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In this episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a Metta (or 'Loving-Kindness') Meditation exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing with Step Two (Engage the Energy), review "Layla's Story" (a memoir about infant death, abortion, fertility and age), and hear Lindsey interview herself (don't worry--it'll make sense when you hear it). Lindsey is the founder of Tiny Giant Losses. She has trained as a healer and shaman under herbalist / Wise Woman Susun Weed and with a tea master in Taiwan. She had a miscarriage in 2014 and lost her infant son to unknown causes in 2015. (They're both pictured here, shortly after the birth.) Her drive to empower other women to transform after babyloss inspired her to start Tiny Giant Losses. You can learn more about Lindsey on Patreon. For more information and babyloss healing resources, visit the Tiny Giant Losses website. You can also get more updates and information on our Facebook page and through Twitter.

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we talk about healing with hugs, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review an art house film about infant death and adoption, and interview Wendy Cruz-Chan, a doula and lactation counselor who has experienced the stillbirth of a son. Wendy is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, Certified Lactation Counselor and a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist in New York City. In July 2016, she gave birth to a son, Killian, who was born still at 19 weeks gestation. Following this loss, she pumped breastmilk day and night for three months, freezing each batch. After she reached her goal of 2000 ounces of breastmilk (that’s 62.5 quarts, or over 59 liters), she found six babies in need of milk and donated it to their families. She’s currently fundraising for a cooling cuddle cot for New York Methodist Hospital, which will allow parents to stay with their stillborn babies longer than a few hours before saying goodbye. For more information and babyloss healing resou

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a plant-focused breathing exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review a very popular babyloss healing resource, and interview author / yoga teacher Catherine Keating (of “There Was Supposed to Be a Baby”). Catherine Keating is the author of There Was Supposed To Be a Baby: A Guide to Healing After Pregnancy Loss. She wrote her book as a way to share the path to healing she found after her first two pregnancies ended in miscarriage. Catherine lives in Seattle, WA with her husband, two children, and sweet, lovable dog. She is currently offering healing circles for women, teaching yoga, teaching preschool, and writing. For more information and post-babyloss healing resources, visit Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon. You can also get more updates and information on our Facebook page and through Twitter. Note: This is not a call-in episode.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Suzy Hoseus. Suzy Hoseus is the founder of Life Learning Ministries, a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging others to learn to live life God’s Way and reaching their fullest potential. As a pioneer in the mental health system since 1999, Suzy has dedicated herself to making life-giving choices and teaches alongside her husband, Mike, the God BLESSES ME Model to Whole Health in their weekly seminars.   Suzy is the author of Healing Bipolar and Depression, My Journey to Whole Health and the 2nd Edition and has lived medication free since 1999. She is the mother of three children and home and travel schools her youngest two.  If you wish to contact Suzy, please visit www.lifelearningministries.org.   this episode Q&A includes: • methods of taking echinacea for gum infection.. • Susun's thought on functional medicine- patients subjected to expensive tests, expensive treatments with horrible things.

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share an inward-focus exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review one of my favorite babyloss healing resources, interview actress, filmmaker and poet Jhene Erwin, and more. Jhene Erwin is a Filmmaker and Writer currently living in Toronto, Canada. Her commitment to impact driven content continues to inspire her work. Her eleven year old daughter continues to poke fun at her when she says things like the previous sentence. You can learn more about her work at The House I Keep. Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we’re sharing lots of bonus rewards via Patreon, including two pregnancy loss greeting cards from Dr. Jessica Zucker (last week’s interviewee), an hour-long Q&A with trauma therapist Persephone Maywald (another podcast interviewee), an hour-long Q&A with our interviewee from three weeks ago (Nathalie Himmelrich, the author of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple"), a babyloss Ask-Me-Anythin

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of questions follwed by a 30 minute interview with Tao Orion. Tao is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration. She teaches permaculture design at Oregon State University and at Aprovecho, a 40-acre nonprofit sustainable-living educational organization. Tao consults on holistic farm, forest, and restoration planning through Resilience Permaculture Design, LLC. She holds a degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture from UC Santa Cruz, grows organic fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, animals on her homestead, Viriditas Farm. She has a keen interest in integrating the disciplines of organic agriculture, sustainable land-use planning, ethnobotany, ecosystem restoration in order to create beneficial social, economic, and ecological outcomes. Website: www.resiliencepermaculture.com this episode Q&A includes: • 7 medicines practiced in this order- serenity medicine, story medicine, energy medicine, lifestyle medicine, h

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a healing yoga exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review a babyloss healing resource that features an internationally known popstar, interview maternal mental health psychologist Dr. Jessica Zucker, and more. Dr. Jessica Zucker is a clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles, California. She specializes in women's reproductive and maternal mental health. In 2014, Jessica launched the #IHadAMiscarriage campaign with her first New York Times piece, last year she created a line of pregnancy loss cards that aim to fill a void in the cultural conversation surrounding loss and this year she launched a line of ‘rainbow baby’ and ‘rainbow mama’ t-shirts. You can find her online at drjessicazucker.com and she writes daily on Instagram @ihadamiscarriage. Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we’re sharing lots of bonus rewards via Patreon, including an hour-long Q&A with trauma therapist Persephone Maywald (last we

