Ep. 118 Hope, Spiralic Healing, & Energy Medicine for Chronic Illness with Cari Nadeau

In the intro, I share a personal check-in and insights, astral influences this month so far, and how to support ourselves by tending to our energetic ecologies and bodies.

So much that manifests as physical symptoms or ailments have their origins in the energy body. All ancient healing traditions include energy medicine in one form or another, in my experience, when there is chronic illness present - we MUST look to its energetic influences.

In this episode, we’re speaking with Cari Nadeau, a Certified EFT Practitioner and a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner. Cari shares how she went from bedridden from Lyme disease to thriving energy medicine practitioner. We talk about Cari’s journey with psychiatric medication, withdrawal from psychiatric medication, major depression and top resources Cari found for mental health support. We discuss how to remove trapped emotions, and the “masterpiece combo” that Cari uses to move through big negative patterns or stuck energies.

Cari also shares the top beliefs that Cari identified were holding her back and keeping her sick, her spiralic healing journey, how it was “ugly,” what her “relapses” looked like, and what she did to move thru them. In the end, we share Cari’s favorite resources and books to get people started with energy healing, including a free gift - link is in the shownotes!

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Cari went from bedridden from Lyme disease to thriving energy medicine practitioner

• Cari’s journey with psychiatric medication, withdrawal from psychiatric medication, major depression and top resources Cari found for mental health support

• How Cari got into energy medicine, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Emotion Code, and what they look like in practice

• How to remove trapped emotions, and the “masterpiece combo” that Cari uses to move through big negative patterns or stuck energies

• The top beliefs that Cari identified were holding her back and keeping her sick, and how she started to shed and release them

• Some reasons why we don’t see limiting beliefs that are operating in our consciousness, and key indicators that help identify hidden limiting beliefs in our language

• The biggest shifts Cari experienced once she began releasing with energy medicine & belief work

• Cari shares her spiralic healing journey, how it was “ugly” and what her “relapses” looked like, and what she did to move thru them

• The problem with comparing your healing journey with others’

• The top limiting & sabotaging beliefs + programs we carry

• The profound questions that Cari asked herself in a discovery exercise that expanded her healing 

• Cari’s #1 non-negotiable in her healing process

• Her favorite resources and books to get people started with energy healing

• Cari’s top advice for people on their healing journey

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Connect With Cari Nadeau

Website | Instagram

GIFT FOR LISTENERS: Free PDF Download >> ' What Do These Symptoms Really Mean?'

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Inner Compass Initiative

Kelly Brogan, MD

The Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness by By Dr. Bradley Nelson

The Tapping Solution book and website

Ep 44 The Transformative Power of Flower Essences with Katie Hess of LOTUSWEI

Flower essences: Bach Flower Rescue Remedy + Echinacea

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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Ep. 117 How to Create The Life You Desire Sincerely, From The Heart with Tallia Deljou

In this episode, we’re speaking with Tallia Deljou, a coach for transformation and founder of The Heart Work Method. In this in-depth discussion, Tallia walks us through the 5 pillars of having a high quality of life, how to dismantle the excuse of “I don’t have enough time,” and a great question to ask yourself if you truly feel that you don’t have time (Tallia gets real with us here!).

Tallia also shares the biggest mindset challenges and hangups that people face, and how to break through them. She shows us how to utilize positive psychology to overcome blocks of self worth and lean into your biggest dreams - plus Tallia shares a practice that will change your life.

Through her work, Tallia teaches us the tools to make space for change and cultivate a deeper relationship to ourselves. Her Forbes’ featured podcast, "Sincerely Me," explores self-discovery and the journey of turning inward in order to lead a life of depth and significance.

This is a powerhouse episode, stay tuned to the end where Tallia shares a free gift for ya :)

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is positive psychology, how it’s different than other models of therapy

• How Tallia’s path to psychology unfolded, how she developed The Heart Work Method, and tips for understanding what you’re meant to do

• How personal challenges with family got Tallia to ask big questions about sense of identity and self worth 

• Tallia walks us through the 5 pillars of having a high quality of life

  • Emotions

  • Engagement

  • Relationships 

  • Meaning 

  • Accomplishment/Achievement

• First steps to take when assessing your life situation, and one of the best things to consider when you want to make real change

• How to dismantle the excuse “I don’t have enough time,” how tracking your time can blow your mind, and a great question to ask yourself if you truly feel that you don’t have time (Tallia gets real with us here!)

• The biggest mindset challenges and hangups that people face, and how to break through them

• How to deal with hardship in relationships and one of the most important things to have in partnership

• Tallia gives a simple prompt to use for envisioning our future

• How to overcome blocks of self worth and lean into your biggest dreams - Tallia shares a practice that will change your life

• Inspirational words to encourage us to believe in our desires and possibilities of achieving the life we want

• Tallia’s non-negotiable when it comes to facing our stories and creating the life we want

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Connect With Tallia Deljou

Website | Instagram

Tallia’s Sincerely, Me Podcast

FREE GIFT: Tallia’s 10 favorite coaching questions for journaling and reflection: www.talliadeljou.com/reflection

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

>> JOIN THE CHRONIC TO CREATRIX AKASHIC EXPERIENCE! Doors are open for the Chronic to Creatrix Akashic Experience for Holistic Healers & Practitioners! Grab your spot + Early Bird savings... Program starts January 19, 2020! Go to http://www.chronictocreatrix.com/ to learn more + join us!

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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Ep. 116 How to Take Your Sovereign S.E.A.T. & Cultivate Soulful Self-care with Lily Dueren

This is a special episode that is part of a series of interviews with highlighted healers… I’m speaking with participants from my Chronic to Creatrix program!

