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.
Ep. 148 Zooming in on Gut Health with Functional Diagnostic Nutrition with Reed Davis
In this episode, we’re speaking with Reed Davis, Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT), is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine, and Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN). Reed shares about how he got into the world of holistic health and functional testing, we cover what is functional lab testing - how it differs from conventional lab testing, and what you need to know before you go into the doctor's office.
We look at the most common patterns that Reed sees with lab work and symptoms of gut issues, pathogens that may be related, and what makes someone a good host for them in the first place. We go over supporting gut issues naturally, top tests or assessments that you might want to look at if you suspect that you have gi pathogens, and how to address some of these top pathogenic issues naturally such as candida, fungal overgrowth, & biofilms.
Reed talks about the importance of looking at coaching down contributing factors of “metabolic chaos” that can lead to a lot of these issues. You'll also hear Reed’s specific approach from the clinical side - looking at hormones first before getting tests and his perspective on SIBO after 12 years as a clinical advisor for labs and looking at a lot of SIBO tests.
You're going to get a lot of insight related to the practical and clinical as well as zooming out and looking at the broader picture of the whole ecology of health that influences our gut health.
If you are a coach, nutritionist, practitioner or a clinician in any way who's interested in functional diagnostic nutrition and lab testing, then I encourage you to check out Reed’s program and the link below.
Boost Your Resilience, Intuition, & Personal Power for Radical Transformation…
Calling all Healers, Helpers, & Change-makers - If you desire to share your gifts and create a more beautiful world in this transformative time, you MUST tend to your own health & vitality. And it starts with your wild GUT!
Join me on August 12th for a live Masterclass where you’ll learn:
The framework I used for my own personal gut healing
The Essential Pillars of Immunity + Gut health
Top foods & herbs for supporting gut health immunity & energetics
The #1 thing that reversed my IBS, rebalanced my gut-brain connection & boosted my resilience
The most important thing to know if you want to be an effective healer & change-agent - for yourself and others
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Reed began his start in ecology and environmental sciences, but then got interested in how the environment was impacting the health of people
What is functional lab testing and how it differs from the conventional testing one might get at the doctors office
The most common patterns and pathogens and what makes someone a good host for them
How to address gut issues naturally
Top tests or assessments if someone suspects they have GI pathogens
Reed’s process for supporting clients with chronic gut issues, including the most important questions to ask
Why it’s critical to take a “whole picture - whole person” approach to healing health
The role of epigenetics in gut health
Why it’s important to remember there is no end-destination to “healthy” and how this path is a process
How early chronic use of antibiotics can set you up for a lifetime of gut issues
How you want to rebuild the ecology of the body for resilience
How to address Candida, fungal overgrowths, biofilms naturally and some of Reed’s favorite herbs
Coaching down contributors of “metabolic chaos” including yeast, parasite, bacteria, metals, or other environmental contaminants and coach up function of the gut
Why Reed has a problem with one-size-fits-all protocols and prefers to focus on food as medicine
Why Reed looks at hormones first before gut tests including cortisol, DHEA and ratios to assess if you’re in a catabolic state and look upstream at root stressors
Reed’s perspective on SIBO after 12 years as a clinical advisory for laboratory and looking at a lot of SIBO tests
Why so many people are stuck in chronic dysbiosis and years of not getting better
Reed’s take on probiotics: the hybrids, the specialties, diatomaceous earth, and his outlook on individualizing
Uncovering the hidden stressors to metabolic chaos
How to honor the innate intelligence of cells and the body
Reed’s D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success Protocol® and his personal non-negotiables, including macros ratio, gardening, and motorcycle riding
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Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Training
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Ep. 147 {SOLO} New Moon in Cancer :: Soul Gut Immunity with Intuitive Nourishment
Happy New Moon! In this solo episode, I cover insights on this second new moon in Cancer, connections to the sacred waters & power within, and my personal story of re-vitalizing my solar plexus center, digestion, and personal power! Ruled by the moon, Cancer is connected to evolution and growth in regenerative ways - in our bodies, Cancer rules the transformative organs of our stomach & womb... I share 3 lessons I’ve learned in tending to my gut for personal transformation, thoughts on building immunity thru soul work, and practical ways to support your gut health.
For the change-makers, healers, helpers: It’s imperative that we understand ALL the ways to support our immune health and personal vitality amidst a pandemic and collective fear programming. To support our resilience, strength, connection to intuition, and ability to take empowered action, we MUST tend to our wild GUT!
Join me for my upcoming free webinar Masterclass: Soul Gut Immunity Guide for Healers, Helpers, & Change-Makers... If you’re interested in joining us Aug 12th, click the link below to read more.
Boost Your Resilience, Intuition, & Personal Power for Radical Transformation…
Calling all Healers, Helpers, & Change-makers - If you desire to share your gifts and create a more beautiful world in this transformative time, you MUST tend to your own health & vitality. And it starts with your wild GUT!
Join me on August 12th for a live Masterclass where you’ll learn:
The framework I used for my own personal gut healing
The Essential Pillars of Immunity + Gut health
Top foods & herbs for supporting gut health immunity & energetics
The #1 thing that reversed my IBS, rebalanced my gut-brain connection & boosted my resilience
The most important thing to know if you want to be an effective healer & change-agent - for yourself and others
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Resources
Ep 145 Becoming Unshakeable :: Self-Regulation to Thrive in Challenging Times with Kidest OM
Ep 144 Water Is Life :: The Ultimate Sacred Water Episode with Isabel Friend
Ep 137 {SOLO} My Intimate Journey of Finding My Voice: 3 Lessons in Activating Your Inner Voice
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Ep. 146 Becoming Unshakeable :: Self-Regulation to Thrive in Challenging Times with Kidest OM
If you haven’t heard of Kidest OM, I have found her books to be incredibly insightful, affirming and practical - particularly right now, as more folx awaken to the ways we can dismantle and decondition oppressive programs & begin healing the injustices of the imposed systems as individuals and as a collective community. Her book Unshakeable You: How to Self-Regulate During Life’s Challenging Moments offers you reminders on just a few of the neurological, physiological, and energetic skills and abilities you are already endowed with to be able to not only survive life's challenging moments but thrive through them.
