Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal questions followed by a 30 minute interview. Sarah Ellen, the show's moderator, shares her personal experience allying with poison ivy. Sarah Ellen is a student of life. She cherishes the opportunity to live with awareness, and experience the wholeness of being alive. Sarah Ellen lives at her home, Heartsong, in Barrington Hills, Illinois with her husband Jay, and their dogs, cats, goats and chickens.  She intends each day to know and remember her inherent connection with the Earth and all the magic and beauty that surround her. Sarah Ellen has studied virtually with Asia Suler, and personally with Linda Conroy, Pam Montgomery and her lifelong teacher and kindred Susun Weed.  She gives great regard and gratitude to her unconditionally loving teachers and co~creators the plants, animals, elements and the well~spring of her own  blood and bones that hold the memories and knowings of all the Wise Women and their sons, who came before her.  What gifts could be received

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Linda Conroy. Linda Conroy, MSS, MLSP is a Wise Woman, Bioregional Herbalist, A Wild and Whole Food Afficinado and a Community Organizer. She is the founder of Moonwise Herbs, The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference and Mycelium Mysteries, a Women's Mushroom Gathering.  She lives at her homestead in southern Wisconsin with the plants, mushrooms, ducks, chickens, rabbits, honey bees, great pyreness and familiar felines. She teaches classes and runs apprenticeship programs based on the wise woman tradition. She can be reached at www.moonwiseherbs.com or midwestwomensherbal.com Q & A topics in this episode include: caller follow-up: dog with pressure sorevisual disturbances following physical exertionscalp infectionfacial acnewillow barkbrahmibrain fog/improving sleep qualitycorneal abrasionallergic reaction/vaginal distress

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Maureen Smith. Maureen Theresa Smith is a writer, activist, and mom with a background in healing arts. She defines her life work as integrating spirituality into everyday practices and rituals that are inspirational and fun, in order to support girls and teens in becoming whole, strong women. Her company, Indigo Blooms offers personal coaching, support circles, workshops and products to empower girls* and those that care for them by enhancing intuition, awareness, and inner-authority with beauty, joy and a fierce commitment to self-love and compassion for all. Maureen offers visionary coaching and to girls and women in times of transition and facilitates Indigo Circles for tween and teen girls. She authored First Moon, Celebration and Support for a Girls' Growing Up Journey, New World Library, Spring 2005 and recently, Your Moontime Magic, A Girls Guide to Getting Your Period and Loving Your Body, New W

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Lisa Levart. Hudson Valley artist and photographer Lisa Levart is on a mission. Goddess on Earth, her life long assignment, celebrates contemporary women while drawing upon ancient stories to elevate their life journeys. Her archetypal imagery is created through the eyes of love to inspire other women to be their most powerful selves. For over twenty years, Lisa has traveled the world creating iconic portraits that reveal the spirit of independent girls, ferocious women, powerful warrior activists and epic elders, and weaves together the personal and collective journeys of women's lives. Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in the permanent collection of the 9/11 Memorial Museum in NYC. Projects have generously been supported by the NY State Council of the Arts and in 2015, 2018 and 2020 her work was recognized by the Julia Margaret Cameron Award's for Women Photographers.  Her fir

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Dr. Martha Libster. Dr. Martha Libster is an international expert in the practice of nurse-herbalism, integrative nursing, and botanical self-care. Her work advances the art and science of nurse-herbalism and has been disseminated through publications, presentations, and community events on five continents. Her practice models on integrative nursing, health culture diplomacy, and precision botanical self-care have contributed to global health transformation, policy reforms, and wellness innovations. Dr. Martha is the author of 9 books. Her award-winning history, Herbal Diplomats (2004), documents the lost history of 19th century American nurses’ leadership during a nationwide healthcare reform movement focused on botanical self-care. Dr. Martha is now expanding her nurse-herbalist work to the public through her Self-care Institute and Self-care League. Her latest book, Gentle Medicine for Balance in Bod

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Pam Kray. Pam Kray is film/video/multimedia artist, writer and editor. Pam has exhibited in the United States and internationally through numerous solo screenings and festival participation and has collaborated artistically with filmmakers, audio composers, painters, sculptors, dancers and theatrical producers.     Her works include short and feature narrative, experimental and documentary films and videos. Her video documentary, Mushroom Seekers (2002), premiered at Anthology Film Archives in New York, again at the Telluride Mushroom Festival, and has screened repeatedly in the U.S. and Europe. Working in themes as diverse as gambling and wild mushroom picking, she has brought her observations of humans and their occupations together with her interests in plants as investigations of life, particularly in America. She hopes that her work in American studies strikes more universal points of understanding