In this episode, we’re speaking with Lily Dueren. Lily is a Soulful Self-Care Coach + Holistic Lifestyle Guide. Working with women intimately within the realms of beauty and wellness for the past 15 years, Lily believes women are overcoming an epidemic of distraction, depletion, dissatisfaction and disconnection. She herself has experienced the depths of this and is now devoted to weaving deep connection and rejuvenation by way of sisterhood, soulful self-care, nature and the wild wisdom of the heart. Our time is now!

In this conversation, you’ll hear about her experience with loneliness and lack of self worth as a young person and how working in the beauty industry led to her intimate work supporting women today. Lily shares how developing an autoimmune disease became her wakeup call to make some big shifts, and how she chose to take a natural route to heal psoriasis. We cover her personal experience working with the Akashic Records and how sovereignty is woven the throughout her work and self-care philosophy. Lily explains the importance of taking your “Sovereign S.E.A.T.” and has a special gift for the listeners.

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Connect With Lily Dueren

Website | Instagram

GIFT: Lily created this simple framework to help you realign with you... Your Inner Sovereign Being!

To grab your Sovereign S.E.A.T. gift (a 1 page FREE Check-in Guide) click here.

Resources + Links Mentioned 

>> JOIN + LAST DAY TO SAVE $333+ :: Get on the list to learn more about the CHRONIC TO CREATRIX AKASHIC Experience for Holistic Healers & Practitioners (Opens Jan 2020)! Save the date to be the FIRST to know when doors open for this transformative program that’s helped other healers, practitioners, coaches, & changemakers like you boost their Intuition with Akashic Records, activate their Inner Healer & gain greater clarity, confidence, & impact! Go to www.chronictocreatrix.com to learn more + sign up!

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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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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Ep. 115 Overcoming Overwhelm, Mothering Self, & Becoming The Ancestor You Want to Be with Chelsea Feldman (Plus Full Moon in Cancer Vibes)

Photo by Melissa Schmidt @icarianphotography on Instagram

This is a special episode that is dear to my heart! It’s part of a series of interviews with highlighted healers - I’m speaking with participants from my Chronic to Creatrix program!

Happy Full Moon in Cancer! In the intro, I speak about the significance of this day and cosmic alignment of the energy of Mother. These are intense times and we’re feeling all the feels - I open up about the anniversary of my mom’s death & my commitment to helping the helpers. Plus, you’ll hear about the Chronic to Creatrix Akashic Experience - a program for holistic healers, practitioners, coaches & helpers. 

In this episode, we’re speaking with Chelsea Feldman, a mama, a classroom educator, a budding herbalist, an urban homesteader, and a photographer who is guided by earth spirit medicine. She lives in the California Bay Area with her husband and two amazing boys.

In this conversation, you’ll hear about Chelsea’s experience of becoming a mother and how that has been a critical part of her spiritual evolution as well as collapse of her health that resulted in years of chronic health challenges and revelations. You’ll hear about how Chelsea went from run down mama with complete lack of resilience to thriving Creatrix of her health + life.

Chelsea shares how meditation opened up a channel to Spirit and working with Akashic Records has supported her in metabolizing grief. Chelsea shares potent words of advice for other busy mamas dealing with chronic challenges and what has been foundational for her healing process.

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Connect With Chelsea Feldman

Instagram

For information about Chronic to Creatrix Akashic Experience, go to: www.chronictocreatrix.com

Resources + Links Mentioned 

The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution: A Proven 4-Week Program to Rescue Your Metabolism, Hormones, Mind & Mood by Aviva Romm, MD

>> CHRONIC TO CREATRIX AKASHIC EXPERIENCE :: Doors are OPEN for this 90 Day Roadmap to Intuitive Healing for Holistic Healers & Practitioners! Grab your spot for this transformative program that’s helped other healers, practitioners, coaches, & change-makers like you boost their Intuition with Akashic Records, activate their Inner Healer & gain greater clarity, confidence, & impact!

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

Get access to this 6-module audio program for free!

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...) 

Your support means the world...

If the show has helped, inspired or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you show your support through a small financial contribution. Each FYW episode is a labor of love that takes me about three days to produce... From as little as $1 a month, your support will help to cover the costs associated with producing and hosting the show. I love you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.

If you would like to make a one-time contribution, you may use our personal Venmo Link here and offer any dollar amount you'd like - send to @WildlyRooted: https://venmo.com/WildlyRooted

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Ep. 114 Becoming Your Own Guru with Cat Aldana

This is a special episode that is the first of a series of interviews with highlighted healers… I’m speaking with participants from my Chronic to Creatrix program!

In this episode, we’re speaking with Cat Aldana Cat Aldana, Founder of EAT STRETCH NAP™ and 7+ year Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500). She is an Ayurvedic + Reiki Practitioner, Akashic Records Reader and a widely sought after corporate wellness consultant and speaker. Her passion for yoga stems from her contagious love for dance, holistic wellness and personal + professional development. 

In this conversation, you’ll hear about Cat’s experience with her own skin challenges, working with Akashic Records personally and with clients, navigating the food realms, and the power of working with a coach/guide and community for accountability and support. You’ll also hear about Cat’s exciting new projects and her upcoming retreat in Colombia!

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Connect With Cat Aldana

Website | Instagram (Biz + Personal) | Facebook

For information about podcast, go to: www.guruu.one

To book Akashic Record Readings with Cat, click here.

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Venessa’s Acne Story on IGTV Part 1 of 3

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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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...) 

Your support means the world...

If the show has helped, inspired or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you show your support through a small financial contribution. Each FYW episode is a labor of love that takes me about three days to produce... From as little as $1 a month, your support will help to cover the costs associated with producing and hosting the show. I love you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.

