Ep. 26 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Virgo :: Transformation + Shaping Up Change

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!

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This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Virgo :: Transformation & Shaping Up Change

Megan and Venessa discuss the themes of this New Moon in Virgo on September 9, 2018: Change, structure, and how we get to shape change...

“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.” ~ Octavia Butler

This month is all about looking at what needs to be in place to navigate change, and supporting the structures that allow us to “shape change” on all levels...

We cover the physiology and transformative roles of the stomach and spleen on physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual levels, as well as ways to support digestion and immune function in this transitional season. Of course, we also share lots of practical tips and tools to support your health, including nutrition, plant medicine, and journal prompts to support you this new moon (including one of Megan’s favorite embodiment practices)!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why the resistance to change is much like the birthing process

• How we are in a dynamic process of shaping our world while being shaped by it

• Megan’s favorite way to work with plant medicine and why she believes there’s no greater medicine than plant medicine

• Megan’s Art of Activating your 5 senses - see the practice below!

• It all starts with attention and presence

• Some helpful eating practices to do with kids to bring them into the moment, and some of the reasons behind “picky eaters”

• Why presence and embodiment can help with emotional eating

• How letting your body do the grocery shopping can change your world

• The process of writing a letter to your body, and your body writing a letter back to you

• One of Megan’s favorite questions to ask clients: What is that food telling your body? What is the information that your body is getting from it?

• How to use the qualities of expansion and contraction to navigate your health journey and experience

• Physiology: the stomach, spleen - barrier systems, processing/transformation - > death and release

• Spleen function - blood storage, filter for blood as part of the immune system. Old red blood cells are recycled in the spleen, and platelets and white blood cells are stored there. The spleen also helps fight certain kinds of bacteria that cause pneumonia and meningitis

• Helpful supplements and foods for supporting stomach acid

• Ways to support your digestive fire, aka Agni, and solar plexus energy

• Locating where your stomach and spleen are

• Top indicators and clues that tell you your stomach needs more support, and what you can do to boost function

• How to tune in and begin transitional shifts in diet as we approach cooler seasons

• Warming spices and foods that you can start bringing in

• The one thing that can really take a hit on your immune function immediately, and nutrients that help support your immune system

• Fire Cider! Megan’s favorite way of making this amazing immune boosting digestive supportive tonic - Recipe + Info coming soon!

• How Megan is setting herself up for success with one practice in the morning

Practices + Questions to Ask Yourself/Try this New Moon // Journal Prompts

BODY || Take 5 minutes and drop into your body

ctivating your 5 senses...

• Picking 5 things you see

• 4 things you hear

• 3 things you smell

• 2 things you touch

• 1 thing that you can taste

STRUCTURE || What is ONE thing that you can bring in or shift that will help you in this time of transition so you can embody change?

Resources + Links Mentioned

Sacred Ecology Visualization & Activation Journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and discover what “foods” to bring in right now for radical nourishment & clarity.

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Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges.

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 25 Monthly Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: SEPTEMBER :: Slide into Rhythms with Conscious Awareness

Solo Episode: Monthly Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Sliding into September + Unseen Ecologies That Support Us

About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: Just as I weave in spiritual nourishment from the Akashic Records for my clients along with their nutritional protocols on an individual basis, I’ve been inspired to start sharing these readings monthly in the podcast to support the collective with general monthly themed-readings... and so Monthly Akashic Soul Nourishment Readings were born. These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.

The message for September is Slide into Rhythms with Conscious Awareness

Moving with the current. Smooth sailing, on a slippery slide, the hard stone to support us and the soft growth that cushions, no apparatus but our own bodies and open hearts. Sliding down these natural stone waterslides...

This is the energy of September. TRANSITIONS. Sliding into a natural current and flow, a time of transition and movement, and being awake for it... we are called to notice and pay attention to the ecologies that support us in our journeys.

Are you resisting or enjoying the ride? The Akashic guides say resisting change is futile, so you might as well be present for the beauty and open to the medicine of joy.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

Stay awake and present. Make conscious decisions.

Be sure you make a conscious decision to slide. It can be dangerous and terrifying if you aren't “prepared” mentally, emotionally, having safety precautions in mind and excitement in heart to experience the exhilarating joy and playful experience.

There is no stopping the slide flow once it gets going. And that’s the point.

Enjoy the ride down, you can hear the laughing and joyful voices ahead of you at the bottom but you cant see them. Element of trust, anticipation, precaustion, common sense, willingness to take a risk with an open heart

Open up the senses feel the support beneath you, the way the slippery wet surface caresses your skin - feels soothing and protective, the spectacular view of the landscape, plants, insects, growth, death, cycles, LIFE as you slide down. Savor it. Be present for it. Breathe. Sliding down into the calm, steady pools below.

The unseen ecology that supports you.

What makes it slippery? What is the coating that we take for granted?

An ecology... if you look under a microscope, you would see a community of diatoms, blue-green and green algaes, amoebas, single-celled organisms, bacteria, fungi, and lots of organic matter.

We’re being called to open up all of our senses, and notice the ecosystems that are around you and support you. This is on all levels - physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically.

Physical - this is the ecology within and on your body, the organ systems, cells, cellular structures, mitochondria, and of course your microbiome.

Then there are the ecologies that are outside of you but that are still connected to you. The living beings like the community that holds you up as you slide down this natural stone. The air you breathe, food you eat, what were the ecologies that make all of that possible?

And of course, there are the nonphysical - your relationships, family constellations, thoughts and feelings, the ecology of your subconscious. And let’s not forget your guides, ancestors, angels, any nonphysical beings or energies that support you, and that we often forget are there.

Natural current of flow.

Resources + Links Mentioned

Tapping Into Your Every Day Medicine with Susan Lipshutz

Akashic Records 101 Video (scroll down to find it!)

Connect with us at wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect

Interested in exploring your Akashic Records with Venessa? Click here.

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Ep. 24 Healing, Evolving and Re-wilding with Tarot: Aligning with Your Soul’s Truth with Lindsay Mack

“Soul Tarot is a humble reinterpretation of The Tarot as an evolutionary tool, one that can help us to align with our soul's truth, our inner compass, and our innate wildness... This is an unlearning, a reconnection, a re-wilding: it is tarot for a new consciousness. ” ~ Lindsay Mack, www.lindsaymack.com

One of the many ways humans throughout history have consulted with the numinous, the All, or God is through divination with sacred tools. Whether you’ve been steeped in the occult practices for years or if you’re a newbie, divination is a way to begin exploring our intuitive self, a container to develop a language, a relationship and way of working with a wisdom that is reflected back to us.

As the founder of Tarot for the Wild Soul and Wild Soul Healing, Lindsay Mack shares how she works with tarot as a divination tool personally and how her health changed and shifted by working with tarot around some of her health issues. She gives advice around giving your power away and steps you can take to gain back your power working with tarot.

Lindsay shares the keys to having a tarot practice that best works for you and gives us an epic break down of the Death card, busting the biggest myths and misconceptions about tarot.

Lindsay also gives sage advice for anyone interested in getting into tarot to support their own healing journey, as well as how she got through her severe complex PTSD from childhood trauma, and the various modalities and practitioners that have helped her along the way.

Plus Lindsay is offering a special gift for Feed Your Wild listeners, so check that out below!

Lindsay Mack is an intuitive healer, holistic counselor, tarot reader, and the founder of Tarot for the Wild Soul. She is the creator of Soul Tarot, a way of interpreting and intentionally utilizing the Tarot as a tool for our soul's growth and evolution. Lindsay is the host of the weekly podcast, Tarot for the Wild Soul, which has been downloaded more than 1 million times in the year that it has been on the air. Her work with the Tarot has been written about and featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Refinery 29, Well + Good, and Nylon.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is “Soul Tarot” and how Lindsay works with tarot on a personal level as well as professional

• How tarot can turn down the volume of the “survival voice”

• How Lindsay’s work with the tarot has profoundly changed her health 

• How Lindsay came into this work seemingly by accident and had no “pings”

• How doing her Work - unpacking her complex PTSD and more - allowed doors to open up for her

• How tarot is for Lindsay as Josh is for Cher in the movie Clueless

• Tara Brach's wisdom on feeling triggered and how it’s the realization that we’re triggered that’s most important in the healing process.

• Advice around giving your power away and steps to gain back your power working with tarot

• Great questions to ask yourself when working with tarot, such as Where am i in this moment? What is one action to reclaim all parts of my power - bring them back home to my body? 

• How things can happen in an instant and the importance of full compassion for yourself and your experiences

• The keys to having a tarot practice that works best for you - i.e. look at the cards as invitations...