Kidest OM is an Author, Coach, and Corporate Consultant who writes, guides, and speaks exclusively on the primacy of consciousness, deliberate creation, and life mastery. She’s been coaching business professionals all over the world on the power of their mindset for over ten years and knows with clear conviction and absolute certainty, that an individual’s potential to achieve any desired outcome is limitless. The infinite capacity for greatness, the unbounded capacity to live the highest imaginable quality of life pulses within each person.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Kidest always wanted to “look under the hood” of what makes us tick and started with studying the emergence of our personality
How Kidest went thru a deep process of deconstruction of identity and developed a more holistic understanding of what it means to be Humxn
How we can often confuse the software we’re running (our programming) with our true Selves
Why Kidest wrote her books Unshakeable You: How to Self-Regulate During Life’s Challenging Moments (IN-Powerment™ Series) & Nothing in the Way
Why self-regulation is absolutely necessary in challenging times like we’re living right now - and how we ALL have the ability to self-regulate
The traps of the fear and anxiety currents, and how you can interrupt the state of contraction and tension
Common ways that people respond to stress and why, plus the best ways to grow self-awareness so you can identify patterns
How to take ownership of ability to self-regulate thru owning your stories
The power that a negative story can have over you - You can’t tell a negative story and feel joy
How we’ve normalized internalizing negative stories, such as shaming yourself or calling yourself names
Kidest’s advice for those who are feeling fatigued and tired in these challenging times
How a lot of fatigue comes from unprocessed emotions and why it’s critical to bring in self-nurturance and care
How resilience is a product of self-regulation, and the top reasons why people burn out
How to move through resistance, commit to your Self and make your life experience better
Kidest’s favorite self-regulation practices and her advice for busy people, plus why you can’t make this work optional
Ways to bring groundedness into every moment and calm your nervous system
Kidest’s outlook on feelings of guilt when it comes to self-care or achievement, and how “Your fulfilment isn’t really just about you.”
Why anything that holds you back from the impulse to grow, evolve, and move forward is not part of your natural makeup and part of a destructive pattern you acquired
Coming back to recognition that we are apart of a unified system - sense of doership as a separate person, behind you is an entire universe - you are not alone, and you can let go of the wheel
Why RIGHT NOW is feeding Kidest’s wild, and her vision for what is unfolding
“Recognize that what’s wrong is not you. It’s a pattern that you’re running. There is no wrongness about your being. There is no wrongness about who you are.” ~ Kidest OM
“You can’t experience your co-creative power with the universe when you’re in contraction.” ~ Kidest OM
“Not developing these skills {of self-regulation} is what makes life hard.” ~ Kidest OM
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Resources
Nothing In The Way: Clearing The Paths To Success And Fulfilment by Kidest OM
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Ep. 145 Water Is Life :: The Ultimate Sacred Water Episode with Isabel Friend
This is an epic interview with Isabel Friend, International Water Advocate, public speaker, Reiki master, & teacher. Today we are talking all about Sacred Water. I was so excited when I came across Isabel's work, as Water has been showing up in my Akashic Record readings often, and one of the things that has very clear to me when I'm working with clients, particularly when I open up their Records around their health, is that there is an epidemic of dehydration... The topic of this episode is so critically important and relevant to every living being on this Earth that I really encourage you to sit in, even if you feel like you don't have an interest in water.
Quick disclaimer: Isabel is residing and calling in from beautiful Bali, and in Bali there is a plethora of roosters that love to sing so throughout the episode you're going to hear a lot of these beautiful rooster crows. Sometimes they can be quite loud so I encourage you to stick with it and stay for the entire interview because there is so much we cover!
We start off with looking at the best kinds of water to drink and filtration systems Isabel recommends, and the difference between wild living water and filtered water. Isabel shares her personal philosophy around water and why we need to begin to cultivate a different relationship and view of water as a whole well-rounded living being.
Isabel takes us on a magical journey of wild water... Do you know where your water comes from? Isabel is going to talk about that natural journey from the womb of Mother Earth rising to the surface and into your cells. We touch on the importance of drinking local wild water, how you can source wild water, the most important resource that Isabel wants you to know.
Beyond the health aspects of water and hydration, Isabel goes into the new biology of water looking at structured water, what that means, how do we get access to structured water, how do we create structured water, and why drinking unstructured bulk water is problematic for our health. We weave into the cosmic and esoteric aspects of water, and communion with water as a spiritual act that feeds our health on a very deep level. Isabel shares the origin stories that contain water from indigenous perspectives and the ways that humans have been communing with living water as a source of information, Divinity and tapping into the memory of the universe. So Yes - we talk about crystals, water scrying, hydromancy and working with water to tap into the answers of all of our greatest questions!
Of course, we also discuss the very real problems that we are seeing from our distorted relationship with the elements and with Mother Earth... Isabel talks about the political situation, privatization and accessibility issues around water, the water wars, and how we can step up as water guardians and embrace water activism in our daily lives.
I also share an Akashic Record reading on water that I channeled just before we hopped on the call for the interview - it's so beautiful to see all of the parallels that have been woven in throughout our discussion.
*Special Discount for FYW Listeners!* Isabel is doing some amazing work and teachings around water, and she has many offerings including a special discount for listeners for a water e-course that I'm totally going to do and I want you to do it with me! Check out the links below to learn more about her e-course and how to access your special discount.
