Medicine Stories

Medicine Stories episodes:

• 05.23.2024

  Nourishing Motherlines

  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...

  
• 03.18.2024

  110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

  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...

  
• 03.03.2024

  109. Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride

  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...

  
• 01.01.2024

  108. The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly

  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...

  
• 12.11.2023

  107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn

  “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...

  
• 11.20.2023

  106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey

  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...

  
• 07.28.2023

  105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand

  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...

  
• 05.30.2023

  104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner

  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,...

  
• 04.07.2023

  103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

  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...

  
• 03.20.2023

  102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle

  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...

  
• 02.13.2023

  101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha

  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...

  
• 01.16.2023

  100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson

  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...

  
• 01.01.2023

  99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose

  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...

  
• 12.20.2022

  98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone

  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...

  
• 11.22.2022

  97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)

  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...

  
• 10.03.2022

  96. Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride

  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...

  
• 09.16.2022

  95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind

  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!)...

  
• 08.25.2022

  94. Our Trip to Britain: Ancestral Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites

  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:...

  
• 07.26.2022

  93. Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler

  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...

  
• 07.10.2022

  92. Expansion is Our Nature: A Matriarchal Reframe for Money & How I Went From Broke to Flow

  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...

  
• 06.13.2022

  91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar

  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...

  
• 05.23.2022

  90. Cervix is Self: Reconnecting to Your Inner Oracle & Record Keeper - Denell Barbara Randall (Cervical Wellness)

  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...

  
• 04.25.2022

  89. The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory (w/ special guest Kami McBride!)

  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...

  
• 04.04.2022

  88. Confessions: Ancestral Foodways, Modern Matriarchy, & the Power of Radical Honesty - Katya Nova

  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...

  
• 03.15.2022

  87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden (prometabolic, bioenergetic nutrition)

  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...

  
• 02.10.2022

  86. Generations, Gene Codes, and Entheogenic Earth Medicine - Mikaela de la Myco

  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...

  
• 01.13.2022

  85. REPLAY Embodied Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'Donoghue

  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...

  
• 01.10.2022

  84. Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Canceled

  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 ...

  
• 12.16.2021

  83. Coming Home to the Mushroom Elders - Amanita Dreamer

  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...

  
• 12.09.2021

  82. What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, & Legacy of Love

  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...

  
• 11.01.2021

  81. We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli

  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...

  
• 10.20.2021

  80. Serenading the Waters: Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care - Damiana Calvario

  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...

  
• 07.12.2021

  79. Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort

  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 &...

  
• 05.21.2021

  78. Plants are Infinitely Healing & Folk Herbalism is for Everyone - Farai Harreld

  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...

  
• 04.20.2021

  77. Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection - Marysia Miernowska

  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...

  
• 02.26.2021

  76. Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing - Rachelle Garcia Seliga

  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...

  
• 02.03.2021

  75. Learning Is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing - Akilah S. Richards

  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...

  
• 12.17.2020

  74. Womb Sovereignty, the Dark Feminine, and Mythopoetic Pregnancy Release - Samantha Zipporah

  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...

  
• 11.13.2020

  73. Ending Pregnancy At Home: Holistic Abortion Options

  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...

  
• 10.15.2020

  72. Life's Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper - Isabel Friend

  “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...

  
• 09.29.2020

  71. Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health - Dr. Carly Nuday

  We’ve all heard that we’re about 70% water by weight, but we are almost 100% water by molecular count. Water is the most abundant *and* the most mysterious substance on the planet. It is the source and the mediator of...

  
• 07.24.2020

  70. I Forgive You: A Story of Loss and Transformative Healing - Amy Mea Woodruff

  “If I could give my life for hers, I would” -Cheree’s murderer, expressing remorse at his sentencing. I first interviewed Mea on Episode 6, when she told us the story of being very pregnant when she received the news of...

  
• 07.10.2020

  69. Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft with Yourself - Rupam Henry

  The health of the mouth reflects and predicts the health of the rest of the body (and our emotional, spiritual, and ancestral wellbeing too). Everything is connected, and few things make that clearer than a big picture look at the...

  
• 06.15.2020

  68. Cultivating Resilience with Home Herbalism - Kami McBride

  Relearning ancestral skills is the best antidote to the fear and chaos of these times. Let’s recreate a culture of simple home healing and feed the river of resilience so that all may drink from it. Check out Kami's wonderful...

  
• 04.28.2020

  67. Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human - Nadine Artemis

  In a brilliant act of human photosynthesis, our cells evolved over millennia to receive and transform information from the source of all life on earth, the sun. Yet our species has moved further and further away from the consistent solar...

  
• 04.14.2020

  66. The Coronation: Fertile Soil for a New Story - Charles Eisenstein

  This time of covid and quarantine is a rite of passage for humanity, and phenomenally rapid change is possible. What we believe and what we project into the world matters deeply- especially in times of chaos, when a new story...

  
• 04.07.2020

  65. Wild Remedies: Tending Relationships with the Land Around Us - Rosalee de la Foret

  It is our ancestral inheritance to know and work with the plants growing around us. Tending to, nurturing, and gleaning nourishment and medicine from the land is a way of life that is available to us all, and is the...

  
• 03.20.2020

  64. When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana Young

  As Slowness Medicine is being experienced by the collective consciousness on an unprecedented scale, we can more clearly than ever see that the frenetic pace of the human species under endless growth capitalism is the root cause of global ecosystem...

  
• 03.03.2020

  63. Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade

  Modern medicine now recognizes the menstrual cycle as the fifth vital sign. By simply paying attention to what our periods are telling us, we greatly increase our body literacy and quickly regain the deep self knowledge that is our birthright....

  
• 01.28.2020

  62. Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, & Human Ecology - Sajah Popham

  These times call for potent healers. If you’re feeling the call of the plants, this episode is for you. IN THE INTRO: There is no right way to be an herbalist Guidance for navigating your unique plant path ...