Susun S. Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lindsey Goodwin. Lindsey is a journalist, the founder of Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon.com and one of the hundreds of millions of women who have experienced pregnancy loss or infant loss worldwide. After having a miscarriage and then losing her newborn son, she was shocked by how few resources there are for empowering women to heal after baby loss, so she decided to create her own. In September of this year, she began using her background in journalism, as well as the wisdom she gained during her apprenticeship with Susun and her own healing journey, to provide a variety of empowered healing resources for other women who have experienced baby loss. Through Patreon.com, Tiny Giant Losses offers articles, audio recordings, videos, a WhatsApp support group, live Q&As and much more. You can become a patron to access the many resources Lindsey offers or you can simply peruse the free resources on offer at Patreon.

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a laughter yoga exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review the short film "The House I Keep" (about a woman's emotional and psychological healing after miscarriage), interview trauma therapist Persephone Maywald about healing through difficult emotions after babyloss, and speak some of our Patrons' lost babies names aloud. Persephone Maywald is a psychologist and therapist with a world-wide online practice. She specializes in healing trauma, PTSD, and the difficult emotions that result. As a long-time meditator, she also brings the healing resources of mindfulness to her work. She has personally experienced pregnancy loss. Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we’re sharing lots of bonus rewards via Patreon, including an hour-long Q&A with Persephone (this week's interviewee), an hour-long Q&A with last week’s guest (Nathalie Himmelrich, the author of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple"), an

Susun S. Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lisa Kivirist. Lisa is a Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota, focusing on developing opportunities to champion leadership development among female farmers and rural women.  Her new book in 2016 is Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers, compiling advice, support and resources from over 100 women in the sustainable agriculture movement.  She is also co-author of co-author of Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, ECOpreneuring and Rural Renaissance and founded and leads the Rural Women’s Project of the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service. Lisa and her family run Inn Serendipity Farm and B&B in Wisconsin, completely powered by the wind and the sun. this episode Q&A includes: • drugs have side effects and direction of action- herbs work in a multitude of ways... • shoulder and neck tension- hypericum

Tiny Giant Losses is a new podcast from one of Susun Weed's former apprentices, Lindsey. Lindsey has experienced both miscarriage and the unexpected death of her infant son. Episode Two of Tiny Giant Losses continues to describe The Six Steps of Healing (a.k.a. The Seven Medicines) as a simple way to approach any healing modality after babyloss. It also includes an interview with Nathalie Himmelrich (author of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple"), a breathing exercise, a review of the film "Rabbit Hole" (which deals with child loss) AND information about special offers and resources available this October (Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month). Like all interviewees on the show, Nathalie (pictured here) has personally experienced babyloss. She lost one of her twin girls a few days after they were born, experienced miscarriage and lost the ability to have subsequent children. For more babyloss healing resources, you can read about Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon, follow Tiny Giant Losses on Twi

Rev Suzy Meszoly DSH, CHHC, Suzy has been teaching workshop classes on the healing arts, the chakra system and spiritual living in New York and internationally for over twenty years. In 2000, she founded “The Art of Energetic Healing School” and has taught the one year course now to hundreds of students, both in the NY area and through webinars worldwide. Suzy has founded and organized several reoccurring events. Find out more about Suzy here: wwwEnergyHealingSchoolNY.com and www.SuzyMeszoly-Healer.com  and on youtube: LOVENOWMENT and Love Now Movement this episode Q&A includes: • the original crystal wand- To help strengthen vaginal muscle, fascia and tissues... • midwife reports virtually no problems when pregnant women drink nourishing herbal infusions.. • when we drink nourishing herbal infusions we stop being so critical of ourselves.. • bacterial infection in the bladder after antibiotics- corn silk, slippery elm, marshmallow, comfrey- soothing and nourishing.. • plantain is a wond

Tiny Giant Losses is a new podcast from one of Susun Weed's former apprentices who has experienced miscarriage and the unexpected death of her infant son. Episode One of Tiny Giant Losses focuses on The Six Steps of Healing (a.k.a. The Seven Medicines).  It includes a 45-minute interview with Susun Weed, a breathing exercise and a review of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple" by Nathalie Himmelrich. Moving forward, this series will continue to focus on empowered healing after baby loss of any kind.  Each week, it will feature: an exercise,an interview with someone who has experienced babyloss firsthand,and a review of a healing resource. For more information, you can read about Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon, follow Tiny Giant Losses on Twitter and "Like" Tiny Giant Losses on Facebook. Note: This episode does not include a live Q&A.

