Medicine Stories

Healing is communal. Settle in softly for this wide-ranging conversation with my most requested guest. Sophie and I talk chronic illness and trauma, diagnosis as blessing and as hex, the theater of medicine, the aquatic nature of memory, and the entanglements of time.

RESOURCES:

Sophie on Instagram

Sophie's newsletter Make Me Good Soil

Sophie's books and more

The Lady's Handbook for her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey

ACE- Adverse Childhood Experiences quiz

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van den Kolk (giant trigger warning; read the book below instead)

Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Erik Wargo

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Emerald (a podcast beloved by both me & Sophie)

Read The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics & the Entanglement of Matter & Meaning by Karen Barad

Time, As a Symptom by Joanna Newsom (lyrics here)

My blog post Ancestral Voices, women's Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear Time

What I'd Be Without You: My Mother's Life, Death, and Legacy of Love

Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

My website MythicMedicine.love

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

The sun rules the rhythms and the well-being of all life on Earth, and humans are no exception to this rule. With the very recent (evolutionarily speaking) advent of indoor living and the even more recent advent of indoor lighting, we have inadvertently shut down the vital communication between sunlight and our cells. This is as upstream as it gets when it comes to health, and when we come back into relationship with the sun all manner of issues (insomnia, obesity, infertility, and so much more) can resolve. Let's talk about the science behind circadian rhythm and practical ways to heal with sunlight.

Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

Sarah's links-

Free Guide: Building Your Perfect Quantum Day - https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/pl/2147664711

FAQ Guide - https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/faq-skw

Courses - https://sarah-kleiner.mykajabi.com/store (code PODCAST for 10% off any course!)

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarahkleinerwellness

Podcast -https://anchor.fm/sarahkleinerwellness

Website - https://sarahkleinerwellness.com

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd1xxofTziySu0F9oG7G67g

More links-

The Human Cosmos: Civilization & the Stars by Jo Marchant

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

My website MythicMedicine.love

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Related Medicine Stories episodes:

Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human w/ Nadine Artemis

Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health w/ Dr. Carly Nuday

Life's Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper w/ Isabel Friend

The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart w/ Lindsay Courcelle

Suuzi has been one of my best friends for 15 years, and our lives have taken parallel tracks recently- deeply interested in health & natural living for decades, we have nevertheless both found ourselves in total burnout at the edge of collapse in our early 40s. We share what got us here (and the irony that so much of it is doing things we truly believed were making us healthy), the current state of our metabolic/thyroid/mineral health, and our paths going forward. We hope this inspires others feeling stuck and confused- despite tremendous effort to be healthy- to quiet the outside noise, self attune, and more deeply understand your own biochemistry.

Dr. Suuzi Hazen is a wife, mother, farmer and founder of Mother's Best Liver Pills. She holds a doctoral degree in TCM, graduating in 2009 from ICTCM Vancouver. Suuzi completed extensive internships in Anhui Hospital of TCM in Hefei, China. She also interned with Dr. Katrine Heigelmann (Victoria), and Dr. David Li Lam (Vancouver). She brings a grounded yet radical, no-nonsense perspective to ancestral health and wellness.

Medicine Stories Patreon

Dr. Suuzi on Instagram

Mother's Best Liver Pills

Sena Maria's post on Why Your Healing Work Isn't Moving the Needle

Sarah Kleiner Wellness on Instagram

Niecia's post of Alison Luterman's poem

What Is Mineral Balancing?

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

Related previous episodes:

Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson

The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar

Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden

Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade

My website MythicMedicine.love

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

We can't talk about fascia, the connective tissue that touches every single cell in the body, without talking about water, memory, and the quantum information that travels along this network at speeds 1000x faster than biochemical/neuronal signaling. When we bring tactile witnessing to our fascia through presence and touch, mountains move. Get ready to have your mind blown and, if you're anything like me, to spend the rest of your life diving deeper into these subjects.

Lindsay on Instagram

Amber on Instagram

Lindsay's website

Medicine Stories Patreon- Two bonuses for this episode:

1. Singing w/ the Ancestors- an extended conversation w/ Lindsay about the resonance of the human voice, making pilgrimage to ancestral lands, connecting with the Earth by breathing with plants, calling in our dreams, and the landscapes that our bodies recognize.

2. Holy Witness: The Story of My 101 Year Old Grandmother's Beautiful Death- My sister and I were touching our grandmother as she left her body on my mom's, her daughter's, birthday. My six year old daughter was in the room as well. It was peaceful, sacred, and offered healing in light of how my mom died in such a shocking and unexpected way.

Plus 5 years of podcast bonuses & resources related to herbalism, ancestry, health, and much more!

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

Lymph Love Club w/ Leah Levitan on Instagram

Interoception: The Emotional Side of Trauma video w/ Dr. Emily Splichal

Strolling Under the Skin- visceral surgery fascia video

Human Garage on Instagram

John Barnes Myofascial Release

Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant

Carrie B Wellness on Instagram

The HeartMath Institute

Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working w/ Consciousness by Pam Montgomery

The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Buhner

The Resonance Effect: How Frequency Specific Microcurrent is Changing Medicine by Carolyn McMakin

Dr. Catherine Clinton on Instagram

My website MythicMedicine.love

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Our modern disconnection from land and lineage mirrors the culturally normal- but biologically abnormal- separation between mother and baby, parents and children. The consequences of these intertwined attachment wounds are vast. But many of us are dreaming into a different way forward. Let us speak truthfully about what isn't working, divest from the systems that break our sacred bonds to the Earth and to one another, and heal into the wholeness that is our ancestral inheritance.

