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#201 Conscientious Parenting with Mason & Tahnee Taylor Part 2

Release Date: 09/18/2023

#236 Tonic Herbalism, Liver Flow & Using Your Emotions (Properly) with Helen Padarin

SuperFeast Podcast

This one starts light and ends deep. We get into Gynostemma - one of those rare herbs you can take daily without throwing yourself off. Proper longevity tonic, not hype. Then Asparagus Root (“Heavenly Gate”) - big for adrenals, reproductive health, and actually getting some perspective when life’s a bit chaotic. But the real thread here is the liver. There’s a clear pattern right now-people sitting on a lot of anger, resentment, frustration… and trying to “let it go” without ever working with it. Problem is, that’s not junk-it’s energy. Life force. So instead of...

#235 Laying the Ground for Jing & Cultivation with Benny Fergusson

SuperFeast Podcast

Right, we’re kicking off this new series on the Three Treasures - Jing, Qi, and Shen - and I’ve brought in an absolute legend to help us navigate this. Benny is a fixture around here, living just a stone’s throw from the studio, and he’s the perfect guide for this series. He comes from a hardcore performance background - sports, movement, the works - but he’s spent years deep in the trenches of neurosomatic movement and nervous system work, which makes him the perfect bridge between high-level performance and ancient Taoist principles. We’re starting with Jing, but forget the...

#234 Forgiveness is Self-Care and Choosing to Respond, Not React with Damien Cole

SuperFeast Podcast

[TRIGGER WARNING]: This episode includes discussion of a traumatic car crash and associated trauma (TBI). Listener discretion is advised, especially for those with past experiences related to car crashes. Alright everybody, that was a ripping chat with Damien Cole, who is an absolute legend and hammering towards his destiny. The core thread we pulled on was the difference between external labels—like his name, Damien or Damo—and what's actually going on inside, which led us into this heavy territory about whether love or blood ties should carry more gravitas when talking about family...

#233 Pharmaceuticals and Natural Therapies: An Award-Winning Pharmacist's Guide to Safe Integration with Sara Murdock

SuperFeast Podcast

The chat features Sara Murdock, an award-winning pharmacist and key integrator on the front line of modern health, addressing the reality that people actively use both pharmaceuticals and natural therapies. The central challenge is ensuring this dual approach is done safely, a dilemma highlighted by Sara's inability to recommend beloved products like turmeric due to potential harmful interactions with certain medications. This underscores her definition of Integrative Healthcare: leveraging the best of both worlds with structure, accountability, and paramount safety. ...

#232 The Magical Gap: Why Our Ego, Politics, and Dogma Block True Healing with Peter Galle

SuperFeast Podcast

The chat really dives into a deep philosophical and super-practical look at healing, all sparked by Peter Galle's firsthand experience with a pretty serious health hurdle—a herpetic cold sore infection in his eye. He ran the full gamut, hitting it with conventional treatments like Valtrex alongside a ton of classic antivirals like Coptis (Huanglian) and Skullcap. But nothing was truly curative or stopping the progression of the ulcer. He was ready to give up and hit the emergency room for steroids when, as a last-ditch "recesses of my mind" shot, he took a large dose of St. John's wort...

#231 What's the Wall? Removing the Roadblocks to True, Deep-Seated Healing with Eddie Enever

SuperFeast Podcast

Boom. So, we dove in deep with Eddie Enever on the brutal reality of chronic disease, specifically cancer. The big kicker is that it's not just a physical problem, is it? He frames it—and this is a real stake in the ground—as a "disease of disconnection," forcing you right up against your own mortality. Having walked that gnarly path himself, from Stage 1 all the way to Stage 4, Eddie's insight as a practitioner is monumental. The absolute linchpin, the central theme we hit on, is agency—getting your sovereignty back. It’s about taking total, personal control over your...

