Ep. 66 Overcoming Love Addiction, Ancestral Trauma, & Sacred Sexuality for Healing with Christine Gutierrez
In this episode, we’re talking to Christine Gutierrez, LMHC, a Latina psychotherapist, love addiction expert, life coach and expert in trauma, abuse, & self-esteem, currently residing in Brooklyn. Christine’s mission is to empower as many people as possible to heal their pain and own their worth.
You’ll hear about how Christine lived a double life - having both the light and chaos, and how toxic relationships and love addiction played a role in leading to the work she does today. You’ll hear Christine’s advice for people who are bystanders or witnesses and loved ones of people who are in toxic, love addicted relationships... We talk about honoring rock bottoms, building trust, and Christine’s mission of adding depth & diversity to the soul reclamation conversation, and how the new age spirituality movements lacked representation of different voice especially of marginalized peoples.
Christine shares how she weaves tantra and Shakti-ism into her practice, and the critical work of sacred sexuality in her work for healing trauma. Both of us get really vulnerable in this episode and this is a great one to share with someone you love that might be dealing with similar challenges within their own relationships.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Christine started off as a mini baby therapist as a child and how her connection with spirit and the abuse and pain she experienced led her to the work she does today
Why Christine wanted to become a “doctor of the soul”
How Christine lived a double life - having both the light and chaos within her life
How love addiction played out in her life and how therapy supported her in looking at and healing her childhood wounds
Why standing up to her father was a huge breakthrough and how she did it
What to do when you feel that you are in a toxic relationship and want to get out of it
Christine breaks down what is love addiction and codependency, and how do you know if you’re in it
Christine describes love addiction as “An abandonment of self into the escape of another”
How to build trust in yourself to rise up from love addiction, chaos and painful patterns
The importance of continuously saying to yourself what you know to be true - There’s some part of you that knows the truth, even if you’re not ready to admit it
Christine’s advice for people who are bystanders or witnesses and loved ones of people who are in toxic, love addicted relationships - and a reminder that you can’t save anybody
The power of going through your soul journey without judgement and honoring the “rock bottoms”
Christine’s mission of adding depth & diversity to the soul reclamation conversation, and how the new age spirituality movements lacked representation of different voice especially of marginalized peoples
How so many of us are breaking intergenerational patterns and traumas, and why it’s critical to connect with others who share similar stories and lineages
The power of seeing others like yourself overcome challenges
I get vulnerable in sharing how the depth of trauma that was being revealed thru my own mom’s journey with breast cancer was healing for the whole family on a cellular level
Why Christine weaves tantra and Shaktism into her work, and the critical work of sacred sexuality in her work
Christine leads us through a beautiful meditation using breath and sensual creative primal energy for healing
What Christine has to say about shame, how to work through feelings of shame around sexuality and how to begin adding divinity to your sensuality
The importance of “Sacred self-pleasuring”
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FREE GIFT: Check out her free video series, Fierce Love Now, on how to break free from negative love patterns and cultivate healthy love, and sign up for her weekly newsletter at: www.christineg.tv where you will receive a free e-book to determine your Love Archetype. Christine is currently in private practice in New York and offers sessions internationally via phone/skype.
Free Video Series (on how to break free from negative love patterns and cultivate healthy love): www.fiercelovenow.com
Free Diosa Virtual FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/freediosatribe/
Resources & Links
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Jungian analyst, author and poet Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D
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Ep. 65 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Libra :: Fear, Kidney Stones, UTIs, WTF is Balance Anyway?
In this episode, Venessa and Megan get a chance to go even DEEPER into the themes of a full moon in Libra (the second one in a row)! That means Kidney stones, UTIs, fear & shock, and WTF does “balance” even look like? …
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Libra :: Fear, Kidney Stones, UTIs, WTF is Balance Anyway?
Beautiful artwork is by You Si 游思 based in Shanghai and I thought it the perfect expression of spring & kidney energies!
In this episode, Venessa and Megan get a chance to go even DEEPER into the themes of a full moon in Libra (the second one in a row)! That means Kidney stones, UTIs, fear & shock, and WTF does “balance” even look like! And of course, discussions on supportive healing foods & herbs, lifestyle aspects, helpful supplements and nutritional tips.
We chat about acid-alkaline balance, the little known link between gut dysbiosis & kidney stones, details of oxalates (and why you don’t want to go on a low oxalate diet cold turkey!). Plus how this full moon in Libra during Aries season impacts our relationship and the balance it demands in how we show up for ourselves and others.
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Ep. 64 INTUITION x HEALTH :: How to Connect to Your Intuition to Support Your Well-Being, Intuitive Eating, & Practical Witch Tips
In this episode, We are diving into INTUITION as it relates to your health. What is it... How to tap into it... Practices to increase your connection to your intuition and how intuition plays a role in eating and our connection to the natural world...
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In this episode, I’m diving into INTUITION as it relates to your health. What is it... How to tap into it... Practices to increase your connection to your intuition & my take on intuitive eating + connection to the natural world.
You’ll hear about the importance of tracking, and various ways to reveal patterns, interconnections, and build your “trust” muscle for greater awareness. I share about researcher Clara Marie Davis's incredible study in the 1940s that sheds light on the intuitive eating abilities of babies, and the difference between “animal instinct” or “gut instinct” and intuition.
We cover the forgotten language of nature, how careful and mindful sensory perception is the gate to higher knowledge, & how training in imagination can lead to greater intuition and clairvoyance. We end this episode with an inspiring channeled message from the Akashic Records and our guides for the collective with a special invitation: “It is your birthright… You will start a fire with your gift, a flame that will burn through the untruths, blocks, heaviness and light the way forward. What are you waiting for?”
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Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
What is intuition
How intuition relates to our health
How to cultivate intuition
Why Venessa no longer as issues calling herself “psychic,” and how everyone can embrace their own psychic capacities
Tools to support building intuition
Tracking - the importance of building proof for the rational mind
Food mood poop journal
Tracking Energetic cycles: diurnal, lunar, seasonal, biorhythms
Intuitive journal tracking
The power of connecting to earth & nature for supporting your intuition & health
Intuitive eating + Clara Marie Davis's study “The self-selection of diets by young children” where young children intuitively chose the best foods for themselves
The difference between “animal instinct” or “gut instinct” and intuition
The significance of remembering the language of nature and ability to communicate at that level if we want to have an intuitive understanding of nature and ourselves
Starting with perception & curiosity, and the critical importance that we begin attuning our sensory perception faculties
A reminder that YOU are nature, your body is nature, then it would be natural to accept that your health is a reflection of this nature
Rudolf Steiner’s take on intuition (his definition goes way beyond “intuitive hits”) - clarifying the steps for spiritual training and boosting intuition: (1) sensory perception to (2) imagination, to (3) inspiration, and finally to (4) intuition
How careful and mindful sensory perception is the gate to higher knowledge
Steiner advises seekers of truth to train systematically in imagination. Images are one step before clairvoyance.
