About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
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Happy new moon! Venessa and Megan talk about how this new moon in Sagittarius houses a beautiful energy to reflect on recent themes before Eclipse season arrives, invitations for working with our root chakra, and adapting to change. We discuss the importance of working with our bodies and mining our thoughts, and ways to support our internal fires so we don’t burn out.
We share some of what we’ve been working on to support our root and allow more flow (i.e. are you holding your pee too?) such as honoring our body’s rhythms, self massage and twerking as medicine. We explore some of our fave moistening and circulatory foods & herbs to support the flow of that heat related to weakened or imbalanced Sagittarius fire.
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The last New Moon before Eclipse season begins - This is our chance to revisit themes, lessons, and patterns we have been working with since the last Eclipse back in July 2019.
Remember this is a MARATHON not a sprint. Be flexible, adaptable, open-minded and pace yourself.
Change is coming - Open-mindedness and flexibility will allow you to choose the best of the opportunities created by the chaotic
The importance of tapping into our parasympathetic stress response
Flight Fight or Freeze response, and how Venessa learned she’s prone to the freeze response
The importance of knowing your stress response and patterns to deal with stress in creating a plan and an environment that is supportive
Paying attention to and assessing our automatic thoughts is a good first place to start - catching yourself when you have a “negative” thought and notice what kind of response it induces in your body
Assessing the ecology of our thoughts and our body-mind (bidirectional) connection is one of the critical things we can do to support our health
Somatic experiencing and therapies and their use in releasing thoughts, beliefs, traumas, and energies
How Megan is working on NOT holding her pee, massaging her abdomen, and trauma work for her root chakra
How Venessa is working with her left hip issues and going back to her roots of dancing as medicine at hip hop class
Organs related to Sagittarius: hips, thighs, sacrum
How to soften our rigidity to tap into our inner healer
Practices we’re focusing on this moon: MOVEMENT Dance, moving body in rhythm; twerking as medicine “twerk werk”, rolling on the floor, hip openers, hip shaking, self massage and abhyanga
How you can get burned if you don’t pace yourself
How self massage is a process of courtship
How we are programmed to not like what we have, and the essential practice of DE-programming through sensual connection and listening to our bodies
What Megan believes is one of the most critical steps to healing (and the first place to start)
Herbs and foods Megan and Venessa use to support the fire element in our bodies, whether it’s modulation of inflammation or boosting digestion
Remedies for Imbalanced and/or Weakened Sagittarius: Anti-inflammatories and moistening herbs
Rebecca Katz’ Magical Bone Broth
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Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the director of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance.
An ever student of the great mysteries of existence and nature itself, Chris believes women are holding innate gifts & tools that society at large needs – now more than ever. She is committed to helping women remember their special magic and to bring it forward into every corner of their lives, for the greater good of the planet.
In this interview, Chris shares how she started the Wild Woman Project, and how it has grown from 1 new moon circle to hundreds in over 18 countries. We explore the power of the circle “architecture” and what sits as the heart of her mission with community circles. We talk about the “wild woman” archetype - what it is and how she can support our evolution.
Chris shares how we can use community circles and spiritual connection to the Divine Feminine consciousness to navigate the hardships within our individual lives and those of the greater collective experience. This was definitely a wildly rooted conversation and hope it inspires you to commune in circle with other beautiful beings if that’s an experience you have not yet had.
In this episode, we discuss:
How Chris started the Wild Woman Project, and how it has grown from 1 new moon circle to hundreds in over 18 countries
The power of the circle “architecture” and what sits as the heart of her mission with community circles
What is the “wild woman” archetype and what can she do for us
Chris’ past experience as an actor, director, participating in Vagina Monologues and the start of her spiritual journey into the wild woman path with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run with the Wolves
Why Chris believes we need to turn toward the natural world, and how she went from living in NYC to the countryside and into the wilderness
Why Chris believes there’s nothing more natural than women circles
What does a community circle look like - Chris breaks down the different elements of a women’s circle, and the themes of focus in the Wild Woman Project circles
What prompted Chris to begin leading circles, the “audacity” of leadership, and how to start leading circles of your own
How facilitating circles has impacted Chris’ life
The shift in consciousness and way of relating that can unfold when we regularly commune in circle with one another
How we can use the community circles and spiritual connection to the Divine Feminine consciousness to navigate the hardships within our individual lives and the greater collective experience (ie violence against Mother Earth, people, etc)
Chris’ “digital detox”, getting connected In Real Life, and the yearly Wild Woman Fest
Chris’ vision for Wild Woman Project for 2020 and beyond, and what’s feeding her wild
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Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book Women Who Run with the Wolves*
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*Due to Monica’s location in nature at her home in Australia, the internet connection gets disrupted at certain points in the conversation - while we did our best to make the audio sound better at certain points, we apologize for the quality and encourage you to continue listening as she has so many amazing things to say.
