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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

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

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

This Episode's Theme...

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

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

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Aquariuuuuuusssss

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

• Signs that your adrenals are stressed

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

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

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

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

• Sour cherries and montmorency cherries boosting levels of melatonin

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

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

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

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

• Intermittent resting and the importance of silence for cellular regeneration

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

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

Questions to Ask Yourself this Full Moon

• What is my relationship to rest?

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

• What might you need rest from?

Resources + Links Mentioned

Functional Medicine Matrix

Andrea Nakayama and the Functional Nutrition Alliance

Pilar Gerasimo on Ultradian rhythm - unplugging every 90 minutes

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

Deanna Minich podcast on Intermittent Resting

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

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Ask Us Your Top Q's!

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

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

• The power of plants in our perception shifts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Connect With Whitney Popham + The School of Evolutionary Herbalism

Website | Facebook | Instagram

Resources + Links Mentioned

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

Suzanne Tabert at Cedar Mountain Herb School in Washington

Milla Prince

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: virtual workshop

Website 

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2018

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

Duration: 3 hours

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

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

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

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

Click here to learn more

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

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

• Physical activation through frequency and vibration

  • Singing, especially in unison, chanting, Om chanting

  • Devices to stimulate vagus nerve

  • Gargling 

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

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

• Meditation and prayer - rosary prayer study

• Nutrients + Food to support vagus nerve:

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

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

Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: virtual workshop

Website 

Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2018

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

Duration: 3 hours

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

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

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

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

Click here to learn more

Your support means the world...

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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

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

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

This Episode's Theme...

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

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

Blessed New Moon!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

practices to try for this New Moon: WILD Water

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

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

Resources + Links Mentioned

Max Dashu’s interview on the Feed Your Wild Podcast

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

Bristol Stool Chart

Lara Adler

Water Filter Buying Guide from EWG

Wildly Rooted Resources

Findaspring.com

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

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

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

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

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Connect With Max Dashu

Website | Facebook | Max's Veleda Press

Resources + Links Mentioned

Max Dashu's Academic Papers + Work

Deasophy Goddess Coloring Book

History Sibyl podcasts

Art by Max Dashu

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

Your support means the world...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• The problem with soil erosion and desertification of the Amazon

• The question that Irene wants you to ask yourself

• Simple steps people can start to help restore the Amazon

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

Connect With Irene Shamma

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

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

A journey through the Amazon to the heart Interview with TreeSisters

Healing The Healer Facebook page

Resources + Links Mentioned

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

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

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

Boundaries and Protection by Pixie Lighthorse*

Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth documentary

TreeSisters: Women Seeding Change

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

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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

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

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

This Episode's Theme...

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

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

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

Happy Full Moon!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• The importance of slowing down and chewing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: Virtual Workshop!

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

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

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

Date: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018

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

Duration: 3 hours

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

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

Special Pre-Sale Pricing Ends July 15!

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

Resources + Links Mentioned

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

Many Moons by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith*

Andrea Nakayama's Functional Nutrition Alliance

Four Sigmatic Reishi Mushroom Elixir*

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

Rasa Koffee Ground Adaptogenic Herbal Coffee*

Aviva Romm and her book The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution*

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

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

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Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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

Photo by Thais Llorca

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

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

Photo by Ángela Mari

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is ethnobotany and the meaning behind “botanicultura”

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

• The rich stories of “barefoot healers”

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

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

• Why Maria believes “we are all healers”

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

• Puerto Rican folkloric tradition of green medicine and home remedies

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

• Miraculous remedies and the most surprising ones that Maria encountered

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Connect With María Benedetti

Website | Facebook 

Resources + Links Mentioned

Susun Weed ~ Wise Woman Traditions

María Benedetti’s books including:

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

• Dolores and Milagros: A story for our innocence

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

Marisel Herbal Bath & Body in San Juan, PR

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

Ways you can Support Puerto Rico

From the VRNIK blog:

Trustworthy organizations that are helping with reconstruction efforts

5 Ways to Help Puerto Rico as a Tourist

http://mariafund.org/

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Why "metaphorical paychecks" matter

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

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

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

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

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

Connect With Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

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

Resources + Links Mentioned

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

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

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

Podcasts Sarah is loving right now:

Dream Freedom Beauty with Natalie Ross

Health Fuels Hustle by Amy Kuretsky

Still Processing podcast, The New York Times

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

Ideal Futures podcast with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and Gina Young

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

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

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

This Episode's Theme...