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Ep. 112 Honoring the Medicine of Hibernation & Surrendering to Changing Tides with Linda García aka Luz Warrior

In this episode, we’re speaking with Linda García aka Luz Warrior on what it looks like to honor the medicine of hibernation and surrender to the changing tides of life... and doing so in a world that pushes against it. Linda tells us the story behind “Luz Warrior” and the Let There Be Luz podcast, and her struggles and trauma in earlier years. Linda shares how she transitioned from commercial storytelling in film, tv and radio to storytelling for wellness, her process of coming out of the “spiritual closet” and making conscious development teachings more accessible to her community.

Linda also talks about the biggest challenges that she has faced in her transition and what following the intuitive path looks like for her, plus the dragons she has slayed along the way in stepping into her truth and breaking through victim mentality.

Linda gives so much beautiful advice for those of us in the contraction phase in our path, and how to honor the ebbs just as much as the flows.

As the final interview of 2019 and this decade, I couldn’t have imagined a better conversation to close out the energy of this past decade and honor where it is that we are going together as a collective - toward a way of living that honors our rhythms and cycles on a massive scale.

THANK YOU for being YOU and your contribution to your own growth + supporting the greater global community. ♥️

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• The story behind “Luz Warrior,” Linda’s struggles and trauma in earlier years, and how Linda connected to the moon as her mother

• How she transitioned from commercial storytelling in film, tv and radio to storytelling for wellness, her process of coming out of the “spiritual closet” and making conscious development teachings more accessible

• How the birth of her second child expanded her intuitive connection and unfolding soul path, and how her connection to the moon and natural cycles was a starting point for mission

• The biggest challenges that Luz has faced in her transition into a more intuitive life experience and the areas that needed major reprogramming

• Linda shares her experience of returning back to a home that holds memories of trauma and how she is navigating this new life stage

• How Linda receives intuitive messages, and discerning between ego and higher Self guidance

• The big dragon that Linda had to slay, her process of overcoming fear and stepping into her Truth, breaking thru victim mentality

• The importance of beautiful anger, and how politics and spirituality should not be separate

• How Linda received the name of her podcast Let There Be Luz

• Linda’s advice for people in the contraction phase of their path, and how to honor the ebbs just as much as the flows

• The ebb that Linda is in right now, and big changes coming that are both “terrifying” Linda and exciting her

• How to be in the place of receiving and stillness versus the always pushing, “doing” energy that our modern society upholds

• The medicine of water, learning how to hibernate, and sinking into “hot mess-ness”

• How expecting zero from yourself can be the most compassionate thing you can do

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Connect With Linda García aka Luz Warrior

Website | Instagram

Let There Be Luz Podcast on Instagram

Let There Be Luz Podcast on iTunes

Let There Be Luz Podcast on Spotify

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Ep 66 Overcoming Love Addiction, Ancestral Trauma, & Sacred Sexuality for Healing with Christine Gutierrez

North Atlantic Books

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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Your support means the world...

If the show has helped, inspired or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you show your support through a small financial contribution. Each FYW episode is a labor of love that takes me about three days to produce... From as little as $1 a month, your support will help to cover the costs associated with producing and hosting the show. I love you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.

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Ep. 111 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Capricorn :: Root Down to Rise Up

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 Capricorn :: Root Down to Rise Up

A gentle reminder: Enter the Creatrix Giveaway for Healers! (link below: http://bit.ly/creatrixgiveaway)

Happy last new moon of the year (and decade)! Venessa and Megan talk about this new moon in Capricorn and reflections of 10 years past, how Venessa is celebrating her mom’s birthday and the 10th anniversary of her death.

This is a great new moon for manifesting and now is the time to kick off the projects that have been at the back of your mind! We share ways to support and ground our dreams, including our favorite systems and apps to help us create a solid container that holds our visions and big projects.

We explore some of our fave herbs and foods to support the body systems of focus with a Capricorn moon, including bones, skin, knees, and gallbladder. Megan shares her intention for moving forward into 2020: Keeping ONE promise to yourself every day; plus my love affair with water and the insights around water that are coming through lately.

P.S. We’re taking a break from Moon Musings in January, so we hope you have an amazing New Year and we’ll come back in February with some new moon insights!

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Show Notes

• The final new moon of the year and decade! The Capricorn new moon is a solar eclipse on December 26th at 12:13 am.

• Megan and my reflections 10 years back, how I’m celebrating my mom’s birthday and the 10th anniversary of her death

• How now is the time to kick off the projects that have been at the back of your mind lately - Working on big projects, adding systems to life, dedicate self to goals

• This moon is offering protection and confidence to ring in 2020 with hope and enthusiasm, this is a great new moon for manifesting

• Our favorite systems and apps to help us create a solid container that holds our visions and big projects, and Megan’s obsession with lists

• Body Systems of focus with a Capricorn moon: Backbone, joints, knees, skin, teeth, joints; Bones and the skeletal system, and Gallbladder! “Having the gall to do it”

• Looking at how are you nourishing yourself and the energetic exercise that Megan practices to root her in

• How red foods can support our root chakra organs, immune system, and gallbladder: beets, apples, red berries, tomatoes, watermelon, etc

• Our favorite herbs for Capricorn organs and moon: bitters, ginger (and Megan’s satisfying practice with ginger), burdock root, dandelion root, horsetail, etc

• Rock water essence to help revive the flow of energy within

• Megan’s intention for moving forward into 2020: Keeping ONE promise to yourself every day; plus my love affair with water and the insights around water that are coming through

• We’re taking a break in January, so we hope you have an amazing New Year and we’ll come back in February with some new moon musings!

