40. Ancient Medicine & the Love of the Ancestors - Atava Garcia Swiecicki

We each carry our own unique ancestral medicine, and can (and should!) spend a lifetime uncovering it. A teacher of herbal, folk, and indigenous medicine, Atava is deeply grounded in and a powerful guide through this sacred work.

IN THE INTRO:

• Synchronicity, mushroom medicine, and the deer dress
• Herbal Medicine Giveaway
• Ancestral Apothecary's Student of Color Scholarship Fund- investing in herbal education is investing in the health of your community
• The Ancestor Song

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• Invocation
• When an ancestor becomes an ally from the other side
• How to know when it's really a message from spirit and not just our own projection
• Food as the one surviving cultural tradition within a family
• Remembering your indigenous mind
• How giving time and attention to our roots can heal relationships among the living
• Ancestral connection and reverence work never ends
• Healing is in our bones, our blood, our DNA
• Being witnessed in our stories
• Remembering that the plants are (literally) our ancestors
• Using plants to ground deeply when talking about and facing ancestral issues like colonization and slavery- we're never alone as long as we have our plant allies
• Making space for people of color to explore and reclaim their ancestral medicine 
• Teaching healing skills so that people can treat those within their own communities and not need saving from elsewhere
• Herbalists are the grassroots community healers
• You're going to be a better herbalist and healer if you're rooted in your own ancestral traditions
• We all come from people who work with plants
• Love is the basic fundamental vibration that keeps the universe moving- how love and community saw Atava through uterine cancer & remembering to reweave the energy of love back into the healing arts
• A beautiful death: how the love we give and receive in this life carries us into the realm of the ancestors

LINKS:

• Ancestral Apothecary School
• Ancestral Apothecary
• Ancestral Apothecary on Instagram
• Weaving Earth Immersion
• Lead To Life
• Ancestral Medicine
• My website Mythic Medicine
• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
• Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)