Lisa Fazio (she/her) is an Irish/Italian American herbalist, astrologer, writer, mother, grandmother, and educator.

In this episode, Lisa and Eryn talk about:

Lisa’s journey with plant magic, astrology, and spirituality
Secure attachment through plant relationship and physical & somatic anchors with plants
Being in service to plants
Working with plants on indigenous stolen land
Finding home with plants
Animism
She reads us her poem, “how to love a polluted river”
Lisa’s relationship to poetry
Poems as living things
How her spiritual practice has evolved from growing up Catholic
Italian folk medicine!
Plants and ancestral connection
Simple ways to start to reconnect with ancestral lineages
How ancestral work can disempower white supremacy

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Connect with Lisa on her website. Stay tuned for her book, Della Medicina: Plants of Italian American Folk medicine - out next year.

Ep. #274: Plant Magic and Italian Folk Medicine with Lisa Fazio