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Medicine Stories turns five years old! And you’re just gonna have to listen to hear what else I talk about (you’ll understand why…) LINKS: Three Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sales 2022- 35% off Mythic Medicinals St. John’s Wort Oil 50% off Confessions of a Well Nourished Woman: Ancestral Wisdom, Sacred Foods, Deep Healing 50% off The Confessions Money Bootcamp: How to Sell Anything (w/ Integrity), Master Collaborative Partnerships (Affiliate Style), and Finally Understand the Feminine Energetics of Money to Create the Life of Your Dreams 6 most downloaded episodes ever, in order- 91. The Mineral Matrix and the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar 87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women- Kymber Maulden 67. Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human- Nadine Artemis 69. Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft With Yourself- Rupam Henry 86. Generations, Gene Codes, and Entheogenic Earth Medicine- Mikaela de la Myco 79. Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort The kids aren’t all right- 42% of Gen Z Diagnosed with a mental health condition The Teen Girls Aren’t Going to Forget by Common Sense Media The Aftermath Part 1: Kids, Schools and the Crime Surge and The Aftermath Part 2: The Haves and the Have-Nots on the Honestly podcast with Bari Weiss How Weed Became the New OxyContin: Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’ by Tablet Magazine What Happened To Our Daughter, because I don’t want it to happen to anyone ever again by Tara of Slow Down Farmstead

The plants have so much more to teach us than what has been written down by others; there is another level of wisdom that can only be accessed by direct communication with the living Earth. When we cultivate an embodied knowing of the natural world we realize that we don’t need any special gifts or gurus or long lists of memorized plant constituents to mediate our relationship with our more-than-human kin. A nervous system and an open heart are all that’s needed. Let us open our channels of perception and reclaim our ancestral birthright to be in direct communication with our mother planet and those we share it with. RESOURCES: Kami’s free workshop: Plant Communication Inspiration & Stories Kami’s webinar: Your Personal Plant Communication Experience Kami’s online course: Plant Wisdom: Activate Your Plant Communication Skills Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine?  My website MythicMedicine.love  Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) Stephen Buhner’s Facebook post about entering hospice Buhner’s personal book collection fundraising sale Episode 8 with Stephen Buhner Planetary Intelligence, Ancestral Resonance, and the Perception of the Heart Episode 17 with Sajah Popham True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant and Human Consciousness Episode 62 with Sajah Popham Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, and Human Ecology  WildOmen.com

My family’s slow, meandering, imperfect journey toward what semblance of ancestral living we can scrape together in the 21st century. Get the Off-Grid Homestead Bundle for $50- over 140 resources (ebooks, guides, and full online courses, programs, and membership sites!) covering these topics: - How to start homesteading and live off the land - Permaculture, organic gardening, and holistic garden planning - Foraging for mushrooms, nettles, and herbs safely and sustainably - Seed starting and seed saving for flowers and vegetables - Canning and food preservation with water baths and pressure canning - Self-sufficiency and thriving off-grid with smart solar-powered solutions - Online income, Airbnb rentals, and how to make money from a homestead - Urban gardening and how to start a micro homestead from your apartment - Creating chemical-free home products from natural ingredients - Composting methods and how to repurpose scraps in your garden - Organic farming, beekeeping, and animal care - Medicinal herbs and home remedies for a sovereign medicine cabinet - Prepping, emergency preparedness, and how to survive in the wilderness - How to make your own skincare and beauty products from plants - Farm-to-table recipes, sourdough baking, brewing, fermenting, and cheese making - Sovereign womanhood, homebirth, breastfeeding, and holistic postpartum practices - How to start homeschooling, nature groups, and forest schools It is available until 9-25-22, but will become available again in the future! Take out fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? to be added to our email list & be alerted when it’s back.

A cathedral to nature, ancient standing stones, highlands & islands, our lost luggage saga, and the only city in the world I’d want to live in… Our two new medicines! Kinship Woven in Deep Time Earth Essence & Cosmic Convergence: St. John’s Wort & Mugwort Herbal Body Oil Take my survey for podcast listeners (just 5 quick questions!) Photos from our trip can be found on my Instagram For more on the ancient history of Britain check out the Love Letter to the British Isles podcast by Neil Oliver and his book A History of Ancient Britain