We'd love to hear your feedback and please share this episode out with your family and friends - one of the best things that we can do is share this information out so that more people awaken to the importance and critical matter that is Water and how we really need to show up for water with our full hearts and warriors spirits.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Isabel became obsessed with water, why Isabel began drinking wildcrafted spring water and how it changed her life
The best kind of water to drink, the best filtration systems that Isabel recommends, and the difference between wild water and filtered water
Isabel’s philosophy around water: “Nature ennobles water”
How there’s no such thing as “H20” in nature
Why we need to view water as a “whole and well-rounded being”
Why it’s important to get a filter that mimics natural processes
The magical journey of wild water, from the womb of Mother Earth rising to the surface thru vortexing movement that magnetizes and structures water
How water is medicine attuned specifically for the beings living in the same region from which it derives - we are the first beings that have been able to drink water from another place
Why it’s important to drink LOCAL wild water for our health and connecting to the entire cycle of life and how you can start sourcing wild water and the most important resource Isabel wants you to know
Isabel’s vision of recreation of culture and practice visiting water springs and collecting the liquid source of life
The ancient healing practice of bathing in spring waters
Isabel speaks to the concerns around safety in sourcing wild water
Why it’s important to drink living water for gut health and the microbiome
What to consider when selecting a water filter
Isabel’s thoughts on well water - why it’s among her top 5 favorite types of water and the difference between mature and immature water
Why “spring water” on a label is a misnomer and what it really means
Why you want to revitalize water if you and how to structure water with magnetism, special frequencies, and more
Water is responding to the subtle movements of the cosmos and celestial bodies - one of the ways in which astronomical influences affect our bodies
The ability of water to imprint upon its surroundings is directly proportional to the strength of the matrix of hydrogen bonds in the water
How most of us are drinking unstructured “bulk water” - and why that’s problematic for our health
The updated biology of water, the newly discovered fourth phase of water as a crystal, aka exclusionary zone (EZ) water - and the incredible implications
How water is the medium thru which we interface between the physical and the etheric, the human and the divine
What you can do to support the water that you’re drinking through communion
The principle of quantum coherence - the ability of water to communicate faster than the speed of light over vast distances
The main things you want to consider: the structure of the water
How the molecules of water are like the alphabet and how water carries information of all the universe across all time
How to structure your water thru vortexing
What Isabel uses to vortex and structure her water: 1) a protein mixer bottle and 2) latte frother mini immersion blender; praying and singing to water when it is moving ideal time to expose to frequencies
How to keep our body’s water structured and why near infrared spectrum, red light therapy is good four our health as it relates to its impact on water
How to increase hydration and absorption thru structured water, why you want to drink water that’s been exposed to both north pole and a south pole
Using crystals in water bottles - how it works and what you need to know to make it work for you
Venessa shares her channeled message from the Akashic Records
How Isabel is planning on creating a mystery school around water
Water + Intuition: Hydromancy as divination through water, various indigenous cultures that divine with water, how Nostradamus received all the psychic readings by scrying into a bowl of water, how the Oracle at Delphi used spring waters
How water is the memory of the earth, the Akasha embodied beyond space time continuum holding memory of the future
How all origin stories have water as a central theme
A brief discussion on quantum principles of water - how chaos (without pattern) of etheric ocean is the primal source from which more patterned creation comes into being, mirroring quantum theories (i.e. dark matter, dark fluid theory)
The more we connect with water spiritually, the more we have direct connection to the answers of ALL of our questions
The political situation around water - privatization and accessibility, water wars, the need for water activism & water guardianship
Why we need to start thinking in terms of watersheds - get to know the watershed in which you live!
The steps toward water justice and water democracy: recognizing water is a commons, the rights of water need to be in the hands of people in an egalitarian way, not in the hand of giant water cartels that are privatizing and redistributing water
Activism practices, getting involved with local watershed association, go to city hall for meetings, not supporting capitalistic structures by not buying water from across the globe, see if town or county already has sold public water services to a private company - be vocal when that contract is up for renewal for prevention
We are at the legal and historical crux of this question and issue that will have implications for the future of life on earth
We need to be involved at a local level and a global level
Discussion on pipelines: How there are 97 other pipeline projects like North Dakota access pipeline with no media coverage, and why it’s important for you to pour yourself into protecting water, supporting indigenous people, and against the effort of colonialism to capitalize on water resources
How to access Isabel’s free webinar - the basics of water that all should know; AND your special 20% discount code to Isabel’s "Navigating the Waters" ecourse - use code WILDLYROOTED at checkout!
“Every one of us who is a body of us should be intimately involved in protecting water.” ~ Isabel Friend
“Either you get a filter or you become a filter.” ~ Isabel Friend
“It’s about shifting our relationship to the source of life and recognizing that the water we drink is the blood of Mother Earth. The water we drink is not the blood of our municipal plumbing system... the water we drink is not the blood of corporate bottling plants... The water we drink is the blood of Mother Earth and we are stewards of that blood stream. There is no difference between the water inside of us and the water outside of us.” ~ Isabel Friend
“We are water protecting herself. We are water stewarding life.” ~ Isabel Friend
“It’s up to every light worker and every activist to really step into the guardianship of water. Right now according to WHO 80% of disease is from lack of access to clean water... Denying poor ppl access to water by privatizing water and turning it into a capitalist commodity is an act of terrorism against life itself, and yet that’s what’s happening across the globe.” ~ Isabel Friend
Akashic Records on Water (channeled by Venessa Rodriguez):
Water is the ancient storyteller, the wisdom keeper that holds the ancient knowledge, the secrets, the threads that have been tucked away
Water is a energetic portal thru its crystalline structure
It is the earth’s veins, the element that connects the fabric of all life
It is the shape shifter, the transporter, the vessel, the medicine,
The cosmic messenger
The essence of everything
The ether made embodied
Akasha of the earth
I am the womb
The light
The breath
The blood
The flow of life depends on me
Feel my rivers thru your cavernous body
Carrier of whispers
No force can stop me
The truth of the cosmos
The key to your dna
The blueprint for the “new world” as you call it
The map of the world as it was
The medium for Love.
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Water is Life Online Academy - eCourses & Trainings
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Resources
Findaspring.com - A user-supported source of springs
Fractracker.org - make sure your aquifer hasn’t been contaminated
Scientists & researchers mentioned:
Viktor Schauberger - water wizard
Theodor Schwann
Rustom Roy
Blue Planet Project - part of a global movement that promotes the fundamental truth that “water is life.” We strive for water justice based on the principles that water is a human right, a public trust, and part of the global commons.
Waterkeeper Alliance - The largest and fastest growing nonprofit focused solely on clean water
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Ep. 144 JULY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment :: The Sacred Nectar Within You
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.
Ep. 143 #UNFILTERED :: Summer Solstice New Moon in Cancer :: A Portal for Collective Creation
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 Fall Equinox 2020 :: Moving thru the Heat, Finding the Gifts
Summer Solstice blessings <3 We are back with our seasonal quarterly check-in, this time feeling into the energetics and themes of this Summer Solstice, solar eclipse, and New Moon in Cancer - all happening amidst a pandemic and a collective resurgence and revolution catalyzed by Black Lives Matter and the fight for justice. No biggie...
Fire and water are very much alive in the hearts and bellies of so many across the globe right now, fueled by the alignment of our stars.
In this episode, we touch on current astro insights, the healing waters of Cancer, the healthy fires of our Sun to fuel our sacred work and hearts, and tending to our individual needs for the sake of the greater collective. In this time, it’s no longer about the Me, as we shift into the healing of the We. Megan and I share personal thoughts on our current state of emergence-y, which plant allies have been popping up in support, and offer up a list of resources and voices that we want to uplift whose work have been incredible - black, indigenous, folks of color leaders in the natural healing, spiritual growth, or earth tending realms.
At the end, we offer up a ritual for your Summer Solstice New Moon in Cancer to sink into what you want to call in as we birth a more beautiful New World.
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Resources
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
Here is my VERY SHORT list of resources and folx I follow doing incredible work - please feel free to email me your favorite BIPOC leaders in the natural healing, spiritual growth, & earth tending realms!!
