86. Generations, Gene Codes, and Entheogenic Earth Medicine - Mikaela de la Myco
Release Date: 02/10/2022
Medicine Stories
In 2021 Tara and her family got the knock on their door that every parent fears most. In the days that followed they discovered eighteen-year-old Mila’s journal and were able to piece together the shocking and devastating chain of events that led to her death. Tara’s Instagram and Substack, Slowdown Farmstead, is followed and admired by tens of thousands of people. Tara and her husband raised their three daughters on their beautiful Canadian farm, lovingly tending to and butchering their own livestock in order to nourish their family and community. Deeply acquainted with the cycles of...
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My most beloved herbal elder and I talk about our favorite subject- women throughout time using plants for self care, family healing, and community connection. After nearly 4 decades as a practicing herbalist and teacher, and in an age of informational overabundance, Kami has seen what actually works when it comes to truly embodying herbal knowing. (including the peek at what you see when you log in to the course). Two for this episode- an extended conversation with Kami where we share our stories of Mothering Without Elders, and two free videos with Kami entitled Garden Herb Walk- meet 9...
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Suuzi and I continue the discussion sparked by my last episode about culty trends in the wellness space by talking about her past with Kundalini yoga- what drew her in and, eventually, how noticing the state of nourishment of those deepest into the cult precipitated her exit. We then catch listeners up on our midlife metabolic meltdown hEaLinG jOuRnEyS and what path we’re taking forward as we continue to recover our vitality and deepen our understanding of why women’s bodies are so metabolically expensive. for this episode include an extended conversation w/ Suuz about the reaction to the...
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GNM is an alt health trend that has grown in popularity in recent years. It is attractive to so many (including me and my guest, once) because it acknowledges the role that emotions and trauma play in physical health and symptom manifestation, something that mainstream medicine still somehow refuses to do. But just because some aspects of an ideology are true and helpful does not mean that the entire framework is valid. Critical thinking and humility are essential tools for navigating information overload and complex frameworks, especially when it comes to health. The allure of certainty and...
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What metabolic patterns did you inherit from your parents, and what may you have passed down to your own children? Many behavioral issues, and even what are usually considered personality traits (like that of high sensitivity), can be linked to mineral imbalances and overall health. Heavy metals often accumulate in individuals due to stress, compromised metabolic function, or ancestral imprints, not necessarily always due to direct exposure. Heroic detoxification protocols should be approached with caution, as forcing the removal of metals without addressing underlying nutrient...
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Fertility is not just the ability to conceive, but is an indicator of overall health and the capacity to nurture life; it is how we extend genetic strength across time and space into generations we will never know. Pregnancy and menopause are transformative states that reveal underlying metabolic and hormonal imbalances, emphasizing the complex interplay between biochemistry, psychology, and lifestyle. In an age of rampant metabolic dysfunction, let us together find our way to renewed vitality, for ourselves and for those yet to come. course membership (extended convo w/ Niecia) Substack...
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In which I read a few pieces from my new Substack. Bone, blood, milk, and marrow... Nourishing Motherlines is a collection of memoir-adjacent personal writings exploring my evolving understanding of nourishment (not nutrients), how my mitochondria and minerals were inherited from my motherline (and yours from yours), my hEaLiNg JoUrNeY as I navigate hypothyroid and hypoadrenal exhaustion and a host of related symptoms, what I am focusing on as I prepare to help my daughters with seemingly inevitable future health issues as women alive in the 21st century, and your garden variety midlife...
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Chinese Medicine holds that women’s bodies are 10x harder to heal than men’s, as our reproductive system is biologically much more precious and metabolically more intensive to maintain. In this conversation my good friend, third time guest, and Doctor of Chinese Medicine Suuzi and I catch up one year after we both underwent severe energy loss to share how we’ve rebuilt and healed. We talk about shifting away from the mindset of achieving “optimum human health” (an illusion that contributed to our health crises), working and mothering in a state of total burnout, how our childrens’...
