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Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Laura Marie Parker. Laura is a Birth Shaman, a Wise Wombyn Sex Educator, the creator of The Empowered Woman, a Community Created Herbalist (CCH) and a self-published Novelist.  She brings complimentary medicine to birth and family whole-health through teaching about herbs as people’s medicine, working with story medicine, and working with individuals to have their own unique empowering journeys through birth. Laura is the author of The No-Time Tango: A Traveling Memoir. She also writes a monthly herbal zine called “Tales from a Gypsy Momma”, which weaves the wisdom of herbal medicine and folk wisdom with her journey through life and mothering three boys. Laura believes that nourishment is life.  What we choose to nurture and nourish becomes the environment we live in.  In honour of nurturing her vision for making her world a better place to live, she created The Empowered Woman, a nourishment series of classe

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with DeAnna Lam. Fondly known as 'Womb Visionary' DeAnna L'am is a speaker, workshop leader, author, and a trailblazer in helping women worldwide harness the spiritual forces hidden in Menstruation and Menopause. She has been leading workshops and certifying facilitators, nationally and internationally, for over 30 years. this episode Q&A includes: • bathe wounds in yarrow tincture, soak gauze in... • honey is a healer of wounds- helps skin come together... • never one way to do something • cannot do much wrong when using nourishing and tonifying herbs.. • The complete herbal handbook for farm and stable Book by Juliette de Baïracli Levy.. • connecting with ancestors through trance, find an ancestor who was a healer, don't throw away any of it, believe what you get.. • nourishing herbal infusions are not a fad, but a lifelong thrill.. • you cannot turn back the clock, bu

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Vera de Chalambert. Vera is a spiritual storyteller and Harvard-educated scholar of comparative religion. She speaks and writes about spiritual culture, mindfulness and the emergence of feminine wisdom in our times. Her work explores the meeting place of theology, spirituality and social change and is informed by inter-spiritual insights from the world's great wisdom traditions.  Vera works with clients all over the world and offers coaching, mentorship and spiritual direction. She has been invited to speak internationally at colleges and conferences such as SAND Science and Nonduality Conference in the US and Europe, Sister Giant in Washington DC and the Dawn of Interspirituality Conference in Costa Rica. Vera holds a Master's degree from Harvard Divinity School.  this episode Q&A includes: • glamour is shapeshifting... • why is it important to use fresh skullcap when making tincture? • herbs f

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Vajra Ma.Vajra Ma is the leading exponent of women’s womb awakening in Feminist Spirituality. Based in her work with women’s subtle body knowing since the mid-1980’s, she originated the devotional moving meditation The Tantric Dance of Feminine Power®, the womb-sourced moving meditation practice of her mystery school and Priestess lineage Woman Mysteries of the Ancient Future Sisterhood®. Vajra Ma is author of From a Hidden Stream: The Natural Spiritual Authority of Woman (2010) and is published in numerous anthologies including Foremothers of the Women's Spirituality Movement (2015).Rev Vajra Ma is an ordained Dianic Priestess since 1992, with ministerial credentials through The Temple of Diana, Inc. She is co-founder with her husband and president of Shakti Moon Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to educating and mentoring people to develop and maintain, right relationship with the Source of Life, specifically with Eart

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Ani Williams—World-renowned recording artist, composer, author and sound therapist developed Songaia Sound Medicine in 1992. She studied Voice Analysis with Sharry Edwards of Sound Health Options, Planetary Tone healing with Oded Mansura of Israel, Fabion Mamon, sound researcher and author. Ani has more than two decades of experience training and serving clients worldwide. Her website is https://aniwilliams.com this episode Q&A includes: • retina and glaucoma issues- 4 cups of infusion a day, well cooked leafy greens, cannabis is the herb for glaucoma, bates methods.. • first aid kit- motherwort, hypericum, yarrow, echinacea, skullcap, ointment are the bare bones.. • linden infusion is a far better anti-inflammatory than turmeric... • bruised sternum- meadow sweet, yarrow or saint Joan's oil.. • building lax muscles- weight lifting, yoga- push yourself, but don't push yourself over the edge..

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman. Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman is a Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner, Ritualist, Goddess Scholar, Mother and Artist. Best known as the director of Active Culture Family, Erin walks a path of community stewardship and service to Gaia through her rolls as lead facilitator of the Medicine Mandala Green Magic Apprenticeship program, and as Priestess of Bridge Temple, a remote off-grid mystery school, healing sanctuary, culture farm, and library of earth magic located on sacred land in the Cleveland National Forest of San Diego, CA. this episode Q&A includes: • relax blood vessels and deal with stress- fresh flowering motherwort tincture, passionflower for the spiritual heart, hawthorn.. • what the lowest dose of herbal remedy you can take for good effects.. • drugs are not bad, but overused.. • mouth infection in cat- yarrow.. • ear ache- cooked onion on ear method, hard to

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with  Lama Tsultrim Allione. Lama Tsultrim Allione is founder and resident lama of Tara Mandala, located outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado.  She traveled to India in her late teens and at the age of twenty-two, was the first western woman to be ordained as a Buddhist nun. After living in the Himalayan region for several years she returned her vows and became the mother of three, while continuing to study and practice Buddhism. She has been awarded the international “Outstanding Woman in Buddhism” by a panel of distinguished scholars and practitioners in Bangkok, Thailand. She is author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons and her new book is  WISDOM RISING A Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine. www.taramandala.org/about/lama-tsultrim/  this episode Q&A includes: • Frontier Coop, wholesale account: 5 lb bags, 5 herbs, a years worth of herbs • Comfrey dried root: topical/external use, dried root

