Healing Culture Podcast

By Eric Garza

What's Healing Culture Podcast about?

The Healing Culture Podcast explores approaches to healing the increasingly individualistic, consumerist culture that is spreading around the world. Episodes typically run 45-60 minutes, feature a wide range of guests, and are released on new, full, and quarter moons.

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Healing Culture Podcast episodes:

01.02.2020
#67: Embracing Apocalypse is Live!
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!
08.07.2019
#66: Embracing Apocalypse, Final Episode
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...
07.31.2019
#65: Meeting Our Need For Touch, with Epiphany Jordan
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...
07.25.2019
#64: Exploring Fermentation, with Sandor Katz
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...
07.09.2019
#62: Prayer, Grief, and Connecting with Ancestors, with Nala Walla
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...
07.02.2019
#61: Grief, Gratitude, and Extinction, with Carolyn Baker
Carolyn Baker is a former psychotherapist and professor of psychology and history. She is also an author, and her most recent book, with Andrew Harvey, is Saving Animals From Ourselves: Healing the Divine Animal Within. She talks with Eric about...
06.25.2019
#60: Harmonizing Our Eating Practices and Our Health, with Lisa Masé
Lisa Masé grew up in Italy, manages her business and website Harmonized Cookery, and advocates for food as medicine, social justice, and food sovereignty. She talks with Eric about what wild and local foods she has been eating lately, harmonizing...
06.21.2019
#59: Compassion, Connection, and Effective Anti-Racist Communication, with Dr. David Campt
Dr. David Campt is a speaker and media analyst who founded and facilitates workshops on his White Ally Toolkit. He is also an author, and wrote the Compassionate Warrior Bootcamp for White Allies, among other books. He talks with Eric...
06.17.2019
#58: The Health Impacts of Trauma, with Jason Prall
Jason Prall is a speaker, health educator, and practitioner who produced, with others, the 9-part documentary series The Human Longevity Project. He talks with Eric about the impact trauma can have on our personal health and wellness, the importance of...
06.10.2019
#57: The Ethics of Harvesting Wild Edible Plants, with Arthur Haines
Arthur Haines is a botanist and human ecologist who speaks and educates about the health benefits of wild edible and medicinal plants. He is also an author, and most recently wrote A New Path. He talks with Eric about what...
05.26.2019
#55: On Men and Masculinity, with Robert Schicker
Robert Schicker is a therapist in Vermont who specializes in working with people navigating the evolving landscape of what it means to be a man. He talks with Eric about what attracted him to men’s work, the differences between being...
05.12.2019
#53: Talking to Children About Race and Racism, with Emma Redden
Emma Redden is a preschool teacher in Vermont with a background in race, gender, and justice. She wrote the book Power Means Who The Police Believe: Talking With Young Children About Race and Racial Violence. She talks with Eric about...
05.05.2019
#52: The Healing Practice of Focusing, with Rebecca Young Allen
Rebecca Young Allen is an ordained inter-faith clergy, a spiritual and emotional healer, a certified Focusing practitioner, and a nature lover, gardener, and homesteader. She talks with Eric about the healing practice of Focusing, leads him through a Focusing practice,...
04.26.2019
#51: Planting Seeds of Resilience, with Taína Asili
Taína Asili is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, activist, and filmmaker who has been creating fiercely political music since her teen years. Her newest album, Resiliencia, was released in mid-April 2019. She talks with Eric about the story behind her...
04.19.2019
#50: The Art of Critiquing Whiteness, with Tad Hargrave
Tad Hargrave blogs at Healing From Whiteness, writes for the Facebook page Dear White Men, and wrestles with the complicated and thorny mess that is whiteness, white privilege and white guilt. He talks with Eric about how white shame and...
04.12.2019
#49: On Decolonizing Academia, with Clelia Rodríguez
Clelia Rodriguez is an author, mother, knitter, gardener, and educator born and raised in El Salvador. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at colleges and universities around the world, and wrote the book Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression, and Pain....
04.05.2019
#48: On Language and Identity, with Karl Haloj
Karl Haloj is a polyglot linguist whose areas of expertise include romance, Celtic, and Iroquoian languages, language acquisition, language pedagogy, and critical discourse analysis. He talks with Eric about the differences between American indigenous languages and Indo-European languages, how learning...
03.28.2019
#47: Healing Bodies and Healing Cultures, with Tada Hozumi
Tada Hozumi coaches and consults on the practice of cultural somatics, wrote the viral essay Why White People Can’t Dance: Because They Are Traumatized, and manages the website Selfish Activist. They talk with Eric about cultural somatics, ancestral trauma and...