Anti-racism Resources from goodgoodgood.co
A compilation of anti-racism-resources adapted from the Antiracism Resources Google Doc compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work.
Herbalists, farmers, earth tenders
Karen M. Rose - Sacred Vibes Apothecary
Leah Penniman - Soul Fire Farm & Farming While Black
Velayda Chapman - Earth Mama Medicine
Indy Srinath - urban forager
Amanda David - Rootwork Herbals
Justin Robinson @countrygentlemancooks
Body-Mind Healers, Practitioners, Therapists
Dr. Jennifer Mullan - Decolonizing TherapyTM
Latham Thomas - Mama Glow
Lauren Ash - Black Girl In Om
Michelle Johnson - Skill in Action, Radicalizing your Yoga practice
Alishia McCullough - Mental health, Black and Embodied
The Loveland Foundation founded by Rachel Cargle - therapy for black women and girls
Ev’Yan Whitney - sexuality doula® + sex educator
Spiritual healers, leaders, activists, guides
Angel Kyodo Williams - Radical Dharma
Lama Rod Owens - Love and Rage
Mutima Imani - soon to be a FYW podcast guest this month!
Maryam Hasnaa - New Earth Mystery School
Shirley Johnson - Soulistic Wellness
Lalah Delia - Spiritual writer
I'm continuing to consciously reach out to more black, indigenous, folks of color leaders onto the podcast and I'd love to hear from you who some of your favorites are!
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. 142 Earth speak :: Liberation through Intuitive Connection & Earth Magic with Natalie Ross
I am really excited to have one of my personal favorite podcasters, we have Natalie Ross on the show today. Natalie used to be the podcast hostess of the Dream Freedom Beauty podcast and now has a podcast called Earth Speak as well as a beautiful Collective along with that podcast. Today she is telling us all about it and what Earth Speak means to her. We did a sweet podcast exchange so I will also be on her Earth Speak podcast as a guest - I'll be sure to share that out when it becomes available.
In this conversation, we talked about how the seeds of Earth Speak and her journey with her own intuition were planted and how Natalie came into relationship with her intuition, plus how Natalie's winding path with synchronicities has led her to her work today. We talked about the Earth as a conscious being, why practicing presence and cultivating Connection are paramount, and Natalie has a message to those who have a challenging time living in this earth body, offering ideas of practices and therapies to tend to the parts of you that are hurting.
We talked about engaging with the elements and Natalie reveals one message that the plants have shared with her about our energy bodies. Natalie shares how the plants are guides in our process of Liberation and why now is THE time to connect + speak with the Earth, the plants, and all of the living beings for our Collective well-being. You'll hear about how Natalie experiences Earth speak herself, practices that she uses to attune herself and her top non-negotiables for tending to her energy body.
Natalie also gives us a sneak peek behind the scenes of Earth Speak Collective and her shared vision for supporting others to connect with their intuition and one another and the earth. I know you're going to love Natalie, she has such a wonderful spirit.
We are living in re-evolutionary times and one of the ways we can support ourselves through this process and support others is to tend to our connection to the Earth our own bodies + connect with our intuition. I firmly believe that as we move forward and look to create a more beautiful and just world, we must do so from a heart-centered place and one that is connected in with our intuition and in reverence of the earth, ourselves, and one another. For those of you who have been on the front lines... for those of you who have been protesting... for those of you who are essential workers, especially... remember to rest, tend to your resilience, fill up your cup and continue to do your sacred work.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How the seeds of Earth Speak and Natalie’s journey with intuition were planted and how her experience with her intuition as a kid was different than others growing up
Natalie’s struggle with the mainstream track of going to college and working a regular 9-5
How Natalie came into relationship with her intuition and began moving through her own conditionings
How synchronicity led Natalie to where she is today
How Natalie received her first intuitive message “Those who ask, receive.” which began her path into intuitive living
How Natalie was bypassing her body and had to find her way to get grounded which she now teaches
How Natalie always knew she was a witch since a young girl and cultivated a communicative relationship with plants
Natalie’s advice for connecting to your body
Why practicing presence with your Self and others is a radical act of reclamation
Earth as a conscious being
Natalie’s message to those who have a challenging time living in their bodies - she offers ideas of practices and therapies to tend to the parts of you that are hurting
The importance of engaging with the elements to cultivate a relationship helps us to remember the wisdom within us
Liberation - an invitation to ask what this word conjures up in you, plus experiencing freedom as an energy being
Activating the ability to shift your energy to different broadcast frequencies
The first step to hearing the Earth speak: attuning to the energy realms
How to learn your energetic language and speak to Nature consciously
One message that the plants have shared with Natalie about our energy bodies
How the plants are guides in our process of liberation
How Natalie speaks to the Earth from her apartment complex
How coming back Home is a re-evolutionary act
How Natalie experiences Earth Speak, practices to attune her Self, and her top non-negotiables for tending to her energy body
Natalie shares a bit about human design and her experience as a Reflector, and why Reflectors are considered the “canaries in the coal mine”
Our intense experience during my interview for Earth Speak podcast
Natalie’s favorite tool for accessing her intuition
How Natalie receives intuitive messages and her process of working with them
Earth Speak’s Awakening your Intuition workshop and the beautiful space that is the medicine
Behind the scenes of Earth Speak collective and Natalie’s shared vision for supporting others to connect
The power of community and the medicine of held space when coming together
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Ep. 141 {ENCORE} Farming While Black: Restoring Sacred & Just Relationship with the Land & One Another with Leah Penniman
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“The soil stewards of generations past recognized that healthy soil is not only imperative for our food security—it is also foundational for our cultural and emotional well-being.” ~ Leah Penniman
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Leah Penniman on Farming While Black: Restoring Sacred Relationship with the Land and One Another, synchronistically originally aired exactly one year ago in June of 2019.
This episode is especially timely as we collectively face a collective uprising against racism, a global pandemic and unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities for change and healing. As we reflected back in 2019, Leah offers so much wisdom rooted in the power of Mother Earth and ways we can begin to dismantle racism through social justice work and connecting back to nature.
In this episode, you'll experience Leah's pioneering energy that supports our collective re-memberance of our sacred connection to land and the ways we can begin healing the injustices of the imposed systems as a community.
Leah's work with Soul Fire Farm is to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, promote equity in food access, and train the next generation of activist farmers.
Her book Farming While Black, is the first comprehensive manual for African-heritage people ready to reclaim their rightful place of dignified agency in the food system, with a concise “how-to” for all aspects of small-scale farming. But it’s not just Is a compendium of “how-tos” for small scale farming... it’s rich with historical context and weaving in the pragmatic with spirituality, soil ecology, planning, tools, plant medicine, healing trauma, and movement building. Leah breaks it all down for us in this episode!