• Lindsay gives us an epic break down of the Death card - a magnificent right of passage (and how it never means someone is going to die)

• The two cards that signify cutting off the ego 

• The first steps for anyone interested in getting into tarot to support their own healing journey

• The importance of letting your soul choose your deck

• Lindsay busts the biggest myths and misconceptions about tarot

• How Lindsay got through her severe complex PTSD from childhood trauma, and the various modalities and practitioners that have helped her along the way

• How amino acid therapy has changed her life and her grandmother’s life

• How lindsay doesn’t give a f*ck if a practice or tool is not “spiritual” - as long as it nourishes her

• What is feeding Lindsay’s wild right now

• Lindsay shares all about her amazing program and is offering listeners a 10% discount off of the enrollment cost (registration open until Sept 4)! Check out the link and code below...

Connect With Lindsay Mack

Website | Twitter | Instagram

*Gift for Feed Your Wild Listeners*

Learn more about the Tarot for the Wild Soul course here, and use the code YOURWILD at checkout for 10% off of the course!

Resources + Links Mentioned

Tara Brach

The Mood Cure by Julia Ross*

Dr. Katherine Falk in NY

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 23 Seasonal & Rhythmic Eating: Why it Matters and How to do It

Art by Luke Gram

Solo Episode: Seasonal & Rhythmic Eating: Why it Matters and How to do It

"The simplest and fastest way to getting to the root of chronic dis-ease and health challenges is to press the reset button by getting back in tune with nature." ~ Venessa Rodriguez

In this solo episode, Venessa goes into seasonal and rhythmic eating, what it is, why it's critical and how to do it this summer season. Venessa starts with a guided meditation and dives into challenges including how modern technology has co-opted seasonal eating and how it’s depriving us of nutrients. She covers the fundamental principles of Ayurveda, TCM and other ancient traditions, and why there is so much contradictory information related to diet in studies and health circles!

Venessa covers physiological and energetic components, including perspectives from Ayurveda and TCM, foods/nutrients, and intuitive practices to try out! 

If you’re interested in learning more about the gut and gut-related issues, check out the upcoming Feed Your Wild GUT virtual workshop (it’s live August 29 but will be recorded if you can’t make it live!)

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Venessa opens up with a guided meditation attuning to the cycles and rhythms of our cells and cosmos

• Food is information - any input from our environment that feeds and nourishes not just our bodies but also our inhabitants

• Questions to ask yourself: What are we telling our body by what are we feeding it? Does it sync up to cues and information within our environment?

• How modern technology has co-opted seasonal eating and how it’s depriving us of nutrients

• One of the fundamental principles of Ayurveda, TCM, and other ancient traditions is that our habits, routines, and dietary choices should ebb and flow with the seasons.

• How the internal clock system regulates roughly one-third of your body’s entire gene activity!

• Why there is so much contradictory information related to diet in studies and health circles

• There is no one diet for everyone, and there is no one diet for one person forever - we must develop a relationship with our bodies and environment to tap into the innate wisdom and eat intuitively.

• The importance of eating seasonally and locally

• Blue zones - what are they, how people in these zones live and what they are eating

• How nutrient density of food declines with travel and transit, and when eaten out of season

• The diversity and the health of the soil directly reflected by the diversity of our gut and the health of our bodies

• The importance of wild food

• Tips and rules to live by to find foods high in nutrient content, seasonal, and similar to wild foods at regular grocery stores and markets

• Diversity is one of the most important aspects of a healthy diet

• Organs of the summer: Small intestine - the job of the small intestine is huge because the small intestine digests and absorbs your food

• Summer is the season of fire - pitta season, and what that means for your food intake

• Energetics of the solar plexus and 3rd chakra

• Circadian, diurnal rhythms, and the microbiota - How circadian rhythms regulate your digestion and metabolism and impacts so much more

• The simplest and fastest way to getting to the root of chronic dis-ease and health challenges is to press the reset button by getting back in tune with nature

• The role of melatonin related to gut activity

• Foods for the summer, solar plexus, and small intestine

• Building the resilience of your gut can lead to being able to eat foods that you weren’t able to previously

• The importance of flavors and energetics of food for eating intuitively

• Tips on how to begin eating intuitively and according to energetics and constitution

• Practical tips for eating seasonally:

  • Look at what is seasonally available in your region

  • Go to local farmer markets, local growers, “backyard” farmers and herbalists

  • Look for local wild foraging trips or classes

  • Use a seasonal food guide app like this one

  • http://www.gracelinks.org/875/shop-sustainably

Resources + Links Mentioned

Eating on the Wild Side, Jo Robinson and http://www.eatwild.com/jo.html

Dan Buettner’s books and TedTalk  https://www.bluezones.com/books/

Circadian internal clock and microbiota study

Maria Benedetti Interview on Revitalizing Botanical Traditions of Healing and Reciprocity with Nature

Deanna Minich Interview on Rainbow Diet

Organic India Holy Basil Rose tea

Connect with us at wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect

Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: virtual workshop

Website 

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2018

Time: 12pm - 3pm PST / 2pm - 5pm CST / 3pm - 6pm EST

Duration: 3 hours

Where: Online, from the comfort of your own home!

*In case you can’t make it live, this virtual event WILL be recorded and you will get access to all of the materials and bonuses.

Click here to learn more

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Ep. 22 The Story Our Trash Tells: Zero Waste Living with Andrea Sanders

“Our trash tells a story... a story about what we value.” ~ Andrea Sanders

What does your trash say about you, and our society at large? What if all of the waste that you accumulate throughout the year could fit inside a mason jar... what would be the impact of that on our environment and what would it mean for us in terms of how we choose to live?

These are the questions that Andrea Sanders asked herself that led her on the path as a young environmentalist grappling with the extensive ecological damage that she was witnessing... and her place in it.

I really wanted to bring in the topic of waste, consumption and the zero waste lifestyle movement, because i believe it is critical for our overall health - all beings and the planet - to look at the way we live and how we consume.

Andrea tells us how she got inspired and started on her path with zero waste living, and many of the biggest obstacles we face today. She talks about the concept of “biomindfulness” - exploring practices that help us focus our attention back on relationships we hold between ourselves and our environment. We touch on the importance of space and pause when you’re making any kind of lifestyle shift, and Andrea shares what she believes the sweet spot between the hardship of our ancestors and the ultra convenience we have today (but at the expense of the health of our planet).

Of course she also shares the practices that support the reshaping of our relationships with nature and practical steps you can take if you want to move toward a zero waste lifestyle.

There is so much here that you can hit the ground running with!

Andrea Sanders is an environmental educator, mindfulness advisor, TEDx speaker, traveler, artist, and dog mom. Her work focuses on encouraging ecological responsibility, day-to-day mindfulness, and compassionate eating through a plant-based diet. Andrea is also a zero waste influencer and educator on Instagram with a global outreach of over 80,000 followers.

Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Andrea gives us a primer on what is zero-waste living and what is the story that our waste is telling about us

• How Andrea got inspired and started her path, and what she sees as one of the biggest obstacles we face

• Andrea shows us how our own perception and mindset are part of the issue

• Why mindfulness meditation is a critical part of the work that andrea does with zero waste teachings

• How pausing is the first step - why we need to create space for looking at our relationship to “stuff”

• The importance of our WHY and how we have to learn how to be less distracted from the things that are pulling our attention from action

• The concept of Biomindfulness - exploring practices that help us focus our attention back on relationships we hold between ourselves and our environment

• The importance of space and pause when you’re making any kind of lifestyle shift

• There is no right or wrong way

• Simplicity is understanding our true wants and needs, and cutting through the noise from consumerism and distraction

• What Andrea calls our “design problem” - and why we need to create a circular infrastructure

• Practices that support the reshaping of our relationships with nature

• First step is awareness that we have a problem

• How to begin a zero waste lifestyle... starting with waste: Doing a trash audit. Look at what you’re going away and what can you reduce

• Low hanging fruit actions:

  1. Bringing your own bags and produce bag to grocery store

  2. Taking your own cup or water bottle to places

  3. Meal prepping each week

  4. Use bulk section

  5. Make your own cleaners

  6. Looking at things in a different way and how you use stuff

  7. Making small changes that make sense for you and family

  8. Look at your consumption - can you replace boredom with a walk , swap activities out that are more meaningful and bring more value in your life in place of consumption

  9. Build a relationship with your food. Learn about where your food comes from - and ask if it aligns with what you believe in. if it doesn’t, cut it out or create something else.

• The biggest challenges Andrea sees and hears when people try to change, and how she has learned to embrace change

• What andrea calls “quiet activism” and how that’s been WAY more effective at sharing than raising your voice loudly or preaching

• Books or resources you would suggest for people wanting to learn more and get started

Connect With Andrea Sanders

Website | Instagram 

TEDx Talk: What if we refuse trash?