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Cyndi Dale. Considered the “Teacher of Teachers”, Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, intuitive energy healer, professor of energy medicine, and author of 27 books about energy medicine, intuition, and spirituality. She has worked with over 70,000 clients and presented hundreds of seminars and workshops across the Americas and in Russia, England, Wales, Amsterdam, Iceland, Costa Rica, Belize, Morocco, Peru, Scotland, and more. She is also a favored teacher and healer for China, leading in-person and on-line classes, and has been published in over 18 languages. Her books include the bible of Energy Medicine and the winner of four internationally recognized Publisher’s Awards, The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, and Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Chakras, the largest compendium of chakra knowledge ever produced (2016). Her latest release is Energy Healing for

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions. Q & A topics in this episode include: caller follow-up: allergenshealthy environmentcaller follow-up: dairy & meat digestionsupport for healing a compression fracturevioletsliver supportcaller follow-up: improved eye health and other benefits from diet changescaller follow-up: post-menopausal supportveganism

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Rachael Carlevale. Rachael Carlevale is the Founder and Director of Education of the Ganjasana Plant Medicine School where she leads cannabis yoga ceremonies, and facilitates CEU courses and trainings on regenerative farming, ganja yoga YTT, permaculture and biodynamics. Speaking on behalf of the natural world, Rachael honors the plants and life in the soil by transmitting their messages for the wellbeing of all—regenerating body, mind and soil for the collective. Rachael is a certified Mindfulness Educator, and Certified Yoga Instructor with an academic foundation in plant and soil sciences (receiving high honors Bachelors of Science degree from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Ayurveda, Women’s Health and ethnobotanical traditions. She works with many plant allies including a deep passion for cannabis, hemp, and ayahuasca. Rachael is also the founder of the Green Tent - Women’s Cannabis Circles, and

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed bya 30 minute interview with her guest, Nina Manolson. Nina Manolson M.A. NBC-HWC is a Body-Peace® coach. She helps women end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body. Really at home. The kind of at home where you can run around naked and not worry about what is "good enough" or what others will think. The kind of good that allows you to feel ultimate freedom and body-peace.   Nina is also a  Certified Psychology of Eating Teacher, Nationally Board Certified Holistic Health Coach and Certified Body-Trust Guide. She helps her clients move past the deprivation-diet paradigm and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates deep, long-lasting change in and with their bodies.  Nina works with individuals, groups and writes body-poems – all in service of helping women create a respectful and nourishing relationship with their body. Learn more at: NinaManolson.com Q & A topics in th

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest Virginia Rosenberg. Virginia Rosenberg is an intuitive astrologer for social change. Her passion is natural healing of self and society. She believes that healing is innate, and that healing is a matter of becoming more conscious of and connected with ourselves, our bodies, each other, and the more-than-human Worlds. Astrology is a multidimensional map. A book of life. An ancestral language art that reveals the interrelationship between humans and Nature. Astrology is a tool of perception and embodied communication that allows us to locate ourselves in the cosmic dance of timespace and re-weaves us into the fabric of what is. Since 2010, Virginia has offered over 4,000 readings for clients worldwide, as well as teaching classes, workshops, and retreats. A prolific writer, her words on spirituality and culture have gone viral and inform meditation and study groups across the globe. Virginia is a Mother

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Jami Hearn. Jami Hearn is an Intuitive Women’s Empowerment Coach andSpiritual Teacher, who is passionate about working with high-achieving, spiritual women, who despite outside success, still struggle with self-judgement, inner work and a lack of clarity around her purpose. Through her coaching, offerings and retreats, Jami empowers women to reconnect  to their sacred wisdom, own their sovereign voice, and step into their divine feminine power, so they can consciously create the life they are truly worthy of. In addition to having a thriving, international coaching practice and being an Akashic Records Expert and Teacher, Jami has been a successful attorney for nearly 20 years. Walking with a foot in each world allows Jami to intentionally and intuitively guide her clients to the ideal strategy for their individual situation, with flow, ease and grace. Q & A topics in this episode include: treating

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 mminute interview with her guest, Vincent Genna. World-renowned Vincent Genna is a triple power Psychic – an authentic and gifted psychic with the knowledge and experience of a licensed psychotherapist, and the big, charming personality of a showman. He combines his early background as a professional actor and singer, a Master’s in Clinical Social Work, and his Hospice experience helping more than 500 patients through the dying process, with his uncanny skills as a metaphysician and psychic medium. The sum total of these experiences and gifts is a Psychic who can guide people not only to recognize what is preventing them from healing or attaining their dreams but the necessary steps to get there.  Vincent Genna’s Media Reel  /  Listen to Vincent’s Radio Show “Stop Stopping Yourself”: https://www.unityonlineradio.org/stop-stopping-yourself Q & A topics in this episode include: willowelder flowersCBD / cannabis tincturedental su