The importance of diligent meditation and concentration practice
The heart is a gatekeeper to intuitive communication and “hearing”
We end this episode with a channeled message from the Akashic Records and our guides for the collective: “They have it in them it is their birthright, we are being called to remember how to live from this place once again… Do not just do it for yourself, do it for the whole of universe because you are a spoke of the wheel of the great mystery, the All, One. And as you activate this inherent gift within you, this innate ability and sense, way of being, it will have a ripple effect throughout the generations and upon one another. You will start a fire with your gift, a flame that will burn through the untruths, blocks, heaviness and light the way forward. What are you waiting for?”
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Resources + Links Mentioned
The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul by Sonia Choquette
Stages of Higher Knowledge by Rudolf Steiner
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Ep. 63 The DIRT on Microbes, Toxins, Stress & Spirit with Dr. Maya Shetreat
We’re speaking with Maya Shetreat, MD, a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child. Dr. Maya is the founder of the Terrain Institute, where she teaches Terrain Medicine™, earth-based programs for transformational healing. She works and studies with indigenous communities and healers in Ecuador, and is a lifelong student of ethnobotany, plant healing, and the sacred.
In this episode, you're going to hear what she believes to be 3 foundational pieces to our health & wellbeing (they all revolve around dirt), how her son’s early health challenge sent her down a rabbit hole, and a path to remembering what she really cared about - food, plants, environment, and spirit.
We’re covering the microbiome, toxins, stress, and Dr. Maya gets really honest about being a pioneer in her field and the resistance she encountered from colleagues. She shares her top non-negotiables and what she believes the one thing we must cultivate for our soul’s wellbeing.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Dr. Maya got into dirt, her childhood playing with nature
3 foundational pieces to our health & wellbeing - all around dirt; the pillars of health:
Being exposed to germs and microbes
Eating fresh food from healthy soil
Being immersed in nature
How Dr. Maya started putting the puzzle pieces together and recover her son’s health, beginning with late nights looking at the scientific literature
The connections between pesticides, farming practices and allergic disease
How Roundup was first patented as an antibiotic
How families share a microbiome, and how diversity is important for health
How Dr. Maya got her family on board with food and lifestyle changes using incremental changes, phases, rotations, and “crowding out” techniques
Top things to avoid: bleach and harsh chemical cleaners, instead, use natural cleaners
Why we really want to be around germs, and promote diversity in our microbiome
Eliminate antimicrobial soaps and toxic hygenic products
Expand microbial exposures - good news: you don’t have to clean as much! “It’s ok to not be squeaky clean all the time”
Incorporate as much time outside and out in nature as possible
Have a pet - you share microbiome with your pets!, the benefits of having pets in the prevention of immune disorders
How stressors can be good for us, and how they result in more powerful nutrition and medicine in plants
Dr. Maya breaks down the immune process and system, and how a less diverse exposure to microbes will lead to more allergic response and overactivity
The concept of hormesis and the importance of small stressors in regular doses
How emotional stressful situations can be apart of an initiation and support our growth
The importance of coming together to protect our health from massive stressors and toxins, and how Dr. Maya sees it happening already
How Dr. Maya weaves in the spiritual into her medical practice, and why there is no way to avoid connection to the ancient entities and spirit when working with Mother Earth
What working with an ethnobotanist, shaman, and other teachers in Equador taught her
As a pioneer in her field bridging mind body spirit in conventional neurology, the resistance she encountered from colleagues when she began incorporating holistic tools and modalities
Some common emotional-spiritual-physical body connections and challenges Dr. Maya sees and how she supports her patients through self discovery
The importance of learning how to listen, and incorporating practices to listen such as keeping a dream journal
Dr. Maya’s top non-negotiables for supporting your health, and how being in a state of receiving can be game-changing, plus her tips on how to get into that receptive mode and learn to listen to unspoken language
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Resources & Links
Free gift: Earth Medicine Transformational bundle at https://go.shetreat.me/free-gift
The Dirt Cure: Healthy Food, Healthy Gut, Happy Child by Dr. Maya Shetreat
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases by Moises Velasquez-Manoff
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Ep. 62 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Aries :: Hot Heads, Migraines, Trials of Parenthood
Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this New Moon in Aries: hot headedness, overwhelm, headaches & migraine, and practical tips for supporting your headaches including foods, herbs, and supplements…
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…
BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3
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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Aries :: Hot Heads, Migraines, Trials of Parenthood
In this episode, Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this New Moon in Aries: all about that heat in your head, headaches & migraine, and top food triggers, lifestyle aspects, helpful supplements and nutritional tips.
We chat about overwhelm & overload from loss of community, the perils of parenthood, and the power of acceptance and being totally present (versus always thinking “This would be easier if...”). Plus you’ll hear about how Megan got off coffee and stayed off for over a year now, and Venessa’s obsession with birthing videos on instagram.
We also give more details on our upcoming Feed Your Wild #UNFILTERED Book club - click here to sign up and get on the list for May 1 Beltane start!
Venessa @wildlyrooted
Megan @amethyst_and_rose
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Resources + Links Mentioned
Article on NPR: Secrets Of A Maya Supermom: What Parenting Books Don't Tell You
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Ep. 61 APRIL :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: EXPANSION THRU DIVERSITY: Healthy Dissonance, Fractals, & In-formation that Shapes Us
Solo Episode: APRIL 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: EXPANSION THROUGH DIVERSITY: Healthy Dissonance, Fractals, & In-formation that Shapes Us
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
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Solo Episode: APRIL 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: EXPANSION THROUGH DIVERSITY: Healthy Dissonance, Fractals, & In-formation that Shapes Us
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
We're guided by words from our ancestors and the unseen ones, the ones without voices that can’t be heard by the ear… They share:
How diversity is a key ingredient in expansion and growth.
There is alchemy that happens with diversity - possibilities expand, our collective field expands.
The concept of unification through diversity. All is one, and one is everything.
A reminder that we are fractals, what they are and how they support our overall health and growth.
A call to diversify the information that we read thru our senses and experience, which means evolution and expansion in real time within our minds and physiology = more resources.
They remind us of the “messy” gardens of the ancients, which cultivated immense intelligence, diversity, support, growth, ingenuity, innovation, and nourishment.
And a tarot reading that supports a deeper dive into the nature of your relationships and the “pollinators” in your life: 4 of cups, reversed
Questions to contemplate:
How can you go to the edge of all that you know and perceive and expand even more?
Can you embrace the dissonance that comes with diversity?
Where can you let go of control a bit and allow the “messiness” to guide you into a deeper truth and knowing that is vastly more resourceful, real, and expansive?
A call to review the garden of your life... what are you keeping out that could be good medicine? What aren’t you allowing in that would bring healthy dissonance and greater teachings?
Can you see the beautifully intricate design within the mess?
Resources + Links Mentioned
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Ep. 60 Living in the Chrysalis :: Navigating a Nomadic Lifestyle, Gift Economy & the Unknown with Michelle Stransky
Sometimes we don’t know where we’re going, and we’re in these “in between” phases which is challenging but we have an internal GPS and blueprint for what we can bring and become. What is required is trust, time, and a container - this chrysalis... today Michelle shares how she is living in this process and shares wisdom from her own personal knowing…
Butterflies have always fascinated me, there’s something about butterflies and the transformation process that provides a sense of hope and connection to divinity or Source. I know that many of us are experiencing a deep sense of being in the chrysalis alchemy at a collective level. So when I received a message from Michelle Stransky about the process of transformation and the cocoon that she is living in right now, I knew I had to share it with others.