Resources

Asana - work management platform

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland

Savannah Mayfield Life + Biz Coaching

Ep 08 The Rainbow Diet: Bridging the Gaps Between Science, Soul, & Art in Medicine with Dr. Deanna Minich

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. You can now leave us a voice message!

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 110 Conscious Creation :: Merging Media, Healing, Artistry & Business with Chloe Slattery of The Mojo Mecca

Chloe Slattery of The Mojo Mecca hub and podcast is an artist of many different mediums, who is passionate about creating media, celebrating people's passions and living in reverence.

Chloe is the founder of The Mojo Mecca - a media, wellness & artistry hub that is in celebration of the Earth, inspired to live in a mindful, health-full way, humbled by the depths of inner exploration and the power of practicing daily rituals, in love with the beauty of cultures worldwide and the adventurous nature of travel, dedicated to a life of heart-centredness, purposeful pursuits, and a whole lotta mojo.

In this interview, we talk about Chloe’s path to creating her conscious media hub The Mojo Mecca + the medicine in its namesake, the Jim Morrison connection, and the guides and allies that informed her journey. We speak about honoring the mysteries of life and the organic birth of her body of work through community connection.

Chloe shares her philosophy around the creation process, her commitment to “just figuring it out,” and overcoming insecurities & negative thoughts and beliefs with vulnerability & authentic sharings. Chloe reveals insights around her own money story, new ways of looking at growing her offerings, and how she’s navigating business x creation.

Finally we discuss the ways Chloe weaves in the elements in her healing work and teachings, and the importance of maintaining relevance and connection to the elements in our consciousness.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Chloe grounds us into place, starting with where she is now in the seaside city of Perth, Australia after years of travel

• Chloe’s path to create her conscious media hub The Mojo Mecca + the medicine in its namesake, the Jim Morrison connection, and the guides and allies that informed her through journeys

• Honoring the mysteries of life and the organic birth of her body of work through connections in community

• The “coming of age” teachings and sharings thru her hub, 

• Chloe’s philosophy around the creation process, her commitment to “just figuring it out,” and overcoming insecurities & negative thoughts and beliefs with vulnerability & authentic sharings

• Chloe’s shift to seeing The Mojo Mecca as a business, the insights and challenges that come with monetization of one’s creation, and the balance between free content and receiving monetary support for creations

• Chloe’s insights around her own money story, and new ways of looking at growing her offerings, i.e. guided subconscious healing work and community marketplace products

• The ways Chloe weaves in the elements in her healing work and the teachings she has received through ceremony and Andean cosmology

• The cyclical nature of creation and business “growth” and harnessing the power of social media

• Chloe’s thoughts around breathing new life into ancient teachings, collaboration as medicine, and how to navigate moments of “compare and despair”

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Connect With Chloe Slattery

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube

The Mojo Mecca Podcast on Soundcloud

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Click to hear my interview on The Mojo Mecca Podcast

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Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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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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Ep. 109 Plantcestors, People, Place :: Growing Ancestral Food as Medicine & Community Connection with Brandon Ruiz

Brandon Ruiz is a community herbalist and urban farmer living in Charlotte, NC. He owns Atabey Choreto Medicinals, directs the CLT Herbal Accessibility Project and spends his time working in urban gardens, making medicine and working with his community. Brandon works mainly with plants of the tropics, specifically from the Caribbean and Borikén (Puerto Rico), his ancestral homeland.

In this interview, Brandon shares his plant path starting with a remedy from his grandmother that saved him from surgery. We discuss how he mingles herbal medicine with herbal history and herb cultivation, and also with community activism - looking at the elements we need to cultivate a community movement. 

Brandon shares how he started a community garden project and how connection to plants can bring people together, why he began growing plants for food with ancestral connection, and the importance of growing your own food to connect with your ancestors. We talk about the challenges of tracking ancestral history and lineages for BIPOC, and bias in genetic testing. Finally Brandon shares words of advice for others wanting to start up an herbal history garden or cultural community herbalism project.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Brandon began his plant path early starting with a remedy from his grandmother that saved him from surgery

• What inspired Brandon to mingle herbal medicine with herbal history and herb cultivation

• The meaning of Atabey and Choreto, and the link to Taino indigenous roots

• Why Brandon began growing plants for food with ancestral connection, and the importance of growing your own food to connect with your ancestors

• How Brandon started a community garden project and how connection to plants can bring people together

• What connection to “plantcestors” can bring forth for people, Brandon shares about his own cultural heritage and which plants are especially dear to him

• How Brandon is focusing on growing plants that are culturally significant to communities in Charlotte, NC, including Molocia (Egyptian spinach or jute), culantro/recao (the main herb in sofrito), and more

• The power of food for connecting, how foods have been shared & blended culturally

• Changing the food system: Self-sufficiency as part of the reclamation process

• Brandon’s vision for the future of the Charlotte Herbal Accessibility Project

• The challenges of tracking ancestral history and lineages for BIPOC, and bias in genetic testing

• Bits on the history of the Carribean and its diverse multicultural background

• How botany is a “hands-on sport” and can be a spiritual experience

• Words of advice for others wanting to start up an herbal history garden or cultural community herbalism project, and how it all starts with personal connection

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Connect With Brandon Ruiz

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Donations to the Charlotte Herbal Accessibility Project can be made via the website: The Charlotte Herbal Accessibility Project

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds

Truelove Seeds, @seedkeeping

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Ep. 108 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Gemini :: Conscious Communication Begins with Breath

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 Gemini :: Conscious Communication Begins with Breath

Full moon blessings, bbs! Venessa and Megan talk about this full moon in Gemini and the opportunity it brings to reflect on communication in the realms of love and money - and it all starts with you. We discuss the importance of effective communication for the healing process, tending to our inner realms of communication, and how breathwork can support this process, esp around the realms of release work.