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Maureen Walton. Maureen Walton has worked in many fields of the commercial and fine arts but spent the last 20 years as a professional mural artist focusing on creating in schools at both the elementary and college level. She traveled from her Marysville studio home to paint, from Kingston to Toronto and north to Bancroft.  Since 2010 Maureen began to use her artistic skills to draft diagrams, yantras and illustrations of the inspirational messages that come to her of the feminine creation technologies  This began in 2008 with her introduction to the Inca Luminous Structure Meditation Yantra . She is also called to express the path and work of the leading women in the Iroquois Peacemaker story. Maureen has two wooded acres with two yurts where she hosts small bi-annual retreats based on this womb teaching, calling in other teachers to collaborate with her. She just retired from her 20 year career of pai

Sean is an herbalist, gardener, medicine maker. All are invited to call in on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30pm EST to make comments, ask questions and engage the discussion about herbal medicine, current events, trends and happenings in the world. Send any sound clips, links and notes to peoplesmedicineshow@gmail.com Sean Murnin (facebook.com) Sean Murnin's (@bigislandbotanica) profile on Instagram • 380 posts

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Dr. Greg Hammer. Greg Hammer, MD is a pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, and professor at Stanford University Medical Center. A member of the Stanford WellMD initiative and the Wellness Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Dr Hammer is currently the Chair of the Physician Wellness Task Force for the California Society of Anesthesiologists. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer on wellness at institutions worldwide and teaches GAIN to medical students, residents and fellows at Stanford.   Dr. Hammer’s clinical focus is in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine. His research is in developmental pharmacology and immunology, and he has an active laboratory with multiple ongoing studies in these areas. He has published widely on topics related to pharmacology and perioperative care of children undergoing cardiac and thoracic

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with guest, Delvin Solkinson. Delvin Solkinson is a permaculture design teacher and plant person from a tiny village in British Columbia Canada. He has done a Permaculture Design Course, Diploma and Masters Degree with Bill Mollison, co-originator of permaculture. He has taken many advanced permaculture courses and teacher trainings, two other Diplomas and a Doctoral Degree in permaculture. He serves as the Diploma Program Co-ordinator at the Permaculture Institute. Delvin lives and works at CoSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors where he serves the mission to build a Sanctuary of Visionary Art to uplift the global community. He works with artists to create books, cards and media on many creative projects including his role as senior managing editor of CoSM Journal of Visionary Culture. At CoSM he runs the visionary permaculture design program with his dear wife Grace Solkinson. On their websites, this love team offers many fr

 Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Pat Alva-Kraker. After a 35-year career in the IT industry, Pat Alva-Kraker was faced with a series of challenges that altered her professional life forever. She was let-go from a major technology company, her husband of 22 years suddenly passed-away, their shared business had to close its doors and Pat is now a breast cancer thriver. At this juncture, Pat stepped onto her own journey to elation. Along the way she realized she can inspire other women to own their feminine power and create a successful business and lifestyle. Pat Alva-Kraker is the author of the #1 Best-seller “Katherine’s Quest: One Woman’s Journey to Elation.” Today, Pat Alva Kraker, travels the country and the world, Live and Virtually, assisting women business owners and entrepreneurs alike to overcome any obstacles, stay heart-centered, scale their business with ease and grace, and affirming their right to financial freedom whil

  Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with her guest, Rebecca Dawson. Rebecca Dawson is an international channeller, speaker and author based in Perth AUS, who has been in practice for more than 25 years. After facilitating over 2000 private consultations, Rebecca’s focus in the last seven years has been on the research and understanding of the shifts that are occurring for Earth and Humanity. Rebecca is now devoted to bringing this information into accessibility, so that humanity can start to have a conscious understanding of what is happening, why it is happening, and what can be created from this emerging capacity. With the assistance of her team of Masters, Rebecca facilitates workshops and events around the world that allow more understanding to occur, and more information to emerge. Her first book “The New Human Experience” addressed these initial observations. Rebecca’s new book, The Agreement, has been written to help us ease into that place o

Sean is an herbalist, gardener, medicine maker. All are invited to call in on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30pm EST to make comments, ask questions and engage the discussion about herbal medicine, current events, trends and happenings in the world. Send any sound clips, links and notes to peoplesmedicineshow@gmail.com Sean Murnin (facebook.com) Sean Murnin's (@bigislandbotanica) profile on Instagram • 380 posts