Feed Your Wild- Intuitive Healing, Akashic Records, Astrology for Healers, Holistic Healing

In this episode, I'm excited to be speaking with Whitney Popham of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. Whitney is an herbal practitioner and educator, pollinating the medicine of the plants to bring healing & beauty into the world.

We talk about her journey of self-discovery, healing and her life's calling to the plant path. We dive deep right away into how we got to the point of disconnection from these ancient systems of medicine, and ways we can begin to reclaim that connection.

Whitney shares her own experience with healing trauma by building relationships with plants and their medicine on all levels, and provides us with a beginner's roadmap to using botanicals for supporting the nervous system and the heart.

*Note from Whitney: Since we discuss using botanicals and harvesting plants ourselves, it's important to note that before you harvest or make medicine from any herb, it's imperative that you've first properly identified that plant before you ingest it or give it to anyone else. Learning some basic botany, getting a good ID book, or taking a class with a local herbalist are important steps towards making sure you're safely harvesting & using herbs.

As a clinical herbalist, Whitney has devoted her life to being a humble vessel for the plants to touch people's lives and do their healing work through her. She facilitates healing on the emotional, spiritual, and physical levels of health through the multifaceted lens of plant medicine, nutrition and Ayurvedic lifestyle coaching.

Whitney is the co-founder of The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where her and her husband Sajah have trained & empowered tens of thousands of people to become herbalists & practitioners. Through their online programs & live workshops, they share wisdom from multiple medical traditions from around the world to continue the legacy of bringing healing to people, culture and planet.

This was such a rich discussion, Whitney really touches on so many critical topics that I've been thinking a lot about over the years and try to highlight in this podcast. Lots of food for thought, and I hope you enjoy our exploration of the magical and magnetic power of plants as teachers and healers.

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In this first special solo episode, Venessa goes into the gut-heart-brain connection and takes you on a journey with the Wanderer within, aka the vagus nerve.

She covers the enteric nervous system (ENS), how the vagus nerve is connected to the various systems of our body and impacts our health, especially through the gut-brain connection. Venessa discusses things we can do to support our vagus nerve and gut-heart-brain connection on physical and energetic levels, including nature-based practices, foods/nutrients, and intuitive practices to try out!

If you're struggling with any kind of gut issue, including GERD, IBS, constipation, or gut-brain manifestation like brain fog and memory issues... this is a must listen!

If you're interested in learning more about the gut and digestive issues, check out the upcoming Feed Your Wild GUT virtual workshop and take advantage of the presale pricing (it's a live event August 29 but will be recorded if you can't make it live!)

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Megan and Venessa dive into this New Moon's Cancer July 12 with the theme of this water sign: "all our water holds." They cover the importance of water for health on multiple levels, the surprising signs and symptoms of dehydration that no one tells you about, and the foundations that no one is ever too advanced to review!

They also share some practical tips and tools to support your hydration, flow, and connection to water as life on ALL levels. Blessed New Moon!

Show Notes can be found at WildlyRooted.com

Resources:

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Have you ever wondered... how did we get here? Where are all of the women in history books? What about the true stories that have been left out of our school curriculum and kept hidden for centuries?

How about cultures and societies beyond the patriarchal paradigm... What about cultures where women were not only equal, but people were living in a non-hierarchical paradigm that actually valued the maternal and revered Mother Earth?

How different would our world be today if we still lived by these principles and ancient ways of knowing?

That's what Max Dashu asked herself as a young woman in 1960s who dared to defy her history professors at Harvard and embark on a journey to get out of the patriarchal interpretation of women and dig up suppressed histories. What she found not only changed her own life but provides a template for reclaiming the wisdom and vitality we seemingly lost long ago.

Max Dashu is a historian and one of the world's leading experts on matriculture. In this episode, she shares various historical global patterns that she discovered are missing in modern times, the nature-based practices and ways of knowing that Max has seen throughout history and what Max foresees in our collective future (with her unique perspective as a historian) plus the prescient advice she gives us for how to move forward.

I love how Max weaves together mind-blowing cultural findings, historical facts, linguistic patterns, and art in her teachings... if you're a nerd like me, get your notebooks ready and listen twice. You're in for a treat :)

Show Notes on the Website: www.wildlyrooted.com/podcast

Scientists predict the Amazon rainforest could be consumed in the next 50 years.

In this episode, Irene Shamma tells us about her adventure to the Amazon, walks us through the anatomy of Mother Earth and the vital role of the Amazon rainforest for her overall health and our own. Irene also paints a picture of the stark reality and seriousness of the devastation that is happening in the rainforest right now... how we ALL have an impact and what steps we can take to make a positive difference as a regenerative species rather than a destructive one.

Her story begins with a journey to recover something very dear to her as a child that she lost... her deep connection to the natural world and sense of compassion. What she didn't realize was that she was being called by something much deeper than herself.