Sometimes we don’t know where we’re going, and we’re in these “in between” phases which is challenging but we have an internal GPS and blueprint for what we can bring and become. What is required is trust, time, and a container - this chrysalis... today Michelle shares how she is living in this process and shares wisdom from her own personal knowing.
I met Michelle in an organization she started called WisdomWomen, which is in its own process of transformation. In this episode, Michelle talks about her trajectory from a corporate career to Wisdom 2.0 and saying YES to starting her own project, WisdomWomen, which has led to a way of living and being that she never anticipated.
Michelle shares how she has had to dismantle and “undo” ways of having and participating in community, her experience living a nomadic lifestyle and in the “gift economy,” what it is, how she got started and the many ways it’s shaping her life. We cover trust, synchronicities, relationships and of course fear and scarcity mentality around money... and all the ways Michelle has had to face them and overcome them. Michelle shares her vision for the future and words of wisdom for those just starting out on this journey.
Michelle Stransky most recently founded WisdomWomen, a safe space for women to collectively grieve, dream, explore emergence, experiment with collaboration, tend to conflicts and heal through relationships - all in service to growing a more beautiful world. She recently closed all WisdomWomen activities in order to allow the organization to enter into its next evolution. As the mysterious process of metamorphosis unfolds, Michelle continues to experiment with community building, emergence, land-based living, the gift economy, new paradigm relationship and creative collaboration.
Prior to WisdomWomen, Michelle was the Conference Director at Wisdom 2.0 where she produced large-scale events that expanded the mindfulness movement in business and technology. For a decade before, Michelle was an organizational change and development consultant to clients such as NASA, Wells Fargo and General Motors. During her transition out of corporate, she spent years training in various transformational programs and became an Executive Life Coach and Facilitator for the Shakti Malan Academy.
For the past two years, Michelle and her husband have been living a nomadic lifestyle, journeying amongst places like Santa Cruz, Colorado, Prague, and Hawaii.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Michelle’s trajectory from corporate career to Wisdom 2.0 and saying Yes to starting her own project birthing of WisdomWomen -
How do we as women contribute our wisdom to our society and create a better world in ways we have not done before?
How Michelle had to dismantle and “undo” ways of having and participating in community
How a series of failures, conflicts, and intuitive listening served her to open up to a greater field of intelligence instead of forcing things to be a certain way
How to hold a container in a way that is outside of a yang, directed, agenda-led
TRUST - how to cultivate trust in this world, forgoing concepts of practicality and “job security”
Michelle’s experience living in the “gift economy” and a nomadic lifestyle, what it is and how she got started and the ways it’s shaping her life
How partnership and family has played a part in her journey with her calling, and how living in an alternative way has impacted her relationship
What Michelle has learned and realized through her challenges in partnership around trusting the wild they’re on together
Michelle’s viewpoint around the concept of “stability”
The importance of honest and open communication no matter how difficult or painful it may seem and how it liberates everyone in the end
Seeing relationships, businesses, projects etc as entities that are born and develop, and how that has evolved with Michelle’s movement with WisdomWomen
How synchronicity and support from a greater network unfolded for Michelle as they began living within the gift economy, creating interdependence, community and sharing of resources
How vulnerability and receiving plays a big role
How Michelle overcame fear and scarcity mentality around money and shift in where she places her sense of security
Why allowing your curiosity to lead the way can support living in the gift economy within a world that does not
How Michelle has surprised herself by living in this new way
Michelle shares her vision of co-creating a land-based community and new world calling to work through difficult power/money/sex/greed dynamics
Words of wisdom for others just starting out on this journey and in the middle of their own metamorphosis
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Resources + Links Mentioned
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Your support means the world...
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Ep. 59 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full {Super} Moon in Libra :: Balance, Being Kind to Your Kidneys, Cord Cutting For Spring Equinox
Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this Full Super Moon in Libra: all about your kidneys and urinary system, and practical tips for supporting your urinary system including beverages, foods, herbs…
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…
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 {Super} Moon in Libra :: Balance, Being Kind to Your Kidneys, Cord Cutting For Spring Equinox
Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this Full Super Moon in Libra: all about your kidneys and urinary system, and practical tips for supporting your urinary system including beverages, foods, herbs.
We cover how all the ways our kidneys are interconnected with our overall health, as well as the emotional and energetic patterns often see in imbalances. We offer up questions to ask oneself or clients to get to the root of an issue or energetic imbalance and a fun ritual for this Full Super Moon & Spring Equinox: Cord cutting and other energetic boundaries/hygiene practices and ways to release non-self energies!⠀
We also give more details on our upcoming Feed Your Wild Book club - click here to sign up and get on the list for May 1 Beltane start!
Venessa @wildlyrooted
Megan @amethyst_and_rose
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Show Notes
We get into the details of our urinary system
How am I synthesizing, and how is my life and cycles out of sync?
The importance of the kidneys as part of our detoxification system
How nature hands us support for our natural body processes
Signs and symptoms that might point to kidney challenges and health
The interconnections in the body related to kidney health that aren’t talked about often
Practical tips for supporting your urinary system including beverages, foods, herbs
The power of nettles, parsley, dandelion leaf
Emotional links to kidneys including resentment, anger
Questions to ask oneself or clients to get to the root of an issue or energetic imbalance
Cord cutting and other energetic boundaries/hygiene practices and ways to release nonself energies
Full moon energetic practice - cord cutting and releasing for spring
Details on our upcoming book club that starts May 1 on Beltane!
Resources + Links Mentioned
Ready to own your own magic and finally get UNSTUCK? - Sign up for Venessa’s free 5-module audio course!
Ask Us Your Top Q's!
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Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose
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Ep. 58 Awakening the Healer Within :: Intuitive Healing & Plant Medicine with Asia Suler
Asia Suler is an amazing teacher, concoctress, word weaver and founder of One Willow Apothecaries who has a beautiful way of weaving the sacredness of the seen AND unseen worlds and intuition into earth-based and plant medicine. Her knowledge is heart-centered and comes from a deep ancient wisdom as well as her experience with health challenges.
In this episode, Asia talks about how a chronic painful condition called vulvodynia initiated Asia into the plant path and opened her up to the luminous in the world…
Asia Suler is an amazing teacher, concoctress, word weaver and founder of One Willow Apothecaries who has a beautiful way of weaving the sacredness of the seen AND unseen worlds and intuition into earth-based and plant medicine. Her knowledge is heart-centered and comes from a deep ancient wisdom as well as her experience with health challenges.
In this episode, Asia talks about how a chronic painful condition called vulvodynia initiated Asia into the plant path and opened her up to the luminous in the world.
Asia talks about using her intuition to uncover aspects of her condition and how we can connect back to our own intuition and the natural world, and what to do about sensory overload. Lots of recommendation for highly sensitive people and empaths! We talk about trees as teachers, the power of silliness, dreamtime, and how to open our hearts for greater access to collective wisdom that’s available to us, including plant allies that support us in this deep work.
