Ep. 126 Akashic Insights on Coronavirus, Fear, & Personal Reflections

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In this impromptu episode, I share insights from a recent Akashic Record reading on the current situation with Coronavirus, the state of fear we are collectively holding, and personal thoughts on how to move through this tumultuous time. Sending love and prayers of healing to everyone impacted, and an invitation to connect within your Self and one another through the heart.

March’s Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading podcast episode: http://www.wildlyrooted.com/fywpodcast/march2020

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Ep. 125 Saying NO to Big Food, Big Pharma with an Ancestral Mind with Colin Stucker

Today we’re speaking with Colin Stuckert, CEO and founder of Wild Foods Co and Ancestral Mind Podcast. I was a guest on Colin’s podcast talking about the mindset of diets, and we continued the conversation in today’s episode. Colin shares his unique perspective as an entrepreneur and the origin story of his company Wild Foods Co, what led him to starting a health food company based on ancestral wellness. Colin’s mission is to help 50 million people build the Ancestral Mind and say NO to Big Food, Big Pharma and a devolved life of chronic pain and disease.

You’ll get an inside look into a health food company, and how they stay in integrity with principles and quality to stay true to their mission. Colin talks about sourcing products sustainably and ethically, which foods to focus on, insidious food industry practices that undermine the consumer, and Colin’s perspective on the “ancestral mindset.”

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Colin’s origin story of his company Wild Foods Co, what led him to starting a health food company based on ancestral wellness

• Colin’s mission to help 50 million people build the Ancestral Mind and say NO to Big Food, Big Pharma and a devolved life of chronic pain and disease.

• The inside look into a health food company, how they stay in integrity with principles and quality to stay true to their mission

• How Colin sources products ethically from sustainable sources and decides which foods to focus on

• What people need to look for in products to determine sustainability and high quality

• Major insidious food industry practices that undermine the consumer and impact our health

• Colin’s perspective on the “Ancestral Mindset”, the top ancestral mind principles of health, and the concept of “action bias”

• What life looks like for an entrepreneur with a young kid and family, aspiring to embody these principles of wildness and natural living

• Colin’s top challenges within his own life and how he moves through them

• Colin’s personal opinion on current diet trends, and what the best steps are for most people

• Colin’s top book recs for ancestral mindset + business, top nourishment tools, and non-negotiables - his recommendation on what to invest in for your health

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Connect With Colin Stuckert

Website | Podcast | Instagram | Youtube

Resources

The Mindset of Diets with Venessa Rodriguez on the Ancestral Mind Podcast

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan

Sex at Dawn by Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan

Wildly Rooted Offerings

>> HERBAL ANATOMY SERIES :: Digestive System Intensive is March 21st/22nd! 

Imagine having more knowledge, confidence, & competence when it comes to herbal medicine...

Join us in Southern Oregon for this in-person immersive workshop series where students will learn clinical herbalism skills, the foundations of nutrition, and in-depth anatomy & physiology of the body through a holistic approach that weaves together the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with modern science & herbal medicine. 

*Come learn all about the digestive system and how you can utilize herbs, nutrition, & remedies to support yourself + your community!

WORKSHOPS: http://www.wildlyrooted.com/workshops

WORK WITH VENESSA

• Akashic Soul Record Readings

• Soul Nutrition Sessions

• 1:1 90 Day Private Akashic Mentorship Program

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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Ep. 124 Heal Yourself from the Pain of Childhood Trauma with Liz Mullinar of Heal For Life

Today I’m sitting with Liz Mullinar, a survivor of childhood trauma, trauma counsellor, and the founder of Heal For Life Foundation which has provided trauma recovery programs for over 20 years. She developed the Heal For Life Model in the early nineties when she felt along with other survivors of trauma that there had to be a permanent way of healing from the impact of childhood memories. 

Liz latest book is a step-by-step guide called HEAL FOR LIFE: How to Heal Yourself from the Pain of Childhood Trauma based on the Heal For Life model that has helped over 8,500 people self-heal from trauma. It demonstrates how to transform painful trauma memories and emotional triggers into permanent healing. 100% of the book’s proceeds go back to Heal for Life to pay for survivors to attend programs!

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Liz’ perspective on trauma, what it is, and its impact on the brain

• Impact of trauma on brain and nervous system

• Why trauma is so debilitating for years afterward

• Triggers - Liz’ unique perspective on how “triggers are treasures” and ow to de-trigger - Liz walks us through this important process

• How to get into your right brain to support yourself in trauma work

• Why Liz recommends we lean into our fears rather than avoid feeling the fear

• Why loving oneself is the first step in the healing journey

• Importance of safety for healing and impact of shame, how do we acquire shame and how do we heal from it?

