106 episodes
Medicine Stories Amber Magnolia Hill
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Remembering what it is to be human upon the earth // Exploring the mythic journeys we undertake when coming to know ourselves through interviews with herbalists, story keepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness explorers, earth dreamers, and other wise folk.
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106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
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, navigating the mythic underworld of autoimmune and chronic illness, and telling our stories without the need for a heroic ending.
All Mythic Medicinals products are 20% OFF Nov 24th-27th (add coupon code WINTERSUN for an additional 15% off St. John’s Wort Oil)
RESOURCES:
Sarah’s website
Medicine Stories Patreon (enter the book giveaway by 12/14)
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Whitney Dafoe’s website
Medicine Stories episode 105 w/ Sophie Strand Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche
The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock
My post about my father’s life and death
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) -
105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
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 Instagram
Sophie’s newsletter Make Me Good Soil
Sophie’s books and more
The Lady’s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey
ACE- Adverse Childhood Experiences quiz
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van den Kolk (giant trigger warning; read the book below instead)
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupam Maria and Raj Patel
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Erik Wargo
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Emerald (a podcast beloved by both me & Sophie)
Read The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics & the Entanglement of Matter & Meaning by Karen Barad
Time, As a Symptom by Joanna Newsom (lyrics here)
My blog post Ancestral Voices, women’s Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear Time
Episode 82 What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, and Legacy of Love
Come relax at my Costa Rica Forest Bathing Retreat- last day to book is August 4th ‘23
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) -
104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
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 sunlight.
RESOURCES-
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Connect with Sarah:
Free Guide: Building Your Perfect Quantum Day - https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/pl/2147664711
FAQ Guide - https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/faq-skw
Courses - https://sarah-kleiner.mykajabi.com/store (code PODCAST for 10% off any course!)
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarahkleinerwellness
Podcast -https://anchor.fm/sarahkleinerwellness
Website - https://sarahkleinerwellness.com
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd1xxofTziySu0F9oG7G67g
My Costa Rica Forest Bathing Getaway (Sept 2023!)
The Human Cosmos: Civilization & the Stars by Jo Marchant
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Related Medicine Stories episodes:
Episode 67 Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human w/ Nadine Artemis
Episode 71 Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health w/ Dr. Carly Nuday
Episode 72 Life’s Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper w/ Isabel Friend
Episode 102 The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart w/ Lindsay Courcelle
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103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
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 attune, and more deeply understand your own biochemistry.
Dr. Suuzi Hazen is a wife, mother, farmer and founder of Mother's Best Liver Pills. She holds a doctoral degree in TCM, graduating in 2009 from ICTCM Vancouver. Suuzi completed extensive internships in Anhui Hospital of TCM in Hefei, China. She also interned with Dr. Katrine Heigelmann (Victoria), and Dr. David Li Lam (Vancouver). She brings a grounded yet radical, no-nonsense perspective to ancestral health and wellness.
We’d love for you to join us at the chillest retreat ever, my Costa Rica Forest Bathing Retreat this September 23-28th.
RESOURCES:
Mythic Medicinals Herbal Body Oils are half off!
Video of Niecia interpreting my recent HTMA results is at the Medicine Stories Patreon
Dr. Suuzi on Instagram
Mother’s Best Liver Pills
Sena Maria’s post on Why Your Healing Work Isn’t Moving the Needle
Sarah Kleiner Wellness on Instagram
Niecia’s post of Alison Luterman’s poem
What Is Mineral Balancing?
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Related previous episodes:
100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden
63. Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes) -
102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
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 Instagram
Amber on Instagram
Lindsay’s website
Lindsay’s Myofascial Breast Care Workshop (use coupon code MEDICINESTORIES for 66% off)
Get the Off-Grid Homestead Bundle- 100+ ebooks and online courses to help you start your homestead and live free, for just $50 (a 99% discount!), available from 3/22-3/31
Join me on my Costa Rica: Forest Bathing Eco Retreat in September
Medicine Stories Patreon- Two bonuses for this episode:
1. Singing w/ the Ancestors- an extended conversation w/ Lindsay about the resonance of the human voice, making pilgrimage to ancestral lands, connecting with the Earth by breathing with plants, calling in our dreams, and the landscapes that our bodies recognize.
