Episode 23 - Getting to Know Indigenous Wisdom with Asha Frost

Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to talk with indigenous medicine woman Asha Frost, author of You Are the Medicine.

In this episode, they discuss:

• Asha's viral blog post "Dear White Woman Who Wants to Be Like Me"
• The experience of appropriation and disrespect for indigenous lived experience
• The overwhelming experience of receiving hostility
• Taking up space as an indigenous voice to shift the narrative around the use of indigenous practices
• Working through putting yourself out there as an introvert
• Humility is not equal to smallness
• Honoring the individual gifts everyone has
• Seeing ourselves as equal to--not above--other living things
• Growth & life going in cycles
• The anti-hustle message of bear medicine
• Asha's diagnosis with lupus at age 17
• Exerting your sacred no
• Practices for healing ancestral trauma
• How "resilience" can bypass healing
• Normalizing things not being easy
• Too much talk about wordle
• Natasha's on meth now...well dexmethylphenidate
• Time confusion during pandemic
• And more!

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Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Asha's website
• Asha's latest book, You Are the Medicine
• Asha's instagram
• Asha's oracle deck, The Sacred Medicine Oracle