Ep. 78 Moving Thru Personal & Collective Trauma Spells and Reclaiming Pleasure & Empowerment with Rachael Maddox

“How do we unravel from the individual gains of ‘winner vs loser’ and come into deep community togetherness that has nothing to do with money,[...] or achievement, and has everything to do with being beloved to one another, to ourselves, and the Earth?” ~ Rachael Maddox

Disclaimer: In this episode, we discuss themes of sexual trauma & abusive events, so if you feel this might be triggering, I invite you to be gentle with yourself and choose to nourish yourself. If that means skipping or pausing this episode, please support yourself in this way.

In this poignant chat with trauma resolution educator, coach and guide Rachael Maddox, we explore the realms of sexual trauma and trauma resolution, & how to begin reclaiming pleasure, power, and wholeness. Rachael shares her incredible personal story of sexual trauma, the spiralic path with DIY processes, facing melanoma, and ultimately uncovering healing and her soul work.

Rachael walks us through her ABCs of trauma informed transformation and the 5 key things to start coming into harmony with the body’s instincts. We discuss the necessary changes we need to create together at a societal level and how we can begin to shift our cultural/collective trauma spells.

Rachael Maddox has helped hundreds of humans move from sexual, complex or developmental trauma into pleasure, power and trust-filled relationships. Author of Secret Bad Girl: A Sexual Trauma Memoir and Resolution Guide, and the upcoming book ReBloom: A Soulful System for Post-Traumatic Growth in Sex, Love and Society – Rachael uses stories and metaphor to weave together healing methods that are accessible, safe, fun and effective.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is sexual trauma and trauma resolution, & reclaiming pleasure, power, and wholeness...

• Trauma as an embodied violation hangover

• How our reptilian brain and nervous system plays a role in trauma

• How stuck energy in our bodies can perpetuate throughout our lives in a non-cognitive way

• Connection of sexual trauma anchored in the heart space

• The 7 core wounds we experience and the blueprints of wellness and vitality: Neglect, exploitation, shame and repression, control, violence, isolation and alienation, colonization

• The original blueprints, with self worth being the first

• Worthiness is our true nature

• Rachael’s incredible personal story of sexual trauma and healing journey, the spiralic path, DIY processes, and facing melanoma

• The profound therapeutic strategies that have helped Rachael break through

• First steps people can take to begin unpacking trauma within their own bodies and life experiences

• Rachael walks us through her ABCs of trauma informed transformation and the 5 key things to start coming into harmony with the body’s instincts: Attunement, Body First, Consent & Cooperation, Trust

• Sex after trauma - Rachael’s words of advice on honoring your desires and cultivating a sense of safety

• Rachael offers free meditations and resources for developing deep self love

• Permission to go SLOW

• Rachael’s favorite resources and books

• Necessary changes we need to create together at a societal level and how we can begin to shift our cultural/collective trauma spells

• Rachael’s Re-Bloom process and upcoming book

• “I am one of many doing my part... How can I feel that with more gravity?”

• The isolation of modern life, the cultural soma (body), and so many of us suffering because of disconnection form one another

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Website | Instagram | Facebook

Rachael’s free resources: http://rachaelmaddox.com/free/

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Peter Levine + Somatic Experiencing

Brigit Viksnins

adrienne marie brown’s PleaSure Activism

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Ep. 77 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Sagittarius :: Hips Don’t Lie. Root Chakra, Sciatica, & Taking Risks

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…

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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Sagittarius :: Hips Don’t Lie. Root Chakra, Sciatica, & Taking Risks

In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this full moon in Sagittarius and the junk in our trunk, aka all that we carry in our hips! We’re covering root causes behind hip issues and sciatica, the link to humiliation and boundaries crossed by family, and ways we can begin to shake out those energies from our hips.

This full moon energy provides an excellent time to explore risks and make changes. What’s reached its full cycle in your life, related to the root and ready for some release? We get into practical ways to open up and let go, as well as ways to beat the heat and squelch that inflammation.

