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Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Astrid Grove & Ixeeya Lin. Astrid Grove currently lives in the Colorado mountain town of Nederland with her husband, her two daughters, and two cats.  Her passion lies in facilitating and supporting women’s empowerment through midwifery, hands on healing, plant medicine and sacred ceremony.  She is in the process of revamping her website and you can expect that soon at www.astridgrove.com. Ixeeya Lin is dedicated to restoring the feminine back to her full embodied glory to support sacred union on our glorious planet!  Through rite of passage coaching, bodywork and rituals she helps you awaken deep meaning, awaken confidence and authenticity and value your feminine genius. Ixeeya has been on a wild adventure, trained and certified by a variety of wild wise women around the globe in restorative movement, ceremonial arts, womens yoga, Maya abdominal womb centering, shamanism and folk herbalism, somatic healing, s

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Helen McConnell. Helen is a Personal Transformation Specialist. That means she can help you make the really big changes you want to make in your life – relatively easily and effectively. She specializes in helping people identify and release outof-date and limiting beliefs and old, negative thought patterns – those are the things that block us from reaching our big dreams. The majority of people live by default and habit - succumbing to repetitive thought patterns and unconscious beliefs. How would you like to Live by Design - where you consciously create your life? Helen can show you how. It’s not only possible, but the means to do so are literally at your fingertips! She works her magic with individuals and groups – in person, by phone, and by Skype.  

Susun Weed answers (0 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Shivagi. Shivagi's restlessness took her to a lot of ashrams and gurus, and brought her in touch with various philosophies and spiritual/healing teachings/practices. She did crazy travels, met interesting people under different circumstances, kept learning from her pleasant/unpleasant experiences, but something just did not fit in. She had not just been changing multiple jobs but frequently changing professions all together. When she had reached the peak of her internal crisis, in the October of 2016, quite unexpectedly, she met Jivasu in the town of Rishikesh and got introduced to Naturality. A peek into Jivasu's life and his unassuming ability to answer her incessant questions about everything, initiated certain kind of natural integration in her. Shivagi currently resides in Dehradun and is the co-founder of Naturality programs in India. Her journey was never devoid of excitement and uncertainties, but she is n

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Stephanie Sellers. Dr. Stephanie A. Sellers is a poet, a homesteader in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and a Native American Studies scholar who is dedicated to the healing of women and Mother Earth. She has just co-edited a book with the artist-scholar, Menoukha Case, about the Laguna Pueblo writer Paula Gunn Allen called Weaving the Legacy.  Stephanie is currently researching the hidden phenomenon of Family Aggression against daughters in patriarchal cultures. She created the organization, Sedna’s Daughters, to raise awareness and offer support for daughters who have been shunned by or are estranged from their biological families. Stephanie's website is www.sednasdaughters.com  and you can find her on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SednasD/ this episode Q&A includes: • the act of being alive creates toxins- liver and kidney function, persistent organic chemicals- supporting your liver, why it is d

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed bya 30-minute interview with Charlene Spretnak about her book Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Changing the Modern World. this episode Q&A includes: • summer bites and stings- putting plantain and yarrow to use. • two young children- you need to prioritize time for yourself! Is it time to wean your child? • acids in goat milk, other types of milk, culturing milk.. • harvesting and drying linden.. • migraines- hypericum! the great healer of the nervous system, herbal pain relievers, and healing sexual assault.. • treating people not diagnosis.. • familiarize yourself with your county extension to find where plants grow..    

