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Alchemizing Pain and Finding Your Inner Power with Kerri Hummingbird - Ep.322

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Release Date: 04/30/2025

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Alchemizing Pain and Finding Your Inner Power with Kerri Hummingbird - Ep.321

What if the life challenges that have left you feeling overwhelmed and broken aren't obstacles to be overcome, but potent medicine designed to unlock your deepest wisdom and power?  In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell interviews Kerri Hummingbird, a medicine woman, mother, mentor, founder of Inner Medicine training, and bestselling author. The conversation reveals how embracing the uncomfortable truths, feeling the pain rather than bypassing it, and doing the necessary 'shadow work' can transmute suffering into strength, illuminating your true purpose and allowing you to step into the world as a powerful, embodied medicine carrier. 

Get ready to go on a journey through the layers of what it means to live a truly integrated, 'wickedly smart' life, ultimately leading to the creation of vibrant communities where liberated power flourishes and the seeds of light are finally planted.

What You Will Learn:

Gain an understanding of medicine work from Kerri's perspective.

Kerri’s life before her calling, characterized by being a "striver and an achiever and a perfectionist" from Smith College who worked in Silicon Valley, struggling internally despite external appearances of a perfect life with family.

The recent commercialization of shamanism and plant medicine.

The concept of medicine to the larger world and collective shadow, suggesting that current challenging events offer medicine by showing us what's happening.

The importance of witnessing reactions to collective events and taking these feelings into personal medicine/shadow work.

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