern humans are almost all imbalanced (with the ill health to prove it), and minerals are wildly misunderstood. Let us remember the elemental interbeing that gives us life, understand the complex tapestry that is our individual mineral balance, and give our mitochondria what it needs to help us thrive. TOPICS: You can’t microdose (or heroic dose) your way out of a mineral deficiency- how years of working with entheogenic plant medicines negatively affected Hamid’s health The interplay of trauma symptoms, depression, anxiety, physical health issues, and mineral status The many reasons we’re all mineral deficient Iron toxicity and why anemia is dangerously misunderstood We inherit our mitochondria from our mothers, and what your maternal grandmother ate while pregnant with your mom programmed epigenetic changes into the egg that became you, so your biology- on a metabolic level- is looking for the foods your grandmother consumed Much of what we attribute to good (or bad) genes is actually the result of the mineral status of our mothers early in our lives For childbearing women, there are consequences to trying to maintain a figure instead of trying to nourish ourselves Human beings are deeply resilient- even when our genetic and epigenetic inheritance is lacking, even when our minerals are depleted- we can heal and thrive The exquisitely choreographed transfer of minerals from mother to baby during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding (and how modern childbearing practices disrupt these) Mother nature doesn’t make mistakes & the human mind will never outsmart the life force Healing from healing- much of what is recommended in the “alternative” health space makes people worse by depleting minerals (including many supplements) Hamid’s mineral mentor Morely Robbins and the Root Cause Protocol Addressing the underlying mineral deficiency v attacking the disease or diagnosis Iron carries the frequency of [fe]ar, and copper stimulates [cu]riosity- the correlation between mineral status & reactivity to the world Iron (which is magnetic) embodies archetypal masculine energy, and needs the feminine archetype of copper (which is electric) to balance it The whole system relaxes when toxic iron buildup starts to leave the body Considerations around blood donation Healing. Takes Time. The myth of copper toxicity (which rivals the myth of anemia) The dance between oxygen, iron, copper, magnesium, and ceruloplasmin Oxygen + iron = rust inside the body Flower pollen, copper, and fertility Why the adrenal cocktail is needed if you are supplementing magnesium Thirst is a cry for minerals, not water Our bodies were designed to make water and our ancestors did not drink 8 glasses a day If you’re drinking unmineralized water you’re irrigating, not hydrating Why hair grays and/or thins, and the possibility of reversal The interplay between light, sound, cells, and minerals Implications of cannabis overuse The dangers of hapé (tobacco snuff) (also spelled rapé) Mineral deficiency is involved in all stages of addiction Just because it’s a plant medicine doesn’t mean it’s good for you RESOURCES: Hamid’s brilliant Instagram account @MineralShaman Hamid’s website for deeper dives & to schedule a consultation Medicine Stories Patreon (2 bonuses for this episode!) Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Hamid’s cannabis Highlight on Instagram Hamid’s essay on the dangers of hapé Get the free Root Cause Protocol handbook A very helpful Wise Traditions podcast interview with Morley Robbins Cure Your Fatigue and Slow Down the Aging Process [Cu]re Your Fatigue by Morley Robbins Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science & Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition by Lily Nichols Episode 87 Elemental Interbeing, Food Confusion Overwhelm, & Cell Deep Nourishment for Women with Kymber Maulden Our herbal & mushroom medicines MythicMedicine.love Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 13 June 2022

The women’s embodiment movement tends to stop at the womb, but cervix lies even deeper and contains an abundance of information about where we’ve been and what is needed now. From healing abnormalities and infections to connecting with the deep self for guidance and healing, let us peel back the layers and remember our innermost knowing. TOPICS: How Denell healed her cervical dysplasia and completely got rid of both strains of cancer causing HPV (without the LEEP procedure or other Western medical interventions) The anatomy of cervix and what our culture has gotten wrong about it Asking yourself the question- what is my cervix telling me? Cervix asks us to face ourselves How alcohol, bad food, and bad sex affect cervical well being Healing the past in the present- closing timeline loops by revisiting where we fragmented to reclaim ourselves Cervix is your inner oracle How the current trend of feminine embodiment misses cervix How to connect to your cervix The medical myth that the cervix has no nerves and therefore you can’t feel it Denell shares a powerful & very vulnerable story about realizing that she had gotten lost in “sensual Instagram boss babe” culture and finding her way back to the devotion to women and cervix that first called her The connection between pelvic and dental health All the ways we abandon or even abuse ourselves to conform to the overculture The power of softness RESOURCES: The Cervical Wellness website Cervical Wellness Online Course (25% off coupon code available for patrons here) Denell on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (3 bonuses for this episode!) Our herbal & mushroom medicines MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2022