Megan shares her amazing rituals including a year-end review, using a talking stone at the dining table, and we both share how creating a connection and communication with Divine/Source/God/Universe through the power of prayer can cultivate a safe container for being witnessed and accepted wholly. We explore some of our fave herbs to support the Gemini connections to the nervous system and the lungs, such as Venessa’s love affair with milky oat tops, and valerian as Megan’s trusted nightcap.

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Show Notes

• Full moon in Gemini all about communication and navigating our relationships, releasing the last bits of what is not serving us in the realms of love and money.

• Organs related to Gemini: lungs, nerves, the Nervous System, arms, shoulders, hands

• The importance of noticing the patterns and quality of our breathing - notice if you are holding your breath and where you hold tension

• What is going on in your life experience that is leading to the holding of your breath or holding tension

• How critical it is to find a good breathwork facilitator and someone who can hold space and knows how to work with trauma

• The triple conjunction of Venus, Saturn, and Pluto with this moon, this means serious focus involving love and/or money are reaching a crisis point

• The importance of communication for energetic flow, health, detoxification, release, and the dangers of not communicating in a healthy way

• What are those things over the year 2019 that you’ve been wanting to communicate, release, let go

• Megan shares her amazing rituals including a year-end review, using a talking stone at the dining table, 

• How creating a connection and communication with Divine, Source, God, Universe through prayer can cultivate a safe container for being witnessed and accepted wholly

• How prayer can look different for everyone, and how Megan and Venessa communicate with the Divine/Source/God

• Herbs to support Gemini-related nervous system: Oats - OG herbal ally for supporting the nervous system and how Venessa is having a love affair with milky oat tops, Valerian - this herbal ally that supports Megan as a night cap may not work well for everyone, Skullcap - also helps us to organize and busyness, Catnip, California Poppy

• Herbs to support Gemini-related lung health: aromatic, culinary herbs such as Peppermint, Sage, Rosemary, Thyme; and an herbal fave of Megan’s: herbal honey!

• We invite you to carve out a ritual for setting yourself up for connection and deeper communication for this last full moon of the year.

Resources

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Tara Brach

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. You can now leave us a voice message!

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Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 107 Tree Spirit Wisdom: Healing Collective Wounds & Restoring Connection with Laural Virtues Wauters

Laural Virtues Wauters encourages us to "wonder" as we open our minds to see with our hearts. She supports us on the journey of being co-creators of our reality by helping us heal our personal and collective stories. Laural empowers us to explore our internal and external landscape by holding space for us to dive deep within our shadows to embrace our truth.

In this episode, you’ll hear Laural’s incredible life story of wonder, mystery, loss, and self discovery, beginning with an encounter with a tree spirit that held a profound message for her.

Laural shares how 911 was a turning point for Laural in rekindling her life purpose: to help people understand each other better.

We discuss the collective wounds that we all face together, and the important concept of the “world tree” or “tree of life” in our individual and collective healing work. Laural talks about the intrinsic nature of Trees and the multitude of Gifts of ancient wisdom and knowledge that trees have imparted to us - connecting us to the stars, astrology, astronomy, calendar + time, math and more.

Laural takes us on a journey tracing the fascinating etymology and original meaning of the word God, and the connection to trees within world religions starting in Mesopotamia 3500 BCE with an original wind god.

She shares the biggest revelations that she has had in her incredible life experience and how our ancestral lineage holds a key to our soul path and purpose. You’ll also hear about her upcoming workshop offerings such as the Tree Spirit Wisdom Weekend Intensive based off her beautiful Tree Spirit tarot - Connecting us with the wisdom and spirit of trees, and Exploring the archetypal stories of 78 trees.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Laural’s incredible story of mystery, loss, and self discovery, beginning with an encounter with a tree spirit that held a profound message for her

• Laural’s spiritual encounters in childhood and challenging experiences that shaped her path, like the discovery of her adoption, loss of parents, and uprooting into a new world

• How 911 was a turning point for Laural in rekindling her life purpose: to help people understand each other better

• How Laural’s tree spirit revealed itself once again as the Tree of Life and seeded Laural’s journey and mission to unravel & untangle the shared roots of world belief from 40 BC to present day in every continent

• Laural discusses the collective wounds we all face together, and the important concept of the “world tree” or “tree of life”

• How Carl Jung’s work influenced Laural’s way of unraveling the collective wounds and stories we hold and must work through

• How we can begin to tap back into a sense of connection as individuals and as a collective, and how shadow work and moving through fear is critical to restoring connection and wholeness without judgement

• The difference between discernment and judgement, and Laural’s helpful cereal box analogy

• How compassion has been the best medicine for Laural in facing shadows and difficult times

• The biggest revelations that Laural has had in her incredible journey

• Laural takes us on a journey tracing the etymology and original meaning of God and the connection to trees in world religion starting in Mesopotamia 3500 BCE with an original wind god, Oak trees as oracles, and the original word guthen (before God) - meant to invoke the sound of the wind in the trees, and how the word God was first used in 1400 CE

• What Laural sees as one of the best ways we can support ourselves right now

• The intrinsic nature of Trees and the multitude of Gifts of knowledge that trees have imparted to us - How trees have (and continue to) helped us connect to the wisdom of the stars, astrology, astronomy, calendar + time, math - ancient Knowledge is powerful

• How “left” came to be seen as connected to the dark and associated with evil/Devil

• How everyone has their individual Work, and how comparison with someone else’s journey can be a distraction