Resources + Links Mentioned

Bea Johnson - Zero Waste Home

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo*

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer*

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman*

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Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: Virtual Masterclass

Website 

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2018

Time: 12pm - 3pm PST / 2pm - 5pm CST / 3pm - 6pm EST

Duration: 3 hours

Where: Online, from the comfort of your own home!

*In case you can’t make it live, this virtual event WILL be recorded and you will get access to all of the materials and bonuses.

Investment: $67 

Click here to learn more

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 21 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Leo | Solar Eclipse :: Heart Medicine + Setting Up Patterns

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Leo Solar Eclipse :: Heart Medicine & Setting Up Patterns

Megan and Venessa discuss the themes of this New Moon in Leo Solar Eclipse on August 11, 2018: Expansion, truth, solar power, consciousness, energy, embodiment of joy, pleasure, and fun - through the heartgate.

Chani Nicholas (one of our fave astrologers) says: “Eclipses, especially solar eclipses in Leo, teach us something very important about our life purpose and how to manifest it in the world. This is a time where we want to be setting the patterns that will continue to bear fruit for years to come.”

We believe the way to do this is to get aligned through the HEART. We cover the physiology and role of the heart on physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual levels, as well as ways to support your heart gate so you can embody your truest self. Of course, we also share lots of practical tips and tools to support your heart health, including nutrition, plant medicine, and journal prompts to support you this new moon!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How to open to new patterns and set yourself up for the future way of being

• How to beam, as in literally radiate using your heart

• Where to align your mind and heart in order to set the patterns that will continue

• The heart’s role in the body and regulator of 2 forms of circulation - systemic which carries nutrient-rich oxygenated blood to organs and body tissues; and pulmonary - moves oxygen-depleted blood from the heart to the lungs

• The heart beats around 115,000 times per day every day of your life supplying life-giving substances and carrying away toxins and debris and waste from organs

• The most mitochondria are found in the heart - the electromagnetic energy center of our body, creating electricity

• Heart emanates thousands of times more electricity and magnetism than the brain; keeps our rhythm and can create light!

• Megan’s experience with her recent spiritual work and meditations on heart space

• How dropping in and attuning to your body tells you WAY more than any research study or book

• How Megan was able to stop drinking after a field of wild roses told her to do so

• Megan’s new fave mantra: “Medicine comes in many forms”

• The heart as an organ of communication, and how you can literally feel the field of another person’s heart electromagnetism

• Highly synchronized cells like those in the heart amplify what it “hears” based on what it is programmed to hear. So if it is attuned to fear, greed et, the heart will access that, vs love, compassion, etc.

• What is the sacred ecology of your heart? Is it attuned to hate? Love? Fear? Compassion?

• The importance of coherence and heart rate variability for your health

• What is the heartgate and how to work with it on a physical, emotional and spiritual level with plant medicine, and how Megan “prunes” her heart gate

• How to make a commitment to your heart and heart gate

• The energetic and spiritual patterns that Venessa has witnessed through working with Akashic Records and clients related to the heart and deficiencies of the body

• Ways to “let go” without having a lengthy conversation with someone or talk therapy

• Megan shares tools that have worked for her including breathwork, cleansing tools

• Venessa shares her process of connecting to the heart space through her Akashic Record meditation

• Rose for your heart: How rose oil got Megan through a tumultuous relationship in her 20s and how she incorporates rose in nearly everything!

• Top foods for your heart health and Venessa’s fave green food powder right now

• A journal prompt for you to use this New Moon and tune into heart space and what you need in this time

Questions to Ask Yourself this New Moon // Journal Prompts

• What are 2 things you can clear and release space in your heart space this New Moon in order to create the pattern that you want to set up for yourself in the now and future?

• What are you feeling that is not even yours? Can you differentiate b Mine vs Not Mine and once you have, can you release what is not yours?

Resources + Links Mentioned

Jessica Lanyadoo Interview on Astrology and Mediumship

Stephen Buhner's The Secret Teachings of Plants

HeartMath Institute + Heart Rate Variability and Coherence

Asia Suller of One Willow Apothecaries: Herbs for the Heartgate

Joan Parisi Wilcox Interview on Andean Mysticism

Organic India Tulsi tea with rose

EWG’s Seafood Calculator

Monterey Bay Seafood Watch app

Deanna Minich Interview on Rainbow Diet

Sacred Ecology Visualization & Activation Journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and discover what “foods” to bring in right now for radical nourishment & clarity.

Note: Links marked with an asterisk (*) are affiliate links. Making a purchase through these links won’t cost you anything but we will receive a small commission. This is an easy, free way of supporting the podcast. Thank you!

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges.

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 20 Navigating The Stars And Talking To Dead People: Astrology + Mediumship With Jessica Lanyadoo

“Your soul does not reside in your body, instead your body resides within your soul. The body is an articulation of the soul’s lessons.” 
– Jessica Lanyadoo

In this episode, I’m excited to be speaking with Jessica Lanyadoo, an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium, who is currently the resident astrologer for Girlboss and The Hoodwitch in the US, and Chatelaine in Canada.

We talk about the reasons behind the recent explosion of astrology into mainstream and how medical astrology can help us understand how to live better in our physical body, plus tips on how to embody information received thru astrology without getting overwhelmed.

We also talk about psychic mediumship and animal communication - how Jessica discovered her intuitive gifts and what happens when we die according to her experience talking with dead people, plus how to talk to animals.

Jessica shares words of advice for people who want to support their own intuition and abilities, including the vital importance of spiritual and energetic hygiene.

This was such a fun interview, but there are a few places with some sound tech weirdness. It’s not terrible – just wanted to give you a head’s up. And yes, we recorded right at the start of Mercury retrograde because we are daredevils like that, so perhaps that’s what we get. We survived and thank goodness we did because this interview is going to blow your esoteric socks off. Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Jessica got started in Astrology when she was 12! 

• The importance of finding good sources for astrology and vetted astrologists with experience, not the Google

• What can astrology help people with and the different ways that one can work with astrology either as a practice or helping with navigating their life

• How the internet, capitalism and disillusionment have influenced the trend of the expansion of astrology into mainstream, and how astrology can help people to explore their own form of divinity and connection

• How medical astrology can help us look at the physical needs of our material body

• Who Jessica considers to be her “Beyonce” of astrology

• Jessica's advice for folks looking to get into astrology seriously

• How Jessica began connecting with your medium gift to begin using it in support of others, plus words of advice for people who want to support their own intuition and abilities... hint: be present in your body!

• How animals communicate and how you can begin practicing talking to your animals friends!

• The importance of spiritual and energetic hygiene and why you might want to think twice before taking drugs while communicating with dead people

• How to keep going, even when you think you have failed or want to give up

Tweetables

"When it comes to healing, it’s essential to use discretion and self-reference."

“More information is not better. Quality information is better.”

"It’s ok for it to be messy, it’s ok to not have an answer."

"Trust yourself above all else."

Connect With Jessica Lanyadoo

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

Resources + Links Mentioned

Aspects and Personality by Karen Hamaker-Zondag*

The Twelfth House: The Hidden Power in the Horoscope by Karen Hamaker-Zondag*

Planets in Transit: Life Cycles for Living by Robert Hand*

Love, Intimacy, and You - What the Planets Have to Say

If you want to take her class above, you can click here to gain access.

Jessica's forthcoming book is on this very topic & will be out late 2019!

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Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: virtual workshop

Website 

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2018

Time: 12pm - 3pm PST / 2pm - 5pm CST / 3pm - 6pm EST

Duration: 3 hours

Where: Online, from the comfort of your own home!

*In case you can’t make it live, this virtual event WILL be recorded and you will get access to all of the materials and bonuses.

Investment: $67 

Click here to learn more

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Ep. 19 Becoming a Master of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q'ero of Peru + Andean Cosmovision with Joan Parisi Wilcox

“The art of being a paqo is to always be in conscious ayni - energetic interchange - in the cosmos of living energy. The art of being a paqo is to become an ecologist of your energy environment.” ~ Joan Parisi Wilcox, QentiWasi.com 

What if you could experience "heaven on Earth," without the use of mind-altering psychotropics or disembodied experiences? The Andean mystical tradition is a pragmatic sacred tradition that teaches us how to live in this way - providing tools for living in harmony with nature and the spirit realms, with a primary goal to live with well-being in the embodied world, empower your energy body, and refine your consciousness. 

Joan Parisi Wilcox has studied the tradition and spiritual arts of the Q'ero Indians of Peru, the most respected mystics of the south-central Andes, for more than twenty years under the tutelage of Juan Nuñez del Prado and has been interviewed in documentary films about the tradition. In this episode, Joan gives us an overview of the Andean cosmovision, we talk about salqa - the “undomesticated or wild” energy in relation to this cosmovision, and how to refine our energy body so that we can “push the kawsay”, or manifest with the living animating energy of the cosmos.