Asia’s work includes private consultations as well as in-person retreats and online programs, including Intuitive Plant Medicine, a yearly program that guides people into coming into connection with the natural world.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How a chronic painful condition called vulvodynia initiated Asia into the plant path and pushed her to the brink, and ultimately recognizing the luminous in the world
How teachers and Native American studies program affirmed her sense of being a living being in a living world
Trees as gatekeepers and how Asia learned that we could be welcomed in by the natural living world
How a Willow tree was the first being that connected Asia to the living world growing up
The concept of the world tree - the ability of the tree to traverse the lower and upper unseen worlds
How Asia learned that we are all our own healers, and how we give a lot of our power away
How Asia began listening to her own intuition and believes that tapping into our wild selves brings us closer to our intuition
How Asia used her intuition to uncover aspects of her condition, such as her gluten sensitivity (before gluten free was a thing)
How to build trust and open yourself back up to intuition - spending time in the “more than human” world
Learning how to be a witness
Asia offers up practices to connect back to your intuition and the natural world, and what to do about sensory overload
Asia’s recommendation for those highly sensitive people (HSP) and empaths, and why sensory deprivation can be game-changing
The power of silliness to expand our perspective and how shame is the ultimate “disconnect” emotion
How shame what drew Asia powerfully to plants - the lack of judgement, and shame as a gremlin in the closet
Asia’s perspective on how she believes we are meant to operate in this world and the work we need to do to get back to it
The main challenge that HSPs deal with, and how to address it - and why reframing self-care
Asia’s take on dreams, where we go in dreamtime and her belief that dreams are of the most potent and spontaneous sources of intuitive information that we can receive
Asia’s struggle with insomnia and her insight about the root cause related to being overwhelmed, and how she’s had to shape her bedtime routine to support her sleep in the best way
Words of wisdom for people who are living busy lives and feel challenged to bring in self-care, silence, or alone time
Why being in our heart space is incredibly important for making good decisions, noticing and what can open in our awareness when we open our hearts
How to open our hearts through gratitude and how are hearts are taking in collective wisdom for an expanded perspective and awareness of possibilities
How her experience healing from lyme brought her into a deeper sense of compassion and gratitude, and how she learned that gratitude
Hawthorn as the gatekeeper of the heart and a doorway to enter and access the otherworld including elementals such as fairy realm, and how physiologically hawthorn is one of the most used heart tonics and plant medicine for the cardiovascular system
How opening our heart changes our perception of time and possibilities
How the doctrine of signatures of Hawthorn shows us its essential gifts and Asia’s own Hawthorn flower essence with a dash of thorniness
How all-weather walks is feeding Asia’s wild right now
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Website | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Resources & Links
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Ep. 57 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Pisces :: Getting in Flow Head to Toe
Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this New Moon in watery, emotional + intuitive Pisces: the importance of FLOW, the lymphatic system, stagnation leading to health issues, and tending to your (often forgotten) feet!⠀
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…
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 Pisces :: GetTing In Flow Head to Toe
Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this New Moon in watery, emotional + intuitive Pisces: the importance of FLOW, the lymphatic system, stagnation leading to health issues, and tending to your (often forgotten) feet!⠀
We cover how to support these vital areas and clear the channels to allow the watery waves of information to flow through. We also cover the tools we are working with to support us on the emotional & energetic levels!⠀
Venessa @wildlyrooted
Megan @amethyst_and_rose
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Show Notes
Lymphatic system -- clear channels-- importance of keeping the body in constant flow-- not allowing for clogs in health, wellness, spirit
“Glymphatic system” - lymphatic movement in brain, at night brain cells shrink to 40% of size creates space in brain between cells needed for glymphatic system to flow
Importance of chewing on brain flow - creating tension etc that creates flow; importance of proper bite, use aqualizer sprint
GALT - gut associated lymphatic tissue
Emotional release/detox through the FEET
Unresolved or undigested emotions stored in our cell tissues as pain, adipose tissue, dullness or disconnection
Dumping mode - what it is and how to deal with it
Practice/Tools/Foods/Tips:
Opening up the channels - start there first
Energetically opening up channels
Sipping on hot plain water every 15 min throughout day
Homeopathic drainage
Lymph drainage practices: From Head to Tail
SLEEP (brain washing Glymph system), lymph massage (therapist or self massage) - from top down, face, neck, Daytime cranial sacral work, underarms/breast, abdominal (mayan massage great for GALT)
Skin dry brushing, Abhyanga massage, Castor oil packs, Coffee enemas
Breathwork!
Vibrational practices:
General exercise movement, Rebounding, Vibrational plates
Stimulatory practices
Hot/cold therapies - Infrared sauna, cold plunges, hot/cold contrast showering
hot/spicy driving herbs/foods: ginger, cayenne etc
Stinging nettle treatment on skin
Release work with feet
Reflexology!
Earthing
Ionic foot bath + magnesium flakes foot bath
Resources + Links Mentioned
Ready to own your own magic and finally get UNSTUCK? - Sign up for Venessa’s free 5-module audio course!
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. 56 Akashic Records 101: Accessing Powerful Soul Messages for Clarity, Healing & Growth
For thousands of years, sages, mystics, seers, and philosophers have claimed that there is a cosmic field that is all interconnecting, which collects and provides information, and informs the web of life - in the East it is called the Akashic Field.
In this episode, I’m covering the Akashic Field, aka Akashic Records is a vast, energetic database that holds the vibrational imprints of your soul, soul’s history and purpose in this life...
Source: Pinterest, Artist Unknown
For thousands of years, sages, mystics, seers, and philosophers have claimed that there is a cosmic field that is all interconnecting, which collects and provides information, and informs the web of life - in the East it is called the Akashic Field.
In this episode, I’m covering the Akashic Field, aka Akashic Records… a vast, energetic database that holds the vibrational imprints of your soul, soul’s history and purpose in this life. You can think of it as the ultimate Google or the universe's super computer. Some call it the Book of Life... but imagine a creative, evolving, choose-your-own-adventure kind of book.
The way I work at the soul level when exploring one's Sacred Ecology is primary through accessing the Akashic Records. Since staring my work with the Akashic Records, my life as well as my practice and work with clients catapulted to a new level when I started incorporating the intuitive work I had been doing for years outside of my practice - the kind of exploration that worked at the soul level. So I wanted to share this gift with you!
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
What are the Akashic Records & how to access them
My personal journey starting with the Akashic Records and how it has changed my life and practice
How they can assist you in your soul’s journey
What type of information they provide
The best questions to ask the Akashic Records
Case studies and true stories of how messages from the Akasha have helped
The concepts of past lives, future predicting, and meeting your guides
How to begin accessing the records as a beginner and tips on dropping into receiving mode and boosting your intuition
& a lot more!
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Wildly Intuitive Practitioner Pathway is my highest-level group mentorship program for practitioners ready to fully express their intuitive gifts and create a transformative healing practice they love.
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Resources + Links Mentioned
Venessa’s Instagram: @wildlyrooted
Edgar Cayce on The Akashic Records: Book of Life
The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field by Ervin László
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin László
The Akashic Records by Ernesto Ortiz
How to Read the Akashic Records by Linda Howe
Ep. 55 MARCH :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: SEEDS & SWORDS: Cultivating Your Truth With Knowledge & Trust
Solo Episode: MARCH 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: SEEDS & SWORDS: Cultivating Your Truth With Knowledge & Trust
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
Durgā, Rājasthānī miniature of the Mewār school, mid-17th century; in a private collection.