Earth-centered cultures have always held that each person is born into this world with their own unique gifts and strengths, but this knowing has been put aside by our modern, disconnected overculture. The consequences of this mass self forgetting are profound. But nature is always there to remind us of who we are, where we come from, and why we’re here. Let us come back into relationship with the earth- the truest mirror of our most sacred inner selves. TOPICS: Naming babies & birthing books How spaces live inside us: ancestral pilgrimage to sacred sites  When you’re connected to your deep self you can most powerfully serve others Self compassion is a force for healing in the world It is through the non-stop nurturance of the natural world that we remember who we are Rewiring our neurology through relationship with the earth can create the space the body needs to heal Reflections on our inherent goodness & the original beauty of being Musings on narcissism, ancestral humans, & our toxic overculture There’s nothing self-centered about seeking self knowledge and cultivating self love The truth about magic You can choose peace and still grow LINKS: Asia’s website OneWillow Apothecaries Asia’s book Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self Healing from the Living World Asia on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon Podcast Bonuses! Mythic Medicinals St. John’s Wort Oil Episode 4 with Asia- Multidimensional Plants & The Fabric of Consciousness Episode 42 with Asia- You Are Your Own Healer: Earth Intuition & Self Healing Episode 79- Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta The CryptoNaturalist on Instagram Cartoon Saloon’s beautiful mythic films Carolyn Hillyer Our herbal & mushroom medicines MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

We were made from our mothers, who were made from the earth, which is made of stardust, which is made of minerals. A well mineralized body heals itself by providing our cellular metabolism what it needs to create energy and clear exhaust. Our ancestors didn’t give their mineral status a second thought, but modern humans are almost all imbalanced (with the ill health to prove it), and minerals are wildly misunderstood. Let us remember the elemental interbeing that gives us life, understand the complex tapestry that is our individual mineral balance, and give our mitochondria what it needs to help us thrive. TOPICS: You can’t microdose (or heroic dose) your way out of a mineral deficiency- how years of working with entheogenic plant medicines negatively affected Hamid’s health The interplay of trauma symptoms, depression, anxiety, physical health issues, and mineral status The many reasons we’re all mineral deficient Iron toxicity and why anemia is dangerously misunderstood We inherit our mitochondria from our mothers, and what your maternal grandmother ate while pregnant with your mom programmed epigenetic changes into the egg that became you, so your biology- on a metabolic level- is looking for the foods your grandmother consumed  Much of what we attribute to good (or bad) genes is actually the result of the mineral status of our mothers early in our lives For childbearing women, there are consequences to trying to maintain a figure instead of trying to nourish ourselves Human beings are deeply resilient- even when our genetic and epigenetic inheritance is lacking, even when our minerals are depleted- we can heal and thrive The exquisitely choreographed transfer of minerals from mother to baby during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding (and how modern childbearing practices disrupt these) Mother nature doesn’t make mistakes & the human mind will never outsmart the life force Healing from healing- much of what is recommended in the “alternative” health space makes people worse by depleting minerals (including many supplements) Hamid’s mineral mentor Morely Robbins and the Root Cause Protocol Addressing the underlying mineral deficiency v attacking the disease or diagnosis Iron carries the frequency of [fe]ar, and copper stimulates [cu]riosity- the correlation between mineral status & reactivity to the world Iron (which is magnetic) embodies archetypal masculine energy, and needs the feminine archetype of copper (which is electric) to balance it The whole system relaxes when toxic iron buildup starts to leave the body  Considerations around blood donation Healing. Takes Time. The myth of copper toxicity (which rivals the myth of anemia) The dance between oxygen, iron, copper, magnesium, and ceruloplasmin Oxygen + iron = rust inside the body Flower pollen, copper, and fertility Why the adrenal cocktail is needed if you are supplementing magnesium  Thirst is a cry for minerals, not water Our bodies were designed to make water and our ancestors did not drink 8 glasses a day If you’re drinking unmineralized water you’re irrigating, not hydrating Why hair grays and/or thins, and the possibility of reversal The interplay between light, sound, cells, and minerals Implications of cannabis overuse The dangers of hapé (tobacco snuff) (also spelled rapé)  Mineral deficiency is involved in all stages of addiction Just because it’s a plant medicine doesn’t mean it’s good for you RESOURCES:  Hamid’s brilliant Instagram account @MineralShaman Hamid’s website for deeper dives & to schedule a consultation Medicine Stories Patreon (2 bonuses for this episode!) Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine?  Hamid’s cannabis Highlight on Instagram Hamid’s essay on the dangers of hapé  Get the free Root Cause Protocol handbook A very helpful Wise Traditions podcast interview with Morley Robbins Cure Your Fatigue and Slow Down the Aging Process [Cu]re Your Fatigue by Morley Robbins Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science & Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition by Lily Nichols Episode 87 Elemental Interbeing, Food Confusion Overwhelm, & Cell Deep Nourishment for Women with Kymber Maulden Our herbal & mushroom medicines MythicMedicine.love  Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

