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
31. Word Witchery, the Ancestors, & Tarot - Sanyu Estelle
30. The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System - Cilla Whatcott
29. Otherworld Openings: When the Ancestors Call
28. Seaweed: Deep Medicine for Earth, Ocean, & Humans - Angela Willard
27. Anti-Racist Genealogical Research (for Everyone) - Darla Antoine
26. Ancestral Reverence as Devotion to the Earth - Daniel Foor
25. Self Attunement & the New Myths We're Making - Maia Toll
24. Plant Spirits & Deep Remembering that Speaks to the Bones - Fay Johnstone
23. The Profound Medicine of Herbal Body Oils
22. You Are Magic & Fear is Never the Truth - Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman
21. The Medicine We Carry - Lola Venado
20. Herbalism, Menstruation, & Innate Knowing - Kami McBride
19. Reclaiming Kitchen Wisdom & Ancestral Healing - Darla Antoine
18. Land Based Living, Mothering, & Eating - Suuzi Hazen
17. True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant & Human Consciousness - Sajah Popham
15. Intuitive Whispers: Deep Memory & Woven Fate
14. Reclaiming Yourself Through Nature & the Ancestors - Vicky Salcido-Cobbe
13. Psychedelic Healing: From Microdosing to Transcendence - Jim Fadiman
12. Folk Herbalism & the Wild Self - Jesse Wolf Hardin
11. Without a Village: Isolation, Honesty, and the Paradoxes of Modern Motherhood
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Good Mood Revolution
HyberNation: Sleep Stories and Meditations
The Fertility Conversations Podcast
Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep
The Gary Null Show
Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories