Grief and Motherhood Entwined with Amber Magnolia Hill The Wild and Wise

ep. #20
In today's episode, Mallika shares a conversation she had back in early December with Amber Magnolia Hill. Amber shares a lot about her personal experience loosing her mother in a car accident 5 years ago. She graces us with her vulnerability and authentic emotional experience as we dive into what It means to loose someone so vital, how she continues to tend her relationship with her mother and the entwined relationship with life/death-tending and motherhood.


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Amber's website Mythic Medicine
Amber's Podcast Medicine Stories 

Things we dive into in this episode:
Amber's experience of the grief of loosing her motherLittle "g" and big "G" griefGrief is sacred space that continues to hold your relationship to something that existed. The darkness that thrives on the feeling of being alone The Inevitability of loss and deathHow our culture is set up to deny deathSpontaneous, simple rituals to rememberAngelica, Osha and Violet - plants for allowing and supporting griefThe grief the come with motherhoodImpact of raising children outside of village/communityMotherhood and tending life and deathCreating containers for children that minimize cultural traumaHealing and emotional self-regulation for ourselves as parentsThe collective grief we are feeling during CovidThe complexity that can be held inside a conversation

The Denial of Death by Earnest Becker
The Belonging Podcast
Atlantic Article The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
Rachelle Garcia Seliga   Innate Traditions
Inuit Morality Play book about parenting
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
Brené Brown podcast with David Kessler




Ashley's website
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Ashley's Parent Prayer Circle

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Mallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art Process
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