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Ep. 113 JANUARY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Stepping into “All-Time” & A New Kind of Vision

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.

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Solo Episode: JANUARY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Stepping into “All-Time” & A New Kind of Vision

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.

Happy New Year! In this reading for January, we are invited to look at our relationship to TIME and “see” with a new kind of vision. What if time were alive... would you treat it differently? What if you could “see” all of your problems... would you be willing to take full responsibility of your life experience? The choice is yours and the time is now. We’re being called to shift our outer world by shifting how we relate to time. 

This month, we’re stepping into the realm of “All-time” and it’s a wild ride ;) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Connect With Linda García aka Luz Warrior

Website | Instagram

Let There Be Luz Podcast on Instagram

Let There Be Luz Podcast on iTunes

Let There Be Luz Podcast on Spotify

Resources + Links Mentioned 

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

North Atlantic Books

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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

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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

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

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resources

Asana - work management platform

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

Savannah Mayfield Life + Biz Coaching

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

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges. You can now leave us a voice message!

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Connect With Chloe Slattery

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube

The Mojo Mecca Podcast on Soundcloud

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Click to hear my interview on The Mojo Mecca Podcast

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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

You’ll learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals and what to do about them (hint: it doesn't have to do with your willpower...) 

 

Your support means the world...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Connect With Brandon Ruiz

Website | Instagram | Facebook

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

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds

Truelove Seeds, @seedkeeping

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 and production costs. Thank you!

 

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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

You’ll learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals and what to do about them (hint: it doesn't have to do with your willpower...) 

 

Your support means the world...

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

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

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

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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

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



This Episode's Theme...

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

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

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

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Show Notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resources

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Tara Brach

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges. You can now leave us a voice message!

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

 

Your support means the world...

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Laural’s upcoming workshops and offerings

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Connect With Laural Virtues Wauters

Website | Facebook

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

Tree Spirit Workshop at Hawthorn Institute

Books by Laural:

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

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

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

Mandala Art: Ink Drop Art Haus

Resources + Links Mentioned 

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

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Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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Ep. 106 DECEMBER :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Re-membering the Seed In the Garden of Your Heart

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.

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Solo Episode: DECEMBER :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Re-membering the Seed In the Garden of Your Heart

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.

In this reading, our guides direct our attention to our roots and the seeds we hold within our heart. We are reminded that Collaboration is the key and to tune into Divine Source to allow the flow of creativity that informs our reality. We can tap into our collective gifts, abilities and resources when we acknowledge our togetherness in sacred union as a supraorganism - so let’s work together, shall we?

Our invitation this month, and the last month of this decade, is to continue remembering. Continue connecting. Continue to take the steps in the name of love to nourish our seeds and allow them to lead the way. We are left with a song meditation for you to tune into, attune your awareness, and recover the window to the heart-Mind.

I also share my reflections of this past year and current exciting offers.

The song meditation from our guides:

Open your heart

Remember your seeds

Planted before

Your Mind could conceive

Remember the time when you used to play

Open your heart, it’s now the day

Open your heart

Receive the gifts

Your seeds contain

So Deep within

Remember the time when love was abound

Follow your heart, begin with its sound

Words from the Akashics this month

Be still the mind dear ones. There is a forest and a raging fire that will begin underground. The roots of which will burn and kill life. It is invisible above ground. This is where our attention must go... to our roots. We must nurture, care for them. Support life, that is self sustaining when nurtured and provided the space and ingredients for creating living systems. You do not need to know the “how” but the what. This means looking at your own life, the roots of your life experience. What do you most need to sustain you. What do you desire to flourish. What do you envision to expand. A seedling grows toward the light, it knows which direction to move without needing to “see” it. We must tune into this innate intelligence, once again we are asking you to use ALL of your senses, not just the 5 you are most aware of.

Open the shades within your mind. Where have they been shut, obscuring your view thru the window of awareness?

Whether you simply peek thru the binds or open them widely, all that matters is that you agree to See. Once you “See” with the mind’s eye acknowledging what the heart knows and holds, you cannot unSee... there is no going back to blindness.

What is it that we are here to see?

That you are me and we are 3 in one. The Trinity, Christ consciousness, kintus, mind body spirit, this sacred union allows us to move as a unit, a supraorganism, with unlimited gifts and abilities and resources. Collaboration is the key. However this does not mean that we must all agree - there are times when resistance yields exponential growth and movement. Just as the oar pushes against the surface of water to propel forward, yet there must be coordination to get to a designated destination. Movement for the sake of movement does not equate to growth, expansion or alignment.

To that end, growth for the sake of growth is a grand error of the modern thinking Mind. Question the “growth mindset”, interrogate the expansion model and #WINNING way of life.

We would love for you to tune into Source, in whatever way that suits you.

Music, meditation, dance, prayer and hiking are popular ways to do this. What is a practice that allows you to feel so connected and “plugged in” that the experience transcends the thinking Mind and activates all of the body and energy field? What is the pathway 

If it is difficult to think of a practice or even the sense of connectivity when plugged in, try to remember how it felt as a child lost in imagination and play. The sense of freedom and flow, no worries about what to do or say next or what others will think of you. Just pure connection to Divine Source and the flow of creativity that informs our reality.