The women’s embodiment movement tends to stop at the womb, but cervix lies even deeper and contains an abundance of information about where we’ve been and what is needed now. From healing abnormalities and infections to connecting with the deep self for guidance and healing, let us peel back the layers and remember our innermost knowing. TOPICS: How Denell healed her cervical dysplasia and completely got rid of both strains of cancer causing HPV (without the LEEP procedure or other Western medical interventions) The anatomy of cervix and what our culture has gotten wrong about it Asking yourself the question- what is my cervix telling me? Cervix asks us to face ourselves How alcohol, bad food, and bad sex affect cervical well being Healing the past in the present- closing timeline loops by revisiting where we fragmented to reclaim ourselves  Cervix is your inner oracle How the current trend of feminine embodiment misses cervix How to connect to your cervix The medical myth that the cervix has no nerves and therefore you can’t feel it Denell shares a powerful & very vulnerable story about realizing that she had gotten lost in “sensual Instagram boss babe” culture and finding her way back to the devotion to women and cervix that first called her The connection between pelvic and dental health All the ways we abandon or even abuse ourselves to conform to the overculture The power of softness RESOURCES: The Cervical Wellness website Cervical Wellness Online Course (25% off coupon code available for patrons here) Denell on Instagram Medicine Stories Patreon (3 bonuses for this episode!) Our herbal & mushroom medicines MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Mythic Medicine on Instagram Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Sacred to the goddesses of old, known to all ancestors who occupied the Northern Hemisphere, and beloved by wise folk and herbal healers from the Ice Age until today, mugwort is one of the most magical and practical medicinal plants in the world. May we come into relationship with this potent ally in order to widen sensory gating channels, ground into our center, and remember who we are. With special guest appearance by Kami McBride! 3 Free Herbal Oil Workshops from Kami Check out Kami’s course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils TOPICS: A knowing beyond knowing, ancient and ineffable Mugwort is a door opener, a wayfinder, a welcoming bridge to the realms of consciousness needed to cultivate a deeper relationship with the natural world How mugwort initiated me onto the plant path The medicine of bitters & the necessity of assimilation Mugwort’s affinity with the womb and pelvis, and how it healed me after a terrifying injury Mugwort oil accesses the deepest tissues of the body and enhances the action of other plants The vibration of enchantment Mugwort’s place in kitchen herbalism Menstruation is truth serum time and mugwort heps you love your blood Solar and lunar herbs Kami’s favorite plants to blend with mugwort Herbs that help you to be alert and relaxed at the same time The power of mugwort smoke Beer, the moon, and the ancient goddess The dreamspace and the opening of portals Ritual, ceremony, and ancestral communion As the witches teach- ancient plant healers and the suppression of knowledge A little known effect of bringing mugwort into your life RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): 3 Free Herbal Oil Workshops from Kami Check out Kami’s course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils My video sneak peek at the course This episode’s Patreon bonus- Oldest of Herbs: Mugwort Wisdom From Herbal Books Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Mythic Medicine on Instagram Judith Berger’s website Episode 57 with Judith Berger- Herbal Rituals, Rhythms, & Remembrance Rupam’s Herbal Swedish Bitters The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants by Wolf-Dieter Storl Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion 700-1100 by Max Dashu The Herbal Kitchen by Kami McBride Our website MythicMedicine.love  Medicine Stories Facebook group Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