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

• Why bitter is better, especially in this season

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

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

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

• Disconnected connection and what that means

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let us know!

Resources + Links Mentioned

Many Moons by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

TruRoots Organic Sprouted Mung Beans

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

Functional Nutrition Alliance

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand*

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

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

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

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

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• What Deanna considers as the “magic bullet supplement"

• How to become the “artist of your life”

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

Connect With Dr. Deanna Minich

Website | Facebook | Instagram

Resources + Links Mentioned

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

Access the 7 Systems of Health and Whole Detox Spectrum Quiz

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

Carolyn Myss

Louise Hay

Institute for Functional Medicine

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

• Steps in addressing your own eating challenges

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

• The innate wisdom in our “stuckness”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Connect With Dr. Anita Johnston

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Resources + Links Mentioned

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

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

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 6 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon in Sagittarius :: Blooming + Abundance

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

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

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

This Episode's Theme...

Full Moon in Sagittarius :: Blooming + Abundance

What does abundance look like in your life? What if you give yourself full permission to embody abundance... what would shift?

In this episode, Megan and Venessa share some practical tips and tools to really expand your time and energy, establish your own definition of and your relationship to abundance in this really potent time of the blooming flower full moon in Sagittarius! Enjoy!

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What does abundance really mean? Our own personal takes...

• What abundance looks like to Megan as a busy mama & entrepreneur

• How our concept of abundance has totally changed and why

• Getting into the flow and “river of abundance”

• Flower moon and blooming practices starting with the breath

• How breathwork and meditation can be a “vacation for introverts”

• The fascinating newly discovered role that our lungs have in our health and their importance in creating abundance

• One game-changing concept, practice, and way of understanding: rocks, pebbles, and sand philosophy

• The power of working with the Wheel - creating your own wheel of life, seasons, and body

• We walk you thru a practical way to actually create more time

• How brutal honesty can lead to freedom and choice

• The evolutionary programming that led to FOMO (fear of missing out)

• Expanding time through quantum relativity - AKA magic

• The concept of expansion in healing

• The importance of our mitochondria in our flow, expansion, and abundance

Two practices to try for this Full Moon:

• Rocks Pebbles Sand exercise - What is going to fill your container?

Remember... Rocks are your top priorities and commitments (the things that really matter in life) and you fill your container with those first; Pebbles are the things that nourish and grow you but are not as critical or necessary as your big Rocks; Sand is filler - all the things that make the icing on that gluten-free cake (think social media, emails, running little errands, etc) ;)

• Create your own wheel - wheel of life, wheel of health, wheel of your body...  

What are the areas on your wheel that you want to focus on? i.e. time in nature, family, being in tune with moon, exercise, spiritual wellness, ritual, sleep, food, career, purpose, etc

Venessa's Rocks Pebbles Sand Journal Example:

Rocks Pebbles Sand in planning for the week... 

Start off by doing a brain dump of all the things you want to get done or already have committed to.

After you list those off, you can start identifying which ones are the Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand.

Start filling your week with the Rock items first. Then the Pebble items. Then fill in wherever you have space with Sand items.

This should give you a good idea if you are planning/doing too much and highlight the stuff that actually matters! xo

Resources + Links Mentioned

Pixie Lighthouse

Courtney Riley

Moment App

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks*

Einstein Time by Gay Hendricks

Video about the Rocks Pebbles Sand philosophy and experiment

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

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

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

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

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

Your support means the world...