Source: Pramod Chandra via Encyclopædia Britannica
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Solo Episode: March 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: SEEDS & SWORDS: Cultivating Your Truth With Knowledge & Trust
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
We're guided on a whirlwind tour by a light being deva spirit on wheels who wields the energy that creates worlds within her eyes. She shows us:
How to discover and plant our own seeds with the right intent
How fasting can serve us well
What to do about "weeds" and "pests"
Introduces us to Durga - "the one who eliminates sufferings," slayer of our internal multi-headed demon who wields the sword of knowledge
The importance of "minding our soil" of the mind
And a special guest tarot card that brings it all together: 7 of swords
Questions you can ask the “weeds” and “pests” you’ve identified within your own mind:
What is your purpose here?
What is your role?
What gifts to you bring?
What are you reflecting back to me and my seed?
What is the course of action if any that would leave the least destruction and harm on all parties?
Is there an easier way to wholeness and wellbeing?
What would nature do without any pre-conditioned human interruption?
Resources + Links Mentioned
A SACRED SEED JOURNEY INVITATION:
Enter your info below to access a special visualization & activation journey to help you uncover what’s been keeping you stuck in your health & life, and connect you with your own seeds for radical nourishment & clarity.
Connect with us at wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect
We’re launching a group program!
Ready to go from Chronic to Creatrix in your life and health?
If you’ve been dealing with health challenges, chronic illness, or just know that something is off and related to a deeper soul-level, then this is for you... We’ll be bridging the scientific and the spiritual using functional nutrition & Akashic Records, and work together as an amazing group of people as well as with your own spirit guides, teachers, and loved ones through the Akashic Records!
Interested in learning more? Get on the List!
Click this link to sign up to the waitlist to learn more and be the first to access.
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Ep. 54 Re-Wilding Our Minds, Magic Mushrooms & Messages From Unseen Realms with Shonagh Home
Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author and poet. She shares about her journey and personal self discovery after a mid-life crisis and working with magic mushrooms. Shonagh shares a lot of wisdom related to re-wilding our minds - individually and as a collective, how to begin to reclaim this ancient wisdom and de-program and dispel so much of the programming and conditionings that have been installed into our brains and instilled in our lives.
“The holy grail is in our Mind... our mind is a magic wand. It’s not ‘Would you like a wand’... No... it is ‘How big of a wand would you like’ because it’s all about the power of Mind.” ~ Shonagh Home
Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author and poet. She shares about her journey and personal self discovery after a mid-life crisis and working with magic mushrooms. Shonagh shares a lot of wisdom related to re-wilding our minds - individually and as a collective, how to begin to reclaim this ancient wisdom and de-program and dispel so much of the programming and conditionings that have been installed into our brains and instilled in our lives.
She gives advice for highly sensitive people, empaths and shares the messages + wisdom that she has been receiving through the mushrooms as teachers as well as nature spirits & elementals. Lots of practical magic in this interview - can’t wait to hear what unfolds for you as you try out some of these practices that Shonagh so eloquently shares with us.
Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author and poet. Her specialized private sessions and retreats assist clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. She is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and an expert on traditional foods.
She is author of Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine, Love and Spirit Medicine, Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms, Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissa Speaks, and a contributor to the upcoming book, Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy and Healing.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How a mid-life face slap lead Shonagh to reclaim the parts of herself that she left aside as she became an adult, honing her intuition and journey of personal discovery and student of the mystery
How Shonagh was very connected to fairy realms in her childhood, initiated by her Irish grandmother
How Shonagh started to explore psychotropic plant medicine, and how the mushroom called her deeply
How Shonagh began a soul training with entheogenic mushrooms and led to discovering her deepest wound - abandonment - and reconnecting with her intuitive abilities
How Shonagh learned that her “program” is doubt and how she was told there is a “user’s manual” for this mind-body complex that we can access
How we are all playing and working within the field of energy and mystery of each person and world
How to tap into our living technologies
Why Shonagh doesn’t trust the media and programming
The biggest teachings she received from the mushrooms and nature beings
How being an outlier, “misfit” and not fitting in has served Shonagh in her life
How Shonagh learned that she had to work with the power of her mind using “mind management”
How interrupting the doubt, worry, and chronic thinking with a question can change everything
Why it’s ALL electric and why it’s critical to understand this
How the media “casts spells” constantly and functions as mom and dad raising our children
Why Shonagh believes what we are seeking now is True Nourishment
Reclaiming what has been lost and learning from Mother Earth & nature
What Shonagh recommends we can begin to dispel our myths, programming, and conditionings that do not serve us
What Shonagh has to say to highly sensitive people and empaths
How to use dowsing, pendulums, divination tools and song to connect with nature spirits and your guides
The magic of poetry and the messages Shonagh has received from the Fairy realms
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Connect With Shonagh Home
Love and Spirit Medicine by Shonagh Home
Resources + Links Mentioned
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
http://www.triviumeducation.com/
Wildly Rooted Resources
Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health
You’ll learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals and what to do about them (hint: it doesn't have to do with your willpower...)
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To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.
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Ep. 53 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Virgo :: Practical Magic
Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this Full (Super) Moon in earthy, detail-oriented Virgo: Practical Magic… getting intimate with the mundane and inner self, encouraging us to clear a little space for more magic to naturally occur…
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…
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 Virgo :: Practical Magic
Venessa and Megan cover the themes of this Full (Super) Moon in earthy, detail-oriented Virgo: Practical Magic… getting intimate with the mundane and inner self, encouraging us to clear a little space for more magic to naturally occur.
We offer ways of integrating what you already know in your brain and bring it into your body, connections within the Gut-Brain-Adrenal-Gonadal axis and how the power of belief, thought, and meditation can shift your physiology and manifestions. The not-so-secret ingredient: Compassion.
We also cover foods + herbs that nourish your internal cave and protect from non-self toxins, Megan’s cheese addiction, and Marie Kondo-ing 2.0.
Venessa @wildlyrooted
Megan @amethyst_and_rose
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Show Notes
Megan’s hermit hole, what does it mean to create a deeply committed relationship to what is practical, earthly and necessary in this time. What is your practical magic?
Tuning in to your unique body and situation, and what are the things that are going to get me through whatever challenge I’m experiencing and what will help me feel more fully present in my body right now?
Too much exposure to “healthy” trends?
How do you integrate what you know in your brain and bring it into your body
The Gut-Brain-Adrenal-Gonadal axis and how we perceive
Getting intimate with your own medicine and Internal resources that you already have
We are connected
Megan shares her own limiting beliefs and stories around motherhood and being a “bad mom”
The power of belief, thought, and meditation can shift your physiology and manifest (How your biography is your biology)
The process of tuning within your body is critical to live in this quantum world
How compassion is the special ingredient in all of this and can become the bridge to healing
How to choose practices and intentions that are actually in alignment with your life vs forcing self-care practices causing even more stress
How to not set yourself up for failure
The power and critical importance of SILENCE, and what to do if silence is difficult or feels unsafe or unproductive
The sweet spot within silence and meditation
Foods that nourish your internal cave and protect from non-self toxins: slippery elm, aloe juice, marshmallow root, okra, nopal
How to drop into the perception of your belly
How Megan and Venessa are integrating this practical magical full moon in virgo - it includes nixing cheese and Marie Kondo-ing 2.0.
