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)
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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