Our denatured modern culture doesn't work for our Paleolithic human bodies, as the epidemics of autoimmune issues, degenerative disease, and so many other modern health problems show us. Relearning what our ancestors knew about plants, animals, the land, and the human body in order to integrate that knowledge into today's world is a vital step toward health and wholeness.
This is an in-person conversation between two close friends, two mothers (Suuzi once nursed my baby for me y'all), two women trained in different forms of holistic healing who share an interest in ancestral wisdom and a commitment to honest vulnerability.
Suuzi Hazen runs a small mixed farm in Northern California, where she lives with her husband and sons. She has a Master's Degree in Oriental Medicine and a BA in English Literature and Women's Studies. Growing up in rural Canada, she spent her childhood outdoors exploring nature and enthralled by stories of her farming ancestors. She's fascinated by and very knowledgeable about traditional and aboriginal lifeways, especially regarding families, child rearing, hunting and foraging, nutrition, and sexuality.
Best NOT to listen with kids in the room.
In the Intro:
Giveaway!
In the Interview:
How we met & accepting help as an exchange of energy
Sex & bodies & desire after having a baby and other realities of modern motherhood
How we've lost basic wisdom about health
The microbiome & the deep self (Dr. Zach Bush is everything)
Mitochondria & degenerative disease
Autoimmune issues are the new infectious disease
Everything that happens in your body has meaning & everything you do has an effect (damnit)
Modern Western medicine is LTRLY based on cadaver studies- dead bodies are considered baseline
Our food journeys- from processed food and industrialized agriculture to vegetarianism and veganism to traditional foods
Ancestral food resonances
My past with anxiety, depression, self harm, weight gain & loss, and the aftermath of my vegan pregnancy
Nursing babies literally deplete the minerals from your bones- deep nourishment is needed
The illusion of human supremacy: there's not such a big difference between plant and animal consciousness
Nature is an ongoing life/death/life cycle and we all consume the bodies of other entities; as Susun Weed says, "Now I eat you, now you eat me"- we are not separate from nature
Animism as the oldest form of human spirituality
Distorted notions of clean v dirty food
Why our ancestors and modern hunter gatherers prefer organ meat over muscle meat
A deep dive into the liver- human livers, animal livers, the functions and energetics of this vital organ
Food choices, food prices, food privilege
Love languages and more on sex & motherhood (in which Suuzi introduces me to the word "choreplay")
Links:
Suuzi's website Mother's Best Liver Pills
MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Patreon
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Dr. Zach Bush- such important info!!
The Weston A. Price Foundation: Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts
Real Food: What to Eat & Why by Nina Planck
Head Strong by Dave Asprey
U.S. Wellness Meats
The Five Love Languages
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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