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Ep. 5 Overcoming Societal Pressures & Living By Heart: Stepping Into Your Innate Mastery with Catherine Scherwenka

“When we do creative things, we are more in our bodies, we are more in our hearts... and when we're more in our bodies & hearts, synchronicities happen, miracles happen, you set intention and it manifests... it's when all the magic happens.” 
– Catherine Scherwenka

What if what you thought was the picture of "success" was actually the source of your anxiety, depression, and frustration? What if you achieved everything that you thought would make you happy, yet you still felt restless and unfulfilled? That's what happened with Catherine Scherwenka, and through a series of tragedy and miracles, she found her way back to herself. She shares her remarkable story and how to live a more authentic life from a space of freedom, courage and Grace... dropping the stress, anxiety and societal pressures in order to step more powerfully into our innate mastery as the change makers we are meant to be before we were told who we should be.

Catherine Scherwenka is a globally recognized workshop facilitator that has led thousands of people through transformational experiences both in person as well as virtually. She incorporates a variety of modalities including Kundalini yoga, meditation, spiritual guidance, and mentoring on how to live a happier, more authentic, fulfilling life.

Catherine is a speaker and co - founder of FLY Retreats (Feel Like Yourself), IPI (Inner Peace Initiative) and a One Consciousness Transformer for O&O Academy, A school for the transformation of human consciousness.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How the tragedy of 9/11 drove Catherine into a depression and was the catalyst in her quest for the meaning of life and inner journey that changed her life

• How Mother Nature “cracked” her open and nourished her soul

• Why “Oneness” has profoundly changed her

• Brain research demonstrating the efficacy of meditation and Oneness teachings

• The difference between doing something because you “conceptually” think you should, vs embodying it

• How she found Kundalini yoga, catapulting her practice and work

• What to do when we can’t change what’s outside of us

• How Catherine went from living the “American dream” as a celebrity hairdresser in NYC, but feeling totally unfulfilled and trying to “fix” it all… to leading meditation and journeys in India and finding her soul calling through Oneness

• The biggest thing Catherine sees in people that is holding them back from happiness and fulfillment

• Why Catherine feels “feeding your wild” is the most important piece in getting unstuck

• How to bring more synchronicities and miracles into your life experience

• The hard truth about external influences, “voices”, and judgments… and what they say about ourselves

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

• How to overcome our biggest obstacle – our own mind

• Why Catherine says THANK YOU to those that trigger or irritate her

• How our conditionings create the illusion of separation

• The fun practice that Catherine started at the age of 46, but almost passed up because she thought she was "too old” 

Connect With Catherine Scherwenka

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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Catherine is generously offering 2 x FREE 30 min One-on-One sessions with her where together you'll determine what your primary struggle of the moment is with regards to your body, mind, & spirit. Catherine will create an easy practice for you to help support getting you from where you are to where you want to be! (These will go fast...)

To claim your spot, Email Info@catherinescherwenka.com and tell her how this private session will help you!

Resources + Links Mentioned

O&O Academy - A school for the transformation of human consciousness.

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 4 Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Family Constellations, and the Power of Voice Dialogue with Candice Wu

How can we heal intergenerational trauma? How do you know if you have inherited trauma and where do you begin? Candice Wu is an intuitive coach and holistic healing facilitator, who catalyzes the power of love, self-forgiveness, empowerment and body wisdom in her clients to heal trauma and intergenerational trauma from within. With a deep spiritual presence, Candice honor people as living and breathing art, unfolding so that they may each see and know themselves deeply.

Learn about the power of Family Constellations, somatic experiencing, and voice dialogue for healing trauma, one easy way to tune into your inner healer, and how allying with death can be apart of your wellness toolkit.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What are Family Constellations, how it works, and how they help in the healing of intergenerational trauma to assist you in your current life experience

• Venessa’s personal experience with having Candice lead her through her own Family Constellation

• Who Family Constellations work is helpful for

• How her former career as an art teacher and own healing journey shaped her path as a healer

• How she got into Family Constellation work through her own experience and how her first constellation became her own birthing story

• Her scary decision to leave her doctorate program and pursue her life path

• How yoga and the koshas (layers of being) underlie all aspects of her work, and an explanation of the koshas

• What is somatic experiencing and how you can get unstuck from past trauma by tapping back into the wisdom of your animal body