03.20.2019
#46: Plant Medicine and the Path Through Trauma, with Larken Bunce
Larken Bunce is a clinical herbalist, educator, gardener, writer, and photographer who co-founded and directs the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. She talks with Eric about the physiological and neurological bases of our stress response, how stress becomes trauma, how...
03.14.2019
#45: On Being Chronically Undertouched, with Aaron Johnson
Aaron Johnson lives in a self-made 13 x 13 ft earth dome in Southern California, and is a singer, photographer and filmmaker who uses these media, and others, to dismantle racism. He talks with Eric about why so many people...
03.06.2019
#44: Whiteness is Deified Trauma, with Tad Hargrave
Tad Hargrave blogs at Healing From Whiteness and writes for the Facebook page Dear White Men. He wrestles with the complicated and thorny mess that is whiteness, white privilege and white guilt. He talks with Eric about the traumatic roots...
02.26.2019
#43: Dancing with the Cannibal Giant, with Sherri Mitchell
Sherri Mitchell is an attorney who speaks and teaches around the world on issues of indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change and author of the book Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. She talks with Eric about...
02.19.2019
#42: On Rites of Passage, with Darcy Ottey
Darcy Ottey has guided hundreds of people through initiatory experiences, and co-founded Youth Passageways, a network dedicated to helping young people transition into mature adulthood in these transition times. She talks with Eric about the genesis of Youth Passageways, the...
02.12.2019
#41: On Indigenous Food Ways, with Lyla June
Lyla June is a poet, musician, human ecologist, public speaker and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and European lineages. She talks with Eric about the links between food revitalization and language revitalization, how food production is tied to...
02.04.2019
#40: Navigating Relationship Transitions, with Rebecca Young Allen
Rebecca Young Allen is an ordained inter-faith clergy, a spiritual and emotional healer, a certified Focusing practitioner, and a nature lover, gardener, and homesteader. She talks with Eric about the challenges many people have with endings in relationships, trauma patterns,...
01.28.2019
#39: Healing Plants as a Radicalizing Force, with Jason Hirsch
Jason Hirsch is an anthropologist with a particular interest in Western herbalism and its relationships and tensions operating alongside mainstream medicine in North America. He talks with Eric about the impact that seeing ourselves as separate from nature has on...
01.28.2019
#38: On Local, Slow, and Deep Food, with Teresa Mares
Teresa Mares is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. Her teaching and research focus on food systems, and she has written widely on the topics of food justice and food sovereignty, among others....
01.28.2019
#37: Education, Unschooling, and Empathy, with Layla Abdel-Rahim
Layla Abdel-Rahim is an anthropologist and author. Her books Wild Children, Domesticated Dreams and Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation critique the foundational social narratives that support a human-centered view of the natural world. She talks Eric talk about what...
01.28.2019
#36: Healing and Cooperation in the Anthropocene, with Charis Boke
Charis Boke is an herbalist, educator, community organizer and an anthropologist who completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Cornell University. She talks with Eric about being a scholar practitioner, objectivity and bias, different levels of healing, moving away from...
01.28.2019
#35: Eating, Ethics, And Identity, with Charlotte Biltekoff
Charlotte Biltekoff is faculty at the University of California at Davis, where her research strives to build bridges between scientific and cultural approaches to questions about food and health. She is the author of the book Eating Right in America:...
01.28.2019
#34: Anchoring our Sense of Place with Wild Foods, with Bronislaw Grala
Bronislaw Grala has spent much of his adult life learning the art of wildcrafting, and can frequently be found in the local forests and fields gathering food, medicine, and raw materials for his apothecary and kitchen. He talks with Eric...
01.27.2019
#33: The Erosion of US Food Sovereignty, with Heather Retberg
Heather Retberg operates Quill’s End Farm with her husband in Penobscot, Maine and advocates for local food sovereignty ordinances in her home state. She talks with Eric about what food sovereignty is, the links between food and water sovereignty, how...
01.27.2019
#32: Nutrition and Chronic Illness, with Diana Rodgers
Diana Rodgers is a Registered Dietitian and a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who’s written a couple cookbooks that cater to Paleo Dieters and is putting together a documentary film tentatively titled Sacred Cow. She talks with Eric about her path to...
01.27.2019
#31: Towards a Sense of Place, with Walter Poleman
Walter Poleman lectures at the University of Vermont, directs the PLACE (Place-based Landscape Analysis and Community Engagement) program, and founded the Burlington Geographic initiative. He talks with Eric about what the physical underpinnings of a sense of place, place-based education,...