In her book Thus Spoke The Plant, a “phytobiography”– or a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant –research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices.
Monica’s research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, Monica has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing.
In this interview, Monica shares about how an ethical crisis was the seed that changed the course of Monica’s career and led to her working with plants and writing her book. We talk about the collective “plant blindness” and Monica shares how resistant and scared she was to change.
We talk about Trust as one of the biggest lessons Monica has and continues to learn through this work, and Monica’s explanation of “personhood” with regards to plants, and thus the legality of the natural world. Monica shares what the “real plant revolution” is and its many implications... plus lots of talk on top issues capturing Monica’s attention: GMOs, Cannabis, and the appropriation of potent medicinal plants on a larger scale.
Stick to the end to hear Monica’s request for your support and how you can help her mission to protect and restore the ecologies of the Earth!
In this episode, we discuss:
How an ethical crisis was the seed that changed the course of Monica’s career and led to her working with plants and writing her book
How being let go from her job, living off of little income and entering more challenging times and emotions ushered her into a deeper journey with plants and her mission to advocate for them
Monica explains “plant blindness” and shares how resistant and scared she was to change
How Trust is one of the biggest lessons Monica has and continues to learn through this work
How Monica communicates with plants and “hears” their messages, and the evolution of her relationship to them
Monica’s explanation of “personhood” with regards to plants, and the origins of the word “person”, the concept of masks and personas, and the problems with anthropomorphizing plants
The legality of the natural world, how plants are agents that have their own interests, and the cloudy legalities around the rights of plants and nature
The wishful thinking of the name Homo sapiens and the false “othering” between humans and nature
The “real plant revolution” and its implications: an evolutionary process into a “new old” human
The importance of Imagination, and the collective point of tension we are experiencing before the bow releases the arrow
The top issues that are capturing Monica’s attention: GMOs, Cannabis, and the decriminalization + appropriation of potent medicinal plants on a larger scale
Monica’s view on GMOs, how she doesn’t believe it’s founded in science and shouldn’t be funded
How we need to change our collective Mind before we are able to change our world
What Monica has received from the plants on how to “change our Mind”, and how it involves the deconstruction of the Self
Monica’s advice for folx midwifing ourselves into a new story and new Mind
Which plant is feeding her wild right now and the beautiful vision of a new grassroots project she received
The importance of sound and what is being discovered thru soundscape ecology and plant bioacoustics
How you can support Monica and her team in this new project to support the planet
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Monica Gagliano in the New York Times: Do Plants Have Something To Say?
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Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…
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Happy full moon bbs! Today Venessa and Megan talk about how this full moon in Taurus is an awesome time for completing long term goals, making dreams a reality, and understanding and communicating your feelings. We’re gettin crafty and creating our reality by hand and voice, and physically, we’re tending the throat chakra and organs ie thyroid, tonsils, vocal cords, etc.
We share some of what we’ve been struggling with on a personal level, Venessa shares her challenges with communicating and activating her voice, and surfacing of deep emotions. We explore Truth-speaking as it relates to our health - how we often hold things in so as not to hurt others, and how this can impact our physiology.
Of course we talk food, herbs, and a fall time stomach acid challenge we’re inviting you into!
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How this full moon in Taurus is an awesome time for completing long term goals, making dreams a reality, and understanding and communicating your feelings
Taurus vibes this moon - we’re gettin crafty and creating our reality by hand and voice
Physically, we’re looking at the throat chakra and organs ie thyroid, tonsils, vocal cords, etc
How slowing down can make us more “productive”
Megan’s journey with crafting, the compare and despair journey, and coming into her own
Venessa shares her personal challenges with communicating and activating her voice, and surfacing of deep emotions
Truth-speaking - how we often hold things in so as not to hurt others, and how this can impact our physiology
The conversions connection - converting our mind/heart to expressed words, converting thyroid hormones for healthy metabolism
The interconnections in our physical bodies and energy bodies, such as the connection between stomach (solar plexus) and thyroid (throat chakra)
We’re inspired to do a stomach acid “challenge” - ways to support your stomach acid this moon cycle:
Add in 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar to water before meals, lemon to water, pure celery juice, hydrochloric acid supplementation if needed
Blue/aquamarine color related to thyroid/throat chakra:
eat blue and sea-based foods to support the throat!
Foods for thyroid: sea veggies (minerals/iodine), brazil nuts (for selenium)
Herbs for throat: antimicrobial: thyme, sage, rosemary, honey; mucilaginous: aloe vera, marshmallow root, slippery elm, licorice,
Making herbal gargles to use to clear stagnation in throat (energetic + physical) to support the vocal expression of truth; Megan’s recipe: oregon grape, astragalus, garlic
Energetic use of herbs, i.e. Calamus (aka Sweet Flag) - has a signature for the throat (roots look like larynx), has been traditionally used to support the voice, esp for singers in Native American traditions and India/Ayurveda
Instagram inspiration (one of Megan’s faves): @farmandfolk
Evolutionary Herbalism :: Tending to the Inner Cosmos with Holistic Plant Medicine with Sajah Popham
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Happy 11/11! In this solo episode, I was inspired to get personal and allow some intuitive sharings to come thru straight from the heart. I speak to what 11:11 means to me and talk about my career journey including things I have not shared publicly before. I talk about what I learned working in “corporate” and in an entrepreneurial setting for 10 years before I jumped ship into my own company, and my take on the “medicine of disorientation” and the unbearable feeling of “not knowing what to do next”.
I also share the biggest takeaway lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years and what I’ve been up to lately including new & exciting things coming out in 2020! This kind of intuitively led episode was a stretch for me (I like to prepare + plan, even for the Akashic readings!) so I trust there were supportive insights reflected in my own personal journey for ya!
What 11:11 means to me, an intuitively led episode, my journey including things I have not shared before publicly about my path in career and with Feed Your Wild
How I didn’t know what the heck I wanted to do “when I grew up”
How I felt that creative performance had to be a part of my life in some way but didn’t
How the visions that others have for us can uplift us and also hold us back
How my parents’ “immigrant work mentality” and work ethic shaped my beliefs and work
Allow for the unplanned to unfold
What I learned working in “corporate” and in an entrepreneurial setting for 10 years before I jumped ship into my own company
My foray into health coaching, getting certified and starting to moonlight as a coach on the side
The importance of having a net to catch you before you take a career leap
The medicine of disorientation and the unbearable feeling of “not knowing what to do next”
How I sought out help that changed my life and the circles and mentors that have supported me
What seeing millions of dollars being transferred daily taught me
The biggest takeaway lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years
It may not be easy, but if it feels effortless it’s probably what you’re supposed to be doing
What my work looks like today outside of the podcast :)
Ep 000 Welcome to Feed Your Wild :: Food for your Body, Mind, & Soul
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Herbal Anatomy Workshop Series (in person) with Venessa Rodriguez & Anja Robinson
Northwest Memory Center, Dr. Deborah Gordon
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On today’s episode, we’re talking with Rachel Peavy. Rachel is a money healer, tarot reader and intuitive empath. She works with clients to help them cultivate an empowered relationship with money through heart-centered budget guidance that combines the soulful, the practical and the mystical.
In this lively conversation, Rachel shares how physical health challenges such as migraine, gut issues, and infertility challenges were the catalysts that led her to a major turning point in her life. We talk about how healing money stories has a ripple effect into all areas of our lives, the shame and fear around money, debt, and breaking thru blocks around money.
We dive into the shadow side of Capitalism, and Rachel shares her thoughts on the individual + collective money story, including an exploration in alternative forms of provision and economy. Of course, we share practical tips for cultivating a healthy relationship with money, abundance, and worth.