She shares core practices that you can use when you need them wherever and whenever, and gives insight into the importance of intention in this energy work along with her sage advice for committing to your personal evolution.

Joan provides insights into an ancient wisdom that can help those of us living in a modern society re-discover our own wild, find attunement with nature and harmony within ourselves.

Joan is a professional writer with interests in frontier science, shamanism and mysticism, and indigenous traditions. She is the author of Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru as well as 2 other books. She has written dozens of magazine articles, been interviewed on radio, lectured at conferences in the US and Europe, is a transformational coach and teaches workshops across the US on the Andean mystical tradition. You can learn more about the Andean mystical tradition at her website/blog www.QentiWasi.com.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Joan's trajectory through various traditions including spiritual church, intuition + mediumship studies, Native American and Buddhist traditions, shamanic traditions and journeying, and Andean Mystical tradition 

• How she was very attracted to the Andean pragmatism and practical tradition - all about being the “best human being that you could be in the human world”

• Salqa - a Quechua word for the “undomesticated or wild” energy of the world 

• Joan gives us an overview of the Andean cosmovision and the major “belts”

• Quayi lives in our belly, qosqo (navel) - the place of emotion, and how Andeans make distinction between feelings (compassion, love) and emotions (worry, happiness, jealousy, passion, etc)

• Personal power and the fact that we all have the energetic, emotional, physical capacity to put our intent into action

• What does “pushing the Kawsay”, the living animating energy of the cosmos, mean and how we can do it

• How we can influence the world of living energy through our intent because Energy must follow intent, plus how there’s a little bit of chance, novelty and randomness that also exist in the Universe

• If you don’t have “personal power” or energetic coherence, you wont be able to manifest or "push the Kawsay"

• How to Cleanse our energy body plus the 3 practices to move through the levels of energy and the different levels of consciousness

• Joan shares core practices that you can use when you need them wherever/whenever, including a 10 minute exercise, and talks about sami (refined vibration energy) and hucha (heavy energy)

• What are ultimate goal is in this human experience, according to the Andean tradition 

• How anyone can do this work and Joan debunks the myth that you have to get “the ritual right”

• "We’re not trying to slay the ego, we’re trying to create harmony with it."

• What Joan says is the biggest "trap" at the 3rd level of consciousness

• The 4th level is "global consciousness and Oneness," and how we are growing into it with growing pains - this is the level of the mystic, where you can see past the signs, boundaries, etc. You can "find God in all" aside from the human constructs 

• Why we never want to be in a stance of “protection” from “evil” energies or dark entities

• The misconception around “energy vampires” and how “no one can enter your energy body without your invitation”

• "There’s nothing that can hurt you except the fear that you project out onto energy - energy is just energy"

• Manifestation laws according to the Q'ero and how “the universe will give you whatever you choose, and what you have the personal power to manifest, to move the Kawsay in that direction”

• Joan’s advice for committing to your evolution and how to steer clear from “shiny object syndrome” 

Connect With Joan Parisi Wilcox

Website | Email: QentiWasi@gmail.com

Resources + Links Mentioned

Qentiwasi - House of Hummingbird

Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru*

Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul*

Decoding the Human-Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine*

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 18 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Aquarius | Lunar Eclipse :: Rest for Healing + Clearance this Blood Moon

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Aquarius Lunar Eclipse :: Rest for Healing & Clearance this Blood Moon

Megan and Venessa discuss the theme of REST this Full Moon in Aquarius Lunar Eclipse July 27 aka Blood Moon. This is an opportune time for rest in order to review, turn inward, and clear what needs to be released. They cover the importance of rest and sleep for health on multiple levels, the glymphatic system that cleanses and feeds the brain, and various concepts of time management for implementing rest. They also share some practical tips and tools to support your relationship to rest and optimizing sleep.

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Aquariuuuuuusssss

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is sleep hygiene and ways you can work on it, from managing “light pollution” to timing, diet, and liquid intake prior to bedtime

• Glymphatic system: the brain cleansing system that clears waste utilizing a unique system of perivascular tunnels to promote efficient elimination of waste/toxins/plaque from the central nervous system, and also facilitates brain-wide distribution of nutrients. Also - it works while you sleep!

• How Nightshifters like nurses and those in service industry can create their own rhythm

• The concept of “catching your wave” from Andrea Nakayama - melatonin and cortisol cycles

• Megan’s personal experience with anemia, her sobriety journey and her non-negotiable sleep practice

• Signs that your adrenals are stressed

• Why cutting your body some slack and having patience is important in times of transition and healing

• Megan’s dysfunctional relationship with sleep and sleep cycle + allies she worked with  

• What your sleep is telling you and various causes of sleep disturbance 

• What to eat to balance blood sugar so you don’t wake up in middle of night - fat + fiber + protein, and protein snack ideas prior to bed if needed, and what Megan calls “meat pill”

• Sour cherries and montmorency cherries boosting levels of melatonin

• Herbal remedies you can work with for a restful sleep and relaxation and the importance of working with an herbal practitioner on an individual level to get a customized approach

• Our issues with coffee... ways to experiment in reducing your intake to see if it is impacting your sleep and energy levels

• The importance of building relationship with rest that works for you

• Circadian rhythm/light cycles, Ultradian rhythms and how to do it

• Intermittent resting and the importance of silence for cellular regeneration

• The power of Float tanks + sensory deprivation (Venessa will report back about her experience ;)

• How yoga nidra can be a helpful way to bring in more rest in less time

Questions to Ask Yourself this Full Moon

• What is my relationship to rest?

• Where do you feel you need rest? How can you begin to build rest into your day?

• What might you need rest from?

Resources + Links Mentioned

Functional Medicine Matrix

Andrea Nakayama and the Functional Nutrition Alliance

Pilar Gerasimo on Ultradian rhythm - unplugging every 90 minutes

How Social Media and AI Hijack Your Brain on the Neurohacker Podcast

Deanna Minich podcast on Intermittent Resting

Sacred Ecology Visualization & Activation Journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and discover what “foods” to bring in right now for radical nourishment & clarity.

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Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges.

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 17 Walking the Plant Path: Evolutionary Herbalism + the Magnetic Power of Plants as Teachers + Healers with Whitney Popham

In this episode, I’m excited to be speaking with Whitney Popham of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. Whitney is an herbal practitioner and educator, pollinating the medicine of the plants to bring healing & beauty into the world. 

We talk about her journey of self-discovery, healing and her life’s calling to the plant path. We dive deep right away into how we got to the point of disconnection from these ancient systems of medicine, and ways we can begin to reclaim that connection.

Whitney shares her own experience with healing trauma by building relationships with plants and their medicine on all levels, and provides us with a beginner’s roadmap to using botanicals for supporting the nervous system and the heart. 

As a clinical herbalist, Whitney has devoted her life to being a humble vessel for the plants to touch people's lives and do their healing work through her. She facilitates healing on the emotional, spiritual, and physical levels of health through the multifaceted lens of plant medicine, nutrition and Ayurvedic lifestyle coaching. 

Whitney is the co-founder of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where her and her husband Sajah have trained & empowered tens of thousands of people to become herbalists & practitioners. Through their online programs & live workshops, they share wisdom from multiple medical traditions from around the world to continue the legacy of bringing healing to people, culture and planet.  
  
This was such a rich discussion, Whitney really touches on so many critical topics that I’ve been thinking a lot about over the years and try to highlight in this podcast. Lots of food for thought, and I hope you enjoy our exploration of the magical and magnetic power of plants as teachers and healers.

*Note from Whitney: Since we discuss using botanicals and harvesting plants ourselves, it’s important to note that before you harvest or make medicine from any herb, it’s imperative that you’ve first properly identified that plant before you ingest it or give it to anyone else. Learning some basic botany, getting a good ID book, or taking a class with a local herbalist are important steps towards making sure you’re safely harvesting & using herbs. 

