Healing is communal. Settle in softly for this wide-ranging conversation with my most requested guest. Sophie and I talk chronic illness and trauma, diagnosis as blessing and as hex, the theater of medicine, the aquatic nature of memory, and the entanglements of time.
RESOURCES:
Sophie on Instagram
Sophie’s newsletter Make Me Good Soil
Sophie’s books and more
The Lady’s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey
ACE- Adverse Childhood Experiences quiz
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van den Kolk (giant trigger warning; read the book below instead)
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupam Maria and Raj Patel
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Erik Wargo
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Emerald (a podcast beloved by both me & Sophie)
Read The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics & the Entanglement of Matter & Meaning by Karen Barad
Time, As a Symptom by Joanna Newsom (lyrics here)
My blog post Ancestral Voices, women’s Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear Time
Episode 82 What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, and Legacy of Love
Come relax at my Costa Rica Forest Bathing Retreat- last day to book is August 4th ‘23
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
109. Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride
108. The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose
98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
96. Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride
95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
94. Our Trip to Britain: Ancestral Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites
93. Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler
92. Expansion is Our Nature: a Matriarchal Reframe for Money & How I Went From Broke to Flow
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
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