Susun Weed answers herbal health questions & interview with Carla van Raay, author of the international best-selling memoir God’s Callgirl, the colourful story of her life unconsciously driven by abuse experienced in childhood, and her journey of recovery. Q&A recap: Premenstrual migranes? Nourishing infusion nettle leaf, St. Joan's wort tincture and/or scullcap tincture (1-3 drops), also check for B12 deficiency.Topical skin issues like hives soothed by oil or salve of plantain (no essential oils), oak bark to help the skin. Consider emotional causes of skin disorder.How to expel a slow miscarriage? have patience with your body.Legs cramps? low magnesium, nettle infusion &hypericum tincture..Comfrey infusion and cold/hot compress for repair of broken toeWhite & red large bumps on tongue may be cancer, go to dentist.Receding gums indicitave of Peridontal disease, go to dentist. Birth control pills are healthy & safe, reduces risk of cancer.Organic milk is not always what it seems, ask your

Susun Weed answers 90 minute of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Emily Ruff. Emily Ruff, Executive Director of the Florida School of Holistic Living, is a community herbalist who has practiced the art and science of plant healing for over a decade. Her studies have taken her around three continents where she has studied under healers of many traditions. Her background in gardening and botany came in childhood while wandering the wilderness and digging in the sandy soils of Florida with her grandfather, a fifth generation sustenance farmer, and her father, a botany and astronomy professor. Website: http://emilyruff.com/

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Mitzi Weinman. Mitzi Weinman, founder of TimeFinder offers practical approaches to personal productivity. As a coach, workshop leader, professional speaker and author, she helps people develop good habits & techniques to reduce stress which can result from procrastinating, feeling disorganized and overwhelmed and rushing to get done things done at work and/or at home. Many of Mitzi’s tips and techniques appear regularly in many publications and on TV. Mitzi's book It's About Time!  Transforming Chaos into Calm, A to Z is available! Mitzi earned a bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Mitzi is the author of It's About Time! Transforming Chaos into Calm, A to Z and lives in Needham, MA with her husband, son and dog. this episode Q&A includes: • adenomyosis- linden flower infusion and raspberry leaf infusion- lots of information in 'Down There'.. • harve

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kim Rosen. Kim Rosen, MFA, is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words. Combining her devotion to poetry with her background in spirituality and psychotherapy, Kim gives workshops and performances throughout the world, inspiring listeners with poetry’s power to transform individuals and communities. She is the founder of the Poetry Depths Mystery School and the S.H.E. College Fund, an organization dedicated to sending rescued Maasai girls to college. A TEDx speaker and co-creator of 4 CDs of spoken poetry and music, Kim has been on the faculties of Kripalu and Wisdom University, among other institutions, and her work has been widely published, including in O Magazine, The Sun, and The New Yorker. Kim's websites www.kimrosen.net and www.shecollegefund.org this episode Q&A includes: • weaning a child- there is very little in life we can feel proud of ourselves for doing... • menopause a

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Gina Ogden. Gina Ogden is recognized as one of the creative masters in the field of sexology. She an adjunct professor at CIIS. She is founder of the 4-D Network for Body, Mind, Heart, and Spirit, an international collaboration of practitioners whose mission is to expand the practice of therapy and sex therapy beyond performance goals and behavioral treatments. She conducts retreats and trainings internationally, lectures widely, and offers online courses for professionals. She supervises and trains sex therapists, physicians, nurses, social workers, family therapists, and other health providers in her innovative Four-Dimensional Wheel approach.  www.GinaOgden.com, www.4-DNetwork.com  this episode Q&A includes: • no aromatic herbs for nourishing herbal infusions- only nourishing herbs! • recurring uti's- 'Down There'  The Bladder speaks- It all comes down to me. • hibiscus as an antibacterial.. • animals a

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Don Cerow. Don's a certified NCGR Level IV astrologer known for the warmth, insight and depth he brings to his counseling practice. An astrologer since ‘72, his interest has been in how astrology evolved from the mythology and astronomy of ancient peoples. He received a degree in Classics, Magna cum Laude from UMass in ‘76, wrote a weekly column (AthenasWeb.com) for various newspapers between ‘83 and 2010 (currently available through his WEBSite). In 2003 he reconstructed an early model of Stonehenge in a story picked up by the New York Times. He's produced shows for radio and television and taught at colleges, universities and planetariums across the country. In ‘05 he wrote and produced a multimedia show for Fiske Planetarium at the U of Colorado, Boulder entitled Star, Myths and Dragons, pushing back the limits of what our forebearers knew about the heavens. This same theme is now a book entitled When the Dragon

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Mary Pat Palmer, herbalist,  is the founder and director of the Philo School of Herbal Energetics in Northern California. Her organic multi-planted farm is about 10 miles in from the great Pacific Ocean as the crow flies, and has 13 acres of redwoods sheltering and guiding the school. She grew up in the Big Sur area of California, where the mountain lions roamed amid the dramatic terrain. She has studied and lived in New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts as well as her native California. She is a Registered Herbalist as well as a Certified Cannabis Therapy Consultant. Susun Weed is one of her favorite people but doesn't visit often enough. this episode Q&A includes: • improve digestion with whole grains, nourishing herbal infusions... • damaged fascia and scar tissue- calendula oil and ointment... • comfrey infusion drunk and used in sitz bath to strengthen skin, ligaments, tendons and guts- stronger and mor