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Johanna Warren. On the national US record release tour for her new album "Gemini II,"singer-songwriter Johanna Warren is blending her musical path with herpassion for herbalism. On her recent "Plant Medicine Tour," she aligned with local herbalists, farmers and activists in every city she visited to share about their work, sell their medicines and connect with their communities. this episode Q&A includes: • passionflower- passiflora incarnata is the only medicinal variety.. • monotropa uniflora is used incredibly sparingly.. • headache that has to do with the liver with pain behind the eyes- chinese medicine perspective.. • using hypericum perforatum for symptoms of Lyme.. • not recommended for anyone to be gluten free that is not celiacs.. • copperhead snake bite and options for herbs to relieve inflammation.. • why not to get a mammogram.. • creating a sacred time when bleeding can stop cramping- ant

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Amber Hill. Amber is a mother, herbalist, writer, teacher, podcaster, and river swimmer living in Northern California. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies from UC Davis and is endlessly interested in exploring the depths of consciousness and how humans make meaning. Alongside herbalism, she has immersed herself in the study of genealogy and deep ancestry, psychedelic healing, float tanks, grief and trauma, mythology, mycology, conscious death and home funerals, and empowered menstruation, sex, and childbirth. this Q&A includes: • vitamin D supplements - supplements are partial.. getting vitamin D from the sun, and shiitake mushrooms.. • digestive fire does not stay strong as we age- no need to beat yourself up over it.. • thyroid- iodine test, Ryan Drum, seaweed.. • explanation of the menstrual cycle.. •  why to not use the word perimenopause- it is disempowering.. • cooking

Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika’s themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, “Z,” grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women’s newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess. The California Institute for Integral studies in San Francisco recognized Z’s contribution to Women’s Spirituality Movement. Today Z lives in Santa Cruz, California, giving workshops and lectures but always making time to smell the roses. She is the founder and director of the Women’s Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring Goddess spirituality retreats and festivals for

Sean is a shamanic herbalist, gardener, medicine maker.  You are invited to call in during the live show and add to the discussion, ask your questions

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Virginia Bell. Virginia Bell is a full time writer and astrologer. She has written horoscope columns for websites and magazines. She currently writes for Die Welt (the German publication) and Watch! the CBS magazine and blog for The Huffington Post. Virginia is the author of Midlife Is Not A Crisis: Using Astrology To Thrive In The Second Half Of Life. She currently lectures on astrology, inspiration and aging. Before becoming involved in astrology she owned one of the first natural foods restaurants in New York City: Whole Wheat 'N Wild Berrys (from 1974-1995). She then went on to own a second restaurant in the Berkshires from 1988-1991. Virginia co-authored The Manhattan Health Pages: A Guide to Educate, Pamper and Inspire You. During that period Virginia also lectured on health and wellness. this episode Q&A includes: • basically all raspberry species are used the same medicinally- growing cycle and

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lisa Estabrook. Lisa is an artist, graphic designer, mother, obsessive gardener and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years since graduating college trying to figure out how to live a healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing. It’s self-publication in the summer of 2016 launched Soulflower, Lisa’s heART based business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet through the power of art and flowers. Flower emPower! Her guiding principle is that the more we learn about ourselves, and take responsibility for our own healing (wholing) journeys, the more we will empower ourselves to live guided by the wisdom in our hearts rather than the voices in our heads. And this, she believes, is how we will heal this Earth. this episode Q&am

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Katy Bowman. Katy is part biomechanist, part science communicator, and full-time mover, Katy Bowman has educated hundreds of thousands of people on the role movement plays in the body and in the world. Blending a scientific approach with straight talk about sensible, whole-life movement solutions, her website and award-winning podcast, Katy Says, reach hundreds of thousands of people every month, and thousands have taken her live classes. Passionate about human movement outside of exercise, Katy volunteers her time to support the larger reintegration of movement into human lives by providing movement courses across widely varying demographics and working with non-profits promoting nature education.  this episode Q&A includes: • viral infections, elderberries, sauerkraut as a a preventative- echinacea- is antibacterial, stimulates macrophages.. • fermentation is a way of cooking food without using fuel.. • Y