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is evolutionary herbalism and how Whitney and her husband Sajah teach universal patterns of ancient wisdom and traditions, while incorporating modern science and knowledge

• How can we work with plant medicines on a soul level and work with our soul evolution as well as heal our physical bodies

• How we got to the point of disconnection from these ancient systems of medicine, and what “convenience” has to do with it

• The importance of seeing the map of the human body as gardens and ecosystems rather than thru the western “machine-minded way”

• The power of plants in our perception shifts

• How reconnecting to our sources of food, water, and medicine is critical for us in developing a relationship with our home, where we live

• How whitney came to the “plant path” through play, activism, and her journey of self-discovery and self-healing

• Whitney’s own experience with healing trauma by building relationships with plants and their medicine on all levels

• How her own health issues reflected what was going on within her emotional and spiritual body after an abusive relationship

• Whitney’s first plant ally - how motherwort was like a homecoming that helped her reconnect and start healing her body

• The various kinds of trauma and the chronic PTSD that most of us are experiencing in modern times, including not having a true “home” or place where we feel we belong

• Ways to connect with plants and how growing your own is one way to help heal our disconnection

• Getting outside of the allopathic mindset of using herbs, which can encourage disempowered thinking, by exploring what herbs were used by your ancestors

• The levels of healing trauma: working with the nervous system and heart with restorative nervine herbs (such as Milky oat seed, skullcap, and more)

• How so much of trauma can be stored in emotional memory of the heart space, and how rose (wild rose) can be a wonderful ally

• The importance of trusting in the ancestral, intuitive, and instinctual wisdom and connection to plants that we already have

• Some of the biggest challenges or blocks that Whitney sees for people first starting on the plant path and budding herbalists, including fear and lack of confidence + trust.

• Why it’s essential to practice and study with other herbal teachers and schools as well as direct and personal experience with plants

• How Whitney defines “wild” for herself, and how reconnecting to an ancestral way of living and reclaiming homesteading skills is feeding her wild

• The one game-changing practice for Whitney that feeds her soul + wild in a deep way, and how it’s realigning her hormonal cycles and rhythms

Connect With Whitney Popham + The School of Evolutionary Herbalism

Website | Facebook | Instagram

Resources + Links Mentioned

Grab the Free issue of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism's subscription program, Materia Medica Monthly (You'll receive a 25 page pdf download + 3 hour video class on Calendula): https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/mmm-free-issue/

Suzanne Tabert at Cedar Mountain Herb School in Washington

Milla Prince

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: virtual workshop

Website 

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2018

Time: 12pm - 3pm PST / 2pm - 5pm CST / 3pm - 6pm EST

Duration: 3 hours

Where: Online, from the comfort of your own home!

*In case you can’t make it live, this virtual event WILL be recorded and you will get access to all of the materials and bonuses.

PRE-SALE PRICING: Feed Your Wild :: GUT :: Virtual Circle Workshop is Live on August 26, 2018

This special pre-sale price of $47 will increase to $67 at midnight on July 29, 2018

Click here to learn more

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Ep. 16 Meet the Wanderer, aka Your Vagus Nerve - Why You Should Care About the Largest Nerve In Your Body + How To Support Your Gut-Brain Connection!

Special Solo Episode: Meet the Wanderer, aka your vagus nerve, and why you should care about the largest nerve in your body (plus how to support your gut-brain connection)!

In this first special solo episode, Venessa goes into the gut-heart-brain connection and takes you on a journey with the Wanderer within, aka the vagus nerve. She covers the enteric nervous system (ENS), how the vagus nerve is connected to the various systems of our body and impacts our health, especially through the gut-brain connection. Venessa discusses things we can do to support our vagus nerve and gut-heart-brain connection on physical and energetic levels, including nature-based practices, foods/nutrients, and intuitive practices to try out!

If you’re struggling with any kind of gut issue, including GERD, IBS, constipation, or gut-brain manifestation like brain fog and memory issues... this is a must listen!

If you’re interested in learning more about the gut and gut-related issues, check out the upcoming Feed Your Wild GUT virtual workshop and take advantage of the presale pricing (it’s live August 29 but will be recorded if you can’t make it live!)

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Heart Math Institute + measuring the activity of vagus nerve with Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

• #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Capricorn :: Walking The Talk, Alignment + Discernment, Digestive Fire + Gut Talk

• Acute cold exposure + cold plunging - start slow by doing a face plunge in cold water

• Wild Natural Beauty, Walking the Talk, & Motherhood as Medicine with Jessika Le Corre

• Physical activation through frequency and vibration

  • Singing, especially in unison, chanting, Om chanting

  • Devices to stimulate vagus nerve

  • Gargling 

• Study: Vagus nerve stimulation inhibits cytokine production and attenuates disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis

• Uncovering Suppressed Histories + Reclaiming Ancient Ways of Living For A Vital Future With Max Dashu

• Meditation and prayer - rosary prayer study

• Nutrients + Food to support vagus nerve:

  • EPA and DHA - seafood, "SMASH" fish (also found beneifical in RA) Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with marine and botanical oils: an 18-month, randomized, and double-blind trial. (2014)

  • Zinc-rich foods include liver, beef, lamb, oysters, scallops, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, oats.

Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: virtual workshop

Website 

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2018

Time: 12pm - 3pm PST / 2pm - 5pm CST / 3pm - 6pm EST

Duration: 3 hours

Where: Online, from the comfort of your own home!

*In case you can’t make it live, this virtual event WILL be recorded and you will get access to all of the materials and bonuses.

PRE-SALE PRICING: Feed Your Wild :: GUT :: Virtual Circle Workshop is Live on August 26, 2018

This special pre-sale price of $47 will increase to $67 at midnight on July 29, 2018

Click here to learn more

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Ep. 15 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Cancer :: “All our Water holds,” Ebb + Flow

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

New Moon in Cancer :: "All our water holds," Ebb + Flow, Back to basics

Megan and Venessa dive into this New Moon’s Cancer July 12 with the theme of this water sign: "all our water holds." They cover the importance of water for health on multiple levels, the surprising signs and symptoms of dehydration that no one tells you about, and the foundations that no one is ever too advanced to review! They also share some practical tips and tools to support your hydration, flow, and connection to water as life on ALL levels.

Blessed New Moon!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• New Moon Themes: All that our Water holds, Water + Fire with this partial solar eclipse, embracing the ebb and flow of the season and emotions

• How to know when your body needs water - signs that might surprise you

• Health challenges that you didn’t know were linked to dehydration

• Signs and symptoms of dehydration and what to do about it

• How to connect with "wild water" and what it can do for you

• The power of increasing your water consumption by just 1% (the results from a major study were remarkable!)

practices to try for this New Moon: WILD Water

• Select a special vessel to use for your water intake. Make a commitment to ritualize your water drinking for your health! Source filtered, clean water or spring water that full of health-promoting minerals.

• Bonus... COMMUNE with WILD water! Jump in a river, bathe in a lake, swim in the ocean... find a spot where you can connect with natural wild water.

Resources + Links Mentioned

Max Dashu’s interview on the Feed Your Wild Podcast

Your Body's Many Cries For Water*, by F. Batmanghelidj M.D.

Bristol Stool Chart

Lara Adler

Water Filter Buying Guide from EWG

Wildly Rooted Resources

Findaspring.com

Sacred Ecology Visualization & Activation Journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and discover what “foods” to bring in right now for radical nourishment & clarity.

Note: Links marked with an asterisk (*) are affiliate links. Making a purchase through these links won’t cost you anything but we will receive a small commission. This is an easy, free way of supporting the podcast. Thank you!

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges.

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 14 Uncovering Suppressed Histories + Reclaiming Ancient Ways of Living For A Vital Future With Max Dashu

“Those toxins don’t stay buried, especially if they’re embedded in scriptures. We have to grapple with these legacies in order to heal because those toxins keep coming back and we’re seeing that with what’s happening now in the United States. And so these are stories we need to know - we need to know our own story.”~ Max Dashu

Have you ever wondered... how did we get here? Where are all of the women in history books? What about the true stories that have been left out of our school curriculum and kept hidden for centuries? How about cultures and societies beyond the patriarchal paradigm... What about cultures where women were not only equal, but people were living in a non-hierarchical paradigm that actually valued the maternal and revered Mother Earth?

How different would our world be today if we still lived by these principles and ancient ways of knowing?

That’s what Max Dashu asked herself as a young woman in 1960s who dared to defy her history professors at Harvard and embark on a journey to get out of the patriarchal interpretation of women and dig up suppressed histories. What she found not only changed her own life, but provides a template for reclaiming the wisdom and vitality we seemingly lost long ago.

Max Dashu is a historian and one of the world’s leading experts on matriculture. in this episode, she shares various historical global patterns that she discovered are missing in modern times, the nature-based practices and ways of knowing that Max has seen throughout history and what Max foresees in our collective future (with her unique perspective as a historian) plus the prescient advice she gives us for how to move forward.

