Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Jill Wodnick. Jill Wodnick is  national speaker  on improving maternal infant health. Prior her current work at Montclair State University,  Jill led a Community Doula Program in Hudson County, NJ for Medicaid enrolled womyn.  She has been part of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women's Global Prenatal Initiative as well as on local and statewide programs for improving maternity care. Jill is also is a community herbalist and honors the interdepedent web of caring for our earth and caring for families. Jill teaches medical providers at grand rounds, graduate  students and professionals, but learns the most from listening to womyn and the sacred ecology of giving birth and being born. this episode Q&A include: • small cell lung cancer - medicinal mushrooms prevent metastasis- find out more at www.fungi.com • preventative radiation does not increase life span.. • MRI's are aggressive and invasi

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Mary Elizabeth Wakefield.  Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, author of the book, Constitutional Facial Acupuncture (Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, 2014), is internationally acknowledged as a leading authority on facial acupuncture.  Mary Elizabeth is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, Zen Shiatsu practitioner and cranio-sacral therapist, and an opera singer.   She has contributed significantly to raising awareness of facial acupuncture as a viable, holistic treatment modality.  She has 30+ years of clinical professional experience as a healing practitioner, and has personally trained close to 5,000 healthcare practitioners from 5 continents.    Her practice and treatment protocols have been highlighted or featured in interviews in Oriental Medicine Journal, Qi Magazine, Alternative Medicine, Acu (UK), American Spa, Luxury Spa Finder, Les Nouvelles Esthetique (Canada), The Lantern (Australia), Naturheilpraxis (German

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Richard Sacks. Richard Sacks is the Host of Lost Arts Radio, which has shows relating to health and consciousness issues, from personal to worldwide to cosmic in scope.  He has been an independent holistic health scientist for more than 50 years, working on natural means of reversing supposedly "incurable" diseases, many of the problems connected with "aging," as well as natural ways to maximize immunity to infectious diseases and man-made environmental toxins without poisonous drugs or potentially deadly vaccines.  All of his discoveries he has applied to his own body with very dramatic results, and now lives this ongoing research 24/7.  Besides his full time radio work and some limited private consulting, Richard is also completing a PhD project on the holistic cure of cancer.  He is also working on plans to build a major educational facility in the U.S., where forbidden knowledge about our real abilities and con

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Danielle Dulsky. Danielle is a long-time activist for wild woman spirituality and the divine feminine’s return. She is the author of Woman Most Wild (coming May 2017 from New World Library). A multi-media artist, yoga teacher and teacher trainer, and energy worker, Danielle is on a mission to inspire women to be fearless creators of their sacred work. She holds the highest designation from Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500, is the founder of the fully accredited Living Mandala Yoga teacher training programs, and believes in holistic healing for the sensual, creative, and spiritual self. Her work is grounded in holding space for women to harvest their inner Priestess through personally relevant movement alchemy, intuitive artistic practice, and divine feminine spirituality. Danielle leads women circles, Witchcraft workshops, energy healing trainings, and basic and advanced yoga teacher trainings internationally. She bel

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Barry Vissell. Marianne Williamson says “Bravo to the Vissells for helping us find the connection between spirituality and relationship.” Ram Dass describes Joyce and Barry Vissell as “a couple who live the yoga of love and devotion.” They are two people deeply in love for 52 years, who have raised three children and “walk their talk.” Their model of relationship and deeply heart-oriented approach have made a unique impact upon many thousands of people’s lives. They are the authors of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk To Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom, Meant To Be, and A Mother’s Final Gift. They have 2 new books coming out this fall: To Really Love a Woman and To Really Love a Man.  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Russill Paul.  Author of The Yoga of Sound and many best-selling chant CDs, Russill Paul brings 25 years of teaching at leading educational institutions to the founding of his online Yogic Mystery School. Highly regarded for his ground-breaking work worldwide, he is a pioneering figure who introduced the sonic aspects of yoga in North America. At the present time, his work focusses on emotional healing, personal transformation and spiritual awakening, bridging the gap between ancient Eastern wisdom and living life in western society in ways that facilitate deeply fulfilling states of consciousness. While he continues to travel across the US and internationally to present workshops and concerts to large audiences, working one-on-one with individuals as well as guiding small groups in deep spiritual practice is fast becoming his true love.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Heather Bruce. Heather has been a student of acupuncture and natural healing since she started a mother's journey to discover how to NOT have her (now 40 year old, then a newborn) son descend into asthma and excema like his father. (She won). Along the way she picked up classical acupuncture skills (and designed and taught undergraduate courses from 1981, leading into her post graduate mentoring), investigated many traditional forms of healing (initially Western herbs, nutrition from the East and the West, vibrational remedies, massage and allied techniques, and later on, many ways too overcome distortions in energy and thus form).