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Show Notes

• Risk taking - what are the risks that are worth taking this season?

• Powerful horse power - challenges with movement in one’s life,

• Venessa’s history of hip and sciatica issues and what she believes is at the root

• Boundaries being crossed as a kid

• Were you taught what boundaries are?

• The link between childhood boundary issues and hip/sciatica problems

• Fun ways to stay hydrated in the fiery summer and reduce inflammation and pain that are also kid-friendly

• Ideas for opening and nourishing the hips

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Ep. 76 Farming While Black: Restoring Sacred and Just Relationship with the Land & One Another with Leah Penniman

Photo credit: Jamel Mosely

“The soil stewards of generations past recognized that healthy soil is not only imperative for our food security—it is also foundational for our cultural and emotional well-being.” ~ Leah Penniman

In this episode, we are speaking with Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm. You’ll experience her pioneering energy that supports our collective re-memberance of our sacred connection to land and the ways we can begin to unravel and heal the injustices of the imposed systems as a community.

Leah’s work with Soul Fire Farm is to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, promote equity in food access, and train the next generation of activist farmers.

Her book Farming While Black, is the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim their rightful place of dignified agency in the food system, with a concise “how-to” for all aspects of small-scale farming. But it’s not just Is a compendium of “how-tos” for small scale farming... it’s rich with historical context and weaving in the pragmatic with spirituality, soil ecology, planning, tools, plant medicine, healing trauma, and movement building. Leah breaks it all down for us in this episode!

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Leah found a comrade in nature and cultivated a relationship that led to farming as a teenager

• As a young person worked on many farms and realized that the sustainable agriculture world was super “white” and how she didn’t feel represented

• How Leah found a mentor in Karen Washington Rise & Root Farm

• How the story we’ve been told about farming is inaccurate and incomplete

• Leah breaks down the external barriers and the history of exile, discrimination, violence and denigration of black people and forced disconnection from land

• The importance of the return of black and brown people to the land and the need to fix land injustice

• What are reparations and how can people give back and redistribute access and resources

• How 98% of land is owned by white people and there is a 16:1 wealth gap between white folks and black folks at birth, the history of dispossession

• Soul Fire Farm’s Action guide based on voices of black and indigenous people of color

• How Leah weaves in spirituality with science in her book and in real life

• How farming has allowed Leah to unfold into her whole self at Soul Fire, and Leah’s mission of supporting others to be able to experience the same

• How Leah has navigated parenthood and raising her 2 children at Soul Fire Farm

• Leah’s favorite resources in addition to her book (which also contains tons of resources!)

• Learn the ways to support Leah Penniman’s work and Soul Fire Farm

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Connect With Leah Penniman

Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

Farming While Black Instagram @farmingwhileblack

WEBSITE FOR BOOK: www.farmingwhileblack.org

Support Soul Fire Farm + Action Steps for Food Sovereignty

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Dr. Monica White’s Freedom Farmers

Dr Ashanté M. Reese Black Food Geographies

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass

Aurora Levins Morales Medicine Stories

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Ep. 75 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Gemini :: What wants to come up and out in you? Lungs as Gatekeepers

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…

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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Gemini :: What wants to come up and out in you? Lungs as Gatekeepers

Artwork: resin cast of lungs bronchi tree

In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this new moon in Gemini and one of the organ systems that this sign rules: respiratory system.

We discuss lung ailments and holistic ways to support the respiratory system, as well as the elemental and energetic aspects of the lungs and Gemini. We cover the power of breath and the Ayurvedic perspective of breath and lung health, and of course, practical tools and healing foods for our important gate keepers. Plus Megan shares a favorite home remedies for coughs.