#230 Results, Not Excuses: Navigating Regulation and the Limits of Science in Natural Medicine with Matte Legge

SuperFeast Podcast

The conversation with formulator Matt Legge pulls back the curtain on the supplement industry, framing it as a metaphysical struggle between genuine intent and the corporate Machine. Matt’s journey is a hero’s exile from structures like Metagenics, which prioritize efficiency over the soul of the product. This machine churns out soulless, AI-generated formulas that chase "white space," utterly neglecting the deep clinical insight of Root Cause Analysis—a meditation of the pulse. The founder’s sacrifice creates the Pearl of Reciprocity, the organizational soul. The primary struggle is...

#229: Herbal Wisdom, Taoist Principles & Essential Travel Health: The Classical Medicine Guide with Ann Cecil-Sterman

SuperFeast Podcast

What a profound conversation this was—a real unpacking of principles, where the philosophical meets the deeply practical. The core of this whole thing, as we dug into with Ann Cecil-Sterman, revolves around the true action of herbs, which—from the Taoist lineage we follow—comes down to pure taste, not just some chemical breakdown. It’s that deeper "flavor sensing in the stomach." My journey with Superfeast has been about living the great Yin-Yang puzzle: holding the intense contrast between deep Taoist tradition and the necessary reductionist language for Western...

#228: Unveiling the Power of Dream Practice with Clarissa Gunawan

SuperFeast Podcast

If you’ve been here for a while, you know my whole focus is on returning to the roots of a path—an integrated, no-nonsense approach that actually holds up in the modern world. This conversation with Clarissa Gunawan goes straight to the core of a practice we’re all doing anyway, every single night: dreaming. We move well beyond the new-age, “superhero powers” version of lucid dreaming I experimented with in my twenties, and land firmly in the grounded, embodied terrain of Daoist dream work. Clarissa lays out why this isn’t abstract or esoteric fluff; it’s a non-negotiable tool...

#227 From Marketing Disconnect to Embodied Practice with Benny Fergusson

SuperFeast Podcast

This episode dives deep with Benny Fergusson, a foundational member of the show, about his journey from marketing to a career focused on connection, particularly with the body. Benny recounts how his early experiences with marketing highlighted a disconnect from himself, leading him to explore inner connection. He emphasizes that true wants come from within, citing the example of herbs like ashwagandha that foster inner connection. Benny's current work, the Neurosomatic School, is all about understanding the body and its relationship to life. He shares his personal struggles with...

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Back for part two of their chat on conscientious parenting, Mason and Tahnee come together today to expand their discourse into the area of the conscious and subconscious mind, exploring how ingrained patterns of thinking and behaving influence our ability to show up for our children and partners in the ways we desire, highlighting that awareness and presence are ultimately at the crux of all these things.

Tahnee speaks to the RIE parenting method and the work of Magda Gerber and Janet Landsbury, sharing their framework around empathy, and how to use it as a tool of enquiry and understanding, especially when experiencing interpersonal difficulties with your child.

The topic of empathy poses the existential question; how do we walk on the hot coals of our experience with grace and regulation?

Tahnee and Mason both champion engaging with personal practice and developing tools that enhance the cultivation of your mental, physical and spiritual capacity, whether these be through herbal allies, meditation, movement, breath or self compassion.

Tahnee emphasises how difficult it can be to break habitual patterns, recounting a recent experience she had relocating the tea towels in her house, Tahnee found she kept going back to their previous location, which stands as a simple (and very sweet) reminder that it takes time to change and it's imperative that we allow ourselves humility as our bodies and minds catch up to new terrain.

Rhythm, routine and being realistic with expectations is also explored, along with using play as a tool for learning.

Another stimulating conversation between our favourite pair.

Mason & Tahnee discuss:

- Empathy for your child's experience as a key pillar in conscious parenting.

- How to communicate with your kids without being condescending.

- The books and tools Tahnee & Mason use to support their parenting intentions.

- Treating your child like an individual with unique needs, regardless of their age.

- Using rhythm and routine to create stability/safety in the family culture.

- How to use seasons and celebratory festivities to punctuate time throughout the year.

- The work of Rudolf Steiner.

- The importance of encouraging play, wonder and magic in parenting.

- Using Astrology, German New Medicine and Human Design to support your children.

Resource guide

Guest Links
Tahnee's website
Tahnee's Instagram
Mason's Instagram