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Demetria Manuselis. Demetria is a certified intuitive energy practitioner and facilitator. She hosted the "Soul Freedom Summit" a series that featured 24 guests including well renowned Hay House author and podcaster Davidji, Wayne Dyer's favorite healer Mira Kelley, E! entertainment host Pirie Jones, and Best-Selling Author Morgana Rae. Her mission is to inspire and light the fire of transformation in the heart of humanity individually and collectively awakening from the dream of "themselves" into the divinity of "ourselves" by assisting us in releasing belief systems and paradigms that no longer match the eternal guiding principle of the soul's wisdom.  She has theta healing, advanced theta healing, and Angel Alchemy certifications. She is a daughter of Greek immigrants and she has a background as an investigator, which gave her enormous capacity to understand and transcend the various entrapments of the ego and v

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kathleen Caputo.   Kathleen Caputo is an ordained interfaith minister who focuses on providing positive and life affirming resources to children of all cultures, religions and backgrounds.  Following a 30-year career as a business executive, she founded Hado Bear, Inc. and a nonprofit organization, Source of Guidance, Inc., both dedicated to helping children and families to have happy, healthy and fulfilling lives and to better respond to life’s challenges including those facing crises and serious illness.  Kathleen is a staff minister at The Center For Spiritual Living in Hicksville, New York and has led more than 100 programs for children.  She also taught workshops on creativity and guided imagery for the New York City School System, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and City University of New York.     Kathleen’s children’s book, Hado Bear’s Secret, is the first in a series of books she is authoring to teach chil

Sean Murnin is a community herbalist, gardener, medicine maker.  You are invited to call in during the live show and add to the discussion, ask your questions

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Beata Alfoldi. Beáta is a medicine woman, workshop facilitator, shamanic practitioner, healer, ceremonial leader, seer and speaker with a gift for assisting individuals through deep transformation. She facilitates private sessions, classes, workshops and international retreats in Australia, Bali, Thailand and Mexico. this episode Q&A includes: • emotional differences between men and women - women need health relationships with women for a healthy living.. • the power of competitiveness between women used to lift each other up.. • gender studies is not women's studies- women's studies makes it out that we have not been living in the patriarchy.. • HPV can live on a toilet seat for several days.. • transitioning off a vegan diet- the difference between fixing and nourishing.. • endometriosis caused by environmental toxin dioxin from things like bleached tampons, sanitary pads, plastics, burning garbage.. • plant

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Jody Dunphy. Jody is an artist, designer and the creator of the Second Nature Project; an endeavor that resides at the intersection of art and activism. The project was born while she was earning her MFA in Applied Craft and Design at the Oregon College of Art and Craft + Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her practice is driven by a desire to share her fascination with plant life and inspire people to think about their relationship with the natural world. She makes jewelry and sculpture for holding plants and seeds that are dispersed via diverse channels: in galleries, on the street and through retail. Collaboration, engagement, ephemerality, labor and craft are underlying themes in the work she creates. this episode Q&A includes: • carotenes found in things like nettles, sweet potatoes, tomatoes- help prevent damage from radiation.. • bacteria contamination on kratom and other issues from consumption of kra

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kaya Singer. Since 1973, Kaya Singer Has been a potter, therapist, life coach, author, business mentor, and now a painter. Kaya started  Awakening Business in 1997 when she was still living in New Zealand and felt called to support visionary women who needed mentors and help to grow a business the Wise Woman Way.  After helping thousands of women and creating her own success, and entering her Crone years she is integrating all her work together and still helping women to be more empowered, while working less. Kaya's recent book, "Wiser and Wilder, A Soulful path for Visionary women Entrepreneurs," is the book she wished she would have had thirty-five years ago when she was just starting. Kaya's paintings carry a similar energy and are channeled wise and wild women who appear on the canvas. They all have a deep message and a purpose to share with the viewer. Kaya is now working on a set up oracle cards to go with th

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D.. Jerry is an anthropologist, author, and activist. From 1972 to 2014, he served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University in Miami, where he taught a course on “Hallucinogens and Culture.” Julie M. Brown, M.A., LMHC, is an integrative psychotherapist, who conducts research on the role of sacred plants in religion.