• How Laural helps others with ancestral work, and how our ancestral lineage holds a key to our soul path and purpose

• How the trees embody the cosmology of the 3 worlds, body-mind-spirit, and invites us to embody this Truth within ourselves

• Laural’s upcoming workshops and offerings

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Connect With Laural Virtues Wauters

Website | Facebook

Other websites: www.mandalachakra.com and www.treespiritwisdom.com

Tree Spirit Workshop at Hawthorn Institute

Books by Laural:

The Guardian Tree – The True Story of Carmen Sylvia (my autobiography)

Mandala Chakra – Awaken the One Within (Oracle deck of 50 cards sold separately)

Tree Spirit Tarot – Return to the Garden of Our Soul (Tarot deck of 78 cards sold separately)

Mandala Art: Ink Drop Art Haus

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Ep 47 The Medicine of Place: Place-Based Herbalism, Imaginative Realms, & Land Connection with Tyler Wauters

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Ep. 105 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Sagittarius :: Adapting to Change, Pacing Ourselves, Twerking as Medicine

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 Sagittarius :: Adapting to Change, Pacing Ourselves, Twerking as Medicine

Happy new moon! Venessa and Megan talk about how this new moon in Sagittarius houses a beautiful energy to reflect on recent themes before Eclipse season arrives, invitations for working with our root chakra, and adapting to change. We discuss the importance of working with our bodies and mining our thoughts, and ways to support our internal fires so we don’t burn out. 

We share some of what we’ve been working on to support our root and allow more flow (i.e. are you holding your pee too?) such as honoring our body’s rhythms, self massage and twerking as medicine. We explore some of our fave moistening and circulatory foods & herbs to support the flow of that heat related to weakened or imbalanced Sagittarius fire.

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Show Notes

• The last New Moon before Eclipse season begins - This is our chance to revisit themes, lessons, and patterns we have been working with since the last Eclipse back in July 2019.

• Remember this is a MARATHON not a sprint. Be flexible, adaptable, open-minded and pace yourself.

• Change is coming - Open-mindedness and flexibility will allow you to choose the best of the opportunities created by the chaotic

• The importance of tapping into our parasympathetic stress response

• Flight Fight or Freeze response, and how Venessa learned she’s prone to the freeze response

• The importance of knowing your stress response and patterns to deal with stress in creating a plan and an environment that is supportive

• Paying attention to and assessing our automatic thoughts is a good first place to start - catching yourself when you have a “negative” thought and notice what kind of response it induces in your body

• Assessing the ecology of our thoughts and our body-mind (bidirectional) connection is one of the critical things we can do to support our health

• Somatic experiencing and therapies and their use in releasing thoughts, beliefs, traumas, and energies

• How Megan is working on NOT holding her pee, massaging her abdomen, and trauma work for her root chakra

• How Venessa is working with her left hip issues and going back to her roots of dancing as medicine at hip hop class

• Organs related to Sagittarius: hips, thighs, sacrum

• How to soften our rigidity to tap into our inner healer

• Practices we’re focusing on this moon: MOVEMENT Dance, moving body in rhythm; twerking as medicine “twerk werk”, rolling on the floor, hip openers, hip shaking, self massage and abhyanga

• How you can get burned if you don’t pace yourself

• How self massage is a process of courtship

• How we are programmed to not like what we have, and the essential practice of DE-programming through sensual connection and listening to our bodies

• What Megan believes is one of the most critical steps to healing (and the first place to start)

• Herbs and foods Megan and Venessa use to support the fire element in our bodies, whether it’s modulation of inflammation or boosting digestion

• Remedies for Imbalanced and/or Weakened Sagittarius: Anti-inflammatories and moistening herbs

Resources

Rebecca Katz’ Magical Bone Broth

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

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Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 104 The Power of Moon Circles & The Wild Woman Archetype with Chris Maddox

Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the director of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.

An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.

In this interview, Chris shares how she started the Wild Woman Project, and how it has grown from 1 new moon circle to hundreds in over 18 countries. We explore the power of the circle “architecture” and what sits as the heart of her mission with community circles. We talk about the “wild woman” archetype - what it is and how she can support our evolution.

Chris shares how we can use community circles and spiritual connection to the Divine Feminine consciousness to navigate the hardships within our individual lives and those of the greater collective experience. This was definitely a wildly rooted conversation and hope it inspires you to commune in circle with other beautiful beings if that’s an experience you have not yet had.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Chris started the Wild Woman Project, and how it has grown from 1 new moon circle to hundreds in over 18 countries

• The power of the circle “architecture” and what sits as the heart of her mission with community circles

• What is the “wild woman” archetype and what can she do for us

• Chris’ past experience as an actor, director, participating in Vagina Monologues and the start of her spiritual journey into the wild woman path with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run with the Wolves

• Why Chris believes we need to turn toward the natural world, and how she went from living in NYC to the countryside and into the wilderness

• Why Chris believes there’s nothing more natural than women circles

• What does a community circle look like - Chris breaks down the different elements of a women’s circle, and the themes of focus in the Wild Woman Project circles

• What prompted Chris to begin leading circles, the “audacity” of leadership, and how to start leading circles of your own

• How facilitating circles has impacted Chris’ life

• The shift in consciousness and way of relating that can unfold when we regularly commune in circle with one another

• How we can use the community circles and spiritual connection to the Divine Feminine consciousness to navigate the hardships within our individual lives and the greater collective experience (ie violence against Mother Earth, people, etc)

• Chris’ “digital detox”, getting connected In Real Life, and the yearly Wild Woman Fest

• Chris’ vision for Wild Woman Project for 2020 and beyond, and what’s feeding her wild

