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)
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
90. Cervix is Self: Reconnecting to Your Inner Oracle & Record Keeper - Denell Barbara Randall
89. The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory
88. Confessions: Ancestral Foodways, Modern Matriarchy, & the Power of Radical Honesty - Katya Nova
87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden
86. Generations, Gene Codes, and Entheogenic Earth Medicine - Mikaela de la Myco
85. REPLAY Embodied Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'Donoghue
84. Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Canceled
83. Coming Home to the Mushroom Elders - Amanita Dreamer
82. What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, & Legacy of Love
81. We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli
79. Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort
78. Plants are Infinitely Healing & Folk Herbalism is for Everyone - Farai Harreld
77. Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection - Marysia Miernowska
76. Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing - Rachelle Garcia Seliga
75. Learning Is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing - Akilah S. Richards
74. Womb Sovereignty, the Dark Feminine, and Mythopoetic Pregnancy Release - Samantha Zipporah
73. Ending Pregnancy at Home: Holistic Abortion Options
72. Life's Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper - Isabel Friend
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