Our human roots go deep, both into the earth and into the past, and we cannot know ourselves if we don't know our roots. Yet most of us in the modern West feel adrift, cut off from those things which fundamentally belong to us and which have always sustained humanity. This sense of isolation and the loss of meaning causes us to feel lost, bereft, without purpose.
A lived, daily relationship with the natural world and an embodied connection with our ancestors are the birthright of every one of us, and more and more of us are reclaiming ourselves by reclaiming these simple, sacred things.
Vicky Salcido-Cobbe is an herbalist, gardener, teacher, writer, and the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants. After years of feeling lost to herself and engaging in self-destructive habits, her life changed in an instant when a clinician offered her a bottle of herbal extract as medicine. She and her husband Russ now work with the land to create small-scale remedies for their herbal apothecary La Tierra Buena Collective (formerly Grandmother’s Medicine.)
In the Intro:
The usual, plus my crying toddler
Herbal Medicine Giveaway from Vicky!
Sorry not sorry
In the Interview:
Names as seeds planted by our parents
The years Vicky was lost to herself (with some drugs and tall cans), and how she found herself again (with the moon and tall trees)
How having big, mystical experiences without proper integration can cause more confusion and pain
How nature and the ancestors have always sustained humanity, why we feel so bereft when we lose connection with them, and how we find ourselves when we rekindle those relationships
How this suburban SoCal girl stumbled upon the plant path- “herbalism was the way I reclaimed myself”
The realities of running an herbal products business
(Random segue into One Weird Use for Breastmilk)
Dreaming about Wal-Mart (& what it means when you have mostly mundane dreams)
Vicky gets really really real about the evolution of her sexuality- masturbation, porn, the shameful stuff we don’t like to talk about in our culture- and being extremely candid with her husband now that she's figuring herself out
70s v 90s porn
Why the dominant image and dynamic of women needing to please men and get their approval in order to gain entrance into a sexual relationship is the opposite of reality, the opposite of biology in most animal species, including humans, and is a dangerous paradigm that upends nature and hurts girls, women, boys, men, and everyone else
Vicky’s recent transition from embodying the maiden to mother archetype (without having physically birthed children)
Show Notes:
La Tierra Buena Collective
Grandmother's Medicine
The Medicine Stories Patreon page
The Medicine Stories Facebook group
MythicMedicine.love
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Music by Mariee Sioux (from the song Wild Eyes)
71. Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health - Dr. Carly Nuday
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
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