In this episode, we discuss:
How physical health challenges such as migraine, gut issues, and infertility challenges (third eye, solar plexus, and sacral chakra imbalances) were the catalysts that led Rachel to a major turning point in her life
How she began questioning the paths of “success” she had been programmed to follow
How blending yoga, spirituality, and the practical tools of budgeting and finance led to a business Rachel is passionate about
The most common “money stories” that Rachel sees playing out for people and her advice for each
How healing money stories has a ripple effect into all areas of our lives
Self worth and how it plays out in various money stories
The shadow side of Capitalism, and Rachel’s thoughts on the individual and collective money story, including people that are marginalized
What is abundance and the importance of shifting mindset around scarcity
Seeing money as a partner vs an adversary or something that’s evil
How Rachel sees salary transparency as one step toward better collective money stories and behaviors, and the power of transparency in general
Shame and fear around money, debt, and breaking thru blocks around money
Practices that Rachel uses to ground her clients
How the internet and social media has erased “intentional spending” and deleting the virtual wallet
Identifying the “energy vampire” in your wallet
Practicing the “pause” and other tips for building a healthier relationship to money
We explore alternative forms of “economy” and how community plays a huge role
The struggles that parents, especially mothers, face within the current economic culture
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Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein
The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness by Bari Tessler
Money Magic Manifestation Cards by Ethany
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About Monthly Soul Nourishment Readings: These readings are usually filled with metaphor & symbols, so may require a bit of unraveling & might mean something different for each person, so pay attention to what comes up for you as you listen on. Hope they provide value and moments of reflection in your journey.
Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
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
It’s Scorpio season and we’re taking it slow this new moon and week of Halloween & Samhain. Today Venessa and Megan talk about how this Scorpio moon is calling us to deepen our intentions and dares us to find a place in our life experience where we can take it slow.
We share some of what we’ve been struggling with on a personal level, and the surprising remedies this moon has offered us. We discuss Scorpio’s influence on our 2nd chakra & reproductive organs, and how the medicine of Slowness facilitates deep healing & transformation in these areas (and assists other remedies such as our “hormone balancing” herbal allies and foods to work even better, or at all).
From Slow Food to Slow Making, this moon and season we are inviting you to literally carve out moments of stillness and savor the medicine.
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How we’re moving from extroverted time of spring and summer, into introverted slower time of fall
The importance of building in down time
Scorpio’s gifts of the medicine of Slowness
We can choose one specific area where we’re going “too fast” or feels out of control, and bring the medicine of Scorpio
The natural feelings of apprehension and anxiety that can come when faced with releasing or letting go of old habits, beliefs, etc
Megan’s highly extroverted weekend hangover and how she’s recovering
The movement of energy down into root chakra, the power of breath for slow and deep medicine, release of stagnation for healing
How syncing back into natural rhythm and flow allows for greater healing and the importance of carving out space for natural flow in this high paced world
Megan’s medicinal balm this season: driving slow
How hormonal remedies may not work if you don’t slow down and connect with yourself in a deeper way, and the
How symptoms and dis-ease is often an invitation: What is going on in there? What is out of alignment in my body and life experience? What is this imbalance or challenge related to? How we need to slow down to ask ourselves these questions.
Slow Food and cooking: Getting down and deep with your food
How Megan calls bullshit on the excuse “I don’t have time for that” and the other stories that hold us back
Ask yourself What do you want to savor? And start there!
How Intentionality can open up portals to greater awareness and deeper experience
The dangers of chronically high stress hormones like cortisol
The ways Venessa and Megan are inviting the medicine of Slowness this week
Megan’s Samhain Bathsalts : Epsom salt with basil, camphor, vetiver essential oils
Herbal allies & food remedies mentioned: Vitex (Chaste berry tree), Fire Cider, Kitchari
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“Ancestral lineage healing is a potent process of healing and vitalization for your ancestral lineages, and by extension yourself.” ~ Maris Bergrune
Maris Bergrune is an ancestral lineage healing practitioner, Norse ritual animist, and ritual healer. She helps people become deeply well with their ancestors and access Northern European wisdom traditions and transformational ritual.
Today, Maris and I are talking about ancestral lineage healing, what it is, how Maris got into this work, and why it’s critical to develop a connection to our “well ancestors” for reparation work within our line so we can know what it means to be resourced by our wise and well ancestors.
Maris shares how to get in touch with your helpful ancestors and build healthy connection with them to clarify your unique gifts and give you a sense of belonging in the world. We cover the difference between ancestral lineage work and soul history work, the importance of boundaries and protection in this work and how to breakthrough intuitive blocks when connecting to the Ancestors.
Musical clip at interlude: Ár Var Alda sung by Maris from her collection of Songs from Old Norse Eddic Poetry. You can find this one and more at www.livingvoicemedicine.com
In this episode, we discuss:
What is Ancestral lineage healing and how does working with one’s ancestors work to support someone in the present? What can unfold?
How Maris got into this work after
*You specialize in seiðr (pronounced say-ther) a Northern European trance-mediumship practice
Why we need to be clear about connecting with our “well ancestors” and work within a well-boundaried system
What it looks like to have a “rooted spiritual home”
How the well Ancestral collective in our lines do the reparation work that leads to healing
How to become well-resourced and connect to the gifts within each ancestral line
What is a “well ancestor” and how do we get in touch with them.