The cell is the foundation of life, and biological science is clear on what our cells need to most efficiently generate the energy that runs our bodies. Gut, autoimmune, and hormonal issues all have underlying metabolic causes. Let us cut through the noise and remember how to eat to enjoy, nourish, and repair, and not for ideology. Dive much deeper with Kymber’s online course Habitually Healthy. Check out the two info-packed bonuses that accompany this episode at the Medicine Stories Patreon. TOPICS: Energy and structure are interdependent at every level Metabolism is not what most people think it is Removing major food groups limits your body’s ability to generate energy Metabolic safety for women- the body can’t heal if it’s in survival mode What disrupts a woman’s metabolism Restrictive diets are metabolic-lowering stressors to the female body Women’s “progress” in society has come with a metabolic price Being overwhelmed by constantly changing nutritional information & how prometabolic is different The problem with too much plant consumption Nutritional rigidity and a look at raw, vegan, keto, and paleo/carnivore diets through a metabolic lens The importance of carbs- when we don’t have enough glucose the body will start relying on stress hormones for energy production Kymber’s past with extreme food intolerances and how she healed them The few foods that should be avoided because of their metabolism-lowering, gut-destroying effects What fear of food, and black and white nutritional thinking, does to us PUFAs- what to know about polyunsaturated fatty acids The story behind the post-industrial vegetable oil toxic sludge we’ve all been consuming for decades The way our skin responds to the sun is largely contingent on the foods we’re eating When the body rusts from the inside out- iron, PUFAs, estrogen, and internal oxidation Everything you’ve learned about iron is wrong and you’re almost assuredly iron toxic (this is so important, especially if you or anyone you know has been diagnosed anemic) The trade-offs of trying to get our nutrients from synthetic sources Copper, magnesium, and remembering that minerals are elements that originated in stars Technology cannot make us healthier The nutrients in animal foods are vastly more abundant and bioavailable than those in plant foods  Eating this one food everyday has dramatically improved both my and Kymber’s health RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast): Kymber’s online course Habitually Healthy Medicine Stories Patreon (2 info-packed bonuses for this episode) Kymber’s website Kymber’s ebooks Reparative Eating Guide & Nourishing Our Sanity Kymber on Instagram Real Food Gangstas on Instagram Carnivore Aurelius on Instagram This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill Jessica Ash on Instagram Katya Nova on Instagram An article on the debunked Ansel Keys study Cure Your Fatigue by Morley Robbins (iron/copper/magnesium balance bible) Cure Your Fatigue and Slow Down the Aging Process- Morley Robbins on the Wise Traditions podcast (amazingly helpful simplification of his book) Mind blowing video of iron shavings in cereal (these are in all iron fortified processed food- you have consumed so much of this!) Strong Sistahs YouTube channel Heal Your Metabolism by Kate Deering My website MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Psychedelics are the most potent medicine we have for remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. Many ancestral communities integrated plant and fungal healing ceremony into every age and stage of embodiment (and disembodiment). At this turning point in history, let us call upon our entheogenic allies to unlock our truest, most deeply human, individual and collective genetic expression. Ancestor stewardship & the DNA codes through which plant medicines speak to us Death and the composting and regenerating of souls Psilocybin, the underworld, soil, decomposition, and the dark feminine Happiness above sanitation Mycelial networks of consciousness and generosity We have uteruses to thank for the discovery of LSD How motherhood and indigenous wisdom brought psychedelics deeper into Mikaela’s life Making entheogenic medicines as common as chamomile tea Hot new take on the Stoned Ape Theory The interplay of psilocybin and serotonin in conception and pregnancy In the overculture we are raised to lose our creativity We can’t understand the brilliance of our ancestors if we never get ourselves into their expanded mindset The mushrooms are the ancient ones The disruption that happens when we separate women from land and mothers from babies Heal ancestral trauma by returning to ancestral ways Practicing ancestral languages in the presence of psilocybin It is through language and vibration and sound that life keeps a record of itself Mending the broken bones of who our ancestors thought they had to be in order to survive Psilocybin as an aid to recode our relationship with language in order to draw our ancestors closer Percussion and rhythm vibrate the water within our bodies A matriarchal, grass roots, regional model of community medicine mushwomb healing circles The solo journey: from the alone into the alone Addressing tendencies toward abuse when uneven power dynamics are present in psychedelic healing communities Entheogenic healing for the whole family system SSRIs, psilocybin, and depression, eating disorders, addiction, and more My recent experience with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and kambo Further explorations into descent medicine: excrement and other expressed bodily fluids as a vital sign Psychedelics and pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding Going out like a G- mushrooms teach us how to die Living people eat dead mushrooms, and living mushrooms eat dead people  The Red Road and honoring indigenous communities’ ancestral relationships with sacred plant medicines Legality v humanity: the flow of life is stronger than the forces against it Beauty healing: the masks we wear and bringing our attention inward to the divinity of who we are RESOURCES: Mikaela’s website/offerings/services Mystic Jasper Mikaela’s ebook Entheogenic Earth Medicine Assisted Motherhood  Mikaela’s wonderful Instagram Mental Health, Magic Mushrooms, and Pregnancy and Teen Mental Health books on Kickstarter Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!) My website MythicMedicine.love  Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz Video of Ayana Iyi: Entheogens and Enhancing the Magik in You Mikaela and Ayana will be speaking at the Rising Consciousness Entheogenic Conference 3/22 Grounded by Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima Medicine Stories Facebook group Mythic Medicine on Instagram Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)