Lynn Trotta is a naturalist, certified life-coach, passionate gardener, facilitator of rites of passage for women, and co-founded the Sagefire Institute with her husband, Michael. Lynn talks with Eric about grief, depression, the importance of mentors and elders in facilitating connection, and how to draw people into connection-based experiences, among other things.

#24: Connecting to Self, Nature, and Community, with Lynn Trotta

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This is a short epilogue to the Healing Culture Podcast in which host Eric Garza announces that his new podcast, Embracing Apocalypse, is not live. Enjoy it!

#67: Embracing Apocalypse is Live!

In this solo episode Eric talks about planetary boundaries and a few of these boundaries human society seems to be flirting with, about apocalypse and what it means to live in a time of endings when many truths are being revealed, and about the value of being adaptable. This is the final episode of the Healing Culture Podcast, and Eric also talks about why he decided to wrap the show up.

#66: Embracing Apocalypse, Final Episode

Epiphany Jordan wrote the book Somebody Hold Me: The Single Person’s Guide to Nurturing Human Touch, and has been offering Karuna sessions since 2013. She talks with Eric about the consequences of adults being so touch-deprived, the differences between platonic and romantic touch, consent, and getting our touch needs met, among other things.

#65: Meeting Our Need For Touch, with Epiphany Jordan

Sandor Katz is an author of several books about food and fermentation, among them Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation. He has taught hundreds of workshops demystifying fermentation and empowering people to reclaim this important transformational process. He talks with Eric about what fermentation is with respect to food processing, about the many benefits it offers, and how it begs us to rethink our broader relationships to bacteria and other microorganisms, among other things.

#64: Exploring Fermentation, with Sandor Katz

Nala Walla weaves a holistic approach to wellness as a practitioner of ancestral healing, grief recovery, nutritional therapy, and permaculture design. She talks with Eric about prayer as a connective versus coercive tool, the importance of doing ancestor work, prayer and grieving as a skill, awakening our indigeneity, and wellness practices she recommends, among other things.

#24: Connecting to Self, Nature, and Community, with Lynn Trotta

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