Where can you create some space for practical magic to naturally occur?
Are you down for a Feed Your Wild Bookclub?!
Resources + Links Mentioned
Heal documentary - available on Netflix
Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
The Last Best Cure by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Ready to own your own magic and finally get UNSTUCK? - Sign up for Venessa’s free 5-module audio course!
Ask Us Your Top Q's!
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Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted
Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose
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Ep. 52 Quantum Languaging: Co-create Your Reality Using The Power of Words with Dani Katz
“Alas, words are infinitely more complex entities, each encrypted with a unique vibrational frequency that is itself coded with metadata that affects our emotional, energetic and psychological bodies...” ~ Dani Katz
We’re getting nitty giddy with our words with Dani Katz, LA-based writer, artist and Quantum Languaging coach/consultant and author of The New P. Handbook, Vol. 1: Little Languaging Hacks for Big Change. She is on a mission to shift the paradigm with the power of our words.
You’ll hear Dani’s story of waking up in the middle of the night with spontaneous paralyzation that led her to this awakening to the power of languaging and words. We talk about our subconscious minds and how it creates our reality and the most sabotaging words in our language and which words to use instead. Dani talks about mind “viruses”, how she uplifts her own mood and thoughts, how to upgrade your beliefs, and what it takes to shift our life experience as embodied beings on Earth.
If you’ve been experiencing stuckness and self sabotaging patterns, this is one episode to listen to and pay attention to what comes up for you and where language patterns can shift in your own world.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Dani woke up in the middle of night with paralyzation out of nowhere that knocked her down which led her to serendipitously find a book she had never seen before: Hidden Language Codes by R Neville Johnston
How words and the language codes began to show themselves to Dani and how it has shifted her life experience
How Dani overcame her paralyzation and get her spine back in place without surgery
Words are encoded with metadata and each word vibrates with unique frequencies that affects us on all levels
How our subconscious mind creates 95%+ of our reality and we are deliberate co-creators of our experience, and how our subconscious is programmed through language
How the Universe takes our beliefs and patterns as directions and directives
How “should” actually means “I know more than you/I have authority over you” is steeped in hierarchy, which is a paradigm we are moving away from and into a new paradigm of unity, inclusivity, peace, and abundance
How words are key for ushering us into a new paradigm
The most sabotaging words in our language and which words to use instead
The power of words in self-talk and how to identify where we are sabotaging ourselves
How saying “I don’t have time” gives your power away… to time
How Dani has experienced depression and tried all the things - but what pulls her out of darkness are the words she’s using in her thoughts
What you can do to start tracking your limiting beliefs and rewrite the “upgrade”
What to do when you catch yourself in a negative thought or belief
How tapping and making up songs helps to support Dani shifting her frequency
What “upper limit issues” are and the importance of being brutally honest with ourselves, plus examples of this in Dani’s own life
What Dani’s favorite word “Omniscopic” means and why it’s amazing
How the conscious mind is literal, which makes words like “limitless” problematic
Dani’s perspective on “identity” and how we’re moving toward a more unified global community
Practices and hacks for shifting your self-talk
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Connect With Dani Katz
Website | Instagram | Facebook
http://www.quantumlanguaging.com/
The New P. Handbook, Vol. 1: Little Languaging Hacks for Big Change
Resources + Links Mentioned
Hidden Language Codes: Reprogram Your Life by Reengineering Your Vocabulary by R. Neville Johnston
EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping
Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village by Martín Prechtel
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon by Joe Dispenza
Wildly Rooted Resources
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Ep. 51 What You Didn’t Know About Cancer :: A Metabolic Approach, Mitochondrial Health, & Soul Wisdom with Dr. Nasha Winters
1 in 2 men and 1/3 of women will have cancer in their lifetime.
What have we really achieved over multiple decades of this “war on cancer” and what can we walk away with so that we feel empowered?
I’m thrilled to have Dr. Nasha Winters on to bring us powerful wisdom and practical tips for navigating the cancer terrain. I recommend her book to everyone looking to prevent cancer or support with a cancer diagnosis. She's worked with thousands of patients and has an incredible story of recovering from stage 4 cancer herself!
1 in 2 men and 1/3 of women will have cancer in their lifetime.
What have we really achieved over multiple decades of this “war on cancer” and what can we walk away with so that we feel empowered?
I’m thrilled to have Dr. Nasha Winters on to bring us powerful wisdom and practical tips for navigating the cancer terrain. I recommend her book to everyone looking to prevent cancer or support with a cancer diagnosis. She's worked with thousands of patients and has an incredible story of recovering from stage 4 cancer herself!
We discuss what the metabolic approach to cancer is compared to the convention lens and how this approach gives you a roadmap to better understand how the body’s terrain influences cancer risk and outcomes. Dr. Nasha shares how she overcame cancer naturally and the fundamental components we need to be paying attention to when it comes to minimizing our cancer risk or reversing a cancer diagnosis - including what she considers to be our top 3 blind spots going into the next decade.
This is an episode you’ll want to listen and share with loved ones for sure!
Dr. Nasha’s first experience with cancer was at the age of 19. She was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer and given only a few months to live. The metabolic approach to cancer stems from her nearly three decades of personal and professional experience in the field of integrative oncology.
Dr. Nasha is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor (ND) and a Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology (FABNO). She is a global healthcare authority in integrative cancer research. Dr. Nasha is a sought-after speaker and consults with physicians worldwide.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Dr. Nasha’s personal story of healing that led to becoming an oncologist
How doctors kept telling her she was crazy and brushing off her symptoms, which eventually led her to end stage organ failure with stage 4 ovarian cancer at 19 years old!