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Show Notes

• Minding our thoughts and writing them down, the violence within with self abusive mind chatter

• Lungs as barrier and gate keeper

• With every breath we are communicating and communing with out external environment

• Venessa’s personal experience with holotropic breathwork

• The power of breath and the Ayurvedic perspective of breath and lung health

• How breathwork and any somatic experience can be triggering if not held in a proper space

• How emotions and energetic blocks in the lungs can manifest as disease

• Venessa and Megan break down the complex connections between lung health, stress, and immunity

• The elemental and energetic aspects of the lungs and Gemini, and how this can manifest as a tissue state

• One of Megan’s home remedies for cough - onion cough syrup:

• 2 large white or yellow onion

• Honey

• lemon

• Lung tincture

Chop onions and place in double boiler. Cover to top of onion with honey and squeeze lemon juice. Cook on low heat for 3-7 hours. Strain when done and add in the lung tincture. Take 2-3 tsps per day in acute phase of coughing.

• What wants to come up and out in you?

• The struggle with setting boundaries

• Where how am I limiting what wants to come in and through me, and what wants to come out?

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Ep. 73 Connecting to Our Inner Wildness Thru Breathwork & Curiosity with Eryn Johnson

Today we’re speaking with Eryn Johnson from the Living Open podcast for mystics and seekers! Eryn Johnson is a Philly-based witch, intuitive, and creative. The foundation of her work is energetic and based on the belief that there's nothing wrong with you-- we are simply programmed from a young age to forget the truth of who we are.

She uses Reiki, tarot, breathwork, movement, and storytelling to bring her back to herself and to bring you back to you- back to your power, back to your magic, back to your intuition.

We chat about curiosity as intuition, how judgement has been a big part of Eryn’s journey with healing and how breathwork has totally cracked her open. We talk about nature as a mirror and reflection of the emotions we carry, and I share a very vulnerable moment of grief and how expression and release of these energies is so critical for our vitality.

Eryn shares how she builds her trust muscle for greater connection to her intuition and the practices and tools that have been game-changing in her life experience.

Eryn is also offering a free gift for listeners (which is different from the one she mentions in the interview!), click below for detailed show notes and to access her 8-minute breathwork meditation for daily spiritual practice.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How yoga taught Eyrn about something greater than herself and reignited her spiritual connection, which led her to starting the podcast

• How Eryn sees curiosity as intuition, and how following her curiosity brought her to various teachers and spiritual practices that led her down a soul path

• How judgement has been a big part of Eryn’s journey and healing, chiron in virgo

• How community support and breathwork have been able to shift her life experience

• How breathwork has cracked her open, allowing for the intelligence of the emotional and physical body to let go and heal, and experience

• How we can use breathwork to energize us in the morning (in lieu of our morning coffee ;)

• Eryn shares how expression of anger has shifted for her and allowed a connection to her inner wild self

• Nature as a mirror and reflection of the emotions we carry, from the storms and tsunamis to the calm breezes and waves

• Venessa shares an extremely vulnerable moment of grief and how expression and release is so critical

• How Eryn works with TRUST and builds her trust muscle in her life

• Eryn’s work with the throat chakra and the fear of being seen

• The power of being witnessed during an emotional release, a fuck up, or any other highly vulnerable situations

• The spiralic journey of healing, and how it can feel exhausting and yet is truly empowering

• How Eryn uses tarot and reiki to help her see the unseen and to open portals into the places that need to be healed within us and bring our awareness to it

• Eryn shares how she is working with the tarot’s 10 of Cups as an invitation to be present with life

• Our take on the World card, the energy and messages that come through

• How Eryn is feeding her wild through ecstatic dance and community connection

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Website | Instagram

GIFT: Access Eryn’s 8-minute breathwork meditation for daily spiritual practice here: https://www.living-open.com/subscribe

Eryn’s Podcast: https://www.living-open.com/podcast

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Ep. 72 Evolutionary Herbalism :: Tending to the Inner Cosmos with Holistic Plant Medicine with Sajah Popham

In this episode, Sajah talks about his own plant path and how he went from being on track to becoming a doctor to then studying various herbal and healing traditions, uncovering universal truths that led to his goal to honor both the physical and spiritual.

Sajah walks us through what is evolutionary herbalism is and the 5 pillars of evolutionary herbalism. We talk about the importance of “learning by heart” and how to practice transformational medicine, working with plants for transformational healing and assist us in reclaiming our true natures and support us in working through traumas and breaking through conditionings.

