We each carry our own unique ancestral medicine, and can (and should!) spend a lifetime uncovering it. A teacher of herbal, folk, and indigenous medicine, Atava is deeply grounded in and a powerful guide through this sacred work.
IN THE INTRO:
Synchronicity, mushroom medicine, and the deer dress
Herbal Medicine Giveaway
Ancestral Apothecary's Student of Color Scholarship Fund- investing in herbal education is investing in the health of your community
The Ancestor Song
IN THE INTERVIEW:
Invocation
When an ancestor becomes an ally from the other side
How to know when it's really a message from spirit and not just our own projection
Food as the one surviving cultural tradition within a family
Remembering your indigenous mind
How giving time and attention to our roots can heal relationships among the living
Ancestral connection and reverence work never ends
Healing is in our bones, our blood, our DNA
Being witnessed in our stories
Remembering that the plants are (literally) our ancestors
Using plants to ground deeply when talking about and facing ancestral issues like colonization and slavery- we're never alone as long as we have our plant allies
Making space for people of color to explore and reclaim their ancestral medicine
Teaching healing skills so that people can treat those within their own communities and not need saving from elsewhere
Herbalists are the grassroots community healers
You're going to be a better herbalist and healer if you're rooted in your own ancestral traditions
We all come from people who work with plants
Love is the basic fundamental vibration that keeps the universe moving- how love and community saw Atava through uterine cancer & remembering to reweave the energy of love back into the healing arts
A beautiful death: how the love we give and receive in this life carries us into the realm of the ancestors
LINKS:
Ancestral Apothecary School
Ancestral Apothecary
Ancestral Apothecary on Instagram
Weaving Earth Immersion
Lead To Life
Ancestral Medicine
My website Mythic Medicine
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
Medicine Stories Facebook group
My fun Which Magical Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Photo of me wearing Atava’s dress on the land of Mariee Sioux’s family in 2009 (so young!)
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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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