I love how Max weaves together mind-blowing cultural findings, historical facts, linguistic patterns, and art in her teachings... if you’re a nerd like me, get your notebooks ready and listen twice. You’re in for a treat :)

Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document global women's history, reflecting the full spectrum of the world's peoples. She has built a collection of 40,000 images, from which she has created 130 slideshows on female cultural heritages, including Indigenous traditions, and patterns of domination. She is internationally known for her expertise on ancient female iconography, matricultures and patriarchal systems, medicine women and shamans, witch hunts, and female spheres of power.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why Max started Suppressed Histories and her quest for evidence of matricultures to get out of the patriarchal interpretation of women 

• How the “HIStory” we are taught in school, which is very Eurocentric, is different than what Max was finding globally

• How integration of the economical, technological AND spiritual is found throughout history, yet divorced and missing in modern Western times... i.e.“living in a sacred manner”

• Max found that women played a central figure in culture throughout history

• How Max began to puzzle piece together women’s history through ancient figurines before written record - a window into ancient culture

• The patterns that she discovered globally including Ceremonial pots in the form of breasts (theme of "life-giver") as ceremonial vessels, and pots in the shape of women

• How words such as “witch” and "weird" have been changed and demonized overtime - yet the names in the ethnic languages often meant things like knower, seer, spirit journeyer, healer, medicine woman

• The resonant themes that Max has found in culture throughout the world and ages

• How the the waters, stones, and trees were central in various cultures - “as the witches teach” through earth-based spirituality

• The nature-based practices and ways of knowing that Max has seen throughout history that we can revitalize and practice today to support our connection to the earth and healing ways of our ancestors: land walking, immersion in “living waters,” and breath/chant/invoking - naming it.

• What Max foresees in our collective future (with her unique prospective as a historian) and the prescient advice she gives us for how to move forward.

• The parallels she sees throughout history that are being played out today, and how the principal of compassion has to guide us today.

• Max’s thoughts on the internet, social media and new technology

• What Max believes needs to be a recovered for people of European descent and her thoughts around the issue of cultural appropriation 

• How art, connection, community are of vital importance in the health of cultures and the world, and how Max is providing this experience thru her new Theosophy Goddess coloring book

• Max's upcoming books and projects, including never-before seen histories of ancient Hellenic/Greek peoples

Connect With Max Dashu

Website | Facebook | Max's Veleda Press

Resources + Links Mentioned

Max Dashu's Academic Papers + Work

Deasophy Goddess Coloring Book

History Sibyl podcasts

Art by Max Dashu

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 13 Healing the Healer: A Journey Through The Amazon To The Heart With Irene Shamma

“As soon as we say yes to a calling, life helps us, life shows us the way.” ~ Irene Shamma

Scientists predict the Amazon rainforest could be consumed in the next 50 years. This disheartening fact fuels Irene's work of planting trees, raising awareness and teaching us how we can all make a difference.

In this episode, Irene Shamma tells us about her adventure to the Amazon + healing her heart with Ayahuasca, walks us through the anatomy of Mother Earth and the vital role of the Amazon rainforest for her overall health and our own. Irene also paints a picture of the stark reality and seriousness of the devastation that is happening in the rainforest right now... how we ALL have an impact and what steps we can take to make a positive difference as a regenerative species rather than a destructive one.

Her story begins with a journey to recover something very dear to her as a child that she lost... her deep connection to the natural world and sense of compassion. What she didn’t realize was that she was being called by something much deeper than herself.

Irene Shamma is an architect, designer, and environmental activist from Cyprus who left her life in the city and embarked on a journey of self-discovery and reconnection with nature in the Amazon rainforest. Along this journey, she received deep shamanic healing with medicinal plants that allowed her to experience the magnificence of the rainforest but also its devastating destruction to the deepest level. A calling to devote herself to the protection of the Amazon emerged.

Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Irene dove into trust, dropped everything and embarked on a journey into the Amazon

• How ayahuasca taught Irene the journey she needed to take was within

• How medicinal plants have been the catalyst of reawakening her bond with nature, the magic of nature, life, love and mother earth

• Her advice for someone who’s feeling the calling to reconnect

• How she had no idea what she was getting into but she let her curious lead the way into a powerful healing

• How Irene realized she needed to raise awareness because we are all responsible for the destruction of the rainforest

• Every second that passes we lose an area the size of a football field of rainforest and most of that is illegal

• Why the Amazon is called the lungs, heart, womb, and pharmacy of our planet and how we are ALL connected to this place even if we live on the other side of the planet as well as its destruction

• Irene walks us through the anatomy of Mother Earth and the vital role of the Amazon rainforest for her overall health and our own

• The problem with soil erosion and desertification of the Amazon

• The question that Irene wants you to ask yourself

• Simple steps people can start to help restore the Amazon

• Her discovery of deep shame that she had no idea was sitting on her heart, and how we feel the pain of Mother Earth and the destruction we are causing

Connect With Irene Shamma

TEDx talk: Healing the Healer: A promise to the Amazon

Indiegogo campaign: Healing the Healer: A promise to the Amazon

A journey through the Amazon to the heart Interview with TreeSisters

Healing The Healer Facebook page

Resources + Links Mentioned

Summer Full Moon Giveaway on Instagram (winner is picked Tuesday 7/3!)

Instagram handles: Venessa is @wildlyrooted and Megan is @amethyst_and_rose

Feed Your Wild Gut Virtual Workshop - join us July 22! Presale ends July 15

Boundaries and Protection by Pixie Lighthorse*

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth documentary

TreeSisters: Women Seeding Change

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Ep. 12 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Capricorn :: Walking The Talk, Alignment + Discernment, Digestive Fire + Gut Talk

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

Full Moon in Capricorn :: Walking The Talk, Alignment + Discernment, Digestive Fire + Gut Talk

In this episode, Megan and Venessa dive into this Full Moon’s Capricorn June 27/28 aka the Strawberry Moon.  The themes include alignment/discernment, enacting our spirituality and self-actualization thru creativity, personal power, and internal fire. This Summer time month we also get clinical with this season’s organ - the small intestine + vagus nerve. They cover the energetics, the role and physiology of the small intestine, and share some practical tips and tools to support your digestive fire and flow on ALL levels.

It's also Venessa's birthday(!) and she announces a special virtual workshop on July 22, 2018 called Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: Mapping the Wild Terrain of Your Gut Health and Digestive Wellness PLUS how you can grab your spot for FREE (listen + scroll down this page to learn more)!  

Happy Full Moon!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Full Moon Themes: Alignment -> abundance, enacting our spirituality, expansion, creativity, fertilizing, pollination, fire, sun

• How to discern what is “best”, how to get unstuck

• Physiology: the small intestine, it’s role and importance, and its role in saying what can "come in" and what "stays out"

• Alignment and discernment as it relates to the 3rd chakra - solar plexus, the place of personal will and power, also the place of small intestine, stomach, digestion, fire

• Digestion is a reflection of the ability to digest and assimilate everything including thoughts, this center determines the health of both our bodies and minds

• Walking the Talk: Organizing our minds and experience, deciding what needs to be burned away or retained; setting goals and concentrating on what we need to do and think to achieve our aspirations 

• Importance of diversity, color, rainbow foods, and polyphenols in digestion

• Listener Qs on digestive issues: bloating/gas/constipation/diarrhea

• Practice/Tools/Foods: ways to get digestive fire going and movement/flow

• Fire supportive foods: Bitters, ginger, seeds, vinegars

• Flow supportive foods: Colorful foods/veggies + fruit for fiber, polyphenols, detox + cooling foods, raw foods

• The importance of slowing down and chewing

• The vagus nerve and how it impacts all aspects of our health

• Summer is nature's season of growth and maturation:: learning to be in flow with nature and to flow as nature does through the seasons and through the moon cycles

• Ways to support the health and action of your vagus nerve

Two practices to try for this Full Moon: Fire + Flow

• How many colors can you put in your shopping bag and plate? This season, reach for colored versions of what you usually get and be adventurous! 

• Slow down and chew your food... Pick out ONE meal per day to focus on giving yourself ample time for the meal, slowing down, and chewing really well and mindfully

• Bonus... LAUGH this week and show your vagus nerve some love ;)

Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: Virtual Workshop!

FEED YOUR WILD :: GUT :: is a virtual interactive workshop designed to reclaim the wild resilience and robust health of our “second brain”... our gut terrain. 

This workshop is designed to educate and give you practical tools to take back your health by re-aligning and restoring the true nature of your gut.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Date: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018

Time: 12pm - 3pm PST / 2pm - 5pm CST / 3pm - 6pm EST

Duration: 3 hours

Where: Online, from the comfort of your own home!

*In case you can’t make it live, this virtual event WILL be recorded and you will get access to all of the materials and bonuses.

Special Pre-Sale Pricing Ends July 15!

*GIVE-AWAY ANNOUNCEMENT* :: Follow @wildlyrooted on Instagram to get details on our special giveaway where 1 lucky person will receive a FREE spot in the Feed Your Wild GUT Virtual Workshop! See ya there xo

Resources + Links Mentioned

FYW Episode: How Working With The Moon Can Change Your Life With Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

Many Moons by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith*

Andrea Nakayama's Functional Nutrition Alliance

Four Sigmatic Reishi Mushroom Elixir*

Four Sigmatic Organic Swiss Water Decaf Ground Mushroom Coffee with Reishi*

Rasa Koffee Ground Adaptogenic Herbal Coffee*

Aviva Romm and her book The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution*

Sacred Ecology Visualization & Activation Journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and discover what “foods” to bring in right now for radical nourishment & clarity.