How Ancestral lineage healing helps one to connect with personal identity, gifts, and purpose
How Ancestral healing work has changed Maris’ life and grounded her in this planet and purpose, after years of feeling like she didn’t belong
How the wellness of ancestral line or lack thereof is having an impact on our current life experience
How Maris felt “spiritually homeless” until getting in touch with her ancestors
Spiritual seeking and avoiding cultural appropriation
How one can create a direct connection to Ancestors, even in cases of disconnection from a family lineage, such as in adoption, displacement, or other situations
How the point is more about how we interact with the world on a daily basis - being connected and relational with the world than it is about creating rituals
The difference between Ancestral lineage healing work and soul history work
The concept of cosmic time, dimensions and how our ancestors are present in the present moment
Specific practices and tools through Daniel Foor’s Ancestral Medicine book
The importance of boundaries and protection in this work
How to breakthrough intuitive blocks and how Maris works with clients to connect to their Ancestors
Helpful and complementary practices to add to healing work, such as body work, nutritional changes, energetic healings, and more
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On-line Gather at the Well: Norse Ritual Animism
On-line Foundational Ritual Skills and Ancestral Healing
Ancestral Medicine by Daniel Foor, PhD
Maris’ blog article on intuitive perception
The Egyptian Book of Gates tr. Erik Hornung
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As an Author, Life Coach, Trauma Release Practitioner and Personal Development Teacher Evette Rose strives to support people in their healing journeys. She is the founder of Metaphysical Anatomy and Rapid Growth Healing Technique. Evette is best known for her work in helping people resolve trauma from their past, and freeing them to live successful and fulfilling lives. Evette’s work is drawn from personal experience moving from a difficult past into a well-balanced life and career. She has traveled around the world twice and taught personal development seminars in more than 43 countries and helped thousands of people world wide.
Evette learned many techniques to powerfully shift the trauma of abuse, until she hit a wall and stopped getting results. This is when she realized that trauma does not necessarily start in our life, there is ancestral, conception, womb and birth trauma that also has an impact on our emotional and mental state.
As a result of discovering her own healing ability along with what she learned over the years she completely changed her life. She felt inspired to share what she learned with those who were ready for big breakthroughs and transformation.
Her book Metaphysical Anatomy was written to support alternative practitioners as well as guide the general public to sharpen their skills, knowledge and self-help techniques.
In this episode, we discuss:
Evette’s intention with Metaphysical Anatomy
How her painful life experiences led to a path of healing, writing her book and creating techniques for releasing trauma
Pain as a call to action
How we’re avoiding that place of silence
How trauma affects the body and disease, and the body’s innate intelligence in coping and dealing with trauma
How we often associate shame with a natural release process and instincts, and how this is detrimental to our wellbeing
The easiest first step when you feel triggered or stressed
“Completing a trauma” and what’s happening in the body
The strong link between diet and mental imbalances
How depression and feelings of suicide are often not
Evette’s #1 tool for addressing a traumatic event and trigger
How we can change our neuronal pathways and change our brain
How our brains are shaped by the patterns we experience
We are expressions of our ancestors
How to get started with Rapid Growth MAT Training
How psychic abilities develop when we do this work
How to unlock ourselves on a biological level
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“My last suicide letter” - Evette’s personal video
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Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
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
DISCLAIMER: The quality of my (Venessa’s) audio is subpar today because, well, sometimes technology decides not to cooperate! Apologies for the less-than-enjoyable listening experience, and we wish you a nourishing full moon <3
Happy Full Moon in Aries! Today Venessa and Megan are talking about the influences of this Aires moon that supports us in looking at where we’re putting too much emphasis on conflict and resistance (and things that give you a headache!), and pressing that reset button for healthier confrontations. We talk about the power of this time for shifting our vantage point and perspective for more acceptance and spaciousness. We discuss Aries’ influence on our head, sleep, and the importance of getting enough rest at this fiery junction. If you’re feeling elevated tension or burnout, prioritize that SLEEP! We share our fave ways of doing all of the above, and & offer some full moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.
