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)
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
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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
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