• The power of Voice Dialogue in accepting all of ourselves fully

• Where to start - practical ways to start getting unstuck and tapping into the wisdom of your own heart and inner guidance

• How to "ally with Death" and why it can be a powerful part of your toolkit

• How to take advantage of her amazing offerings that she is sharing with Feed Your Wild listeners

Connect With Candice Wu

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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You'll get access to Candice's Sound Sleep Alchemy Album + the Ally With Death Visualization for $15, valued at $45

>> SPECIAL SURPRISE GIFT #2 :: Soul Body Women's Retreat Discount

You're receiving a special offer of $150 off of your booking with the code FYWRETREAT!

Resources + Links Mentioned

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study)

Bianka Hardin, Founder of Centered Therapy Chicago

Somatic Experiencing Books - Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma* and In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness* by Peter Levine

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 3 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon in Taurus

Welcome to the first episode of FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

I am so excited to introduce you to my colleague and dear friend Megan Liebmann in our new collaboration on the podcast called #UNFILTERED Moon Musings!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

I wanted to bring in an element of raw, organic, and real conversation that was participatory... 

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

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

Megan is a functional nutritionist, herbalist, herbal educator, Earth medicine practitioner, healer, and intuitive nourishment guide specializing in women’s health.

Megan has been studying herbal medicine for the last 15 years with various mentors, teachers, guides and shamans, while at the same time working as a functional nutritionist and obtaining her masters degree in human nutrition and functional medicine. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two little boys.

Healing is a journey that is sacred and unique to each individual and Megan works as a guide for her clients as she helps them to cultivate their spiritual and physiological nourishment through her work with botanical medicine, food, heart medicine and intuitive therapies. 

This Episode's Theme...

New Moon in Taurus :: Planting Seeds + Emergence

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Intro to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings + what these are all about!

• Meet my amazing co-hostess Megan Liebmann

• Challenges of modern-day motherhood

• The absolute non-negotiable basics you need to have in place for a strong foundation to build resilience and health

• A simple practice to reset your circadian rhythm daily

• Breaking up with our cell phones in the morning

• Megan’s favorite morning ritual

• Supportive practices to help you and the power of possibility

• Why something as simple as making your bed in the morning can be a total game-changer

• How to use the process of anchoring to ground and fuel your new moon intentions

• What one thing Venessa and Megan are letting go of this New Moon

Two questions for you to consider this New Moon:

• What is one ingredient to add to life to thrive more?

• What is one thing to remove that will enable you to live your best life?

Resources + Links Mentioned

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

Feed Your Wild's First Podcast - Venessa's Story + Intro (Episode 00)

Podcast Interview with Susan Lipshutz - Tapping Into Your Every Day Medicine (Episode 01)

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben

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Ask Us Your Top Q's!

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

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

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Ep. 2 Wild Natural Beauty, Walking the Talk, & Motherhood as Medicine with Jessika Le Corre

“You hold the power to your beauty and to your health and to your ancient wisdom - it’s all within you.” 
– Jessika Le Corre

How can we begin incorporating the power of wild natural beauty & living in these modern times without slipping into overwhelm? Jessika Le Corre - creator of Feather Eagle Sky Skincare and mama of 3, weaves ancestral wisdom, having studied skin, herbs, flower remedies, essential oils and plant medicine with a seasoned Shaman. She shares why natural products are critical at this time, herbs + botanicals in her wellness toolkit, how to unlock your ancient wisdom and power to your beauty, plus Jessika's top beauty secrets, necessities, and non-negotiables when it comes to food/diet, morning practices, and ritual. 