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Where are we putting too much emphasis on conflict when we need to be “accepting” and shifting perspective/vantage point
This Aries full moon will elevate tensions (headaches in many different senses), so pay attention to your body and give yourself needed rest...take a nap! It’s time for us to make sure we are getting enough sleep and rest
Ways to optimize sleep, bed time rituals, brushing teeth/tongue/ taking care of teeth and mouth health; related to sleep and brain health
Aries ruled by Mars = Cardinal energy - initiative energy; choose to start a healthy habit or break one that is no longer serving you; aka HIT THE REFRESH BUTTON
FIRE - we all have that vital spark, life-force, but we need to take care of it! Replenish at night
Physical/Organs connected to Aries: Head, teeth, tongue
Good oral hygiene before bed; brain “washing” immune system “glymphatic system”
Sleep support herbs + tips: chamomile, skullcap, hops, mugwort, Passionflower vine extract and valerian in evening (note: valerian needs 2-4 weeks of regular use to work optimally); magnesium tea (CALM magnesium in cup of warm water); essential oils - some may help w/sleep such as valerian or lavender
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I had a pull to share this episode I had previously recorded with Katie Hess on her The Flowerlounge Podcast, with the Feed Your Wild audience. Katie and I discuss how my mom’s breast cancer inspired my devotion to food as medicine. We talk about ancestral nutrition + feeding your wild with some unique approaches to figuring out what to eat in today’s crazy food world + how to get healthier.
In this episode, we discuss:
Functional Nutrition: from disease-centered model to person-centered model
From Bandaid for symptoms vs. digging for root issues
How Venessa’s mom’s cancer inspired her to devotion food as medicine
Epigenetics + our power of shift + deactivate our genetic patterns
Ancestral Nutrition + role of Akashic Records in healing methods
Clearing the clutter as a first step to getting healthy
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Katie on Feed Your Wild Ep 44 The Transformative Power of Flower Essences with Katie Hess of LOTUSWEI
Night Blooming Cereus Elixir (flower essence)
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Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
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
Happy New Moon in Libra! Today Venessa and Megan are talking about the influences of this Libra moon that supports us in forging new and loving alliances with your body for a melodious and compassionate partnership. We talk about the power of this sweet new moon in promoting reflection and intention-setting around relationships, collaboration, and self-nourishment. We discuss Libra’s influence on our veins, challenges with stagnation and flow, and our fave herbal support for varicose veins and cardiovascular movement. Finally we share our own personal body talk practices, & offer some new moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.
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Energy of Libra - Willing to fight for what is right and just - not just for the world, but for their bodies and selves.
Relationship to body and organs “self” as other, repairing relationships, see self in others - others as a mirror.
Now is a good time to start any new alliance, especially with your own body!
Partnerships forged under this energy will be fair, poised, and truly melodious.
Sweet new moon in Libra, promoting reflection and intention-setting around relationships, collaboration, and self-nourishment.
Exploring feelings of betrayal by body, out of control, self-attacking
Importance of Presence, tapping for re-centering
Getting clear about what kind of environment you need to do this deep work
Writing exercises & prompts for body love
Using gravity forces to support your blood flow
Herbs that can help with congestion and move flow such as angelica, garlic, yarrow, cinnamon, horse chestnut, ginger
Creating new alliances with our bodies that feel compassionate, loving, and supportive - what would that look like? How would you talk to yourself?
Questions to Inquire this New Moon:
How can I establish healthy boundaries around me and within my self from a place of love and compassion? What resources do you need to establish those? How can you set the stage and the ecology to do this work for this new moon?
What are the ways that i can make a commitment to myself and invite greater connection and intimacy with my body?
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If our reality - and hence our life experiences - are shaped by our perception and limitations of our imagination, then what can our dreams teach us about consciousness and our Selves?
In this episode, we’re talking with Jennifer Dumpert, a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, and consciousness hacker to help us answer this question. She’s the author of the recently released Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep. Jennifer teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming—surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states.
We discuss liminal dreaming as the doorway between waking and dream consciousness, how it differs from other kinds of dream & sleep states, and the healing benefits of liminal dreaming and yoga nidra being applied globally. We also talk about one of my favorite topics - imagination as a faculty of perception (and perhaps the most important one!) and what’s actually happening in the brain and body when we experience common collective experiences such as sleep paralysis, falling sensations and jerking, and “hallucinations.”
Jennifer also dives into oneirogens - what they are, how they work and how to use them, including herbs, sounds, smells, and technology we can use for enhancing dreams, divination, & healing. Jennifer is the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind.
This was such a fun and fascinating interview, and I loved how Jennifer wove tons of practical tools and exercises into her book... That’s why I’m excited to announce that we’re doing an Instagram giveaway of Jennifer’s book Liminal Dreaming!