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Connect With Chris Maddox

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Sign up for Wild Woman Weeklyish: https://thewildwomanproject.com 

Find a Wild Woman Project Circle Near You: https://thewildwomanproject.com/find-a-moon-circle/

Join for Circle Leader Training: https://thewildwomanproject.com/lead-your-own-moon-circle/

Learn More about Wild Woman Fest: https://wildwomanfest.com

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Ep 70 FEED YOUR WILD TURNS 1! First Anniversary Special :: Curanderismo, Prophecy & Mindfulness with Brenda Salgado

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run with the Wolves*

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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Ep. 103 Thus Spoke The Plant :: Exploring Plant Cognition & The “Real Plant Revolution” with Monica Gagliano

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*Due to Monica’s location in nature at her home in Australia, the internet connection gets disrupted at certain points in the conversation - while we did our best to make the audio sound better at certain points, we apologize for the quality and encourage you to continue listening as she has so many amazing things to say. 

In her book Thus Spoke The Plant, a “phytobiography”– or a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant –research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices.

Monica’s research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, Monica has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing. 

In this interview, Monica shares about how an ethical crisis was the seed that changed the course of Monica’s career and led to her working with plants and writing her book. We talk about the collective “plant blindness” and Monica shares how resistant and scared she was to change.

We talk about Trust as one of the biggest lessons Monica has and continues to learn through this work, and Monica’s explanation of “personhood” with regards to plants, and thus the legality of the natural world. Monica shares what the “real plant revolution” is and its many implications... plus lots of talk on top issues capturing Monica’s attention: GMOs, Cannabis, and the appropriation of potent medicinal plants on a larger scale.

Stick to the end to hear Monica’s request for your support and how you can help her mission to protect and restore the ecologies of the Earth!

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How an ethical crisis was the seed that changed the course of Monica’s career and led to her working with plants and writing her book

• How being let go from her job, living off of little income and entering more challenging times and emotions ushered her into a deeper journey with plants and her mission to advocate for them

• Monica explains “plant blindness” and shares how resistant and scared she was to change

• How Trust is one of the biggest lessons Monica has and continues to learn through this work

• How Monica communicates with plants and “hears” their messages, and the evolution of her relationship to them

• Monica’s explanation of “personhood” with regards to plants, and the origins of the word “person”, the concept of masks and personas, and the problems with anthropomorphizing plants

• The legality of the natural world, how plants are agents that have their own interests, and the cloudy legalities around the rights of plants and nature

• The wishful thinking of the name Homo sapiens and the false “othering” between humans and nature

• The “real plant revolution” and its implications: an evolutionary process into a “new old” human

• The importance of Imagination, and the collective point of tension we are experiencing before the bow releases the arrow

• The top issues that are capturing Monica’s attention: GMOs, Cannabis, and the decriminalization + appropriation of potent medicinal plants on a larger scale

• Monica’s view on GMOs, how she doesn’t believe it’s founded in science and shouldn’t be funded

• How we need to change our collective Mind before we are able to change our world

• What Monica has received from the plants on how to “change our Mind”, and how it involves the deconstruction of the Self

• Monica’s advice for folx midwifing ourselves into a new story and new Mind

• Which plant is feeding her wild right now and the beautiful vision of a new grassroots project she received 

• The importance of sound and what is being discovered thru soundscape ecology and plant bioacoustics

• How you can support Monica and her team in this new project to support the planet

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Connect With Monica Gagliano

Website | Twitter | Facebook

Thus Spoke The Plant by Monica Gagliano

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Monica Gagliano in the New York Times: Do Plants Have Something To Say?

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

Get access to this 6-module audio program for free!

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...) 

Your support means the world...

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To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.

If you would like to make a one-time contribution, you may use our personal Venmo Link here and offer any dollar amount you'd like - send to @WildlyRooted: https://venmo.com/WildlyRooted

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Ep. 102 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Taurus :: Clearing Throats, Manifesting Desires

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 Taurus :: Clearing Throats, Manifesting Desires

Happy full moon bbs! Today Venessa and Megan talk about how this full moon in Taurus is an awesome time for completing long term goals, making dreams a reality, and understanding and communicating your feelings. We’re gettin crafty and creating our reality by hand and voice, and physically, we’re tending the throat chakra and organs ie thyroid, tonsils, vocal cords, etc. 

We share some of what we’ve been struggling with on a personal level, Venessa shares her challenges with communicating and activating her voice, and surfacing of deep emotions. We explore Truth-speaking as it relates to our health - how we often hold things in so as not to hurt others, and how this can impact our physiology.

Of course we talk food, herbs, and a fall time stomach acid challenge we’re inviting you into! 

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Show Notes

• How this full moon in Taurus is an awesome time for completing long term goals, making dreams a reality, and understanding and communicating your feelings

• Taurus vibes this moon - we’re gettin crafty and creating our reality by hand and voice

• Physically, we’re looking at the throat chakra and organs ie thyroid, tonsils, vocal cords, etc

• How slowing down can make us more “productive”

• Megan’s journey with crafting, the compare and despair journey, and coming into her own

• Venessa shares her personal challenges with communicating and activating her voice, and surfacing of deep emotions

• Truth-speaking - how we often hold things in so as not to hurt others, and how this can impact our physiology

• The conversions connection - converting our mind/heart to expressed words, converting thyroid hormones for healthy metabolism

• The interconnections in our physical bodies and energy bodies, such as the connection between stomach (solar plexus) and thyroid (throat chakra)

• We’re inspired to do a stomach acid “challenge” - ways to support your stomach acid this moon cycle:

  • Add in 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar to water before meals, lemon to water, pure celery juice, hydrochloric acid supplementation if needed

• Blue/aquamarine color related to thyroid/throat chakra: 

  • eat blue and sea-based foods to support the throat! 