Sajah shares how he uses medical astrology to translate patterns within a person’s life and the difference between a “hope herbalist” and a holistic herbalist, and how an evolutionary herbalist.

We cover how to tend to the inner cosmos and Sajah walks us through a fantastic case study to ground these principles into practice, including planetary patterns, plant medicine, and energetics for healing body, mind and spirit.

Plus... a book giveaway!

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Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is a student of the universal truths found within both ancient and modern herbal traditions from around the world. He is also the author of Evolutionary Herbalism: Science, Spirituality, and Medicine from the Heart of Nature (North Atlantic Books, 2019). The focus of his work is on integrating ancient teachings for a new paradigm of plant medicine, one that is truly holistic in its honoring of the spirit, energetics, and body of both people and plants. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north and south, above and below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.

Sajah’s vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physiological healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness, for a truly holistic practice of plant medicine. His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves. He lives in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his art.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Sajah knew he wanted to work in medicine as a kid and how the plant path pulled him from the track of becoming a surgeon

• Sajah’s realization that healing is so much more than fixing what’s broken

• How Sajah considers himself more of a spiritual seeker before an herbalist

• How Sajah began studying various herbal and healing traditions, uncovering universal truths that led to his goal to honor both the physical and spiritual

• How the current education system structures our way of thinking and the importance of “learning by heart” - gnosis cardiaca, and Sajah’s interest in the “perennial truth”

• The importance of the natural world and the light of nature being the core pillar of evolutionary herbalism

• The 5 pillars of evolutionary herbalism

• 3 primary energetic patterns at the basis of herbal medical traditions and cosmic science: the 3 principles, 5 elements, and 7 planets

• Universal herbalism is understanding how these patterns are reflected in life and health, and traditions of herbalism throughout the world and ages

• Transformational medicine which addresses the mind, heart, body, and soul

• “The body is the most material aspect of the soul, and the soul is the most volatile aspect of the body - they’re not separate.”

• Pillar #5: Know thyself -

• The spiralic journey and the nonlinear energetic patterns of nature

• Sajah’s perspective on dogma and how we’re usually all saying the same thing in different words

• How we can work with plants for transformational healing and assist us in reclaiming our true natures and support us in working through traumas and breaking through conditionings

• How Sajah uses medical astrology to translate patterns within a person’s life

• The significance of archetypal forces and patterns within medicine, plants, and people as a bridge

• How to tend to the inner cosmos and Sajah walks us through a fantastic case study to ground these principles into practice, including planetary patterns, plant medicine, and energetics for healing body, mind and spirit

• How working with plant in an alchemical way helped to heal the expression of the pattern and archetype of the person

• How working with a single plant that is a “match” energetically to the patterns of the person can be profoundly powerful in the healing process

• The difference between a “hope herbalist” and a holistic herbalist, and how an evolutionary herbalist is looking at the spiritual and archetypal expression too

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Connect With Sajah Popham

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube

Sajah’s book Evolutionary Herbalism

Resources + Links Mentioned 

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

Stephen Harrod Buhner

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Ep. 68 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Taurus :: Tending the Throat Chakra, Sore Throat Tips, Speaking Your Truth

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 Taurus :: Tending the Throat Chakra, Sore Throat Tips, Speaking Your Truth

In this episode, Venessa and Megan talk about this lovely new moon in Taurus (and first new moon right after Beltane)! Tending to your throat, activation of the 5th chakra and vagus nerve, and expressing your truth in this fertile time! And of course, discussions on supportive healing foods & herbs, lifestyle aspects, helpful supplements and nutritional tips.

We chat about soothing throat teas, stimulating your vagus nerve and chakra system by getting LOUD, and honoring your own timing and healing process. Plus a suggested intention for this new moon in Taurus to support our beautiful embodied lives and Mama Earth.

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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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Connect With Christine Gutierrez

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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. 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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Connect With Dr. Maya Shetreat

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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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