3 lucky winners will receive a free copy of her book - read below to find out how to enter (before it ends this week)!
:: BOOK GIVEAWAY! ::
We’re hosting a giveaway on Instagram through the Feed Your Wild podcast - your chance to win a free copy of Liminal Dreaming to 3 lucky winners.
Here's how to enter to win:
*Follow @wildlyrooted on Instagram
*Tag as many people as you want in separate comments, each tag will be an entry
*Sign up to Wildly Rooted Nourishment Notes Email List (click here) - if you're already signed up, simply follow and tag to enter
*You must be in the USA for shipping purposes - this is a domestic giveaway
*Giveaway ends this Wednesday 9/25, winners announced Thursday 9/26!
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In this episode, we discuss:
How Jennifer got into dreamwork and why she’s focusing on “liminal dreaming”
The difference between liminal dreaming and other dreams such as REM and lucid dreams
Why hypnogogic and hypnopompic states are considered the spaces between and the doorway between waking and dream consciousness
The various common collective experiences of these dream states, such as bodily jerks, whispering, hallucinations, sleep paralysis
The similarities between liminal dreaming and the psychedelic mind-space, and how liminal dreaming can support people instead of taking psychedelics
The healing benefits of liminal dreaming and yoga nidra, and examples of their use throughout the world
What is actually happening in the brain during liminal dreaming states (hint: it’s chaotic J), and the different brain waves related to various phases of sleep such as theta, beta, alpha
The best exercises and practices for surfing liminal dreaming and mental healing, creativity, and problem solving
Imagination as a faculty of perception (and perhaps the most important one!)
Whey senses like sight aren’t as reliable as they seem and how “we have to choose what to see”
Exploring sleep paralysis and scary dream experiences as an opportunity to address and work with fear
What are oneirogens, the various kinds of oneirogens used throughout the world (smells, sounds, herbs, technology), how they work and how to use them
How you can join in on the fun with The Oneironauticum – Jennifer’s international dream group that works with oneirogens—any substance, practice, or experience that promotes or enhances dream states. Jennifer says it’s like a worldwide slumber party :)
Supportive oneirogens for working with and healing trauma – such as one that the Xhosa people use to put one in touch with ancestors
Oneirogens for getting in touch with inner peace: The scent Stargazer lily, rose
Jennifer’s best hacks for remembering your dreams and how “attention is the magic sauce”
How liminal dreamwork has impacted Jennifer’s life experience opening up her “liminal mind”
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Her book Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep
Jennifer’s other website: http://urbandreamscape.com
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Have you ever thought about working with your personal story and considering your story as a mythology? Janelle believes that we can heal and transform when we work with our personal mythologies instead of against them. Janelle supports creative, courageous, sensitive women + non-binary people in reclaiming their brilliance, vibrancy and strength via a transformation memoir-writing process called The Art of Personal Mythmaking.
A huge belief of mine is that we have the power to change our stories and that’s directly connected to our health and life experiences in our bodies. The work that Janelle does is navigating people through this personal memoir writing process that leads one through personal transformation.
Janelle also has her own podcast, The Personal Mythmaking Podcast, today she published my episode where we dive into a fairytale that I have loved since a little girl - The Little Mermaid!
Janelle shares her personal story and how she came to develop the Art of Personal Mythmaking process. Janelle discusses what she calls “the great forgetting” - the erasure of where one comes from and shares her exploration of family history of trauma, and discovering the multigenerational healing process through personal mythmaking. We also talk about the benefits of feeling stuck and powerful ways to move through flavors of resistance in all the ways it shows up.
In this episode, we discuss:
Janelle’s personal story
The art of personal myth making
Incorporating body, creativity, and fairytale
Grieving the loss of family history, language, culture, and meaning - what Janelle calls “the great forgetting,” the erasure of where one comes from
Janelle’s exploration of family history of trauma including addiction and abuse, and multigenerational healing processes
The internal silencing that occurs from this trauma and patriarchal conditionings, and the dynamic of denying the embodied self
Pain as a great motivator and how some of the ways that Janelle intuitively started seeking healing and shift were catalyzed by pain
Why creative self expression and reconnecting with body are exceptionally important
How language is critical in understanding our life experience and options for healing and understand the world
What is the “art of personal mythmaking” and how it has the capacity to change the way we understand our life
We can create our own mythology that is beautiful and shift the painful one
Our body as our only home and using our body as a physical ally
The significance of ancient tales, fairy tales, and the value of their existence
You don’t have to work alone when you have the gifts of cultural heritage through story
How to begin your own personal mythmaking and inviting your body into the healing process
How we might have pulls and interests in things that are in our lineage or history despite not being in our current life experience
The benefits of feeling stuck and powerful ways to move through flavors of resistance in all the ways it shows up (and the most common flavors of resistance!)