• How to overcome trauma memories permanently - Liz gives us examples from her own life

• Changing thought patterns and literally change our brain so we can shift negative patterns, unpacking the not-Self and rediscover who we really are

• More inspiring info on the brain for healing

• Why Liz believes everyone can heal and steps to start healing your trauma

• The connection between chronic health challenges and trauma, such as migraine, chronic fatigue syndrome, and more plus Liz’ own experience with “unexplained” health challenges

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Connect With LIZ MULLINAR

Website | Book | Instagram | Facebook

“The best thing in the world is to touch the fear we felt in childhood and release it... because it’s transformational.” ~ Liz Mullinar

Resources

Heal For Life: How to Heal Yourself from the Pain of Childhood Trauma by Liz Mullinar

Wildly Rooted Offerings

>> HERBAL ANATOMY SERIES :: Digestive System Intensive is March 21st/22nd! 

Imagine having more knowledge, confidence, & competence when it comes to herbal medicine...

Join us in Southern Oregon for this in-person immersive workshop series where students will learn clinical herbalism skills, the foundations of nutrition, and in-depth anatomy & physiology of the body through a holistic approach that weaves together the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with modern science & herbal medicine. 

*Come learn all about the digestive system and how you can utilize herbs, nutrition, & remedies to support yourself + your community!

WORKSHOPS: http://www.wildlyrooted.com/workshops

WORK WITH VENESSA

• Akashic Soul Record Readings

• Soul Nutrition Sessions

• 1:1 90 Day Akashic Private Mentorship

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. 122 Functional Somatic Syndrome, Women’s Health, & Community Herbalism with Anja Robinson

Today we are speaking with Anja Robinson, Clinical Herbalist, Functional Nutritionist, Women’s Integrative Health Educator and founder of Poppy Herbals—an Herbal Elixir Bar and Apothecary in Ashland, OR. She’s also my co-facilitator for our upcoming Herbal Anatomy Series at Hawthorn Institute! In this episode, we’re talking about functional somatic syndrome (FSS) and the power of community health & herbalism in addressing complex health issues.

FSS has been around for thousands of years and various terminology has been used to describe it, including hysteria, somatoform disorders, and medically unexplained symptoms. FSS highlights the inefficacy of the conventional medical system in addressing root causes, the undeniable mind-body connection, the startling rates of trauma (esp in women) impacting health, and the lack of community wellness and support.

Together, Anja and I explore top ways to support those who have experienced FSS (many of us), the importance of community, and how to begin addressing the underlying issues related to so many unexplained or complex symptoms and health challenges.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Anja started down her path into herbalism, Ayurveda, nutrition and women’s health

• The normalization of dis-ease and imbalance in our medical system

• How active listening is an indispensable tool as a practitioner and part of the medicine

• The most common underlying factors of complex chronic health challenges

• What is functional somatic syndrome/somatic symptom disorder and how it relates to the prevalence of chronic health challenges, especially for women

• What common disorders and health challenges fall under the umbrella of somatic syndrome, including PMS, chronic fatigue, chronic pain

• Why Anja appreciates functional medicine and what some of the differences are between functional approach and conventional approach

• Why addressing the gut and blood sugar regulation are the first places to address when dealing with a complex health challenge or somatic syndrome

• How Anja uses elimination diets as a first line approach to reduce inflammation, support immune system, and identify triggers - Anja lists common foods to avoid

• Community herbalism and ways women can come together to support their health

• How women have increased exposure to toxins in daily life that have an impact on our detoxification system and overall health 

• The 3 pillars of health for women: diet + lifestyle; mind-body medicine; community

• Anja offers a few ways of how to build community and make community medicine

• Anja shares her favorite herbs + foods for supporting somatic syndrome and how to incorporate them as medicine

• One of Anja’s favorite practices: Ayurvedic abhyanga aka herbal body oiling for bringing medicine in a different way while also supporting natural detox, grounding, and can work more quickly than taking nervines internally

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Website | Instagram

Poppy Herbals—an Herbal Elixir Bar and Apothecary in Ashland, OR.

Resources

Mountain Rose Herbs

Oshala Farm

Pacific Botanicals

Starwest Herbs

Amber Magnolia Hill + Mythic Medicine

Wildly Rooted Offerings

>> HERBAL ANATOMY SERIES :: Digestive System Intensive is March 21st/22nd! 

Imagine having more knowledge, confidence, & competence when it comes to herbal medicine...

Join us in Southern Oregon for this in-person immersive workshop series where students will learn clinical herbalism skills, the foundations of nutrition, and in-depth anatomy & physiology of the body through a holistic approach that weaves together the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda with modern science & herbal medicine. 