01.27.2019
#30: Bearing Witness to the Great Unravelling, with Harlan Morehouse
Harlan Morehouse teaches at the University of Vermont and has a keen interest in how people negotiate their futures with regard to 21st century social and environmental uncertainties. He talks with Eric about how catastrophism and apocalypticism show up in...
01.20.2019
#29: Questioning Social Narratives, With Layla Abdel-Rahim
Layla AbdelRahim is an anthropologist whose books Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams, and Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation actively critique the foundational social narratives that support a human-centered view of the natural world. She talks with Eric about human...
01.14.2019
#28: The History and Philosophy of Western Medicine, with Jason Hirsch
Jason Hirsch earned a Masters’ degree in Anthropology focusing on medical anthropology at McGill University. He talks with Eric about the roots of mainstream, ‘scientific’ medicine in industrial capitalism, and differentiates our mainstream, reductionist approach to human health from the...
01.05.2019
#27: The Need for Cultural Healing, with Charis Boke
Charis Boke is an herbalist, educator, community organizer and an anthropologist who earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University. In this episode she and Eric talk about her research on Transition Towns in the northeast US, the need...
12.29.2018
#26: On Endings, English, and Citizenship, with Stephen Jenkinson
Stephen Jenkinson is an author, teacher, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer, and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. He talks with Eric about the link between the paucity of initiatory experiences and elderhood in the Western world, how grievance is a...
12.29.2018
#25: Oppression, Isolation, and Holistic Resistance, with Aaron Johnson
Aaron Johnson lives in a self-made 13 x 13 ft earth dome in Southern California, and is a singer, photographer and filmmaker who uses these media, and others, to dismantle racism. He talks with Eric about his counseling programs and...
12.29.2018
#24: Connecting to Self, Nature, and Community, with Lynn Trotta
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...
12.29.2018
#23: Towards an Ecological Economics, with Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza is the Vice Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy at the Australian National University, and was among the co-founders of ecological economics. He talks with Eric about the origins of ecological economics, the importance of seeing human beings as...
12.29.2018
#22: Documenting Hope in a Compromised Generation, with Beth Lambert
Beth Lambert is the Executive Director of Epidemic Answers and the creator and producer of the Documenting Hope Project. She talks with Eric about what motivated her to write her book A Compromised Generation, the many factors that contribute to...
12.29.2018
#21: Compassion, Listening, and Escaping Hate, with Shannon Martinez
Shannon Martinez is a former Neo-Nazi who develops and implements programs to inoculate people against hate-based ideologies through her organization Free Radicals. She talks with Eric about how anger and a desire for belonging drew her to Neo-Nazism, what led...
12.29.2018
#20: Humor, Hurt, and Living Ultra Spiritually, with JP Sears
JP Sears is an emotional healing coach, video producer, teacher, speaker, and curious student of life. His book How to Be Ultra Spiritual: 12-1/2 Steps to Spiritual Superiority, was released in March of 2017. He and Eric talk about how...
12.29.2018
#19: Confronting White Fragility, with Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Dr. Robin DiAngelo, a lecturer at the University of Washington, coined the term ‘White Fragility’ in an essay of the same name published in 2011. In this episode she and Eric talk about the turn of events that led her...
12.29.2018
#18: Farming in Challenging Times, with Tyler Webb
Tyler Webb runs Stony Pond Farm in Northern Vermont where he specializes in grass-based dairy and beef production. In this episode he and Eric talk about what compelled him to go into farming, why he gravitated towards cattle, using payments for...
12.29.2018
#17: Working With White Fragility , with Dr. A. Breeze Harper
Dr. A. Breeze Harper consults, writes, and lectures on topics of race and diversity, and founded the Sistah Vegan Project. She talks with Eric about the origins and meaning of the term ‘white fragility’, talking about our privilege, cruelty and...
12.29.2018
#16: Getting Close to Blackness, with Aaron Johnson
Aaron Johnson lives in a self-made 13 x 13 ft earth dome in Southern California, and is a singer, photographer and filmmaker who uses these media, and others, to dismantle racism. He talks with Eric about how different a black person’s...
12.29.2018
#15: Nature Awareness and the Present Moment, with Nicole Apelian
Dr. Nicole Apelian is a scientist, educator, wilderness guide, herbalist and traditional skills instructor who founded Ecotours International and appeared on the survival-themed show Alone in 2016. In this episode she talks with Eric about nature connection, bird language, how...

