Herbalism is an outlet for creative expression, a tool for community care, and a pathway to our own inner knowing. Let us revel in the freedom we have to make our own healing medicine with guidance from the land, the ancestors, and the mythic realm.
TOPICS:
Being an abuela in training
When an ancestral name is tied in to a landscape
Kitchen herbalism in Mexico
Gardening with whatever is on hand
Following the threads of our ancestors’ herbalism
The multifaceted medicine of rose (& making an essence from 100 roses!)
Your romantic relationship is yours to create; it doesn’t have to look like anything
Healing is not a straight line
Acknowledging the limits of ancestral healing, and the positive outward ripples we create when we self heal
Damiana shares the story of being held up at gunpoint while delivering herbal medicine to folks in need, and what facilitated the perpetrator’s unexpected change of heart
Anger as the fire that triggers action
Expanding the possibilities of flower essences- infusing without harvesting, Aguas Serenadas, and spontaneously capturing moments
Collective essence making in liminal space
RESOURCES:
Damiana’s Patreon, website, and Instagram
See a video of the cenote where the dragonfly essences were created
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Damiana mentions Natalie Ross of the EarthSpeak podcast
Medicine Stories Episode 70 with Amy Mea Woodruff I Forgive You: A Story of Loss & Transformative Healing
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker
My Patreon offering eBook Bringing Rose Medicine Home
Medicine Stories Episode 47 Rose Medicine: Softness & Strength from the Queen of the Flowers
My website MythicMedicine.love
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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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
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