In today's episode, guest herbalist and teacher Jesse Wolf Hardin steps in to explore a listener's question, "How do I heal my father wounds?" The conversation weaves in the exploration of masculinity, male roles, and how our father wounds can actually empower us in how we find our purpose in the world. Ashley offers herbal ideas of support and Jesse offers powerful poetic reframing so we can live a life of true freedom.

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Mary Oliver Poem mentioned

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.