Episode 269: Corinna Rosella is a writer, herbalist and tarot reading practitioner based in Joshua Tree, CA. Born in rural Humboldt County, California, some of her earliest childhood memories were of making friends with the flowers and trees growing in the vacant lots behind her house, and sitting in her dad’s vegetable garden.

Most of Corinna’s adult life was spent working in social services and community-based non-profits, with gardening and cannabis jobs on the side. In her mid-twenties, she picked up her first tarot deck and started learning by reading for others and herself. Corinna also spent more than 3 years in Latin America, including more than 2 years living in Oaxaca city working as an ESL teacher, and lived a short while in Barcelona studying Global Health at the University. In 2015 she ended up back in Humboldt County, working in the health care system and attained her master’s degree in Applied Anthropology, all the while cultivating more than 30 medicinal plants in her backyard- prompting her to start making herbal medicine to give to friends and community members

In early 2018, Corinna Rosella made rise up! good witch her full-time job. Her background in community organizing, social work, health education and research greatly informs the work she does with herbalism, tarot, her writing and the rise up! good witch podcast.

Show notes:

• Corinna Rosella’s relationship with making healing plant medicine.
• Our responsibility for acknowledging our history, especially in the spiritual community.
• “We are all in a deep learning process of how to be better.”
• The reality of having “the racial conversation” in order to grow.
• The meme background that Corinna created: “Maybe you manifested it, or maybe it’s white privilege.”
• “It is important that we all understand that pretty much none of us are self-made.” 
• Corinna Rosella’s stance on manifestation. 
• Being able to let go of the ownership of something and knowing that all ideas pass through us.
• Why it's okay to feel uncomfortable talking about white privilege. 
• How to educate ourselves on the current news, but not get wrapped into the negativity.
• “In general, if something doesn't affect us, that's our privilege. We have the privilege to ignore it. And if we want to see systemic change, if we want to see collective healing, what we have to do is open our eyes.”
• Corinna’s recommendations: 
  • Good Ancestor Podcast with Layla Saad
  • Sharon Holmes 
  • Rachel Rickets - Spiritual Activism 101: Anti-Racism Webinar
  • Marisa de la Pena 
• When to speak up and when to listen.
• Making sure that the full moon circles in practices are not contributing harm to communities of color or indigenous cultures.
• The importance of using plants from our own lineage. White sage and palo santo are being overharvested. 
• The word “tribe, gypsy, spirit animal” should not be used by white people—it’s not respectful.
• Corinna’s recommendations to get in touch with your ancestry. 
• If Woman Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
• “It's only through discomfort that we have room to grow and change.”
• Must-read book: Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Connect with Corinna Rosella:

• Website
• Instagram
• Podcast

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