Now when you have a practice or pathway in mind, commit to doing it at least one time a week. We would prefer you would do this daily, however we sense the resistance and feelings of guilt around this and encourage you to consciously committed. 1 practice, 1 time a week. That is it. We will meet you on the other side (which is neither an other nor a side, as it is All that is and that you are and merely a switch in perception, but expressions of language can be useful in these communications).

In this creative state of Oneness and Allness, connected to Source, set the intention that your immediate heart’s desires will be revealed and accepted without judgement.

That seed that we talk about.. The seed planted within your heart, it was planted by you before you came to this world. But so many forget. Forget to tend the garden of the heart where this seed is planted. Forget that there is a seed and garden at all. 

Our invitation this month, and the last month of this decade, is to continue remembering. Continue connecting. Continue to take the steps in the name of love to nourish our seeds and allow them to lead the way.


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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

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This Episode's Theme...

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

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

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

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Show Notes

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

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

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

  • The importance of tapping into our parasympathetic stress response

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Organs related to Sagittarius: hips, thighs, sacrum

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

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

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

  • How self massage is a process of courtship

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

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

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

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

Resources

Rebecca Katz’ Magical Bone Broth

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges. You can now leave us a voice message!

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Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

 

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

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

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

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

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

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • How facilitating circles has impacted Chris’ life

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

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

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

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

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Connect With Chris Maddox

WebsiteInstagram | Facebook

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

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

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

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

Resources + Links Mentioned 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Connect With Monica Gagliano

WebsiteTwitter | Facebook

Resources + Links Mentioned 

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

 

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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

You’ll learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals and what to do about them (hint: it doesn't have to do with your willpower...) 

 

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

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

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

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

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



This Episode's Theme...

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

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

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

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

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Show Notes

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

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

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

  • How slowing down can make us more “productive”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resources

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

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

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges. You can now leave us a voice message!

Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted

Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

 

Your support means the world...

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

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

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

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

Show Notes

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

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

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

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

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

  • Allow for the unplanned to unfold

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

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

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

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

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

  • What seeing millions of dollars being transferred daily taught me

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

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

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

Resources

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

Ep 001 Tapping Into Your Every Day Medicine with Susan Lipshutz

Hawthorn Institute

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

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

Northwest Memory Center, Dr. Deborah Gordon

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

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Get out of your own way and master the mindset of health. 

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Your support means the world...

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

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

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

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Ep. 100 Healing Our Money Stories with Rachel Peavy

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Today is our 100th episode (woohoo!) - thank you for being a part of this journey with the Feed Your Wild Podcast! In the intro, I’m sharing my appreciation for you the listener + opening up spots to my exclusive 90 Day Program this month (the final chance before 2020 hits!).

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

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

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

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Practices that Rachel uses to ground her clients 

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

  • Identifying the “energy vampire” in your wallet

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

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

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

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FREE GIFT :: 21 Days to a Blissful Budget - The Workbook - Listeners can download here for free using the code FEEDYOURWILD 

A message from Rachel: “It takes 21 days to make a habit. For many of us, we have to get into the habit of budgeting, tracking spending and even opening our bills. Via this workbook, I’ll give you daily actionable items to start building healthier habits with your money. We’ll look at the practical aspects of budgeting while also diving deep into identifying and healing our old money stories.”

Resources + Links Mentioned 

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

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

Money Magic Manifestation Cards by Ethany

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Ep. 99 NOVEMBER :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Pay Attention & Widen Your Heart’s Perception for Co-Creation

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.

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Solo Episode: NOVEMBER :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Pay Attention & Widen Your Heart’s Perception for Co-Creation

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.

In this reading, our guides are inviting us to celebrate life and EXPRESS through this holy embodiment... use it, work it, feel it, be it. Each breath is life, each exhale a mini death. What are you going to breathe life into next? What are you extinguishing in the next cycle?

We are reminded that we are not alone on this earth walk dance floor, support is all around us... yet we are blessed with the illusion of separation - experience it as a gift, not as a punishment. 

Pick up the pen and be the active participant and co-creator you are meant to be. We are given recommendations of practices that will help us connect with the unseen support around us, our ancestors, and face the stories we carry. Above all, we are asked to simply pay attention, widen our heart’s perception thru intention, and see what unfolds as you step more deeply into the role of co-creator in your life.

I also give updates on what I’ve been up to for this week of the dead, share a tarot card pull, and I’m looking forward to inviting a couple of you beautiful souls into my one-on-one 90 Day Akashic Transformational program... Be sure to sign up to the newsletter for updates and first dibs on exclusive offers!

Transcript

Twirling, romantic ballerina dancing, ballroom elegance but barefoot, wild and free

Grace. Emission of sanctity through the soles of our feet as they lightly thump upon the bare floor. Like a drumbeat , the rhythm of life pulsating thru with each step. This is life.