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Melissa Dawson.  Melissa Doordaughter Was born in London, England in 1981.  She studied anthropology and world religions in the smallest university in Europe.  She has performed her poetry at Glastonbury musical festival, at Green Heart Ecological centre in Ibiza and at the Amsterdam International Festival of Poetry. Her life has been significantly marked by her experiences as a victim of sexual abuse.  She has spent a great part of her young adulthood seeking healing.  This journey took her to organic farms around Europe, and back in 2003 she realised her own personal healing was deeply intertwined with the health of our children and the planet itself. Her latest book- “Fragments of Her Story” is exactly that, a fragment of a bigger picture, a picture of her journey out of the hell realms and towards a life of joy and gratitude. Melissa currently lives and works in Italy, where she works as a proof read

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Zsuzsanna Budapest.  this episode Q&A includes: • alleviating pain and inflammation from arthritis- remove pepper from your diet, add daily nourishing herbal infusions.. • horehound- how to harvest and use or not.. • asking for help, creating debt and real relationship.. • cannabis use..  

Susun answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Vanessa Cuccia. Vanessa Cuccia is regarded as a pioneer in the sex toy industry for introducing her methods of using crystals for sexual healing and empowerment on a global scale. She is the founder and creator of Chakrubs. She continues to receive testimonials from people around the world who use her Chakrub products and methods. These overwhelmingly positive testimonials have inspired her to write her latest book, Crystal Healing & Sacred Pleasure. Since conceptualizing her initial designs for crystal pleasure tools in 2011, and establishing her brand in 2012, Cuccia has been an influencer in the social movement of sex positivity, self-love, and personal awareness by bridging the gap between sensuality and spirituality. As creator of products that symbolize the essence of these movements, she spearheaded the ethos of the brand which is inspiring many to nurture their own emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Rebecca Goyette.  Rebecca Goyette creates persona-based works that poke holes in Puritanical sexual mores. Working in a wide variety of media, her extensive artillery features figurative drawing, video, performance, and handmade sculptural elements made from fabric, clay and found materials used in a ritual fashion. Many know her as Lobsta Girl, and Goyette has filmed her interspecies os detailing the sex lives of lobsters internationally. Originally, Goyette adopted the sexually aggressive female lobster as a primary character she performed live to promote female agency. Another alter ego to Goyette is the ghost of her direct ancestor, Rebecca Nurse hanged as a Salem witch, who is re-imagined cycling through repetitive power dynamics in fits and foibles in the "New World." this episode Q&A includes: • teasel root specific for lymes disease.. • dream work, working with guides in the spirit world..

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Isla Burgess. Isla has been through many ways of looking at the world and the plant world inparticular. Erring on the view of plants as intelligent life forms capable of self expression and an MSc in Holistic Science in 2008 and 2009, set her on a ‘the journey of a lifetime’. Every day that Isla lives on this land in the wilds of Central Otago, New Zealand, Isla lives as a participant in this extraordinary place. Following on from the very practical book Weeds Heal A Working Herbal, written in 1998, Isla wrote a second book that includes many of the experiences of living on this land among these extraordinary beings. That book is The Biophilic Garden Connecting People, Plants and Inscape was published last November.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Riane Eisler.  IANE EISLER, JD, PhD (hon), is a systems scientist and cultural historian whose research has inspired both scholars and social activists. Her work shows that raising the status of women is key to constructing a more equitable and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination, and she pioneered the expansion of human rights theory and action to include the rights of women and children. She is co-founder and president of the   Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), dedicated to research and education, and Editor in Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, an online peer-reviewed journal at the University of Minnesota that was inspired by her work.  Dr. Eisler is internationally known for her bestseller "The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 27 foreign editions. Her book  "The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, was ha

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Dr. Kate Lund. Dr. Kate Lund is a licensed clinical psychologist and performance coach with more than fifteen years of experience. She has specialized training in medical psychology from Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, all of which are affiliated with Harvard Medical School, and she is an adjunct instructor in Psychology at Bastyr University in Seattle.   As a mother and a psychologist, Kate Lund is deeply concerned about the prevalence of social media, bullying, and anxiety in America when it comes to our kids.  In BOUNCE she shares tips and tools on how to help children deal with anxiety which puts a spotlight on resilience and how it helps students thrive.  Resilience is so important because it is what helps children bounce back from challenge and move forward despite the challenge.    There is some personal experience where

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sharry Edwards.  Sharry Edwards has been accused of being too scientific by some, too esoteric by others. She is a bridge between both fields of inquiry.  Sharry is the acknowledged pioneer in the emerging field of Vocal Profiling using BioAcoustic Biology.  She has for many years provided the leading-edge research to show the voice as a holographic representation of the body that can be used to change the face of medicine. Vocal Profiling can let us know the intentions of our leaders; the motivations of our partners; the foundation of our sense of well-being.  Would those abilities be of value in the struggle to attain dominion over our intrinsic right to personal freedoms? this episode Q&A includes: • does the uterus have a separate immune system? possibly why topical estrogen applied to the vagina does not circulate in the body.. • new drugs are more likely to have the most side effects and t

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Marcie Goldman. Marcie Goldman is a Feminist Health Coach. This means she doesn't prescribe diets. She helps people recover from restrictive diets, "food sensitivities" and digestive-distress using food and herbs.  She teaches, "nourishing is flourishing." She believes in food SKILLS, not obedience.  Her work combines the Wise Woman Tradition, "nutrition recovery," and herbal medicine. A stellar combination she's honed, working one-on-one and leading group programs, for over 20 years. Marcie graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition as a Board Certified Health Coach in 1999 after completing Susun Weed's Shamanic Herbal Apprenticeship in 1998. Before that, she received her Bachelor's in Women's Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Most recently, Marcie is a certified Addiction Recovery Nutrition Coach and Mental Health Recovery Nutrition Coach through the Alliance for Addiction Solutions.