Getting to Know Woo

Episode 23 - Getting to Know Indigenous Wisdom with Asha Frost


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Host Natasha Levinger and her co-host/husband/producer, Brett, are so excited to talk with indigenous medicine woman Asha Frost, author of You Are the Medicine.

In this episode, they discuss:

  • Asha's viral blog post "Dear White Woman Who Wants to Be Like Me"
  • The experience of appropriation and disrespect for indigenous lived experience
  • The overwhelming experience of receiving hostility
  • Taking up space as an indigenous voice to shift the narrative around the use of indigenous practices
  • Working through putting yourself out there as an introvert
  • Humility is not equal to smallness
  • Honoring the individual gifts everyone has
  • Seeing ourselves as equal to--not above--other living things
  • Growth & life going in cycles
  • The anti-hustle message of bear medicine
  • Asha's diagnosis with lupus at age 17
  • Exerting your sacred no
  • Practices for healing ancestral trauma
  • How "resilience" can bypass healing
  • Normalizing things not being easy
  • Too much talk about wordle
  • Natasha's on meth now...well dexmethylphenidate
  • Time confusion during pandemic
  • And more!
  • Plus...

    • Get a free class on inner validation when you pre-order Natasha's new book, Healing Your Inner ChildDetails at highestlighthealing.com.
  • You can learn about about Natasha's 3-month mentorship offering, Awakening at highestlighthealing.com
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  • Also, if you sign up for Natasha's newsletter, you'll get three free guided audio meditations, including one on clearing your chakras!
  • Send questions or show topic suggestions to [email protected]
  • Getting to Know Woo is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to dispelling the rhetoric that so-called "woo-woo" practices such as energy work, energy healing, inner child healing, chakra clearing, and more are impractical and ineffective, and instead are pragmatic, transformative, and powerful.

     

    Mentioned in this episode:

    • Asha's website
  • Asha's latest book, You Are the Medicine
  • Asha's instagram
  • Asha's oracle deck, The Sacred Medicine Oracle
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