BodhiSpeak with Jerry Walsh

Recorded and originally published in 2022

James continues sharing his life story about finding real healing to his bipolar diagnoses through traditional Peyote ceremonies and Native American culture, simultaneously connecting him back to his buried Seminole ethnicity

Recorded and originally published in 2022

James Mooney shares his life story starting with being brutally assaulted at a young age for his native ethnicity, nearly dying, and being revived in the sweat lodge and then losing a connection with his roots, leading to a severe bi-polar diagnoses. His search for a cure for his ailment then brings him full-circle to the Native healing circles of the Peyote way.

- Politics and Consciousness 

- Social Responsibility 

- Community action against facism and populist oppression

- Islamaphobia and the Burkha ban in France 

*Correction and edit - Nathan Phillips, mentioned in the podcast, is of the Omaha Nation - not the Lakota Nation 

More thoughts on Israel and Gaza

Dr. Stephanie Van Hope is a registered nurse, certified nurse coach, and doctor of nursing practice with experience in oncology, hospice, and health coaching and nursing education. She served as a study guide for New York University’s Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety project, guiding cancer patients through psychedelic journeys with psilocybin, and offers a continuing education course for nurses entitled Nursing & Sacred Medicine: Introduction to Psychedelic Therapy and serves as a learning facilitator for the Synthesis Institute’s Psychedelic Practitioner Training Program. Stephanie is a Reiki practitioner and a student of yoga, meditation, astrology, plant medicine, music, dance, and the sacred traditions of many faiths. She currently resides with her husband, son, in an intentional community in the Catskills region of New York.

https://nursingsacredmedicine.thinkific.com/

https://www.hopeholistic.com/

I sat down with my good friends and community members, Sarah Philkill and Maible Coughlin, founders of Catskills Birth Collective, to discuss the hero's journey of birth and becoming a parent, parenting in community, creating community through children, societal misconceptions around childbirth, pain and intensity as doorways to bliss, and what it means to be in a conscious relationship and family

They will be offering a new course for expecting parents (which I took in 2021 and is awesome and highly recommended) and you can use this code for a discount on the program: bodhispeak

Find out more about them here:  https://www.catskillsbirth.org/

Recorded in late November - I had to keep editing this one to get where it needed to be

Podcast inspired by Sebastiao Salgado - Amazonian indigenous people - forgiveness - middle east conflict - and more