IN THE INTRO:
Free Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils online workshop!
Evolutionary health, symptoms as adaptations, why there's no such thing as the optimal diet, and why we didn't necessarily evolve to be healthy
One of our last remaining collective/ancestral rituals
IN THE INTERVIEW:
Why to start herbally & nutritionally preparing for your period at ovulation
Understanding nutritional needs throughout the menstrual cycle
Tracking your period
Coffee & chocolate for the cycling woman- good or bad?
Iron, blood, oxygen, and women
How Anja overcame six years of alcohol and drug abuse and built a healthy, healing life
We share our stories of growing up with an alcoholic parent, and of our mothers' deaths, and what it feels like when you get that phone call we all dread
A super important but always overlooked perspective on nutrient deficiency in addicts and the role of nutrition in recovery
It's never too late to change your path
When Anja found out about her German great-grandmother being the town mystic and Tarot reader, and how this ancestor's sensitivity has echoed down through the motherline
Food, drink, and herbs for winter nourishment
Carminitives: a simple, delicious, and healing class of herbal medicine that you already have in your kitchen
LINKS:
Anja's website ManaMedicinals.net
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
The Medicine Stories Facebook group
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
BOOKS-
*The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman
*Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
*Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christianne Northrup
*Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain
*The Alphabet Vs the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain
*It's OK That You're Not OK by Megan Devine (and her website Refuge In Grief)
*Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner
PODCASTS-
*LifeSpa with John Douillard
*Dr. Gabor Mate on Russell Brand's Under the Skin podcast
Past Medicine Stories episodes mentioned-
*8 w/ Stephen Harrod Buhner (sensory gating channels)
*18 w/ Suuzi Hazen (iron, liver, evolution)
*20 w/ Kami McBride (herbalism, oils, menstrual wellness)
*30 w/ Cilla Whatcott (fever, illness, immunity)
MISCELLANEOUS-
*My video An Herbalist's Perspective on Cold & Flu
*Period Tracker apps
*Dr. Zach Bush
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
105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
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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