Sacred to the goddesses of old, known to all ancestors who occupied the Northern Hemisphere, and beloved by wise folk and herbal healers from the Ice Age until today, mugwort is one of the most magical and practical medicinal plants in the world. May we come into relationship with this potent ally in order to widen sensory gating channels, ground into our center, and remember who we are. With special guest appearance by Kami McBride! 3 Free Herbal Oil Workshops from Kami Check out Kami’s course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils TOPICS: A knowing beyond knowing, ancient and ineffable Mugwort is a door opener, a wayfinder, a welcoming bridge to the realms of consciousness needed to cultivate a deeper relationship with the natural world How mugwort initiated me onto the plant path The medicine of bitters & the necessity of assimilation Mugwort’s affinity with the womb and pelvis, and how it healed me after a terrifying injury Mugwort oil accesses the deepest tissues of the body and enhances the action of other plants The vibration of enchantment Mugwort’s place in kitchen herbalism Menstruation is truth serum time and mugwort heps you love your blood Solar and lunar herbs Kami’s favorite plants to blend with mugwort Herbs that help you to be alert and relaxed at the same time The power of mugwort smoke Beer, the moon, and the ancient goddess The dreamspace and the opening of portals Ritual, ceremony, and ancestral communion As the witches teach- ancient plant healers and the suppression of knowledge A little known effect of bringing mugwort into your life RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): 3 Free Herbal Oil Workshops from Kami Check out Kami’s course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils My video sneak peek at the course This episode’s Patreon bonus- Oldest of Herbs: Mugwort Wisdom From Herbal Books Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Mythic Medicine on Instagram Judith Berger’s website Episode 57 with Judith Berger- Herbal Rituals, Rhythms, & Remembrance Rupam’s Herbal Swedish Bitters The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants by Wolf-Dieter Storl Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion 700-1100 by Max Dashu The Herbal Kitchen by Kami McBride Our website MythicMedicine.love Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 25 April 2022

Did my guest get more hate when she announced she wasn’t vegan anymore or that she was flying out of the country to connect with an ex lover while pregnant with her fourth child? Leave your judgements behind and explore food, sex, motherhood, and what is gained when you hurl yourself into the abyss only to discover that it’s a feather bed. Get access to Confessions of a Well Nourished Woman. Check out the free masterclass Cosmic Meal Plan for Picky Eaters. TOPICS: The kindness Katya showed me as I sobbed my heart out when we were still strangers A life history in geography- from Ukraine to Canada to Dominican Republic and now Costa Rica What does it mean to be a woman rooted in her peoples’ traditions healing her ancestry? The grief and joy of childhood lost and how memories live with us when people and places are gone Being someone who takes leaps of faith over and over again How having kids changes a sexual relationship How do we follow our dreams and desires while being mothers and partners? Practice following the impulse that brings your heart forward Our diet is reflected in our reproductive & sexual tissues- painful sex, low libido, and slow childbirth recovery can be related to lack of nutrients in the diet The twisted vegan logic of believing that “there’s no death on my plate” We must look at long term personal and generational health when assessing the value of different diets ("but I feel good” doesn’t cut it) The common story of childrens’ teeth crumbling on a vegan diet (it happened to Katya) and how to remineralize them Eat for your biology, not your ideology (it’s a song- sing it your way!) Nourishing ourselves with ancestral foods The birth of the Matriarch Collective & Confessions of a Well Nourished Woman Losing all fear and choosing radical honesty about who you are After restrictive eating- where do we go from here? The opposite of holding on isn’t letting go, it’s digestion RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Confessions of a Well Nourished Woman Cosmic Meal Plan for Picky Eaters Patreon podcast bonuses (online dating & sex bonus audio interview + 15 Ancestral Kitchen Tips eBook) Katya on Instagram Mythic Medicine (me) on Instagram Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories episode 18 with Suuzi Hazen Land Based Living, Mothering, & Eating Full Moon Feast by Jessica Prentice Mineral Shaman on Instagram The Spirit Weavers Gathering Honestly Podcast with Bari Weiss episode Things Worth Fighting For Healing Pelvic Prolapse and Why Kegels Don’t Work w/ Christine Kent, episode of Katya’s HoneyTalks Podcast Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy and Dossie Easton Motherfoods class taught by Rachelle Garcia Seliga and Carly Rae Cure Tooth Decay by Ramiel Nigel Medicine Stories episode 86 all about prometabolic- Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women with Kymber Maulden Medicine Stories episode 86 all about psychedelics- Generations, gene Codes, and Entheogenic Earth Healing with Mikaela de la Myco Kymber Maulden’s post on Why You Should Have a Bedtime Snack My website MythicMedicine.love Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2022