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Alexis Shotwell. Alexis Shotwell is an associate professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin territory. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (Penn State Press, 2011) andAgainst Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (Minnesota University Press, 2016), a potter, and a practioner in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.  

Susun Weed answers 90 minute of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Maryam Henein. Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist , activist, and public health expert, best known for directing the internationally acclaimed documentary Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page. Maryam is also the co-founder of HoneyColony, an online magazine and marketplace that aims to empower people to be their own best health advocate. This short animation explains the concept. Her website is www.maryamhenein.com

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Max Dashu. Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history from an international perspective. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images, and has created 150 slideshows on female cultural heritages across human history. For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog. Dashu's work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies. http://www.suppressedhistories.net/aboutmax.html

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health followed by a 30 minute interview with Nese Devenot. Nese Devenot is currently a Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound. Nese received her PhD in 2015 from the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied psychedelic philosophy, the literary history of chemical self-experimentation ("trip reports"), and radical poetics. Nese taught the class "Drug Wars: The Influence of Psychoactive Rhetoric" as a 2014-15 Critical Speaking Fellow at Penn, where she previously taught "Higher Dimensions in Literature" and "Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience." Nese was also a 2014-15 Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Fellow with the Penn Humanities Forum, where she worked on the project "'Innumerable Fine Shades': Psychedelics and Synesthesia in the Literary Self-Experiments of Aldous Huxley." Nese is a founder of the Psychedemia interdisciplinary psychedelic

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Anita Sanchez. Anita lives in upstate New York—the part of New York that has trees and mountains, not skyscrapers. But she also loves Manhattan, London, and Paris, and her blog Unmowed.com often chronicles the unnoticed plants of urban environments. She loves to adventure in the wilds of the United States as well as visiting remote places around the world—she has ridden camels in the Sahara desert, dived the Great Barrier reef of Australia, and participated in an Earthwatch expedition to the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, as well as travelling in England, France, and  Spain, visiting temples and watching elephants in Sri Lanka, and hiking Mt. Olympus in Greece.  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Starr Goode, MA, teaches literature at Santa Monica College. Producer and moderator for the cable TV series, The Goddess in Art, it is now available on YouTube. She is the author of The Art of Living: Falstaff, the Fool, and Dino. Her latest essay, "Adventures She Has Brought My Way" appears in Elders and Visionaries Anthology. Her latest book is Sheela na gig: the Dark Goddess of Sacred Power. www.starrgoode.com this episode Q&A includes: • yarrow for infection in the mouth - astringent, hemostatic, antibacterial, anodyne.. • oral care with herbs... • osha (Ligusticum porteri) immediately stops histamine response- because it is a rare herb it should be used sparingly- 1/2 ounce should last a lifetime. • plantain oil, poultice, compress.. • echinacea augustifolia made from root only with no other added herbs- no golden seal! • colonoscopy- preparation is very hard on most people. • would you be willing

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview withChris Zydel. Chris Zydel, AKA the Wild Heart Queen, is head creative goddess at Creative Juices Arts She has over 40 years of experience as a compassionate creativity guide and an unshakeable faith in the power of creativity to heal hearts and change lives. She knows deep in her bones that everyone is deeply, wonderfully and gloriously creative and is on a relentlessly love-soaked mission to prove that to the world. She performs this magic by providing nurturing and joy-filled creative sanctuaries overflowing with encouragement, permission and trust in the sacred energy of play and creativity that lives inside of us all. 