*Come learn all about the digestive system and how you can utilize herbs, nutrition, & remedies to support yourself + your community!

WORKSHOPS: http://www.wildlyrooted.com/workshops

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. 121 La Cuarentena: Healinga in Postpartum with Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz

Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz (Tewa/Xicana) is a curandera, indigenous foods activist, and natural foods chef whose work is deeply rooted in the healing properties of all earth medicines. 

In this episode, we’re speaking on the topic of postpartum wellness, specifically la cuarentena - the period of postpartum recovery roughly 40 days of healing after childbirth. There is a version of the cuarentena in many cultures and Felicia shares her personal experience with the “4th trimester,” how she weaves in Ayurveda with Traditional Mexican knowledge, plus practical tips Felicia recommends for amplifying healing and setting yourself up for the most nourishing postpartum possible. We also have an important discussion around the title of Curandera and the power of honoring these sacred times in breaking ancestral & intergenerational trauma.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Felicia’s path into becoming a Curandera and her mission of sharing ancestral medicine with her community

• Her ancestral lineage, discovering aspects of her lineage previously unknown and her reclamation process 

• An important discussion around the concept of Curandera, how to honor the use of these titles, and the problematic phenomenon of “plastic” shamans, curanderas, etc

• Felicia shares the depth and sacredness of becoming a medicine person - and how it’s a lifelong process + commitment for her

• The “4th trimester” known as La Cuarentena and Felicia’s personal experience with the postpartum period

• How Felicia weaves in lightness, fun and humor into her teachings

• Felicia’s advice for planning a healing postpartum experience, and the importance of supportive relationships in this time

• The big mind-shifts required to set yourself up for a healing postpartum, and some of the biggest challenges Felicia sees people face during this time

• Practical tips Felicia recommends for amplifying healing and setting yourself up for the most nourishing postpartum possible

• The power of honoring these sacred times in breaking ancestral & intergenerational trauma

• How Felicia blends in Ayurveda and Traditional Mexican Knowledge beautifully together as complimentary indigenous systems

• The basic nutritional recommendations that Felicia found to be true across many different cultures for postpartum

• Foods and herbs to bring in and avoid during this period, and other considerations for new mothers

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Website | Instagram

NOURISHED MAMÁ :: Tips + recipe suggestions during la cuarentena

Resources

Cihuapactli Collective will be hosting the 4th Ancestral Womb Wellness Gathering (AWWG): Honoring Our Life Cycles on February 29, 2020 at the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center

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.

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. 120 Self-Empowerment Thru Connections with Local Wild Medicine with Laura Cascardi

In this episode, we’re speaking with Laura Cascardi. Laura’s passion for herbalism, healing, and well-being is evident in her 20 + years of working with herbs and people. In 2014, Laura co-founded the Equinox Center of Herbal Studies where she is the director and one of the primary teachers.

You can hear Laura’s passion for educating others on using plants for wellness and self-reliance in her voice, as she shares her plant path story. Laura talks about how she originally learned the wild, medicinal herbs from her grandmother and shares lessons carried from her time living off-grid + the medicine she brought back into “city life.” You’ll hear Laura’s powerful message for aspiring healers and how to leave behind mechanisms of control and become our authentic selves. We talk about how our connection to our environment and local medicines promotes self empowerment, and how to harness this power. Laura shares amazing advice for people on the plant and healing path.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Laura was introduced to the plant path by her grandmother, and how the mundane has led her to a love of botany & plants

• The lessons Laura carries from her time living off-grid and the medicine she brought back into “city life”

• The surprising behavior from people coming back into the city and how Laura continued deeply connecting with plants in this different environment

• How Laura learned how to use herbs based off need and through real life situations

• Why Laura started her herbalism school Equinox Center of Herbal Studies

• Laura’s powerful message for aspiring healers

• How Laura works with fear and her favorite herbal allies that support us to break through limiting beliefs and patterns, including one that helps us walk away from that which doesn’t serve us

• Laura’s message to her students and those wanting to learn how to work with herbs, and why she’s not a fan of reading herbal books

• How to leave behind mechanisms of control and become our authentic selves

• Top advice Laura has for people on the plant and healing path

• How our connection to our environment and local medicines promotes self empowerment, and how to harness this power

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Connect With Laura Cascardi

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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. 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

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. 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

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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

Thank you as every penny counts toward supporting this work! xo

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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

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Resources + Links Mentioned 

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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

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. 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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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. 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

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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

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 monthly contribution, head to the Patreon page here.

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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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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.

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. 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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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.

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. 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…

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 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!

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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 monthly 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. 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

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