The cell is the foundation of life, and biological science is clear on what our cells need to most efficiently generate the energy that runs our bodies. Gut, autoimmune, and hormonal issues all have underlying metabolic causes. Let us cut through the noise and remember how to eat to enjoy, nourish, and repair, and not for ideology. Dive much deeper with Kymber’s online course Habitually Healthy. Check out the two info-packed bonuses that accompany this episode at the Medicine Stories Patreon. TOPICS: Energy and structure are interdependent at every level Metabolism is not what most people think it is Removing major food groups limits your body’s ability to generate energy Metabolic safety for women- the body can’t heal if it’s in survival mode What disrupts a woman’s metabolism Restrictive diets are metabolic-lowering stressors to the female body Women’s “progress” in society has come with a metabolic price Being overwhelmed by constantly changing nutritional information & how prometabolic is different The problem with too much plant consumption Nutritional rigidity and a look at raw, vegan, keto, and paleo/carnivore diets through a metabolic lens The importance of carbs- when we don’t have enough glucose the body will start relying on stress hormones for energy production Kymber’s past with extreme food intolerances and how she healed them The few foods that should be avoided because of their metabolism-lowering, gut-destroying effects What fear of food, and black and white nutritional thinking, does to us PUFAs- what to know about polyunsaturated fatty acids The story behind the post-industrial vegetable oil toxic sludge we’ve all been consuming for decades The way our skin responds to the sun is largely contingent on the foods we’re eating When the body rusts from the inside out- iron, PUFAs, estrogen, and internal oxidation Everything you’ve learned about iron is wrong and you’re almost assuredly iron toxic (this is so important, especially if you or anyone you know has been diagnosed anemic) The trade-offs of trying to get our nutrients from synthetic sources Copper, magnesium, and remembering that minerals are elements that originated in stars Technology cannot make us healthier The nutrients in animal foods are vastly more abundant and bioavailable than those in plant foods Eating this one food everyday has dramatically improved both my and Kymber’s health RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Kymber’s online course Habitually Healthy Medicine Stories Patreon (2 info-packed bonuses for this episode) Kymber’s website Kymber’s ebooks Reparative Eating Guide & Nourishing Our Sanity Kymber on Instagram Real Food Gangstas on Instagram Carnivore Aurelius on Instagram This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill Jessica Ash on Instagram Katya Nova on Instagram An article on the debunked Ansel Keys study Cure Your Fatigue by Morley Robbins (iron/copper/magnesium balance bible) Cure Your Fatigue and Slow Down the Aging Process- Morley Robbins on the Wise Traditions podcast (amazingly helpful simplification of his book) Mind blowing video of iron shavings in cereal (these are in all iron fortified processed food- you have consumed so much of this!) Strong Sistahs YouTube channel Heal Your Metabolism by Kate Deering My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 15 March 2022

Psychedelics are the most potent medicine we have for remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. Many ancestral communities integrated plant and fungal healing ceremony into every age and stage of embodiment (and disembodiment). At this turning point in history, let us call upon our entheogenic allies to unlock our truest, most deeply human, individual and collective genetic expression. Ancestor stewardship & the DNA codes through which plant medicines speak to us Death and the composting and regenerating of souls Psilocybin, the underworld, soil, decomposition, and the dark feminine Happiness above sanitation Mycelial networks of consciousness and generosity We have uteruses to thank for the discovery of LSD How motherhood and indigenous wisdom brought psychedelics deeper into Mikaela’s life Making entheogenic medicines as common as chamomile tea Hot new take on the Stoned Ape Theory The interplay of psilocybin and serotonin in conception and pregnancy In the overculture we are raised to lose our creativity We can’t understand the brilliance of our ancestors if we never get ourselves into their expanded mindset The mushrooms are the ancient ones The disruption that happens when we separate women from land and mothers from babies Heal ancestral trauma by returning to ancestral ways Practicing ancestral languages in the presence of psilocybin It is through language and vibration and sound that life keeps a record of itself Mending the broken bones of who our ancestors thought they had to be in order to survive Psilocybin as an aid to recode our relationship with language in order to draw our ancestors closer Percussion and rhythm vibrate the water within our bodies A matriarchal, grass roots, regional model of community medicine mushwomb healing circles The solo journey: from the alone into the alone Addressing tendencies toward abuse when uneven power dynamics are present in psychedelic healing communities Entheogenic healing for the whole family system SSRIs, psilocybin, and depression, eating disorders, addiction, and more My recent experience with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and kambo Further explorations into descent medicine: excrement and other expressed bodily fluids as a vital sign Psychedelics and pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding Going out like a G- mushrooms teach us how to die Living people eat dead mushrooms, and living mushrooms eat dead people The Red Road and honoring indigenous communities’ ancestral relationships with sacred plant medicines Legality v humanity: the flow of life is stronger than the forces against it Beauty healing: the masks we wear and bringing our attention inward to the divinity of who we are RESOURCES: Mikaela’s website/offerings/services Mystic Jasper Mikaela’s ebook Entheogenic Earth Medicine Assisted Motherhood Mikaela’s wonderful Instagram Mental Health, Magic Mushrooms, and Pregnancy and Teen Mental Health books on Kickstarter Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Video of Ayana Iyi: Entheogens and Enhancing the Magik in You Mikaela and Ayana will be speaking at the Rising Consciousness Entheogenic Conference 3/22 Grounded by Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 10 February 2022