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Leah found a comrade in nature and cultivated a relationship that led to farming as a teenager
As a young person worked on many farms and realized that the sustainable agriculture world was super “white” and how she didn’t feel represented
How Leah found a mentor in Karen Washington Rise & Root Farm
How the story we’ve been told about farming is inaccurate and incomplete
Leah breaks down the external barriers and the history of exile, discrimination, violence and denigration of black people and forced disconnection from land
The importance of the return of black and brown people to the land and the need to fix land injustice
What are reparations and how can people give back and redistribute access and resources
How 98% of land is owned by white people and there is a 16:1 wealth gap between white folks and black folks at birth, the history of dispossession
Soul Fire Farm’s Action guide based on voices of black and indigenous people of color
How Leah weaves in spirituality with science in her book and in real life
How farming has allowed Leah to unfold into her whole self at Soul Fire, and Leah’s mission of supporting others to be able to experience the same
How Leah has navigated parenthood and raising her 2 children at Soul Fire Farm
Leah’s favorite resources in addition to her book (which also contains tons of resources!)
Learn the ways to support Leah Penniman’s work and Soul Fire Farm
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Farming While Black Instagram @farmingwhileblack
WEBSITE FOR BOOK: www.farmingwhileblack.org
Support Soul Fire Farm + Action Steps for Food Sovereignty
Resources + Links Mentioned
Dr. Monica White’s Freedom Farmers
Dr Ashanté M. Reese Black Food Geographies
Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass
Aurora Levins Morales Medicine Stories
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Ep. 140 JUNE :: Akashic Soul Nourishment :: LIBERATION Through the Sacred Elements
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Ep. 139 Stepping into Your Circle of Influence During the Pandemic with Andrea Nakayama
In this episode, we’re speaking with one of my mentors Andrea Nakayama. If you are dealing with chronic dis-ease (helping someone who does) or experiencing major challenges during this pandemic, this episode is for YOU. We talk about how the pandemic is illuminating major gaps in the conventional America medical model...
Andrea shares her helpful 3 Roots, Many Branches framework and her "Circle of Influence" approach for how to handle tough situations like this pandemic. She talks about how to deal with inflammation: Clear, Calm, Enhance, and Modulate; and the importance of assessing the health of one’s terrain to support immune function and resilience.
Andrea shares her non-negotiables for managing one’s health in this time and she has such a wealth and depth of experiences and information for those dealing with complex chronic illness - I love her take on health sovereignty. Listen to hear Andrea share inspiring ways she is drawing from her own painful life experiences to support her today. Full of tangible and applicable information, Andrea also weaves in potent medicine for how we can navigate this time with grace.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How the pandemic is illuminating major gaps in the conventional America medical model
Andrea’s helpful 3 Roots, Many Branches framework and her "Circle of Influence" approach for how to handle tough situations like this pandemic
How to deal with inflammation: Clear, Calm, Enhance, and Modulate
Assessing the health of one’s terrain to support immune function and resilience
Getting out of the one-size-fits all model of health care and how to practice what is true for you that allows you to come into optimal healing potential
Andrea’s non-negotiables for managing one’s health in this time
Ways we can begin to trust our Selves and bodies within our circle of influence
Andrea’s take on health sovereignty and the inspiring ways Andrea is drawing from her own challenging & painful life experience - and how she considers them as the biggest gifts in her life
Helpful questions to inquire that informs our understanding of our selves
Why Andrea considers the most challenging and painful experiences as the biggest gifts in her life
Andrea’s life-changing experience midwifing her husband to his death after birthing new life
How Andrea is personally navigating this time and difficult situations
The transformative power of challenging life experiences, especially with facing fatality
Why “nothing matters more than love” - it’s a practice
The importance of radical presence
Why Andrea says sometimes “we have to fake it til we make it”
Why the little changes make a big difference
How Andrea is taking “breaks” from the stress of the unusual circumstances and feeding her wild
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Website (Patients) | Website (Practitioners) | Facebook | Instagram
Resources
Circle of influence Checklists
Coronavirus (COVID-19) support guide
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Ep. 138 {SOLO} My Intimate Journey of Finding My Voice: 3 Lessons in Activating Your Inner Voice
In this solo episode, I share my personal journey of finding my voice - the good, the bad, and the not so cute. This continual work of connecting to and honoring my inner voice has led to incredible healing, expansion of intuitive abilities, and has allowed me to connect to my soul’s Truth and purpose. I share this with you because I believe NOW is the time that YOUR voice is expressed and heard... I believe we are collectively being called to connect with our inner voices & guidance, to stand tall in our Truth and express it clearly with integrity, alignment, compassion, & strength for the good of All.
In times of death, rebirth, transformation, it is imperative that those voices that have been suppressed & silenced ~ the voices of Mother Earth, Divine Feminine energy, Love & Compassion, Diversity & Sovereignty ~ are uplifted, expressed and heard.
YOU carry medicine, and you have the power to connect to the deepest wellsprings of wisdom, I believe it is our divine right and nature. That’s why I created my upcoming live virtual workshop Feed Your Wild VOICE... If you’re interested in joining us May 22nd, click the link below to read more.
ACTIVATE YOUR INNER VOICE & SPEAK YOUR AUTHENTIC TRUTH…
Now is the time to connect with your inner voice + heal thru self-expression! Join Venessa on the New Moon in Gemini (the sign of communication!) for this immersive workshop where you can access & strengthen your own unique voice and self-expression.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Personal experiences in my life connected to challenges with my voice, including some of the biggest challenges since childhood
The many physical challenges connected to my throat area and reflections on their manifestation
The various patterns and blocks I identify within my own life that I see in others and as collective patterns (i.e. suppression and denigration of populations including womxn, BIPOC, and intuitives, witches, healers
The importance of cultivating a sense of safety withIN self and withOUT
Making the appropriate shifts and changes in your environment and relationships in order to feel safe
How I began to write and journal for myself to connect to my own voice
Helpful questions to ask yourself as an exploration of your inner voice + fears
How your self-care may look “selfish” to others & how others receive & react is not your business
The importance of practice + discipline in personal change-work
The healing energy of forgiveness and forgiveness as a portal into release and transformation
Why it’s critical to create and honor SPACE related to your voice and throat chakra
How immersing myself in a different environment (and different energy) allowed me to have the distance and SPACE I needed to tend to my own Voice and space within
How expressing our Truth with conviction and alignment takes courage
The sacred power of birdsong
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Resources
Ep 136 How to Navigate the Pandemic as An Empath/HSP with Lola Pickett
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Ep. 137 Getting Radical & Resilient with Plant Allies for this Pandemic with Renée Camila
Happy beloved Mother’s Day <3 Today we’re celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the Feed Your Wild podcast! FYW is 2.. I’m so in love with this toddler and I’m so grateful for YOU as a listener. Thanks for joining me on this wild ride ;)
Many of you have reached out asking for guidance on plants and herbs that would be most supportive in this time, and I wanted to bring someone on the show that worked with plants in a multidimensional way and focused on accessibility + community support. That’s why we’re speaking with Renée Camila of La Yerba Buena Herbs. I LOVED this conversation, we touched on so much, here are some highlights...