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The times are unprecedented and there is no template for the future. We all feel this, and we feel the overwhelm of information, influence, and opinions. Herbalism, as it always has, offers us sanctuary from everything vying to take hold of our attention and life force. Not so that we can check out in an endless fog of self care, but so that we can be truly present and embodied as we navigate this time of rapid and radical change. The plants call us home to ourselves. Kami’s Free Workshop (week of 3/3/24 only) Kami’s Free Webinar (week of 3/3/24 only) Kami’s revered course ...
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Nothing exemplifies the magic of nature more than honeybees. They are insects yet their colonies are akin to a mammalian being, they produce numerous healing substances from their bodies and within their hives, and they have been revered and mythologized since time immemorial by countless cultures. Beekeepers live longer than folks in any other profession, and being in relationship with bees is deep medicine for the spirit in these frazzled times. Let us relearn ancestral ways of tending and listening to bees so that we may maximize our chances of reclaiming a vibrant and thriving Earth....
info_outlinePsychedelics are the most potent medicine we have for remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. Many ancestral communities integrated plant and fungal healing ceremony into every age and stage of embodiment (and disembodiment). At this turning point in history, let us call upon our entheogenic allies to unlock our truest, most deeply human, individual and collective genetic expression.
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Ancestor stewardship & the DNA codes through which plant medicines speak to us
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Death and the composting and regenerating of souls
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Psilocybin, the underworld, soil, decomposition, and the dark feminine
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Happiness above sanitation
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Mycelial networks of consciousness and generosity
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We have uteruses to thank for the discovery of LSD
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How motherhood and indigenous wisdom brought psychedelics deeper into Mikaela’s life
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Making entheogenic medicines as common as chamomile tea
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Hot new take on the Stoned Ape Theory
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The interplay of psilocybin and serotonin in conception and pregnancy
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In the overculture we are raised to lose our creativity
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We can’t understand the brilliance of our ancestors if we never get ourselves into their expanded mindset
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The mushrooms are the ancient ones
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The disruption that happens when we separate women from land and mothers from babies
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Heal ancestral trauma by returning to ancestral ways
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Practicing ancestral languages in the presence of psilocybin
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It is through language and vibration and sound that life keeps a record of itself
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Mending the broken bones of who our ancestors thought they had to be in order to survive
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Psilocybin as an aid to recode our relationship with language in order to draw our ancestors closer
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Percussion and rhythm vibrate the water within our bodies
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A matriarchal, grass roots, regional model of community medicine mushwomb healing circles
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The solo journey: from the alone into the alone
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Addressing tendencies toward abuse when uneven power dynamics are present in psychedelic healing communities
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Entheogenic healing for the whole family system
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SSRIs, psilocybin, and depression, eating disorders, addiction, and more
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My recent experience with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and kambo
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Further explorations into descent medicine: excrement and other expressed bodily fluids as a vital sign
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Psychedelics and pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding
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Going out like a G- mushrooms teach us how to die
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Living people eat dead mushrooms, and living mushrooms eat dead people
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The Red Road and honoring indigenous communities’ ancestral relationships with sacred plant medicines
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Legality v humanity: the flow of life is stronger than the forces against it
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Beauty healing: the masks we wear and bringing our attention inward to the divinity of who we are
RESOURCES:
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Mikaela’s website/offerings/services Mystic Jasper
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Mikaela’s ebook Entheogenic Earth Medicine Assisted Motherhood
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Mikaela’s wonderful Instagram
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Mental Health, Magic Mushrooms, and Pregnancy and Teen Mental Health books on Kickstarter
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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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Video of Ayana Iyi: Entheogens and Enhancing the Magik in You
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Mikaela and Ayana will be speaking at the Rising Consciousness Entheogenic Conference 3/22
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Grounded by Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow
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They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America by Ivan Van Sertima
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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)