81. We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli
Release Date: 11/01/2021
106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
Medicine Stories
It is estimated that half of all Americans have chronic health issues, and yet these conditions are new to the human species. What has happened? And how does an afflicted individual navigate a medical system that dismisses them and offers little help, embedded within a culture obsessed with self improvement and the hero’s journey of triumph? Sarah and I talk about the multifactorial nature of chronic illness and what has changed between generations, walking the fine line between self-responsibility and acknowledging that we’re all embedded in toxic systems that are out of our control,...
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105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
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 Sophie’s newsletter by Sarah Ramey ACE- by Bessel van den Kolk (giant trigger warning; read the book below instead) by Rupam Maria and Raj Patel by Erik Wargo by Julia Cameron by Barbara Ehrenreich (a podcast beloved by both me & Sophie) Read by Ursula K Le Guin by Karen Barad by Joanna...
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104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
Medicine Stories
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...
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103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
Medicine Stories
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...
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102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
Medicine Stories
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. RESOURCES: Lindsay on Amber on Lindsay’s Lindsay’s (use coupon code MEDICINESTORIES for 66% off) Get the 100+...
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101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
Medicine Stories
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. Join me on my in September. RESOURCES: Aimee’s website Aimee on (podcast bonuses!) Take our fun quiz...
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100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
Medicine Stories
Want to go on retreat with me? to help us decide what that would look like! 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. GET RESOURCED: Niecia’s...
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99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose
Medicine Stories
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 - over 100 ebook, online course, and membership site resources for just $50 from January 1st-10th ONLY Carly Rose Two podcast bonuses for patrons at (thank you!) Extended convo w/ Carly-...
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98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
Medicine Stories
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...
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97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
Medicine Stories
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: Three Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sales 2022- 35% off 50% off 50% off 6 most downloaded episodes ever, in order- The kids aren’t all right- by Common Sense Media and on the Honestly podcast with Bari Weiss by Tablet Magazine by Tara of Slow Down Farmstead
info_outlineIt is through land that we find ourselves. It is through lineage that we return to ourselves. It is through community that we expand ourselves. In this age of disorienting change and fracture, let us wander within our daydreams of another way of being.
TOPICS:
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A Western suburban childhood- television, processed food, malls, and fear of nature’s dangers
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Evolutionary Mismatch Theory: our human bodies were not made for these times
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We are living in the Eremocene: The Age of Loneliness
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The medicine of women’s circles and the two questions that should be central to each gathering
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The collective yearning for ritual and embracing the awkwardness of not knowing what you’re doing
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Repercussions of the Burning Times
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We do this reclaiming work for our descendents, knowing we may not reap the fruit of our labors in this lifetime
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Listening to what the soul of your home wants
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Connecting to lineage with food and folklore
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How an offering of food from a stranger saved Becca’s ancestors’ lives
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Connecting with our ancestors in Mythic Time: what stories from your lineage are ever happening?
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The echoes of the electroshock therapy Becca’s grandmother underwent & how writing Root and Ritual completed an ancestral storyline
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Musings on women in the 1960s, twilight births, the rise of consumerism and isolated living
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The world we were born into is gone: the end of the Pax Americana and the unraveling of culture and collapse of institutions
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We need to grieve as a culture so that we can be responsive to what’s next
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Your body is sacred land
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Parenthood and postpartum in the modern age
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Mothering as ancestral reverence
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Calling in energy from unexpected sources
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Becca’s Instagram
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Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
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My website MythicMedicine.love
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Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
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Medicine Stories Facebook group
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Mythic Medicine on Instagram
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Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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A Hunter Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
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The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World: The Essential Guide to Women’s Circles by Jean Shinoda Bolen
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My interview with Toko-Pa Turner, Medicine Stories podcast Episode 41 The Dreaming Channel and Remembering Ourselves Home
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My blog post Ancestral Voices, Women’s Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear TimeFamily Constellations
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Becca’s interview with Megan McGuire on the Belonging Podcast: Mothering as Ancestral Reverence
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Becca’s interview with me on the Belonging Podcast: Motherhood, Grief, and the Grandmother Hypothesis