EPISODE · Feb 12, 2026 · 46 MIN
142 - Botany, witchy works, aphantasia... oh my!
from Mindful Mavens · host anja brannstrom
PLANT PEOPLE podcast: episode “extreme botany” from 5/19/2025 https://open.spotify.com/episode/34ZK0lgTXvNod5iJjjV2Fb Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Signature of All things https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780143125846 YEAR OF WONDERS is a 2001 historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks, inspired by the true story of the English village of Eyam, which quarantined itself during the 1666 plague https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780142001431 Fire Cider recipe: https://www.citymarket.coop/recipe/rosemary-gladstars-fire-cider Podcast series by BBC called Witch https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mc4p Podcast called LIFE KIT https://www.npr.org/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5566800/how-the-local-library-can-save-you-money Podcast RadioLab on Aphantasia https://radiolab.org/podcast/aphantasia Charley Morley LUCID DREAMING https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781788172523 Robert Monroe Journeys Out of the Body https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9780385008617 Monroe Institute https://www.monroeinstitute.org/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=16137331382&gbraid=0AAAAADp2d0LOGEbqXdSs0DgmzPXepfKfr&gclid=Cj0KCQiA7rDMBhCjARIsAGDBuED0XAn5quRgqMiftSsiQ-gfAUqt8c_tZUa5oo3sn-3mzKM60MHsBOUaAiNeEALw_wcB Listening to Ayahuasca by Rachel Harris, PhD. https://bookshop.org/a/116600/9781608684021 MAPS Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies https://maps.org/advancing-research/ EMDR https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/treatments/eye-movement-reprocessing Colorado Public Radio’s Aging Matters Series - https://www.cpr.org/tag/aging-matters/ Mindful Mavens is produced in partnership with MadeLife (our amazing recording space) and Facilitated Wellness (where Steph & Anja both treat clients), both located in Boulder, Colorado. For more information, check them out at http://madelife.com http://facwellness.com Find Mindful Mavens on Facebook and Instagram @mindful.mavens, email us at [email protected] or leave us a voice message at http://speakpipe.com/mindfulmavens , we’d LOVE to hear your voice! And if you’re in the market for any of the books we have mentioned, visit our affiliate link at https://bookshop.org/shop/mindfulmavens . For any purchase you make from our “Storefront” we get thrown a few shekels that help us keep this podcast going. Music: “Into The Forest” by LesFM
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Anja and Steph are Boulder-based wellness providers, Front Range Colorado celebrants, and curiosity-driven conversationalists. This week we talk about various personal and book or podcast-inspired stories ranging from scientists and their extreme plant adventures, wisdom keepers and plant medicines, imagination, dreaming, healing with conventional and alternative options, “dating around”, psychedelic therapy potentialities, support for PTSD, aging and all the dang fine print, and more.
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142 - Botany, witchy works, aphantasia... oh my!
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