How her past experience of significant trauma and abuse contributed to her illness
How a pilot light lit up within Nasha when she was told she was going to die, and how this inner fire
How facing death “evoked her wild” - connected her to self, source, and the world around her
The difference between conventional cancer approach (cancer as “other” that must be destroyed) vs the metabolic approach to cancer
How cancer has become an industry and the perspective of cancer as simply “bad luck”
Why the “F Cancer” perspective is problematic and self-harming
Otto Warburg’s work 100 years ago highlighting the significance of the mitochondria related to cancer
Why perception and the story you choose is important in the path to healing
How Dr. Nasha created her own “psychoneuroimmunology” tract when she was in medical school at a time when it was not well known
Why Dr. Nasha chose to go to naturopathic school and study TCM, acupuncture, and Ayurveda
The importance of nature, patterns, energetics in addressing cancer
The 10 patterns: epigenetics, metabolic and glycemic load, gut health, hormonal balance, emotional health, stress response, circadian rhythm, immune system, inflammation, blood flow
The critical dietary components we need to observe when it comes to an anti-cancer diet
What is “metabolic flexibility” and why it is so critical to have it
The power of herbs and their efficacy (how they work just as good and sometimes better than some cancer drugs)
Why our thoughts matter esp when eating
The top signs that you lack metabolic flexibility and stuck in sugar burner mode
The dire numbers of chronic illness today
The ways you can build metabolic flexibility and discussions of the ketogenic diet
Longevity, Blue Zones, and characteristics of societies that live healthier and longer
Dr. Nasha’s take on food dogma and food wars, and how she can tell which diet would be good for individuals
The tests and blood panels that Dr. Nasha looks at and optimal levels including fasted insulin, hA1C, IGF1, epigenetic SNPs
How the health of your microbiome will inform how effective medicine and cancer treatments will be and the health of your immune system overall
How Tylenol is one of the worst poisons for your mitochondria and gut microbiome
Her perspective on how vaccines impact our health
The glyphosate problem and how to test for levels, which 2 foods have the highest levels, and how to clear it out from your body
What Dr. Nasha sees as our top 3 blind spots when it comes to our health and what will come up in the research in the next decade: Circadian rhythm biology, toxicant exposure accumulation, bluelight exposure + 5G EMF exposures
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Connect With Dr. Nasha Winters
Website | Instagram | Facebook
Resources & Links
Cronometer or MyFitnessPal - To take a look at your macros & count for awareness
Wildly Rooted Resources
Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health
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Ep. 50 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Aquarius :: Pregnant Pause & Surrendering to Mystery
Venessa and Megan chat about the themes of this New Moon in Aquarius: the Pregnant Pause, surrendering to the dark mystery & what we’re each working thru in this cosmic new year…
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…
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 Scorpio :: Pregnant Pause & Surrendering to Mystery
Venessa and Megan chat about the themes of this New Moon in Aquarius: the Pregnant Pause, surrendering to the dark mystery & what we’re each working thru in this cosmic new year.
A moon in Aquarius brings up the feels of rebellion, resistance, and intellect, as well as activation of our throat chakra & thyroid… speaking our Truth. We offer ways of connecting in with the gestation, push-pull energies, and how we can begin preparing for the new age of Aquarius. We also cover the tools we are working with to support us on the emotional & energetic levels!
Venessa @wildlyrooted
Megan @amethyst_and_rose
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Resources + Links Mentioned
Akashic Records + Intuitive Readings with Venessa
The Transformative Power of Flower Essences with Katie Hess of LOTUSWEI
Alexis Smart - Ganesh Flower Remedy
Lotuswei - Night Blooming Cereus Flower Elixir
Heal documentary - available on Netflix
White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field by Mary Oliver
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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. 49 FEBRUARY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Reacquaintance With Our EMERALD Wisdom Thru SILENCE & IMAGINATION
Solo Episode: FEBRUARY 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Reacquaintance With Our EMERALD Wisdom Thru SILENCE & IMAGINATION
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
La Charmeuse de Serpents, Henri Rousseau 1907
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Solo Episode: February 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Reacquaintance With Our EMERALD Wisdom Thru SILENCE & IMAGINATION
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
We enter a lush emerald garden, a faerie garden. And as we enter, we are seen, recognized yet watched with distance and cautious attention. It’s been a long time…
The emerald beauty is astounding, illuminescent, light beings flying back and forth, flowers of all colors, magic and wonder.
We look to the floor upon which we walk and there are colorful snakes laid about. There is no fear, these are friendly, we must take care not step on them. They share marvelous colors too, like yellow and green skins.
Is this a return to Eden?
We are brought in front of a tree hollow, the darkness veiled with a curtain of lush vines. It feels like a sanctuary, and a green being, a sprite shows herself. She connect with our 3rd eye and a transmission takes place... a green light is spread throughout our subtle energy body and our physical body, lighting up pathways. What is transmitted?
Knowledge of the emerald wisdom. The tablets, the ancient ways. She whispers in our ear “Go forth and spread this knowledge, illuminate like a vine that runs thru us all.”
She kisses me. The kiss of life. And in so doing, the roots of the tree light up and spreads, expands, the kiss of remembrance, that we are a key, we are a piece of the puzzle, and we must “plug in”.
Our mind and emotions are high-jacked, subverted. We must take our power back. And plug into the matrix of truth. We must not forget our power to do this.
How? I ask...
Imagination and play. This is a fast way to plug back in. what did you believe and what did you see as a child. Revisit this. Cultivate wonder and awe. She says that we are mirror reflections, beyond the veil. Our programmings, media, thought forms, these are cages created in the mind. They create blockades, impermeable boundaries that restrict us, they must be cleared and opened so that the channels of perception are clear.
We have the tendency to fill the void. Filling every moment. When there is space, we can see our dirty laundry, it surfaces and that can be painful. We want to avoid, stuff, hide, fill, cover up. Allow the mind to wander, then follow it like a curious journalist. Where does it go? What does it say? This will peel back the sheath that is disguiding and covering up the circuitry... the wiring.
Does it feel painful to have space where you “do nothing”? This is an indication that there is avoidance.... Usually justified by “important tasks and duties”.
Expansion vs contraction. Feelings of expansion activate memory of home, our true state and nature - our expansive breadth. The contraction within this dense material body is not easy. We must learn to navigate and assess these contractive feelings. Is it the squeeze we feel going thru the birth canal just before we enter into a new level of expansion, freedom, way of being? Or is it the contraction that is more permanent, limiting, putting us in a box... or coffin? This is also how we may navigate fear which can feel contractive.
Dreamworld. Working with dreams in your sleeping life is a good place to begin your work, especially if you are not ready to give yourself space in your waking life. Set intentions to remember your dreams and keep journal by your side. You may have an open intention or choose a specific focused question or intention to work with for a week to start. Keep materials by the bed, a journal, a way to record audio if you can speak, a light (preferably without blue light) so you can write, etc. I’m told there will be a seed planted for each of us this month as we do our dream work. Discover it.
A DREAMY INVITATION:
I’m told there will be a seed planted for each of us this month as we do our dream work, and we are invited to discover it...
So this week, join me in a nightly #FYWDreams Challenge!
For those interested in participating, this first week of February we’ll be tracking our dreams and going on an Akashic scavenger hunt to discover what has been planted for us within our dreams.
If you’d like to join, post your experiences, discoveries, and Aha’s using #FYWDreams on Instagram, and tag me @WildlyRooted!
Resources + Links Mentioned
Akashic Records 101 Video (scroll down to find it!)
Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner
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Ep. 48 JANUARY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Free Falling Into A New Knowing
Solo Episode: JANUARY 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Free Falling Into A New Knowing
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
Photo: Dabson Photography
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Solo Episode: JANUARY 2019 :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Free Falling Into A New Knowing
About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: 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.
Dancing. In the meadows among the nature spirits, feels like a pagan celebration, dancing around a fire... calling in the spirit helpers, the guides, Mama Earth... Dancing is relationship, it’s communication, it’s telling of a story. Dancing around a fire, we see Pan... the horned deity dancing and playing music, blowing into his wind instrument and looking at us looking at him.
This scene is then interrupted by a large rip - as if it were a page being torn apart, a rip in the space time continuum, revealing a backdrop of pure light that fills the space until there is only light. This filling of light... it is a space that can only be described as the All... the opposite of what would be the void or darkness... the All expressed in pure light, containing every potential that can possibly exist.