2. Holy Witness: The Story of My 101 Year Old Grandmother's Beautiful Death- My sister and I were touching our grandmother as she left her body on my mom’s, her daughter's, birthday. My six year old daughter was in the room as well. It was peaceful, sacred, and offered healing in light of how my mom died in such a shocking and unexpected way.
Plus 5 years of podcast bonuses & resources related to herbalism, ancestry, health, and much more!
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Lymph Love Club w/ Leah Levitan on Instagram
Interoception: The Emotional Side of Trauma video w/ Dr. Emily Splichal
Strolling Under the Skin- visceral surgery fascia video
Human Garage on Instagram
John Barnes Myofascial Release
Healing is Voltage by Jerry Tennant
Carrie B Wellness on Instagram
The HeartMath Institute
Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working w/ Consciousness by Pam Montgomery
The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature by Stephen Buhner
The Resonance Effect: How Frequency Specific Microcurrent is Changing Medicine by Carolyn McMakin
Dr. Catherine Clinton on Instagram
Medicine Stories Episode 95 Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Facebook group
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101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
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 Costa Rica Forest Bathing Retreat in September.
RESOURCES:
Aimee’s website The Stoned Chrysalis
Aimee on Instagram
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom w/ Modern Knowledge by Rachel Reed
Related Medicine Stories episodes-
Episode 38 Healing Our Indigenous European Ancestors w/ Lyla June
Episode 48 Matriarchy in Action & Ancestor-Assisted Birth w/ Emilee Saldaya
Episode 51 Maternal Mammalian Ecstasy: The Ancient Hormonal Blueprint for Optimal Birth & Bonding w/ Sarah Buckley
Episode 52 Decolonizing the Mind: You Belong to Your Ancestors w/ Tamira Cousett
Episode 61 Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness are One w/ Rachelle Garcia Seliga
Episode 75 Learning is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing w/ Akilah Richards
Episode 76 Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing w/ Rachelle Garcia Seliga
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Customer Reviews
So so good
I have been recently called to listen to so many episodes of this podcast lately and, as a result, feel like I understand myself, my purpose, my body, and my connection to the earth so much more for it. I’ve had so many moments in the last couple weeks listening to episodes that I got chills because something resonated so deeply or because I realized I was led to listen to the episode at that exact moment in time. Amber’s voice is a soothing balm for the soul and I’m so grateful for the medicine that is shared here. Thank you for this podcast 💐
Essential
A must listen to. It’s rich with ancient, sacred wisdom that somehow has made it through all of the years and generations. Thank you so much for your generous, curious and wise spirit.
The host has lost credibility
I used to enjoy this podcast but the host, Amber, has become increasingly more didactic, dictatorial, and angry. She used to sell her oils/herbs but now she is peddling a bunch of other things, some which seem questionable and similar to multi-level marketing and pyramid scheme products. Her most recent jag on instagram (October 2023) made me decide to unfollow. After the recent attacks in Israel and in Palestine, she first posted the words of an online personality/"therapist" stating people shouldn't feel the need to post about political events they do not know about. Fine. But then, amost immediately after, Amber went on a jag - dictatorially posting her feelings about what is happening, and lashing out at people who tried to either correct her lack of knowledge and/or provide more context on what is happening in the region. She commented angrily about "women in Portland", which would be almost funny if it weren't suggestive of deeper issues she seems to be struggling with, and if she wasn't irresponsibly spreading misinformation/disinfo to her many listeners. When she gets into judgy hostile mode it's so alienating, especially because there is a sort of hope (however simplistic) that people who care about plants and herbal medicine would be a bit more reasoned, even-keeled, and open-minded. I mean, during her October jag, she even wrote the words "I pray wokeism ends". Again, ridiculous, funny, and over-the-top, but also fear-mongering and irresponsible. She seems to take on certain perspectives or lifestyles (e.g. she used to be a vegan) and is vociferious/judgemental about why it's right, only to change her mind and go on to judge and yell about why her new-found lifestyle is correct. Big unfollow.