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Michael J. Breus, Ph.D.. Michael is a Clinical Psychologist and both a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He was one of the youngest people to have passed the Board at age 31 and, with a specialty in Sleep Disorders, is one of only 163 psychologists in the world with his credentials and distinction. Dr. Breus is on the clinical advisory board of The Dr. Oz Show and is a regular contributor on the show (30+ times).   Dr. Breus is the author of the soon to be published (September 2016) The Power of When, a ground breaking bio-hacking book proving that there is a perfect time to do everything, based on your hidden biological chronotype. Dr. Breus gives the reader the exact perfect time to have sex, run, a mile, eat a cheeseburger, ask your boss for a raise and much more.  Dr. Breus has been in private practice for 16 years and recently relocated his pra

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Shonagh Home. Shonagh is a shamanic therapist, teacher, writer and poet. Her specialized private sessions and retreats are probing and revelatory, assisting clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. Shonagh is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and a teacher on the subject of Traditional Foods. She is author of the books, ‘Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine,’ ‘Love and Spirit Medicine,’ and ‘Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms.’ Website: www.shonaghhome.com  this episode Q&A includes: • make your diet dirty again- start loving mucous- eat dairy, meat, cooked vegetables. • no disease caused by excess mucous.. • difference between formulas and simples.. • we live in a body hating, cleansing culture.. • average modern person consumes 20 grams o

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sat Dharam Kaur. Sat Dharam is a naturopathic doctor, Kundalini Yoga teacher trainer and author. She developed the Healthy Breast Program, designed to help reduce the risk of breast cancer in women through education, Kundalini Yoga and lifestyle change. She was awarded the Naturopathic Doctor of the Year award in Ontario in 2000. She has written several best selling books: A Call to Women: The Healthy Breast Program and Workbook, The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer, and The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Women's Health. She teaches the Healthy Breast Program internationally, and trains others to teach the program. this episode Q&A includes: • nettle infusion interferes with histamine response and can help to rebuild your health over time so that you do not have allergy symptoms. • toe nail fungus- anti-fungal drugs are dangerous and can cause liver damage- hysterical hygiene and horse ta

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kathy Crabbe. Soul Reader, artist and Lefty Oracle Deck creator, Kathy Crabbe helps awaken your intuition, break through creative blocks and identify your gifts. Kathy’s work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine and San Diego Women’s History Museum. She has taught Divine Feminine Moon Classes at Wise Woman University, Mt. San Jacinto College and appeared on HGTV along with starting a writer’s group and artist’s circle in her town. Kathy lives in Temecula, California with her two dogs and architect husband in an adobe style home they built themselves. Catch Kathy’s moonthly art giveaways in her New Moon Museletter at www.kathycrabbe.com Kathy’s newest project is her 54-card Lefty Oracle Deck, painted entirely with her non dominant left hand to help you strengthen your intuition, break through creative blocks and identify your gifts. Perfect for individuals AND groups! this episode Q&A includes:

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Rosalee de la Forêt. Rosalee is passionate about helping people discover the world of herbalism and natural health. Her teachings transform complex concepts into simple elements so students and health seekers are empowered to use herbs in practical ways that get results. She also teaches extensively about herbalism internationally and as the Education Director at LearningHerbs. Rosalee is the author of the online courses The Taste of Herbs, Herbal Cold Care, and Apothecary. Her first book, Alchemy of Herbs, will be published by Hay House in the spring of 2017. 

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a laughter yoga exercise, discuss Step Six in The Six Steps of Healing, interview trauma therapist Persephone Maywald and review the miscarriage film “The House I Keep” by Jhene Erwin. Persephone is a psychologist and therapist with a worldwide online practice. She specializes in healing trauma, PTSD, and the difficult emotions that result. As a longtime meditator, she also brings the healing resources of mindfulness to her work. She has personally experienced pregnancy loss. You can learn more at www.therapyviaskype.com. Note: This is not a call-in episode. The next episode will be postponed by two weeks while Lindsey is traveling on business.