Renée shared ways we can work with our plant allies and herbal medicine to support ourselves during this pandemic - she touches in on the energetic and spiritual elements. We talk about finding ways to reorient ourselves to our medicine in a way that feels accessible and reciprocal. Renée shares some of her favorite plants for working with grief, visioning, change, and boundaries + protection and how to work with them including important considerations for foraging and wildcrafting.
We also talk about how to get radical with plants in the kitchen (including an amazing herbal resource for you), plus how Renée is supporting her own family with special recipes. She shares some well-needed advice for those experiencing panic in this time, why Renée believes working with your ancestors is so helpful and how radical self-care is a form of ancestral work. Renée also shares about her upcoming herbal apprenticeship and free herbal workshops.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How remembering our ancestors and their
What health sovereignty means to Renée
How we have an opportunity to examine
Finding ways to reorient ourselves to our medicine in a way that feels accessible and reciprocal
Respectful and accessible ways of working with plants
Ways we can work with our plant allies and herbal medicine to support ourselves during this pandemic
Why Renée begins with the energetic and spiritual, and ways we can assess our individual and collective patterns
Some of Renée’s favorite plants for working with grief, visioning, change and boundaries + protection and how to work with them
Important considerations for foraging and wildcrafting + why it’s important to rethink your relationship to the living plant world
How to get radical with plants in the kitchen (including an amazing herbal resource for you), & how Renée is supporting her own family with special recipes
How sun dehydrated shiitake mushroom can provide sun energy and vitamin D during the winter time
Renée’s personal story - how she came into the plant path, the profound anxiety, panic attacks & insecurities she experienced, and how plant medicine + mentors “saved her life”
Advice for those experiencing panic in this time and why Renée believes working with your ancestors is so helpful, and how radical self-care is a form of ancestral work
Working with water and wind for soothing your nervous system
Renée’s upcoming herbal apprenticeship and free herbal workshops
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Renée’s upcoming online apprenticeship: Now and Then Herbal Apprenticeship
Resources
Herbal resource during the pandemic: Get Radical Boil Roots, A Kitchen Witch's Guide to Wellness in the Time of Covid-19
The Herbal Highway Podcast can be streamed online here or wherever podcasts are found
Klamath Siskiyou Herbal Alliance: Renée and local herbalists started a phone herb clinic in response to the pandemic. Info can be found here.
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Ep. 136 How to Navigate the Pandemic as An Empath/HSP with Lola Pickett
This episode is for all of you who FEEL deeply, identify as empaths and highly sensitive people! Our guest Lola Pickett works primarily with empaths/HSPs in reclaiming their resilience and power through their sensitivities. We dive into what is a highly sensitive person and empath, and the difference between the two. Lola shares the most common patterns that show up for empaths/HSPs that hold them back from stepping into their full power - so many have shown up in my own life. We talk about how this pandemic can be a portal for those folks to step into their powers of sensitivity and why we need to “upgrade the program” and tap into our resiliency during this time.
Lola shares her own personal journey with this pandemic and the tool that she used to help herself work through overwhelming anxiety - partnering with her brain. We touch on the medicine Lola sees we are receiving through this process, Lola’s thoughts on navigating fear and how we can move with fear in a way that best serves us, plus helpful questions to ask yourself. Of course we share some practical ways we can support ourselves as highly sensitive during this pandemic, and how we can continue to do so as we move into the unknown.
Quotes
“The less boxes I put around, and labels I put on, things... the freer I am.” ~ Lola Pickett
“When the *F* are we going to wake up and hear the medicine songs that are trying to sing us awake from inside our own bodies?” ~ Lola Pickett
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
What is a highly sensitive person and empath, and the difference between the two
The most common patterns that show up for empaths/HSPs that hold them back from stepping into their full power
How people-pleasing, procrastination, and overwhelm can be side effects of being an empath
How we are waking up to the wounding of the witch and reconciling with the history of denigration, dismissal and genocide
Why we need to “upgrade the program” and tap into our resiliency
How this pandemic can be a portal for those to step into their powers of sensitivity
How Lola discovered her own powers of sensitivity and what it was that led her own evolution into supporting others
How Lola experienced an existential crisis having built a life that looked great on the outside but was “built by the wrong ingredients” and led her to realizing she was living a lie
How Lola took back her power in her life and made radical changes
How we need to work with our sensitivities intentionally so we can without burning out and giving ourselves away
Tower moments: how the tarot Tower card and archetype is showing up in these times, and what to do about it
How what we are experiencing at different levels with this pandemic is a collective trauma, and how it’s critical to get quiet and connect
Lola’s personal journey with this pandemic, navigating illness (not with COVID) but then having family members get sick with COVID
The tool that Lola used to help herself work through overwhelming anxiety - partnering with her brain and talking back to her thoughts
How mental resilience does not equal mental “toughness”
How the nonlinear process of this virus in the body mirrors our collective nonlinear experience of the pandemic
The question Lola wants us to ask ourselves: “If the quarantine ended tomorrow what would you regret?”
The medicine Lola sees we are receiving thru this process: slowing down, decolonizing, deconstructing our internalized capitalism, and returning to a sense of how can I be a wild humxn on this planet
Lola’s thoughts on navigating fear and how we can move with fear in a way that best serves us, and helpful questions to ask yourself
Some practical ways we can support ourselves during this pandemic, including remembering fun (Lola says “it’s imperative to find our fun”), speaking our Truth and being honest in each moment, and listen to the medicine of slowing down
How we are seeing the lack of resilience in the current societal systems that are in place, and how building resilience starts at home
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Connect With Lola Pickett
Website | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Lola’s podcast Empath to Power
Resources
Webtalks and classes by Max Dashu including Prophetic Women
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To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.