This light-emanating All-ness is interrupted by what feels like a blinking... as if we are in and out of a dream-state... awakening from a long sleep... a coma... yet there is confusion as to what is “real” and “reality” and what is “dream”... I get the sense that we can not know or “trust” what we “see” to be real or not... so we must turn to our feeling sense, one of the senses we have as embodied beings that can support us in making sense of what is happening and our environment. This is not always perfect, as we are not perfect in our perception, but it is the best we have right now. So the question is always what feels “right”, and “true”?
There is distortion and illusion that is being torn down currently... we are collectively in a state of confusion and an unknowing in the old way, old sense. This state of confusion and unknowing is necessary to usher us into a new way of “knowing”.
The vision I receive is of a baby bird that is pushed out of its nest high in a tree... the only home and existence it has ever known, and thrust into this expansive open world, falling and falling not being told what to do or where to go or what is happening. Yet it is necessary so that we may learn that we have wings - we have the equipment to fly, to save ourselves. But the only way to know and learn to use them is by having no net, no plan, no instructions, and the specific circumstance of needing them. In this way we get out of our thinking mind, out of our conscious waking mind, and surrender to the programmed universal intelligence that is there all along, we open our wings and learn that we have them. We catch the wind and begin to glide and flap and realize we can move and flow with that which we previously perceived as inevitable pathway to death or something like it.
I receive the vision of Pan pouring ash or some powdered substance into the fire... and in doing so, we are able to see visions within the fire. Working with the fire as a divination partner. What are these ashes? The old crumbs, waste that we’ve accumulated... the old ways and aspects that we have already decided to let go, but haven’t truly “cut the cord” yet... this is the time for a true breakaway. A true release, throwing into the fire, so that we receive the insight awaiting us.
Tarot Card Pull: Temperance, 10 of Wands, & Wheel of Fortune
LOVE. Love weaves the net as you are falling. It creates the safety catch net where there was none before. We are invited to ask ourselves: Where do you feel most challenge, struggle, or void of love in your life experience? That is the exact place where it is needed... where we need to create our web and net as we free fall and learn to use our wings.
Pay attention to the feelings and stories that come up when you begin to bring love into these certain areas. Simply notice. You don’t have to DO anything. We are invited to simply observe - but truly observe. Be open to receive truth in this process so that we may learn to “see.”
Suggestions:
We are invited to ask ourselves: Where do you feel most challenge, struggle, or void of love in your life experience?
Pay attention to the feelings and stories that come up when you begin to bring love into these certain areas. Simply notice. You don’t have to DO anything. We are invited to simply observe.
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Resources + Links Mentioned
Akashic Records 101 Video (scroll down to find it!)
The Wild Unknown Tarot by Kim Krans
Connect with us at wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect
Interested in exploring working with Venessa in a 90 Day private mentorship experience? Email me at hello@wildlyrooted.com to set up a call, happy to connect in with you to see if it’s a good fit!
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Ep. 47 The Medicine of Place: Place-Based Herbalism, Imaginative Realms, & Land Connection with Tyler Wauters
In this interview, we’re speaking with Tyler Wauters, a teacher, naturalist, herbalist, wild-crafter, and co-founder of Hawthorn Institute…
“We need to engage in these relationships to help inform us on how we take care of a place… and how do we practice environmentalism? How do we become stewards of the land? And how do we tend to our body and tend to those around us? We have to take that out of the books and out of the classroom and really apply it for ourselves and have that direct experience.”
In this interview, we’re speaking with Tyler Wauters, a teacher, naturalist, herbalist, wild-crafter, and co-founder of Hawthorn Institute. Tyler reminds us of the critical importance of place and land connection as it relates to not only our own health, but the health of the whole - environment, plants, people, and future generations. We dive into the imaginative realms of Tyler’s childhood, his serendipitous journey onto the plant path, and ways we can begin to build relationship with place.
You’ll hear about the “sacred chemical ecology” of living organisms and how you can connect with an entire forest and ecosystem with a single “communicator” plant ally. You’ll also learn more about the offerings at Hawthorn Institute (the school I wish was available when I first started my journey!).
Tyler has been a program director and core-faculty member of the Hawthorn Institute since 2013, Tyler has also taught for the Herb Pharm Herbaculture program since 2008. He teaches a wide variety of topics ranging from, Wildcrafting, Wild Foods, Ceremony, Bio-regional human and natural history, Ayurveda, and Botany. Tyler has devoted his life to the practice of community herbalism and he brings his passion and knowledge of nature into everything he shares. Tyler’s intention is to ignite deeper connections to place, people, and plants.
Tyler has studied with Frank Cook, 7song, Isla Burgess, Sonia Masocco, Dr. Vasant Lad, and Dr. Claudia Welch. He thanks all of his mentors for sharing life’s wisdom.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Tyler came into Ayurveda, herbalism, and wild-crafting and describes his childhood as living in the imaginative realm
How the weeping willow was Tyler’s first plant ally of many to come
How serendipity in Asheville, Carolina led to his first foray into herbalism with a flower essence course
Frank Cook, Tyler’s first mentor who set him forward on the path that he is still on today
Tyler describes the place he inhabits now, the water ways, and native peoples of the land - Klamath Siskiyou bioregion, the regional rivers, and tribes that have existed on the land: Tututni, Tolowa, Latgawa, Takelma Dine, Yurok, Karuk, Shasta and so many more
A really important aspect of place-based herbalism is doing research and learning about place - the human and natural history and becoming a participant in your local ecology and relationships around you
Draw on those connections and relationships to illuminate how we might relate and work with a plant
Tyler’s views on true holistic health, and how it involves establishing a relationship with your environment and place, so that you’re not just tending to yourself
The evolution of our connection to our environment and how that impacts our health and informs our life
Ways to build relationship with place: (1) Start with developing a primary embodied relationship with an elder and “communicator” plants or trees, and notice what aspects you connect with, then (2) look for a local human mentor and teacher to support you
The wisdom that is held with an elder tree, and how you connect with an entire forest and ecosystem with a single “communicator” plant ally
Why Tyler believes connecting with the elements is vital
Tyler shares his insights regarding the unseen aspects of connecting to nature, and how Ayurveda informs this
How Tyler spends his time connecting to nature and medicine
“Sacred chemical ecology” of each living organism, and gives an example with St Johns Wort, noticing the cycles of it’s circulatory system and its own sacred alchemy that is living
What engaging in magic means to Tyler
How Tyler co-founded Hawthorn Institute, and how participants discover herbalism thru personal connection
The challenges and insecurities Tyler faced when he first started his path as an herbalist and teacher, and the doubts and questions that surfaced
How Tyler considers Hawthorn a living organism, and how it’s constantly changing and evolving
The one quality that Tyler works to embody as a teacher
What is feeding Tyler’s wild, including wild crafted manzanita sugar and the hard questions that push us to our edge!
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Connect With Tyler Wauters
Hawthorn Institute is now accepting applications for Class of 2019: Early Bird Applications for 2019 Programs DUE Jan 19!
Resources + Links Mentioned
Dr. Vasant Lad, Ayurvedic Institute
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