A replay of the only episode I’ve ever deleted. Please listen to Episode 84 Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Cancelled first. Our ancestors were in constant biochemical conversation with the world, and so are we. Plants are a gateway into the depths of our consciousness, emotions, and physical experience of being alive. Let us come back into relationship with the information available in each interaction with the natural world. TOPICS: The archetype of the witch in the hut at the edge of the village Neurodivergence, tryptamine, sensory gating channels, and pattern recognition What is the purpose of the human being? Finding one’s path after a confused and lost childhood Psilocybin and the conversation happening between everything Knowing what you’re saying yes to When an herb changes your embodied experience of the world The illusory distinction between plant, animal, and human consciousness Finding what’s ours to do in a world with so much suffering The power of drop doses to create somatic shifts Creating coherence in the complex, fluid, multivalent signalling system within the body Plant compounds that mirror our neurotransmitters and hormones Ancestral names, places, music, language, and stories Hawthorn myth and medicine RESOURCES: Episode 84: Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Cancelled Sean’s website Otherworld Well Sean’s book The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are: Connecting to the Living Medicine of Wild Plants Sean’s Ancestral Heartbeat Meditation on Patreon Clementine Morrigan on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2022

Let us step out of the mass psychosis of cancel culture and remember compassion, tolerance for differing viewpoints, and recognition of the deeply complex nature of human behavior. TOPICS: Losing compassion in the name of compassion Cancel culture does nothing to create justice or healing It’s an ouroboros- the more a person participates in cancel culture, the more likely they are to be cancelled The goalposts of what is and is not okay are always moving I am not here to intellectually coddle my audience Collapsing both/and issues into either/or issues Shame is not a social justice tool Treating people like human beings, not political abstractions or online content Moral perfection is impossible People are not disposable Less punishment and more rehabilitation Dehumanization only leads to more injustice What cancellation would have meant for our ancestors and how that ancient imprint affects us today The trauma of cancellation shuts down the brain areas needed for healing and growth Quitting the cult of wokeness Choosing truth over popularity The parallels with the witch hunts This is not how we restructure humanity toward a more just, kind, equitable future Cancel culture leads to self censorship Your ancestors will not cancel you, the earth will not cancel you, the sun will not cancel you RESOURCES: On Cancel Culture & the Medicine Stories Podcast Megan Jayne Crabbe’s post Clementine Morrigan’s post The Fucking Cancelled podcast I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came For Me Shame & Accountability by Brene Brown Chloe Valdary Theory of Enchantment Why I’m Leaving the Cult of Wokeness by Africa Brooke Africa’s Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2022

When Amanita muscaria says “Hey bitch, what’s up?”, you listen. Also known as the fly agaric, this most culturally significant fungi of all time has been maligned and misunderstood by modern people. May we reweave the ancient relationship between Amanita and humans and hear what these sentient, wise beings are saying to us. IN THE INTERVIEW: How a chance encounter with Amanita muscaria saved AD’s life the day before she was going to end it (trauma, anxiety, and the pharmacological lobotomy that is benzodiazepines) The nuances of our bodies that are written in to our nervous systems The long history between Amanita muscaria and human beings Examining the myth that the fly agaric is deadly Nerding out on science and how Amanita affects the GABA neural pathways to help with anxiety and being stuck in fight-or-flight The two main active constituents in this fungus: ibotenic acid and muscimol and their effects There is great medicinal variability in Amanita compared to psilocybin This is the kind of mushroom that asks you to slow down and pay attention Preparing the medicine to get the most consistent dosing When mammal meets fungi meets bacteria- was Soma (the revered ancient intoxicant whose ingredients are shrouded in mystery) Amanita muscaria processed with raw milk? This medicine, the ancestors, and drums are intertwined in the ancient human past When you don’t “get anything” from an entheogenic substance Using Amanita as a topical oil Science, regulation, patents, commerce and the future of this fungus RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): AmanitaDreamer.net Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, & Exploration edited by Kevin Feeney The Vaults of Erowid Psyched Wellness’ research on Amanita Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 16 December 2021