  • Foods for thyroid: sea veggies (minerals/iodine), brazil nuts (for selenium)

• Herbs for throat: antimicrobial: thyme, sage, rosemary, honey; mucilaginous: aloe vera, marshmallow root, slippery elm, licorice, 

• Making herbal gargles to use to clear stagnation in throat (energetic + physical) to support the vocal expression of truth; Megan’s recipe: oregon grape, astragalus, garlic

• Energetic use of herbs, i.e. Calamus (aka Sweet Flag) - has a signature for the throat (roots look like larynx), has been traditionally used to support the voice, esp for singers in Native American traditions and India/Ayurveda

Resources

Instagram inspiration (one of Megan’s faves): @farmandfolk

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

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Ep. 101 11:11 Personal Reflections: My Winding Career Path, Disorientation As Medicine, Biggest Lessons & Takeaways

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Happy 11/11! In this solo episode, I was inspired to get personal and allow some intuitive sharings to come thru straight from the heart. I speak to what 11:11 means to me and talk about my career journey including things I have not shared publicly before. I talk about what I learned working in “corporate” and in an entrepreneurial setting for 10 years before I jumped ship into my own company, and my take on the “medicine of disorientation” and the unbearable feeling of “not knowing what to do next”.

I also share the biggest takeaway lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years and what I’ve been up to lately including new & exciting things coming out in 2020! This kind of intuitively led episode was a stretch for me (I like to prepare + plan, even for the Akashic readings!) so I trust there were supportive insights reflected in my own personal journey for ya!

Show Notes

• What 11:11 means to me, an intuitively led episode, my journey including things I have not shared before publicly about my path in career and with Feed Your Wild

• How I didn’t know what the heck I wanted to do “when I grew up” 

• How I felt that creative performance had to be a part of my life in some way but didn’t

• How the visions that others have for us can uplift us and also hold us back

• How my parents’ “immigrant work mentality” and work ethic shaped my beliefs and work

• Allow for the unplanned to unfold

• What I learned working in “corporate” and in an entrepreneurial setting for 10 years before I jumped ship into my own company

• My foray into health coaching, getting certified and starting to moonlight as a coach on the side

• The importance of having a net to catch you before you take a career leap

• The medicine of disorientation and the unbearable feeling of “not knowing what to do next”

• How I sought out help that changed my life and the circles and mentors that have supported me

• What seeing millions of dollars being transferred daily taught me

• The biggest takeaway lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years

• It may not be easy, but if it feels effortless it’s probably what you’re supposed to be doing

• What my work looks like today outside of the podcast :)

Resources

Ep 000 Welcome to Feed Your Wild :: Food for your Body, Mind, & Soul

Ep 001 Tapping Into Your Every Day Medicine with Susan Lipshutz

Hawthorn Institute

Ep 047 The Medicine of Place: Place-Based Herbalism, Imaginative Realms, & Land Connection with Tyler Wauters

Herbal Anatomy Workshop Series (in person) with Venessa Rodriguez & Anja Robinson

Northwest Memory Center, Dr. Deborah Gordon

The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline by Dr. Dale Bredesen

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Ep. 100 Healing Our Money Stories with Rachel Peavy

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I can’t believe how different things are in my life now from when we began..., not just health but LIFE. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the coaching and caring I was provided. Thank you for your eternal awesomeness!" ~ Sarah G.

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On today’s episode, we’re talking with Rachel Peavy. Rachel is a money healer, tarot reader and intuitive empath. She works with clients to help them cultivate an empowered relationship with money through heart-centered budget guidance that combines the soulful, the practical and the mystical.

In this lively conversation, Rachel shares how physical health challenges such as migraine, gut issues, and infertility challenges were the catalysts that led her to a major turning point in her life. We talk about how healing money stories has a ripple effect into all areas of our lives, the shame and fear around money, debt, and breaking thru blocks around money.

We dive into the shadow side of Capitalism, and Rachel shares her thoughts on the individual + collective money story, including an exploration in alternative forms of provision and economy. Of course, we share practical tips for cultivating a healthy relationship with money, abundance, and worth.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How physical health challenges such as migraine, gut issues, and infertility challenges (third eye, solar plexus, and sacral chakra imbalances) were the catalysts that led Rachel to a major turning point in her life 

• How she began questioning the paths of “success” she had been programmed to follow

• How blending yoga, spirituality, and the practical tools of budgeting and finance led to a business Rachel is passionate about

• The most common “money stories” that Rachel sees playing out for people and her advice for each

• How healing money stories has a ripple effect into all areas of our lives

• Self worth and how it plays out in various money stories 

• The shadow side of Capitalism, and Rachel’s thoughts on the individual and collective money story, including people that are marginalized

• What is abundance and the importance of shifting mindset around scarcity

• Seeing money as a partner vs an adversary or something that’s evil

• How Rachel sees salary transparency as one step toward better collective money stories and behaviors, and the power of transparency in general

• Shame and fear around money, debt, and breaking thru blocks around money

• Practices that Rachel uses to ground her clients 

• How the internet and social media has erased “intentional spending” and deleting the virtual wallet

• Identifying the “energy vampire” in your wallet

• Practicing the “pause” and other tips for building a healthier relationship to money

• We explore alternative forms of “economy” and how community plays a huge role

• The struggles that parents, especially mothers, face within the current economic culture

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Website | Instagram | Facebook

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Resources + Links Mentioned 

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein

The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness by Bari Tessler

Money Magic Manifestation Cards by Ethany

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