Note: Links marked with an asterisk (*) are affiliate links. Making a purchase through these links won’t cost you anything but we will receive a small commission. This is an easy, free way of supporting the podcast. Thank you!

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges.

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 11 María Benedetti on Revitalizing Botanical Traditions of Healing and Reciprocity with Nature

Photo by Thais Llorca

“It’s important to bring Her, Mother Earth, in... It’s time to stand up for the natural world, and the culture at large is destroying the natural world, so it’s time for all of us to stand up and be counted as those who put our relationship with nature before other things. ” ~ María Benedetti

Today’s episode is one that is dear to my heart. We’re speaking with María Benedetti, an ethnobotanical researcher and author focusing on the plant medicine and invisible people of Puerto Rico. We talk about her journey of self-discovery through her work of documenting and preserving plant wisdom and folkloric medicine. She shares incredible stories of so-called “barefoot healers” and we discuss the history and impact of colonialism and capitalism on folkloric medicine and the communities that hold these wise traditions and knowledge. María also shares her refreshing and hopeful take on the challenges that Puerto Rico has faced and continues to face in light of the recent natural disaster and economic plight.

Photo by Ángela Mari

María Benedetti is an ethnobotanical researcher, author and educator focused on the botanical traditions of healing and reciprocity with nature in the Puerto Rican archipelago.  A student of anthropology, literature and the art of writing in both English and in Spanish, she has worked as an educational journalist (culture, ecology, environment, botanical medicine) for nearly 40 years.  She began herbal studies with Susun S. Weed in 1977, and came to Puerto Rico ten years later to learn about and document the tradition of green medicine in the native land of her mother’s family.

She has authored several books including Earth and Spirit and has continued to document the Puerto Rican botanical tradition in several other books, most recently a novel Dolores and Milagros.

María Benedetti is director of BotaniCultura, an ethnobotanical education project, which includes a publishing company and a beautiful classroom without walls where she offers workshops and conferences, plant/tree recognition walks and facilitates circles of plant wisdom.  

I know you’ll love her contagious belly laughs and uplifting spirit and the power of the stories she shares. Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is ethnobotany and the meaning behind “botanicultura”

• What Maria describes as “the most important thing I could ever do in my life”

• The rich stories of “barefoot healers”

• How colonialism, imperialism and capitalist systems have impacted folkloric medicine and the adopted and internalized the message that our ancestral medicine was only practiced out of ignorance or poverty.

• How these traditions are moving out from invisibility with a new generation of young people

• Why Maria believes “we are all healers”

• The importance of wild foods and how medicine comes through nourishment first

• Puerto Rican folkloric tradition of green medicine and home remedies

• The importance of faith in medicine and Maria’s take on 2 sides of the “faith equation”

• Miraculous remedies and the most surprising ones that Maria encountered

• Maria’s new book Dolores y Milagros, which gives breath and life to the untold stories and realities of real people representing the invisible

• What she says to people who tell her “there is no science to back up these traditional medicines”

• Her passionate belief in the empirical science of green medicine and traditions

• What she believes to be the most precious thing that we have as a nation and as a people, and what she will defend until the “day she dies”

• How you can begin to revitalize the wisdom of your ancestors

• Advice she has for anyone interested in exploring the traditions of their own family or speaking with others and an important “trick” that she used as a journalist to create space for the interviewee in a dignified and respectful way

• What maria has to say about the recent disasters and hardships that have hit Puerto Rico

• 2 things that are currently feeding maria’s wild and a helpful meditation anyone can do any place

Connect With María Benedetti

Website | Facebook 

Resources + Links Mentioned

Susun Weed ~ Wise Woman Traditions

María Benedetti’s books including:

• Earth and Spirit: edicinal Plants and Healing Lore from Puerto Rico

• Dolores and Milagros: A story for our innocence

• Sembrando y Sanando en Puerto Rico: Tradiciones y visiones para un futuro verde

Marisel Herbal Bath & Body in San Juan, PR

Harvard study: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/death-rate-increase-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria/

Ways you can Support Puerto Rico

From the VRNIK blog:

Trustworthy organizations that are helping with reconstruction efforts

5 Ways to Help Puerto Rico as a Tourist

http://mariafund.org/

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 10 How Working With The Moon Can Change Your Life With Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

“Moontime is a very natural state to live in. It is one our ancestors have lived in. It is of nature. It can be a useful tool at any stage of our own spiritual growth or awareness we find ourselves in.” – Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, Many Moons 2018 Vol 1

Natural rhythms and cycles. These, I believe, are the bedrock of health, connectedness, and vitality as embodied beings here on Earth. If we are nature, which we are, then the more we allow ourselves to sync back up with the rhythms and cycles of our natural environment and the cosmos, the more deeply we open up ways for us to explore who we really are and our greatest potential.

Working with the moon can be a powerful way to do this. This is evidenced by ancient lunar calendars, the power of the moon to influence the ocean's tides, increased soil fertility with the full moon, and of course the feminine cycle of bleeding which happens to sync up with the moon cycle.

So how do you begin working with the moon? What does that actually look like and what can it do for you?

That's what Sarah Faith Gottesdiener began teaching in her Many Moons workbook for the past 3 years, which have now become a cult classic. Sarah Faith is a creative, an artist, designer, writer, teacher, and Tarot reader, who hopes to provide inspiration and support through a variety of different avenues.

Her Many Moons workbook provides a variety of esoteric and practical tools, utilizing the phases of the Moon in real time to get you "anchored, in touch with your intuition, and on your path with more intention, and more results."

In this episode, we dive deep right away into how to cultivate trust and build your own intuitive practice working with the moon, the history of suppression and oppression of people and magic, & how working with the moon has helped Sarah in her own journey with chronic illness. Sarah is an amazing human and has so much wisdom to share!

We have been using her Many Moons workbook as a resource for our #UNFILTERED Moon Musings episodes and are excited to share her process of creating the book, how to begin working with the moon. Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What are the Many Moons workbooks and how Sarah got the message to start writing them, despite having no prior plans to become a "spiritual self-help" author

• Why so many of us have internalized the idea that our intuition is not valuable

• How Sarah began to develop greater self love, self esteem, boundaries and trust

• The surprising hardships Sarah dealt with after following her intuition and producing her first book, i.e. pushback, lack of money, and drained time and energy

• Why desire for rewards and "instant gratification" can hold us back

• The multigenerational impact of imperialism and how trust has literally been beaten out of us

• How Sarah's own experience with chronic illness has informed her work

• Why "metaphorical paychecks" matter

• The importance of creating space for others to be seen & heard versus making assumptions or "should-ing" on people

• What does "working with the moon" really mean and how to start a magical practice

• Sarah explains the holistic cycle of the moon and different phases, the history of the lunar calendar and why living by the moon can positively impact your life

• Overview of the various lunar energetics and how they are reflected within our own individual experience

• The biggest myths and misconceptions about living in "moon time," 2 things that trip people up, and simple + practical ways to get started

Connect With Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

Sarah's Online Store | Visual Magic + Moon Musing Website | Instagram

Resources + Links Mentioned

Many Moons 2018: Vol 2: July - December workbook by Sarah + Modern Women

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici*

Max Dashu, Witches and Pagans book, and Suppressed Histories Website

Podcasts Sarah is loving right now:

Dream Freedom Beauty with Natalie Ross

Health Fuels Hustle by Amy Kuretsky

Still Processing podcast, The New York Times

How to Survive the End of the World by The Brown Sisters

Ideal Futures podcast with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and Gina Young

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 9 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Gemini :: Destruction + Creation, How to Love Your Liver, & Addressing Addictions

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self, and if you want to come along for the ride, we are LOVING the Many Moons book by Sarah Gottesdiener - you can grab yours here!

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

New Moon in Gemini :: Destruction + Creation, How to Love Your Liver, & Addressing Addictions

In this episode, Megan and Venessa dive into this New Moon’s Gemini theme of “dualism” and Spring time by getting clinical with this season’s “poster organ” - the liver. They cover the energetics, the role and physiology of the liver, and share some practical tips and tools to support detoxification on ALL levels.

Megan also shares her own vulnerable journey with addiction and toxins, how she was able to build a bridge for herself to face her addictions and breakthrough self-hatred to step into sobriety and feel more freedom in her life. 