In this meandering medicine story, I share about my mama’s unexpected death in 2015, the unbelievable coincidence of losing my father-in-law the same way 5 years later, the amazing thing my stepdad did at her memorial service, the worst and best things to say to someone who’s lost a loved one, the final gift she gave me after her death, and always remembering that our grief is equal to our love. I love you Mama. I miss you every day. God only knows what I’d be without you. It’s all for you. LINKS: Pictures & a video of my mom Megan Devine’s work at Refuge in Grief Joanna Newsom’s song Time, as a Symptom Brene Brown on Overfunctioning in times of stress

Transcribed - Published: 9 December 2021

It is through land that we find ourselves. It is through lineage that we return to ourselves. It is through community that we expand ourselves. In this age of disorienting change and fracture, let us wander within our daydreams of another way of being. TOPICS: A Western suburban childhood- television, processed food, malls, and fear of nature’s dangers Evolutionary Mismatch Theory: our human bodies were not made for these times We are living in the Eremocene: The Age of Loneliness The medicine of women’s circles and the two questions that should be central to each gathering The collective yearning for ritual and embracing the awkwardness of not knowing what you’re doing Repercussions of the Burning Times We do this reclaiming work for our descendents, knowing we may not reap the fruit of our labors in this lifetime Listening to what the soul of your home wants Connecting to lineage with food and folklore How an offering of food from a stranger saved Becca’s ancestors’ lives Connecting with our ancestors in Mythic Time: what stories from your lineage are ever happening? The echoes of the electroshock therapy Becca’s grandmother underwent & how writing Root and Ritual completed an ancestral storyline Musings on women in the 1960s, twilight births, the rise of consumerism and isolated living The world we were born into is gone: the end of the Pax Americana and the unraveling of culture and collapse of institutions We need to grieve as a culture so that we can be responsive to what’s next Your body is sacred land Parenthood and postpartum in the modern age Mothering as ancestral reverence Calling in energy from unexpected sources RESOURCES: RootandRitualBook.com BeccaPiastrelli.com Becca’s Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) A Hunter Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World: The Essential Guide to Women’s Circles by Jean Shinoda Bolen My interview with Toko-Pa Turner, Medicine Stories podcast Episode 41 The Dreaming Channel and Remembering Ourselves Home My blog post Ancestral Voices, Women’s Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear TimeFamily Constellations Becca’s interview with Megan McGuire on the Belonging Podcast: Mothering as Ancestral Reverence Becca’s interview with me on the Belonging Podcast: Motherhood, Grief, and the Grandmother Hypothesis

Transcribed - Published: 1 November 2021

Herbalism is an outlet for creative expression, a tool for community care, and a pathway to our own inner knowing. Let us revel in the freedom we have to make our own healing medicine with guidance from the land, the ancestors, and the mythic realm. TOPICS: Being an abuela in training When an ancestral name is tied in to a landscape Kitchen herbalism in Mexico Gardening with whatever is on hand Following the threads of our ancestors’ herbalism The multifaceted medicine of rose (& making an essence from 100 roses!) Your romantic relationship is yours to create; it doesn’t have to look like anything Healing is not a straight line Acknowledging the limits of ancestral healing, and the positive outward ripples we create when we self heal Damiana shares the story of being held up at gunpoint while delivering herbal medicine to folks in need, and what facilitated the perpetrator’s unexpected change of heart Anger as the fire that triggers action Expanding the possibilities of flower essences- infusing without harvesting, Aguas Serenadas, and spontaneously capturing moments Collective essence making in liminal space RESOURCES: Damiana’s Patreon, website, and Instagram See a video of the cenote where the dragonfly essences were created Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Damiana mentions Natalie Ross of the EarthSpeak podcast Medicine Stories Episode 70 with Amy Mea Woodruff I Forgive You: A Story of Loss & Transformative Healing The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker My Patreon offering eBook Bringing Rose Medicine Home Medicine Stories Episode 47 Rose Medicine: Softness & Strength from the Queen of the Flowers My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 20 October 2021