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• The importance of connecting to your moon cycle as a guide for discerning what you need at that time

• Why natural products are critical at this time and their connection to dis-ease on a large scale

• Herbs + botanicals that Jessika uses in her wellness toolkit

• How to unlock your ancient wisdom and power to your beauty

• Her top beauty secrets, necessities, and non-negotiables when it comes to food/diet, morning practices, and ritual

• Jessika’s tips on how to tap into your inner wild & cellular messages

• The magical benefits of cold plunging

• Why harshness and being uncomfortable can be our greatest teacher and medicine

• Experiencing life as ceremony and how to participate fully

• Words of advice on overwhelm for busy mamas, and how Jessika navigates being a mother of 3, business owner + entrepreneurialism, and radical self-care

Connect With Jessika Le Corre

Website | Instagram

Resources + Links Mentioned

Feather Eagle Sky Skincare products

Moonbow, An Ode to the Sacred Cosmic Dimensions of Earth, Spirit, Love and Life

Christiane Northrup, M.D.

Wim Hof Method

MovNat

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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Ep. 1 Tapping Into Your Every Day Medicine with Susan Lipshutz

“We’re not willing when we feel we have a lot to lose, but we risk everything when we feel like we have nothing to lose. ” 
– Susan Lipshutz

How can we tap into our inner knowing and medicine? How can we move through fear in our most challenging moments? 

Susan Lipshutz, LCSW - sacred feminine activist and integrative psychotherapy has spent more than 30 years supporting seekers and building strong communities that reawaken and integrate the divine feminine into daily life, combining the ancient wisdom of our grandmothers with her own powerful teachings attuned to the complexities of modern life. 

Find out her most helpful tools and practices that have served Susan in her most challenging moments, 3 powerful questions to ask yourself in the healing process, and learn about the Akashic Records - what are they, how Susan uses them, and how they can be powerful in your healing journey.

I’m honored and excited to have Susan as my first guest for the launch of this podcast as she has not only been a mentor and dear friend, but her teachings and community offerings have supported so many women in her 30 years of service.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Susan’s origin story and spiritual awakening through service

• How moving into the “mundane” of her life cycle was transformative for her life + work

• How her own birthing story “cracked” her open and her abilities blossomed

• How the death of her mother led her to confront the darkness, challenge her beliefs, and find grace

• The healing power of women’s circles as mandalas

• How loss, curiosity, and the primal body can lead us into deeper layers of the self

• The two biggest things that are “killing us” in the Western world

• The most helpful tools and practices that have served Susan in her most challenging moments, such as after her breast cancer diagnosis

• The power of prayer and sacred reciprocity - and what that means

• 3 powerful questions to ask yourself in the healing process: What is my body telling me? What is that feeling inside of me telling me? What is good for me right now in the present moment?

• How to move through fear in challenging times

• The Akashic Records - what are they, how Susan uses them, and how they can be powerful in your healing journey

• How altars are one way that Susan feeds her own “wild”

Connect With Susan Lipshutz

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Resources + Links Mentioned

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert*

Mind Body Spirit Summit

MoonWise Podcast

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

Venessa's Akashic Records 101 {Video}

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

 

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

Welcome to Feed Your Wild! In this first episode, I'm honored to introduce myself, tell you a bit about the show, my story of overcoming chronic illness and how my mom's journey with breast cancer led me to the healing work I do today using food as medicine, nature-based practices, and intuitive guidance. I'll set the stage for what you can expect in upcoming episodes of Feed Your Wild.

This past weekend was a meaningful one for me as it was Mother's Day, and I feel so grateful to finally birth this baby podcast and share it with the world in honor of my mom Norma who was the catalyst for what I do and how I walk this earth today. I know she's always with me and I hope that you find a glimmer of hope or value listening to our stories. Te amo mami!

If you desire to lead a healthy regenerative lifestyle that supports your highest vision for yourself, to do the things you’ve been wanting to do, live your life to the fullest, and share your unique gifts... if you are being called to go DEEP with your soul journey and nourish ALL parts of you - body, mind, & soul... This is your show, this is Feed Your Wild.

So glad you are here!

Feed Your Wild podcast is a conscious lifestyle show about all things nourishing for your body, mind, and soul. I’m Venessa Rodriguez and join me for candid conversations with change makers exploring health + wellness, food as medicine, intuition + spirituality, & nature-based practices that will transform your health and feed ALL parts of your wild self.

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Connect With Venessa Rodriguez

Website | Instagram | Facebook

Wildly Rooted Resources

Sacred Ecology Activation Journey Audio

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