If you would like to make a one-time contribution, you may use our personal Venmo Link here and offer any dollar amount you'd like - send to @WildlyRooted: https://venmo.com/WildlyRooted
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Ep. 135 MAY :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Wind Speak
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.
Ep. 134 {ENCORE} Curanderismo, Prophecy & Mindfulness with Brenda Salgado
This week we are rebroadcasting our episode with Brenda Salgado on Curanderismo, Prophecy & Mindfulness, originally aired in May of 2019. Brenda and Venessa’s conversation explores curanderismo and indigenous prophecy about our current times and the shift in consciousness we are experiencing.
This episode remains timely as we collectively face a global pandemic and unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities for change and healing. As we reflected back in 2019, mindfulness practice can help you cultivate more inner power, peace, dignity and grace as well as navigate challenges and difficulties with more clarity and courage in this current time of shift.
Brenda Salgado is founder of Nepantla Consulting, and is currently in the process of establishing the Nepantla Center for Healing and Renewal. She holds degrees in Biology (BA), Developmental Psychology (BA), and Animal Behavior (MS). Brenda has over 17 years of experience in leadership development, nonprofit management, spiritual teaching, movement building, women’s health, and environmental and social justice. She has also received training from indigenous elders in traditional medicine, limpias and healing ceremony.
Trained by Purepecha, Xochimilco Toltec and other indigenous elders in traditional medicine, Brenda draws on the healing powers of the natural world to guide her work as a spiritual leader. She is committed to co-creating a society filled with wholeness and beauty. Brenda is also author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time.
I’m honored to once again share this episode with you as a profound reminder of the incredible time we are living in and how to Be the change we desire to cultivate a more beautiful world in reciprocity with all beings.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Brenda received the message that she was to be a healer when she grew up
How different spiritual and religious traditions fit differently throughout her life
How Brenda began connecting to her ancestors, as if she were picking up a phone energetically and calling them
Her grandmother told her she comes from a long line of medicine women in Nicaragua, and to begin a conversation with her mother about it
Got on the medicine path and began trainings with various indigenous teachers, and how clear direction from the spirit of her grandmother led her down a specific road
How the visions she had as a young girl began to be realized as she stepped deeper into her work as a healer
How Brenda navigated leaving a good stable job she loved to make healing work her primary offering
Brenda shares the ways that we can begin to connect to a similar level of guidance and awareness with spirit, including spending time in nature, slowing down, mindfulness practices, setting intention before sleep and more
Important advice for those who consider themselves sensitive and the dangers of being “too open” and practices to do at bedtime
How the power of setting boundaries and exercising them with grace when communicating with spirit world has changed her life
Brenda shares the teachings of the Indigenous prophecy of the eagle and the condor, and how it relates to our current time and the shift in consciousness we are experiencing
How Brenda considers it’s a tremendous responsibility to be alive today and tips for those who feel overwhelmed, scared, or confused
What Spirit has told Brenda about social media
What might come up when we choose to move into the path that our spirit is calling, and how to navigate the challenges
Insight into the “school of life” and other helpful metaphors that can help us
Brenda breaks down what are 3rd, 4th and 5th level consciousness, and the differences between the 3 (and how humanity is moving into 5th level)
What you’ll notice as you move into 4th level consciousness, and helpful ways of being to allow the process to happen with more intention and flow
Why there’s so much violence, fear, and upheaval right now
How fear is the only thing keeping us from moving into 4th and 5th levels of consciousness
How we need to consciously create new systems to replace the old systems that are obsolete and can no longer exist in higher levels of consciousness
How to death doula the energies and ways of being that are fear-based
The importance of protection and stepping into a difficult situation prepared and supported
Powerful questions to ask ourselves, and the difference between “Do, have, be” vs “Be, have, do”
Brenda leaves us with a beautiful blessing that you can use anytime and bring into groups for the
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Connect With Brenda Salgado
FB Author page: https://www.facebook.com/RealWorldMindfulnessForBeginners/
Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time bit.ly/realworldmindfulness
Gift #1: An excerpt from her book Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
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Ep. 133 Nurturing Radiant Health At Every Stage thru Everyday Plant Medicine with Dr. Leslie Korn
In light of the recent pandemic, it’s clear to me now more than ever that health sovereignty and empowerment requires radical connection to the natural world, plant medicine and ancestral wisdom ways, living in harmony with nature and Mother Earth. It also requires community support and collaboration. With threats of COVID-19 and of a mandatory vaccine and digital certificates, lack of access to life-saving treatments for so many, and reports that the pandemic seems to be hitting people of color & native populations the hardest - virus is disproportionately affecting Blacks, Latinx, and Native Americans (highlighting the systemic disparities already in place), we need to bring back medicine into the people’s hands as much as possible. Food and plants as medicine is obviously a primary part of this and a topic we’re passionate about on this podcast.
Today I’m releasing an interview I did with Dr. Leslie Korn, PhD. We recorded this interview a while back before the pandemic began (pre-Coronavirus), yet the topic discussion remains highly relevant: Nurturing Radiant Health At Every Stage with Everyday Plant Medicine... What better week to release such an episode than this week in celebration of Earth day on April 22, which also happens to be a new moon in earthly Taurus. Of course we celebrate earth day every day on this podcast and Dr. Leslie’s new book, Natural Woman, can be an ally to put this into practice in our daily lives.
Dr. Leslie Korn served as a Fulbright scholar on traditional medicine, a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and a National Institutes of Health–funded research scientist in mind/body medicine. In 1975, she founded the Center for Traditional Medicine, a public health clinic in rural indigenous Mexico that she directed for over twenty-five years. Author of nine books, she teaches and consults internationally for mental health professionals and tribal communities.
Her latest book Natural Woman is an incredibly comprehensive DIY herbal medicine book: Dr. Leslie draws from several herbal traditions (the medico-spiritual traditions of Curanderismo (Mexico), Ayurveda, Sufiism, and Northwest plant/fungi use by Native American communities) to address numerous health conditions—acute and chronic—and includes descriptions of how to use herbal preparations for spiritual and ritual use.
This book is designed to serve as an herbal companion for you to consult time and again for trusted guidance that can be shared with family, friends.
In these modern times when we’re losing this custom and tradition of passing of information from elders, it is an invaluable resource especially in the context of this pandemic which highlights the critical importance of health sovereignty, restoring our sacred natural connection with Mama Earth.