The power of a memoir writing process
The interesting difference that a study found between genders in aqcuiring new skills and perceived “readiness”
How overwhelm is connected to a dysregulated nervous system
How fiction is a wonderful way Janelle transports herself
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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Jungian analyst, author and poet Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D
Somatic Experiencing Books - Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma* and In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness* by Peter Levine
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel by Wayne Johnston
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Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!
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
We’re back! Venessa and Megan are happy to dive back into the depths of our beloved Moon Musings, kicking it off with this Harvest Full Moon in Pisces. The themes we cover of this episode and moon are all about staying rooted AND in flow, standing tall and in full alignment starting with our feet. We discuss the medicine of this transitional season and share tips on ways to support getting back into alignment and routines. We share our own personal updates, fall transition time practices, & offer some full moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.
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We’re speaking with Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon and Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez, aka The Brujas of Brooklyn. As Afro-Dominican identical twins, raised in Brooklyn, New York, they believe in the power of Spirit to cast spells that aid in collective healing. The Brujas of Brooklyn are healing generational traumas of gendered racism, which women of color often hold in our wombs, or Yonis. Their craft is therefore dedicated to womb-healing, or what they call Woke Womb Work.
In this conversation, we talk about what bruja means to them and the reclamation of this word and way of being. They share how they came into “Woke Womb Work” diving deep into the sacred realms of the Yoni and how it relates to socioeconomic and political events and forces.
The Brujas breakdown for us the disparities within reproductive justice, how intergenerational and transgenerational trauma impacts our genes and health today and how conscious work of healing unravels this injustice.
From bleeding, moon cycles, to Kundalini yoga to twerkshops, we're talking about the elements that go into their work and the practical magic that we can implement into our daily lives to empower us.
The Brujas share what they have gained from this work on a personal level, including the healings and gifts that have unfolded over the years through motherhood, dating and in their work in the classroom as professors.
Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon (Dr. G.) is a professor, doula and Kundalini yogi. She earned a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis on Gender Studies from Syracuse University. Dr. G. teaches courses throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) related to Racism and Birthing (In) Justice in the US. She is a published author and contributor for Hip Latina Magazine. The home-birth of her sun Talib changed her life forever.
Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez is an unapologetic gentrification critic, author and Urban Studies professor at LaGuardia Community College. She holds a PhD in Urban Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers University. Her dissertation was an ethnographic study on the ways in which first and second-generation Dominican immigrants experience/make sense of gentrification in Washington Heights. Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez thanks her Saturn's Return for shaping her life as a Yoni priestess. Womb Wellness is her life's work.
In this episode, we discuss:
How power shifts in their Saturn return pushed them deep into womb work and spiritual awakening
What bruja means to them and the reclamation of Yoni power
The demonization of brujas and witches, and how their work as social scientists inform their teachings, spiritual practices, and service
What is an “Unfuckablewith” woman and how this relates to womb work and the power of a bruja
The importance of daily practical magic
Woke womb work: how they dove deep into the sacred realms of the womb and how it relates to socioeconomic and political events and forces
The Brujas breakdown the disparities within reproductive justice and the roots of trauma in enslavement and patriarchal society
How intergenerational and transgenerational trauma impacts our genes and health today and how conscious work of healing unravels this injustice
What the Brujas do in their personal and daily lives to take care of their wombs, bodies, and maintain a sense of groundedness and balance
How sometimes the most revolutionary thing you can do is take a sacred bath and nourish yourself and the power of trust in generational healing
What to do when you feel alone in your healing journey and growth
How practicing presence is one of the most important aspects of personal work and why it’s good not to get too caught up in ritual
Burnout in the spiritual and healing world… it’s real.
How they navigate the traps of growing a business in a capitalist world and stay rooted in intuition
What connecting with your cycle, blood, and body can communicate and why the Brujas are passionate about connecting folks to their rhythms and bodies
The Brujas walk us through what goes on in their womb workshops and community events, from Kundalini and meditation to Red Tents and “twerkshops” :)
The Shame we carry in our bodies and how to release it
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