St. John’s Wort has evolved over millennia to capture the ultimate expression of sunlight on our planet and turn it into the molecule hypericin, which has numerous profound effects on our human bodies. Find our St. John’s Wort Oil & check out my teacher Kami McBride’s course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils. From deep nerve healing, relaxation, and pain relief when applied externally to its antidepressant, antiviral, and liver supportive properties when taken internally, SJW has always occupied an exalted place in the medicine cabinet of the ancestral humans who were lucky enough to live where it grew, and is one of the most used and loved herbal medicines in the world today. IN THIS EPISODE: St. John’s Wort acts as an extension of sunlight The endless external uses include the healing of wounds, bruises, burns, blisters, cuts, eczema, growing pains, inflamed skin, muscle pain, nerve pain, neck tension, spasms, back pain, neuralgia, sciatica, insomnia, anxiety, and stress The oil is indispensable for menstrual pain, pregnancy, postpartum, babies, children, elders, empaths, and highly sensitive people Photosensitivity, precancerous skin cells, and using SJW as sunscreen Internal uses: notes on the antidepressant, antiviral, and liver supportive effects (including my shingles story) Hypericum feeds our inner radiance and summons forth our purpose and power This ancient herb has always been associated with fairies and other magical beings How empire co-opted pagan rituals and herbal practices The widespread ritual use of St. John’s Wort as a protective herb A word on wildcrafting and non-natives v invasives Making your own high potency, shelf stable herbal oils Herbal medicine is so simple, yet also endlessly complex Kami McBride speaks about St. John’s Wort RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Mythic Medicinals St. John’s Wort Oil (finally back in stock!) Medicine Stories Patreon (patrons can download Rosalee’s ebook here) Cute, short video showcasing our St. John’s Wort garden Learn to Make Your Own Herbal Oils: Kami McBride’s Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils online course My video Sneak Peak at the Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils online course from Kami McBride Podcast Episodes & Books Mentioned: Episode 23 The Profound Medicine of Herbal Body Oils Episode 53 with Kami McBride Healing Herbal Oils: How to Make and Use Them Episode 55 with Lola Pickett Highly Sensitive People are the Psychedelic Plants of the Human Realm Episode 67 with Nadine Artemis Harvesting Light: the Alchemy of Sun & Human Episode 65 with Rosalee de la Foret Wild Remedies: Tending Relationships with the Land Around Us Episode 17 with Sajah Popham True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant & Human Consciousness Episode 62 with Sajah Popham Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, and Human Ecology The article Feeding Your Inner Sun with St. John’s Wort from The School for Evolutionary Herbalism Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine by Rosalee de la Foret and Emily Han The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present by Wolf D. Storl The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants by Wolf D. Storl A Modern Herbal II by Maude Grieve The New Healing Herbs: The Essential Guide to More Than 130 of Nature's Most Potent Herbal Remedies by Michael Castleman More Good Stuff: Kathi Keville’s website My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 12 July 2021

In these times, we all need all the healing help we can get. How lucky then that an infinite source of renewal and vitality lies just beneath our feet. Connection with the earth and plants never fails to shift our animal bodies into a place of calm receptivity and deep entrainment with the rhythms of nature. This is our ancestral birthright as human beings. Let us remember it. TOPICS: Name meaning and magic Weaving together ancestral lines How a chance encounter with an intuitive foretold Farai’s future path as a healer Being the cycle breaker in your family Working with plants is infinitely healing Living with a partner in the military Connection is the main thing that heals trauma Including kids into our every day folk herbalism Mullein medicine for littles Treating ear issues herbally Herbal care for animals Healing with topical honey Drawing salves for the win What we do when we find an embedded tick Folk herbalism is for you LINKS: Farai’s Patreon Folk Herbalism for Everyone Farai’s website Farai on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (tick resource and Farai’s ebooklet are here) It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry Naturally Healthy Babies & Children by Aviva Jill Romm Natural MD Radio Podcast Medicine Stories Episode 77: Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection with Marysia Miernowska Juliette de Bairacli Levy’s books (including animal care) Farai’s video on how to harvest nettles without getting stung Camille Rose hair products My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2021

For most of human history, herbalism hasn’t had a name. It was just a way of life, part of being human upon the earth. The folk traditions of our ancestors have deep nourishment to offer us, and are an antidote to the depleting and disheartening realities of modern life. Let us reclaim an embodied relationship to plants, come into alignment with the regenerative currents of nature and ourselves, and get back to the root of the root of the root. TOPICS: Remembering parts of ourselves through plants and storytelling Learning simple herbalism at her great-grandmother’s feet in Poland The many uses for nettle, including urtification or the application of the sting on the body Herbalism as homecoming Cultivating embodied presence in relationship with the plant realm Earth’s electromagnetic frequency brings us into the brainwave states where healing can happen Body portals (chakras) in relationship to plant healing Noticing where in your body a plant lands Flooding the body with nourishment: drinking herbal teas & infusions every day (sometimes) Blending fresh spring greens to create herbal “juices” The most ancient herbal healing tradition on earth (v the way herbalism is often practiced today) Seasons and cycles: harmonizing ourselves to the regenerative currents of nature Midwifing death & dismantling structures in our own lives and society at large The dark womb of the universal mother: a personal, powerful medicine story in which names, archetypes, ancestral threads, and healing are interwoven The plants and the magic of Beltane LINKS: School of the Sacred Wild website The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary book Marysia on Instagram The book’s illustrator Maggie Eileen Lochtenberg Sharon Blackie’s book If Women Rose Rooted My interview with Sharon on Episode 54: Lineage, Calling, and the Mythic Imagination Judith Berger’s book Herbal Rituals My interview with Judith on Episode 59: Herbal Rituals, Rhythms, and Remembrance Article: Urtification or Stinging Nettles on the Skin Marysia’s article on The Pagan Roots of Easter Sage Mauer and The Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagra Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 20 April 2021