Irene Shamma is an architect, designer, and environmental activist from Cyprus who left her life in the city and embarked on a journey of self-discovery and reconnection with nature in the Amazon rainforest. Along this journey, she received deep shamanic healing with medicinal plants that allowed her to experience the magnificence of the rainforest but also its devastating destruction to the deepest level. A calling to devote herself to the protection of the Amazon emerged. Enjoy!

Show notes: www.wildlyrooted.com/fywpodcast/ireneshamma

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In this episode, Megan and Venessa dive into this Full Moon's Capricorn June 27/28 aka the Strawberry Moon. The themes include alignment/discernment, enacting our spirituality and self-actualization thru creativity, personal power, and internal fire.

This Summertime month we get clinical with this season's organ - the small intestine + vagus nerve. They cover the energetics, the role and physiology of the small intestine, and share some practical tips and tools to support your digestive fire and flow on ALL levels.

It's also Venessa's birthday(!) and she announces a special virtual workshop on July 22, 2018 called Feed Your Wild :: Gut :: Mapping the Wild Terrain of Your Gut Health and Digestive Wellness PLUS how you can grab your spot for FREE. Listen + follow Venessa on Instagram @wildlyrooted to learn more :)

Today's episode is one that is dear to my heart. We're speaking with María Benedetti, an ethnobotanical researcher and author focusing on the plant medicine and invisible people of Puerto Rico.

We talk about her journey of self-discovery through her work of documenting and preserving plant wisdom and folkloric medicine. She shares incredible stories of so-called "barefoot healers" and we discuss the history and impact of colonialism and capitalism on folkloric medicine and the communities that hold these wise traditions and knowledge.

María also shares her refreshing and hopeful take on the challenges that Puerto Rico has faced and continues to face in light of the recent natural disaster and economic plight.

María Benedetti is an ethnobotanical researcher, author and educator focused on the botanical traditions of healing and reciprocity with nature in the Puerto Rican archipelago. A student of anthropology, literature and the art of writing in both English and in Spanish, she has worked as an educational journalist (culture, ecology, environment, botanical medicine) for nearly 40 years. She began herbal studies with Susun S. Weed in 1977, and came to Puerto Rico ten years later to learn about and document the tradition of green medicine in the native land of her mother's family.

She has authored several books including Earth and Spirit and has continued to document the Puerto Rican botanical tradition in several other books, most recently a novel Dolores and Milagros. María Benedetti is director of BotaniCultura, an ethnobotanical education project, which includes a publishing company and a beautiful classroom without walls where she offers workshops and conferences, plant/tree recognition walks and facilitates circles of plant wisdom.

I know you'll love her contagious belly laughs and uplifting spirit and the power of the stories she shares.

For Show Notes + ways you can support the people of Puerto Rico, go to http://bit.ly/feedyourwildmaria

How do you begin working with the moon? What does that actually look like and what can it do for you?

That's what Sarah Faith Gottesdiener began teaching in her Many Moons workbook for the past 3 years, which have now become a cult classic.

Sarah Faith is a creative, an artist, designer, writer, teacher, and Tarot reader, who hopes to provide inspiration and support through a variety of different avenues. Her Many Moons workbook provides a variety of esoteric and practical tools, utilizing the phases of the Moon in real time to get you anchored, in touch with your intuition, and on your path with more intention, and more results.

In this episode, we dive deep right away into how to cultivate trust and build your own intuitive practice working with the moon, the history of suppression and oppression of people and magic, how working with the moon has helped Sarah in her own journey with chronic illness.

We have been using her Many Moons workbook as a resource for our #UNFILTERED Moon Musings episodes and are excited to share her process of creating the book, how to begin working with the moon.

Full show notes: www.wildlyrooted.com/podcast

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In this episode, Megan and Venessa dive into this New Moon's Gemini theme of "dualism" by getting clinical with this season's "poster organ" - the liver.

They cover the energetics, the role, and physiology of the liver, and share some practical tips and tools to support detoxification on ALL levels.

Megan also shares her own vulnerable journey with addiction and toxins, how she was able to build a bridge for herself to face her addictions and breakthrough self-hatred to step into sobriety and feel more freedom in her life.

Show notes: www.wildlyrooted.com/fywpodcast/09unfiltered Send us your questions at www.wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect

What does true holistic health actually look like? And how can we bridge the gap between wisdom from ancient traditions, modern science, intuition and spiritual approaches?

Today's guest Dr. Deanna Minich has spent over 20 years answering these questions and has not only created an incredible body of work blending these areas, she literally brings so much color and light to the often confusing and polarizing topic of nutritional science.

In this episode, she talks about her own healing story, how she came to blend science and spirit in her work, and we take a colorful journey through the 7 Systems of Health that are the backbone of Deanna's teachings and her latest book The Rainbow Diet. Show notes at www.wildlyrooted.com/podcast