Aimee's website The Stoned Chrysalis

Aimee on Instagram

Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom w/ Modern Knowledge by Rachel Reed

Related Medicine Stories episodes-

Healing Our Indigenous European Ancestors w/ Lyla June

Maternal Mammalian Ecstasy: The Ancient Hormonal Blueprint for Optimal Birth & Bonding w/ Sarah Buckley

Decolonizing the Mind: You Belong to Your Ancestors w/ Tamira Cousett

Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness are One w/ Rachelle Garcia Seliga

Learning is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing w/ Akilah Richards

Nature's Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing w/ Rachelle Garcia Seliga

My website MythicMedicine.love

Mythic Medicine on Instagram Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

How we eat (not just *what* we eat) is how we receive life, and our state of nourishment determines everything from our fertility to how we perceive the passage of time. Disembodiment and dietary confusion run amok, but beneath the noise is the quiet wisdom of our biology. When we create safety in our systems we allow ourselves to sink into the spaciousness that we crave. Let us slow down, expand our sensory gating channels, and bathe our every cell in nourishment from the deepest source.

Patreon bonuses:

• Extended conversation w/ Niecia about restrictive eating and purifying the channel of lack, orienting our lives to nourish our childrens childrens children, and much more

• A recording of me sharing personal stories, my experience of motherhood & nourishment, plus my favorite parenting resource

Niecia's Instagram account I Am Altar

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

My website MythicMedicine.love

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Many of us yearn for the lifeways of our ancient ancestors, and evolutionary mismatch can account for the majority of today’s health issues, yet we cannot go back in time nor fully recreate their lifestyles in our modern world. Let us find well-being, nourishment, and the richness of community in the here & now, and stop buying into the false dichotomy between Earth connection and technology.

Get the Holistic Health Bundle- over 100 ebook, online course, and membership site resources for just $50 from January 1st-10th ONLY

Carly Rose on Instagram

Two podcast bonuses for patrons at patreon.com/medicinestories (thank you!)

1. Extended convo w/ Carly- Heavy Metals in Chocolate, Shilajit, Falling Sperm Levels, & Your Fertility is Your Health 

1. Carly’s eBook- Natural Beauty: Foraging Plants to Replace Conventional Beauty & Hygiene Products

Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant

The Healy shop (message me if you have any questions)

My website MythicMedicine.love 

Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Kids today face more challenges- and are showing more signs of distress- than ever before. Parents must learn to effectively co-regulate, repair when things go awry, and create the right environments for our children (be they dandelions, orchids, or somewhere in between). When trending cultural ideologies come to replace ancient biological reality, we must refuse to check our brains at the door and do all that we can to protect childhood. It is the only compassionate, fair, and kind thing to do.

Wrongthink: Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy; related to thoughtcrime, doublespeak, and other Orwellian concepts.

RESOURCES:

Teva's website

Teva's Substack

Teva on Instagram

Teva's Amazon Shop (tools for neurodivergent kids)

Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

My website MythicMedicine.love

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Medicine Stories turns five years old! And you’re just gonna have to listen to hear what else I talk about (you’ll understand why…)

LINKS:

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6 most downloaded episodes ever, in order-

91. The Mineral Matrix and the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar

87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women- Kymber Maulden

67. Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human- Nadine Artemis

69. Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft With Yourself- Rupam Henry

86. Generations, Gene Codes, and Entheogenic Earth Medicine- Mikaela de la Myco

79. Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort

The kids aren’t all right-

42% of Gen Z Diagnosed with a mental health condition

The Teen Girls Aren’t Going to Forget by Common Sense Media

The Aftermath Part 1: Kids, Schools and the Crime Surge and The Aftermath Part 2: The Haves and the Have-Nots on the Honestly podcast with Bari Weiss

How Weed Became the New OxyContin: Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’ by Tablet Magazine

What Happened To Our Daughter, because I don’t want it to happen to anyone ever again by Tara of Slow Down Farmstead

The plants have so much more to teach us than what has been written down by others; there is another level of wisdom that can only be accessed by direct communication with the living Earth.

When we cultivate an embodied knowing of the natural world we realize that we don't need any special gifts or gurus or long lists of memorized plant constituents to mediate our relationship with our more-than-human kin.

A nervous system and an open heart are all that's needed.

Let us open our channels of perception and reclaim our ancestral birthright to be in direct communication with our mother planet and those we share it with.

RESOURCES:

Kami's free workshop: Plant Communication Inspiration & Stories

Kami's webinar: Your Personal Plant Communication Experience

Kami's online course: Plant Wisdom: Activate Your Plant Communication Skills

Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

My website MythicMedicine.love

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Stephen Buhner's Facebook post about entering hospice

Previous episode with Stephen Buhner Planetary Intelligence, Ancestral Resonance, and the Perception of the Heart

Previous episode with Sajah Popham True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant and Human Consciousness

Previous episode with Sajah Popham Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, and Human Ecology

WildOmen.com