How do we support thriving life on earth through the pathway of maternal health? Our physiologic design is the inarguable truth, but in today’s confusing online culture well meaning morality politics often obscure what eons of evolution make clear. If we want to best support babies and their families, do the deep repair work of these times, and become the fully realized adults we were born to be, we must have an accurate understanding of what our biology needs from us. Learn more about studying in community with Rachelle and exploring true wellness on the childbearing continuum, creating a culture of thriving life, and growing ourselves into the elders we so desperately need in the Innate Postpartum Care Certification Online Training at https://tinyurl.com/1darrj59. TOPICS: Social engagement: the lesser-known third branch of the autonomic nervous system (beyond sympathetic and parasympathetic) Getting out of our conditioned morality and turning to nature/life/evolution as our ultimate teacher Eating to grow a baby, birth a baby, help the body recover from birth, shift from gestation to lactation, replenish iron stores, and supply the nursling with necessary nutrients Babies in utero and at the breast literally grow their brains off of their mother’s brains (our bodies will always give our gestating or nursing babies nutrients first- at our expense, if we aren’t getting enough) Health is multigenerational The profound lack of emotional and spiritual maturation in modern adults Be real with yourself and speak your truth, because you’re going to offend people no matter what “I can’t be triggered if I don’t have something to work on” Reorienting towards joy and the alchemy of women coming together to exalt life How lack of community support is toxic for mothers Keeping in mind the both/and in this time of repair Healing can only happen when we feel safe Kids and anxiety in heightened times RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Innate Postpartum Care Certification Online Training (early bird registration for $300 off ends 3/2; total registration period ends 3/7) Medicine Stories Patreon- get an extra $100 off coupon code for the training through 3/7 Our previous conversation- Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness Are One Rachelle on Instagram Rachelle's Physiologic Baby Care Course Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 26 February 2021

If the phrase “school wounds” stirs something inside of you, or the words “crisis schooling” describe your current reality as a parent or caregiver, or you’ve just always intuited that there’s something not quite right about modern compulsory schooling, this episode is for you. TOPICS: The reimagining of schooling as we’ve known it Akilah's story of schooling and unschooling Unschooling is not just school at home- it’s a whole new paradigm of learning, power, and belonging School wounds The radical presence it takes to raise up kids in this way How leaving school can free up a family’s life in myriad unanticipated ways Schoolishness and the American Dream, in which so much of the actual human gets lost The slow normalization of dehumanizing systems and institutions Being constantly in curiosity about how our children (and ourselves!) actually learn Reframing consent in the parent/child relationship The liberation of being allowed bodily autonomy (especially for black folk) Akilah’s response to the common assertions that only stay at home parents/rich people/white people can school at home Actionizing love & recognizing that it’s all portal work RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast):: RaisingFreePeople.com Fare of the Free Child Podcast Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards Akilah's Patreon Akilah on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Psychology Today article John Tayloe Gatto’s many astute writings on modern schooling My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 3 February 2021

Your ancestors are with you every time the portal of the womb opens; our blood connects us to our lineage, to the mythic archetypes that hold meaning for us, and to our deepest inner selves. Whatever sort of womb release you experience, it lies on a continuum of commonality with all releases. Let us explore these interconnections so that we can be deeply rooted in our own bodies. TOPICS: How Samantha got into this work The womb as a source of pleasure and power, instead of pain There is cellular alchemy no matter how a pregnancy ends (birth, miscarriage, abortion) and commonalities between all the different kinds of pregnancy release Abortion is a nexus of sex and death and birth The Dark Goddess and the Underworld Journey- seeing the release of a pregnancy through a mythic lens Modern medicine is an industry, not a healing modality The psychospiritual process of menstruation: when the cervix is open we can more easily access other states of consciousness The Sacred Yes- what we are saying yes to when we say no to a pregnancy Honoring death as a healing need in our culture Function and access to Misoprostol Understanding the two categories of abortion: mechanical and chemical Demystifying the idea of a "natural abortion" Herbs: emmenagogues and abortifacients Sitting at the feet of the plant elders Systems of false authority, persecution, and the witch wound How shame and secrecy around abortion can prolong bleeding Conscious contraception Giving yourself a 40 day postpartum healing period after any pregnancy release LINKS (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Samantha’s website Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Medicine Stories Episode #73 Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess by Demetra George Herbal Healing for Women by Rosemary Gladstar Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northup The Womb Sovereignty Song performance (can also find on Soundcloud) Self-Managed Abortion, the Law, and CODIV-19 Fact Sheet The Self-Managed Abortion podcast Red School Guttmacher Institute Stats on Induced Abortion in the United States BBC reporting on abortion rates Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer PlanCPills.org If/When/How Women on Waves film Women on Web A New View of a Woman's Body by Carol Downer Samantha Zipporah's Patreon Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz My website MythicMedicine.love Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2020