This is a powerful episode and we hope you walk away with some new tools, perspective, and inspiration.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Liver talk - the “poster organ” of spring, destruction and creation, transformation; we cover the importance of the liver in our body at this time of the year

• Eastern perspective of the liver - Liver stagnation occurs when the liver becomes swollen and sluggish in its attempt to circulate qi energy smoothly, and becomes stagnate in the liver

• Common signs and symptoms of stagnant liver and how to identify if you may benefit from liver support

• The many roles of the liver in the body and the best herbs and foods used to support your liver, i.e. dandelion greens and roots, broccoli sprouts, sprouted mung beans, cruciferous vegetables

• Why bitter is better, especially in this season

• The energetics and emotional aspects of the liver and this time of year: anger, toxins, addictions

• According to Eastern philosophy, emotions have a huge impact on our organs and greed, anger, and resentment greatly damage liver function, and unresolved emotional issues are stored as excess in the liver

• What we think one of the biggest “blind spots” there is today that takes our energy away from addressing our internal blocks and energy flow/qi

• Disconnected connection and what that means

• How to embody the liver in your life and be the bridge between destruction and creation

• What Megan is letting go of right now and the specific food she's bringing in for liver support

• Detoxing and dogma - why it’s important to remember that one person’s superfood may be another's poison

• Megan shares her vulnerable story of her own addictions, toxins, and living in “two worlds”

• How Megan was able to build a bridge for herself to face her addictions and breakthrough self-hatred and step into sobriety and feel more free

• How to deal with the shame and what Megan believes to be the #1 way to move through shame

• Why building self love and finding your support crew are critical in the process of recovery

Two practices to try for this New Moon: Embodying The Liver

• What is one thing you want to “filter out” of your life and release in any area? What is “toxic” in your life that you can take out, i.e. a food, substance, social media, person, etc...

• What is one thing you can bring in to nourish your process of detoxification, healthy destruction, and creation? Food/herb, activity, mantra, support system, nature, etc...

Let us know!

Resources + Links Mentioned

Many Moons by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

TruRoots Organic Sprouted Mung Beans

Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition by Paul Pitchford*

Functional Nutrition Alliance

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand*

Sacred Ecology Visualization & Activation Journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and discover what “foods” to bring in right now for radical nourishment & clarity.

Note: Links marked with an asterisk (*) are affiliate links. Making a purchase through these links won’t cost you anything but we will receive a small commission. This is an easy, free way of supporting the podcast. Thank you!

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges.

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

Your support means the world...

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Ep. 8 The Rainbow Diet: Bridging the Gaps Between Science, Soul, & Art in Medicine with Dr. Deanna Minich

“I have a great respect for both [science & spirituality]... By bringing together the spiritual with the physical through the rainbow of who we are is what my mission is in life - to help people do that.” ~ Dr. Deanna Minich

What does true holistic health actually look like? How can we bridge the gap between wisdom from ancient traditions, modern science, intuition and spiritual approaches?

Today’s guest Dr. Deanna Minich has spent over 20 years answering these questions and has not only created an incredible body of work blending these areas, as you’ll see, she literally brings so much color and light to the often confusing and polarizing topic of nutritional science.

Dr. Deanna Minich is an internationally-recognized teacher, author, scientist, speaker, and artist. Her passion is bringing forth a colorful whole-self approach to nourishment and bridging the gaps between science, soul, and art in medicine.

She has decades of diverse, well-rounded experience in the fields of nutrition and functional medicine, including clinical practice, research, product formulation, writing, and education. Her doctoral (Ph.D.) research focused on essential fatty acid absorption and metabolism, and her Master of Science degree (M.S.) allowed her to explore the health benefits of the colorful, plant-based carotenoids. She has authored six books, on health and wellness and over fifteen scientific publications. Her most recent book is called The Rainbow Diet: A Holistic Approach to Radiant Health Through Foods and Supplements.

In this episode, she talks about her own healing story, how she came to blend science and spirit in her work, and we take a colorful journey through the 7 Systems of Health that are the backbone of Deanna’s teachings today. Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Deanna's structured upbringing and disordered eating shaped the beginning of her path to food and self-discovery through yoga, spirituality, and art

• How she worked through resistance and pushback in creating her work and finding her voice in the health + wellness space

• What being on the leading or “bleeding” edge of science and spirituality within the medical community taught Deanna

• How working deeply within functional medicine, integrative nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda has informed her work and allowed her to use her own experience and intuition to “break the mold”

• Deanna takes us on a journey through the "7 Systems of Health"

• We dive deep into the Root system, Venessa's own ongoing journey with healing her root and how it has impacted her skin health among other things

• What Deanna has found to be one of the most common areas that are out of balance and the number ONE issue that people have (after looking at thousands of test results!)

• Deanna’s journey healing endometriosis and what worked for her

• What Deanna says are her non-negotiable “stop gaps” for her health

• Why focusing on our “YES” and what has meaning for us can lead to greater health benefits

• The most common nonphysical imbalances Deanna has seen in her experience as a clinician and educator

• What Deanna considers as the “magic bullet supplement"

• How to become the “artist of your life”

Tweetable :: “It’s not just what you’re putting on your plate - it’s really what you’re putting on the canvas of your life” ~ Dr. Deanna Minich

Connect With Dr. Deanna Minich

Website | Facebook | Instagram

Resources + Links Mentioned

The Rainbow Diet: A Holistic Approach to Radiant Health Through Foods and Supplements by Deanna Minich, PhD*

Access the 7 Systems of Health and Whole Detox Spectrum Quiz

The Complete Handbook of Quantum Healing: An A to Z Self-Healing Guide for Over 100 Common Ailments by Deanna Minich, PhD*

Carolyn Myss

Louise Hay

Institute for Functional Medicine

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Ep. 7 Intuitive Eating & Soul Hunger: Breaking Through Eating Challenges with Metaphor & Storytelling with Dr. Anita Johnston

“As long as we interpret our nonphysical hunger literally, we will attempt to use food to satisfy it, and you will remain hungry forever. But when we define our hungers & develop a deeper awareness of what we are hungry for, we can begin to seek the appropriate nourishment.” ~ Dr. Anita Johnston

Have you ever felt that your eating was “out of control?” How can we build a nourishing relationship to food and eat intuitively? How can we fulfill our hunger if we don’t even know where it’s coming from or what we’re hungry for..?

Food... make no mistake, is not simply what you put in your mouth.

Food is what you feed yourself on all levels - physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. Hunger can be rooted in all of these areas as well. Today, we dive deep into the realms of soul hunger with Anita Johnston, Ph.D., a Depth Psychologist and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationships with Food Through Myths Metaphors, and Storytelling.

Dr. Johnston has been working in the field of women’s issues, feminine spirituality, and disordered eating for over 35 years, and is currently the Clinical Director of ‘Ai Pono Hawaii, which has a residential program on Maui and outpatient eating disorder programs in Honolulu and The Big Island of Hawaii. She is best known for her use of metaphor and the ancient wisdom found in storytelling, along with her training as a clinical psychologist, to address the struggles of women and their bodies.

In this episode, Dr. Johnston shares how food challenges begin and steps you can take in addressing your own eating challenges, her own take on the real reason behind self-imposed food restriction and binging, how to crack the hunger and cravings code, and what she believes to be the SINGLE critical skill that is required to recover from eating difficulties/disorder (and Anita has seen thousands of people recover from eating challenges and disordered eating!). I know you’re going to enjoy this magical journey through storytelling and soul food.

Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Dr. Johnston got into the work of spirituality, women, & eating difficulties

• The patterns she noticed about women struggling with eating disorder and eating challenges

• Where food challenges begin and how they become a coping mechanism

• Steps in addressing your own eating challenges

• The function that food and eating challenges have served, and how to overcome

• The innate wisdom in our “stuckness”

• How to stop seeing food as the enemy and eliminate the fear of food

• Why using storytelling and metaphor is so effective - and what is happening in the brain

• How to tell the difference between physiological hunger and soul hunger

• What is intuitive or “instinctual” eating and how to begin doing it

• Dr. Johnston take on the real reason behind self-imposed food restriction and binging

• How to crack the hunger and cravings code, including some of the most common cravings and what they mean

• Incredible stories demonstrating the power and insight of language and cravings - and what they can teach us about ourselves

• Why “eating in the light of the moon” - the significance of the moon and feminine principal in this time of the patriarchy

• The surprising thing that Anita discovered about the recovery process from disordered eating

• 3 key practices and tools to tap back into the more “feminine” way of eating

• The SINGLE critical skill that is required to recover from eating difficulties/disorder (and Anita has seen thousands of people recover from eating challenges and disordered eating!)

• The most common patterns and types of soul hunger Anita has identified

Connect With Dr. Anita Johnston

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Resources + Links Mentioned

>> Grab the Food & Metaphor Guide to crack the cravings code here: lightofthemooncafe.com/wr

Eating By The Light Of The Moon by Dr. Anita Johnston*

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