In this interview and Dr. Leslie’s book, we explore the sacred connection between herbs and womxn in ALL their beautiful forms.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Dr. Leslie Korn’s search for adventure, how she found herself in Mexico and being initiated into her healing path through illness, becoming her “own laboratory” and experiment of One
How the local women taught Dr. Leslie about regional and traditional medicine of Mexico
How Dr. Leslie created a local health center focused on traditional healing practices in Mexico
“Being on one’s own during which can be a serious acute illness taught me about not being afraid and not being fearful about dis-ease... and to use nature.” ~ Dr. Leslie
How Dr. Leslie began working as a traumatologist, merging energetic touch and psychotherapy
How touch is womxn’s intrinsic mode of communication
How Dr. Leslie works with people who do not feel comfortable being touched, and the power of animals for healing
How trauma disrupts our natural rhythms and how touch can provide a template for re-balancing
How licorice root is central to balancing our internal rhythms
Herbs have their own internal clocks regulated by light cycles and environment storing nourishment that furthers our own rhythms.
The different types of rhythms we have, including circadian and ultradian
The connection between breath, our brain and rhythms, and how we can naturally optimize our own rhythms for optimal health
Dr. Leslie shares about a variety of power plants such as chamomile, and jamaica as a wonderful source of antioxidants that regulates rhythms of our digestion
The importance of cross-cultural wisdom sharing and how this feeds into Dr. Leslie’s mission
Why rituals are so important for our health and livelihood
Rosemary’s protection powers and long historical connection with humans
The importance of connection and mentorship for learning - passing wisdom traditions through heart-based relationships
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Amazon Author Page | Psychology Today | Academia | Research Gate
Center for World Indigenous Studies
Books by Dr. Leslie Korn:
Natural Woman: Herbal Remedies for Radiant Health at Every Age and Stage of Life
Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature, and the Body
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Ep. 132 On Health Sovereignty + An Akashic Meditation :: Re-Membering the Creative Force Within
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This week, we’re taking a bit of a breather from regular scheduled programming and sharing something to provide a moment of pause amidst the information overload and overwhelm. In the first part of the episode, I share my personal thoughts on health sovereignty, what I’ve been focusing my energy & attention on during this pandemic (going back to basics), and the importance of community within health.
In the second part, I share a short Akashic meditation that hopefully provides some nourishment for the nervous system.
*To skip directly to the meditation, go to 24:30 mark.
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Resources
Ep 129 The Medicine of Grief for Radical Change with Ayana Young
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Ep. 131 German New Medicine :: Overcoming Fear of Illness + Harnessing the Power of Mind-Body Connection with Dr. Melissa Sell
Today we’re exploring the mind-body connection through the lens of German New Medicine (GNM). In this interview you’ll hear Dr. Melissa Sell explain what GNM is, the paradigm shifting work of Dr. Hamer, and how it’s changed her approach to health and healing. Dr. Melissa breaks down the 5 Biological Laws that help you better understand yourself and the language that your body speaks. We talk about the psyche-brain-organ connection and various psychological “shocks” called Conflict Shocks that impact the expression of what is considered dis-ease in the body. Dr. Melissa shares how our body has wise biological programs that attempt to resolve conflicts and how this process is grossly misunderstood by conventional medicine.
We touch on the science of embryology and how specific tissue types are associated with specific psychological conflicts and biological manifestations.
Dr. Melissa shares some of her personal views on coronavirus, contagion and the proliferation of symptoms experienced en masse. We discuss the critical link between panic + fear and exacerbation of symptoms, the “nocebo effect,” and which biological programs might be linked with the symptoms of COVID-19. We also cover a couple of case studies through the lens of GNM: chronic sinus issues and chronic acne (something I’ve had a history with!).
This discussion contains a lot of technical elements as well as ideas that contradict those that are more widely accepted, so I invite you to listen in with an open mind and use your own perceptive ability to determine if this model makes sense to you.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
What is German New Medicine and how Dr. Melissa discovered the paradigm-shifting work of Dr. Hamer and it completely changed her approach to health and healing
What German New Medicine and Louise Hay have in common
The 5 biological laws - Dr. Melissa breaks down each law and Significant Biological Special Programs (SBS) and how understanding the 5 Biological Laws will help you better understand yourself and the language that your body speaks
How GNM takes the unique subjective perspective of each individual and how that can apply to the development of dis-ease
The psyche-brain-organ connection and how you can see a psychological “shock” demonstrated on a brain scan!
How you can identify the type of conflict shock based on one’s symptoms
How a Meaningful Biological Special Program unfolds and how this knowledge can prove beneficial.
“Stink conflict” - how this is connected to sinus issues
How our body has wise biological programs that attempt to resolve conflicts and how this process is grossly misunderstood by conventional medicine
The different phases during a biological program, how the parasympathetic and sympathetic systems work together, and the natural rhythms of our healing process
The science of embryology and our knowledge of the evolution of human that link 3 basic tissue types and associates each with a specific SBS
The connection between tumors (excess cell proliferation) and the biological conflicts + programs at play
How bacteria play a vital role during the healing phase and GNM’s view that microbes don’t cause diseases and diseases are not contagious
The controversial view on COVID-19 thru the lens of GNM, based on a completely different paradigm of health understandings and away from the more conventionally accepted germ theory
Dr. Melissa shares some of her personal views on coronavirus, contagion and the proliferation of conflict symptoms experienced en masse and how she would approach
Morphic resonance, mirror neurons, and other unseen factors possibly at play
The critical link between panic + fear and exacerbation of symptoms, the “nocebo effect” and which biological programs might be linked with the symptoms of COVID-19
Words of wisdom Dr. Melissa has to support those experiencing fear, confusion, panic in this time
The 5th biological law of Quintessence & why we can no longer consider disease a mistake of nature
Dr. Melissa’s top recommendations for supporting health and your immune system, including exercising and how to figure out your own internal recipe and supportive mindset
Main approaches to resolving or addressing disharmonies that present as chronic health issues - Dr. Melissa breaks down a case of chronic sinus issues
How our thought patterns contribute to our biological conflicts, programming and symptom manifestation
The biological conflict behind chronic acne - something both Dr. Melissa and I have dealt with for years into our adulthood
Controversy around GNM founder Dr. med. Ryke Geerd Hamer including allegations of problematic and even dangerous views and how Dr. Melissa reconciles these allegations with the intelligence and utility of GNM
Ways in which you can personally test the 5 biological laws and explore these connections within your own life experience
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Resources
Dr. Melissa Sell video: German New Medicine 101: Introduction to the Five Biological Laws
Dr. Mercola’s interview with Dr. David Holt: German New Medicine - How You Control Your Own Healing
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Ep. 130 APRIL :: Akashic Soul Nourishment Reading :: Your Creation Story
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.