What's Healing Culture Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Healing Culture Podcast episodes:

#67: Embracing Apocalypse is Live!

#66: Embracing Apocalypse, Final Episode

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

#64: Exploring Fermentation, with Sandor Katz

#62: Prayer, Grief, and Connecting with Ancestors, with Nala Walla

#61: Grief, Gratitude, and Extinction, with Carolyn Baker

#60: Harmonizing Our Eating Practices and Our Health, with Lisa Masé

#59: Compassion, Connection, and Effective Anti-Racist Communication, with Dr. David Campt

#58: The Health Impacts of Trauma, with Jason Prall

#57: The Ethics of Harvesting Wild Edible Plants, with Arthur Haines

#55: On Men and Masculinity, with Robert Schicker

#53: Talking to Children About Race and Racism, with Emma Redden

#52: The Healing Practice of Focusing, with Rebecca Young Allen

#51: Planting Seeds of Resilience, with Taína Asili

#50: The Art of Critiquing Whiteness, with Tad Hargrave

#49: On Decolonizing Academia, with Clelia Rodríguez

#48: On Language and Identity, with Karl Haloj

#47: Healing Bodies and Healing Cultures, with Tada Hozumi

#46: Plant Medicine and the Path Through Trauma, with Larken Bunce

#45: On Being Chronically Undertouched, with Aaron Johnson

#44: Whiteness is Deified Trauma, with Tad Hargrave

#43: Dancing with the Cannibal Giant, with Sherri Mitchell

#42: On Rites of Passage, with Darcy Ottey

#41: On Indigenous Food Ways, with Lyla June

#40: Navigating Relationship Transitions, with Rebecca Young Allen

#39: Healing Plants as a Radicalizing Force, with Jason Hirsch

#38: On Local, Slow, and Deep Food, with Teresa Mares

#37: Education, Unschooling, and Empathy, with Layla Abdel-Rahim

#36: Healing and Cooperation in the Anthropocene, with Charis Boke

#35: Eating, Ethics, And Identity, with Charlotte Biltekoff

#34: Anchoring our Sense of Place with Wild Foods, with Bronislaw Grala

#33: The Erosion of US Food Sovereignty, with Heather Retberg

#32: Nutrition and Chronic Illness, with Diana Rodgers

#31: Towards a Sense of Place, with Walter Poleman

#30: Bearing Witness to the Great Unravelling, with Harlan Morehouse

#29: Questioning Social Narratives, With Layla Abdel-Rahim

#28: The History and Philosophy of Western Medicine, with Jason Hirsch

#27: The Need for Cultural Healing, with Charis Boke

#26: On Endings, English, and Citizenship, with Stephen Jenkinson

#25: Oppression, Isolation, and Holistic Resistance, with Aaron Johnson

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

#23: Towards an Ecological Economics, with Robert Costanza

#22: Documenting Hope in a Compromised Generation, with Beth Lambert

#21: Compassion, Listening, and Escaping Hate, with Shannon Martinez

#20: Humor, Hurt, and Living Ultra Spiritually, with JP Sears

#19: Confronting White Fragility, with Dr. Robin DiAngelo

#18: Farming in Challenging Times, with Tyler Webb

#17: Working With White Fragility , with Dr. A. Breeze Harper

#16: Getting Close to Blackness, with Aaron Johnson

#15: Nature Awareness and the Present Moment, with Nicole Apelian