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)
70. I Forgive You: A Story of Loss and Transformative Healing - Amy Mea Woodruff
69. Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft with Yourself - Rupam Henry
68. Cultivating Resilience with Home Herbalism - Kami McBride
67. Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human - Nadine Artemis
66. The Coronation: Fertile Soil for a New Story - Charles Eisenstein
65. Wild Remedies: Tending Relationships with the Land Around Us - Rosalee de la Foret
64. When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana Young
63. Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade
62. Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, & Human Ecology - Sajah Popham
61. Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness are One - Rachelle Garcia Seliga
60. The Boundaries of the Unthinkable are Wavering - Charles Eisenstein
59. Herbal Rituals, Rhythms, & Remembrance - Judith Berger
58. Poisonous Plant Spirit Medicine - Kathryn Solie
57. Own Your Self: Radical Healing, Rooted Health - Dr. Kelly Brogan
56. Real Talk on Marriage, Plants, Kids, Business - My Husband, Owen Lindsay
55. Highly Sensitive People are the Psychedelic Plants of the Human Realm - Lola Pickett
54. Lineage, Calling, and the Mythic Imagination - Sharon Blackie
53. Healing Herbal Oils: How To Make and Use Them - Kami McBride
52. Decolonizing the Mind: You Belong to Your Ancestors - Tamira Cousett
51. Maternal Mammalian Ecstasy: The Ancient Hormonal Blueprint for Optimal Birth and Bonding - Sarah Buckley
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