Life is meant to be celebrated. All of it. There is no wrong way to celebrate... find what suits you but do it. Quietly taking in, howling loudly at the moon, gyrating to vibrations that pass thru your ear, letting out the bubbling energy thru laughter, crying, song.

We have many modes of expression, what a gift! To be embodied. To have flesh and separation. We have forgotten how connected we all are, so your story may make it may feel lonelier than it actually is. We get to EXPRESS through this holy embodiment... use it, work it, feel it, be it.

Each breath is life, each exhale a mini death. What are you going to breathe life into next? What are you extinguishing in the next cycle?

We choose what to see. We choose what to breathe. We choose what to believe.

Wipe away the condensation from your heart and mind, then tell me what you see.

I see beauty, pain, love, death, miracles, joy, suffering, ecstasy. 

It’s all there. It’s all One. 

We are not alone on this earth walk dance floor. Each sway, spin and giration cradled by the unseen support, the beings that walk with us, hold us, nudge us. Akashic beings of light, ancestors, guides, those unnamed. Widen your heart space to feel them, they are there. You’re never alone. And yet, we are blessed with the illusion of separation - experience it as a gift, not as a punishment. 

We see the swirling pond, the whirlpool in a grand body of water. We enter the center, the vortex, the portal. Where will you go next? What world will you create? The time is now. To choose your next world... your experiences, how you experience them. Do you know how creative you are? That you create worlds? Do not be fooled by the real-ness of your own creation! It’s time to step back into the writer’s den, the artist’s studio, the weaver’s seat... Pick up the pen and be the active participant and co-creator you are meant to be.

How? So many of us feel lost and confused, or feel resistance no matter how hard we try...?

Ahh yes... “trying”. As your friend tells you: Trying is lying.

There is a difference between going through motions (particularly those that are “what you’re supposed to do”) vs taking inspired action coming from deep listening and perception.

We’ve said it a million times, and we’ll say it again: PAY ATTENTION.

A step to begin with: widen your field of perception, can you notice something you never noticed before today? Can you see, hear, touch, sense, taste, feel something you have never before?

Acknowledge it by being with it - receiving it, honoring it by perceiving and pausing.

This is the Work for every month, but this month esp the first week of November, the veil is thin meaning there is permeability between worlds. Perceiving can be “easier” , attained with a bit less effort in these days. As a large collective honors the ancestors for your holidays the Samhain, Halloween, Dia de los muertos and other day of dead celebrations, the ancestors and unseen ones are present for you in a more palpable way. 

Connect with ONE ancestor or guide this month. Pay attention to the thoughts that just came up as we said this... were they curious? Excited? Mean? Anxious?

Pay attention to the quality of your thoughts around connecting with them as this will guide you to your deeper work and areas that might need support.

Choose ONE ancestor or guide, even if you don’t know them. Set an intention to connect and build a relationship with them. What might that mean for you? Perhaps you speak aloud at the same designated spot in your home or out in nature, and start a conversation. Perhaps it’s creating a simple altar that you tend to this month. Or carry a photo with you that you can touch and look at. If you have a belonging such as a blanket they made or a watch, can you connect with the object that was once their own?

Above all, simply pay attention, widen your heart’s perception thru intention, and see what unfolds as you step more deeply into the role of co-creator in your life.

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Ep. 98 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Scorpio :: Slow and Deep is the Medicine

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

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



This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Scorpio :: Slow and Deep is the Medicine

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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Show Notes

  • 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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Ep. 97 How Working With Your Well Ancestors Can Support Healing & Change Your Life with Maris Bergrune

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

Show Notes

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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Connect With Maris Bergrune

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Ancestral Healing Sessions

On-line Gather at the Well: Norse Ritual Animism

On-line Foundational Ritual Skills and Ancestral Healing

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Ancestral Medicine by Daniel Foor, PhD

Maris’ blog article on intuitive perception

The Egyptian Book of Gates tr. Erik Hornung

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

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Ep. 96 Metaphysical Anatomy: Releasing Trauma & Stress in the Body with Evette Rose

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. 

Show Notes

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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Connect With Evette Rose

WebsiteInstagram | Facebook | Twitter

Resources + Links Mentioned 

“My last suicide letter” - Evette’s personal video

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

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

If you would like to make a one-time contribution, you may use our personal PayPal Link here and offer any dollar amount you'd like : https://paypal.me/wildlyrooted  

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Ep. 95 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Aries :: Hitting the Reset Button, Healthy Confrontations, Sleep Hygiene

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

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

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



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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Aries :: Hitting the Reset Button, Healthy Confrontations, Sleep Hygiene

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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Show Notes

  • 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

Ask Us Your Top Q's!

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Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose

 

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Ep. 94 Digging For Root Causes Thru Functional Nutrition with Katie Hess

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.

Show Notes

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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Connect With Katie Hess + The Flowerlounge Podcast

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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)

 

Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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

You’ll learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals and what to do about them (hint: it doesn't have to do with your willpower...) 

 

Your support means the world...

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