From time immemorial, women and wise folk have carried the knowledge of how to manage fertility. From menstruation to contraception to birth to miscarriage to abortion, these processes and this knowing has always belonged to the people. Ending pregnancy outside the modern medical paradigm and the cold, impersonal clinic is not only possible, but there are numerous safe and effective options. Let us eliminate the need for back alley abortions, reframe pro-choice as pro-choices, and step back into our power by educating ourselves and one another on what’s possible. IN THE INTERVIEW: Some historical context (women have always ended pregnancies, but laws and attitudes around it have changed) Choosing home care for pregnancy release rather than clinical care Preventing pregnancy with herbs (and the one thing most people do wrong when using Queen Anne’s Lace for contraception) The four ways to release pregnancy at home I see a lot of people championing herbal abortion on social media, but it’s clear that they are not educated about the issues and difficulties with this method (it does not look like your dreamy earth mama one-with-nature self empowerment fantasy) What a beautiful, supported pregnancy release at home can look like Sometimes spirit babies come through to teach us things The four essential herbal actions needed (find this chart at patreon.com/medicinestories) Mifepristone and/or misoprostol (medical abortion) Supportive food and herbs for the process Aftercare: honoring that you are postpartum after releasing a pregnancy and focusing on rebuilding and healing Supporting the liver, nervous system, and immune system A woman going through this is never alone LINKS (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Medicine Stories Patreon bonuses (resources, herbal chart, audio recording of my personal story) My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2020

“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel prize winner We return to the endlessly fascinating and enormously important subject of water, exploring the fractal edges of H20 and beyond. From its ability to generate free energy to how to structure your own drinking water into a liquid crystalline state to the interplay between water, climate change, and economics- this conversation covers some of the most fascinating and crucial topics regarding the substance that generates all life and that holds our collective future. IN THE INTERVIEW: “The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.” -Viktor Schauberger Rustum Roy said that “Structured water is the world’s most malleable computer,” referring to how crystalline phase water can store and transmit information The relationship between spirit and science Viktor Schauberger’s work with water and how he has inspired Isabel’s work and study — particularly considering implosive vs. explosive principles of energy generation The quantum states of water and the many ways that water defies the laws of physics How water amplifies frequencies and emotions Indigenous wisdom, reverence, and ritual with water What water should we be drinking? The difference between irrigation and hydration, and how to optimize your body for hydration How to bring some structure to your water How your facia acts as a hydraulic system in your body, and the importance of movement for your body’s hydration Water wars, climate change, the future of humanity, and what we can do about it LINKS (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Medicine Stories Episode #71 with Dr. Carly Nuday Isabel’s free webinar masterclass: The Living Liquid Crystal Isabel’s ecourse: Navigating the Waters Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) - Get 20% off Isabel’s Navigating the Waters ecourse Isabel Friend’s YouTube channel Find Isabel on Instagram: @jenisabelfriend Water Resources Guide Check out all of Isabel’s incredible resources at waterislife.love Kiss the Ground Medicine Stories Episode #60 with Charles Eisenstein Water Codes by Dr. Carly Nuday The Fourth Phase of Water by Dr. Gerald Pollack Zach Bush on Proper Hydration on Take Control of Your Health with Dr. Joseph Mercola Dr. Marcel Vogel Go to FrackTracker.org to find out if your aquaphor is affected by fracking Go to FindaSpring.com to find a water spring near you Isabel mentions the NTFactor supplement that helps rebuild your cell membranes Check Isabel’s Instagram highlight here (a couple slide in) for her friend’s water dispenser that constantly vortexes the water Strolling Under the Skin Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins Waterkeeper Alliance Blue Planet Project Blue Future by Maude Barlow Blue Gold documentary Tapped documentary Last Call at the Oasis documentary Water is Life Find your representatives at CommonCause.org and speak with them directly about what your district is doing with water privatization Caring for Our Watersheds International Rivers Earth Law Center The Rights of Nature The World Water Law My website MythicMedicine.love Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2020