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Medicine Stories
by Amber Magnolia Hill
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. Story is medicine, magic is real, healing is open-ended & endless.
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First Blood & Lost Rites of Passage - Kami McBride
The Womanhood Continuum: First Blood & Lost Rites of Passage - Kami McBride Amber Magnolia Hill Download Menarche- a girl’s first period- shapes how we experience womanhood for the rest of our lives, and the lack of initiation most of us experience is itself an initiation. In this culture that…
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TCM’s 7yr Timeline of Women’s Life Transitions - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
TCM’s 7yr Timeline of Women’s Life Transitions - Dr. Suuzi Hazen Amber Magnolia Hill Download Did you notice metabolic changes around age 35 and/or 42? Does perimenopause even exist? Is there an ideal childbearing window? Why are humans one of the only species to experience menopause? Suuzi…
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Reshaped by Parenthood: Families, Fathers, and the First Year - Rachelle Seliga
Reshaped by Parenthood: Families, Fathers, and the First Year - Rachelle Seliga Amber Magnolia Hill Download Birth opens the door, but what comes after walks you through it. Many new parents find themselves moving through the first year feeling lonely, confused, and wondering why it’s so hard. In...
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Cannabis-Induced Psychosis: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss - Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead
Cannabis-Induced Psychosis: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss - Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmst Amber M Hill In 2021 Tara and her family got the knock on their door that every parent fears most. In the days that followed they discovered eighteen-year-old Mila’s journal and were able to piece...
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Women Making Medicine for Healing & Connection - Kami McBride
Women Making Medicine for Healing & Connection - Kami McBride Amber M Hill Download My most beloved herbal elder and I talk about our favorite subject- women throughout time using plants for self care, family healing, and community connection. After nearly 4 decades as a practicing herbalist and...
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Nourishment Lost: in Culty Spaces, Self Induced, & Culturewide - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
Nourishment Lost: in Culty Spaces, Self Induced, & Culturewide - Dr. Suuzi Hazen Amber M Hill Download Suuzi and I continue the discussion sparked by my last episode about culty trends in the wellness space by talking about her past with Kundalini yoga- what drew her in and, eventually, how...
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German New Medicine: A Lot of Magical Thinking & A Little Bit Culty Too - Demetra Gray
German New Medicine: A Lot of Magical Thinking & A Little Bit Culty Too - Demetra Gray Amber Magnolia Hill Download GNM is an alt health trend that has grown in popularity in recent years. It is attractive to so many (including me and my guest, once) because it acknowledges the role that emotions...
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Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive to Run (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Haze Amber Magnolia Hill Download Chinese Medicine holds that women’s bodies are 10x harder to heal than men’s, as our reproductive system is biologically much more precious and metabolically more intensive...
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Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride
Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride Amber Magnolia Hill Download The times are unprecedented and there is no template for the future. We all feel this, and we feel the overwhelm of information, influence, and opinions. Herbalism, as it always has, offers us...
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The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly Amber Magnolia Hill Download Nothing exemplifies the magic of nature more than honeybees. They are insects yet their colonies are akin to a mammalian being, they produce numerous healing substances from their bodies and within their hives, and…
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Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn Amber Magnolia Hill Download “I pray to the dead to help me remember who I am while I’m still alive.” To be in relationship with those who’ve gone before us is a deeply human way of being. Our ancestors knew...
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Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sar Amber Magnolia Hill Download 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...
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Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand Amber Magnolia Hill Download 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…
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Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner Amber Magnolia Hill Download 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...
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Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen Amber Magnolia Hill Download 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...
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The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle Amber Magnolia Hill Download 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…
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Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth - Aimee Aroha
Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth Amber Magnolia Hill Download Our modern disconnection from land and lineage mirrors the culturally normal- but biologically abnormal- separation between mother and baby, parents and children. The…
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Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in W Amber Magnolia Hill Download Kids today face more challenges- and are showing more signs of distress- than ever before. Parents must learn to effectively co-regulate, repair when things go awry, and...
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97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more) Amber Magnolia Hill Download Medicine Stories turns five years old! And you’re just gonna have to listen to hear what else I talk about (you’ll understand why…) LINKS: Three Black Friday to Cyber Monday 2022 Sales- 35% off Mythic Medicinals St. John’s...
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Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride
Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride Amber Magnolia Hill Download The plants have so much more to teach us than what has been written down by others; there is another level of wisdom that can only be accessed by direct communication with the living…
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Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler
Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Sul Amber Magnolia Hill Download Earth-centered cultures have always held that each person is born into this world with their own unique gifts and strengths, but this knowing has been put aside by our...
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The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar Amber Magnolia Hill Download We were made from our mothers, who were made from the earth, which is made of stardust, which is made of minerals. A well mineralized body heals itself by providing our cellular metabolism what it needs…
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Cervix is Self: Reconnecting to Your Inner Oracle & Record Keeper - Denell Barbara Randall
Cervix is Self: Reconnecting to Your Inner Oracle & Record Keeper - Denell Barbara Randall Amber Magnolia Hill Download The women’s embodiment movement tends to stop at the womb, but cervix lies even deeper and contains an abundance of information about where we’ve been and what is needed now.…
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The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory
The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory Amber Magnolia Hill w/ Kami McBride Download Sacred to the goddesses of old, known to all ancestors who occupied the Northern Hemisphere, and beloved by wise folk and herbal healers from the Ice Age until today, mugwort…
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Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden
Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber M Amber Magnolia Hill Download The cell is the foundation of life, and biological science is clear on what our cells need to most efficiently generate the energy that runs our bodies. Gut, autoimmune…
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Entheogenic Earth Medicine - Mikaela de la Myco
Entheogenic Earth Medicine - Mikaela de la Myco Amber Magnolia Hill Download Psychedelics are the most potent medicine we have for remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. Many ancestral communities integrated plant and fungal healing ceremony into every age and stage of embodiment (and...
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Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'Donoghue
Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'Donoghue Amber Magnolia Hill Download Please listen to Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Cancelled first. Our ancestors were in constant biochemical conversation with the world, and so are we. Plants are a gateway into the depths of our...
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Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Canceled
Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Canceled Amber Magnolia Hill Download Let us step out of the mass psychosis of cancel culture and remember compassion, tolerance for differing viewpoints, and recognition of the deeply complex nature of human behavior. TOPICS: Losing compassion in the name of...
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Coming Home to the Mushroom Elders - Amanita Dreamer
Coming Home to the Mushroom Elders - Amanita Dreamer Amber Magnolia Hill Download When Amanita muscaria says “Hey bitch, what’s up?”, you listen. Also known as the fly agaric, this most culturally significant fungi of all time has been maligned and misunderstood by modern people. May we reweave…
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What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, & Legacy of Love
What I’d Be Without You: My Mother’s Life, Death, & Legacy of Love Amber Magnolia Hill Download In this meandering medicine story, I share about my mama’s unexpected death in 2015, the unbelievable coincidence of losing my father-in-law the same way 5 years later, the amazing thing my stepdad did...
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We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli
We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli Amber Magnolia Hill Download It is through land that we find ourselves. It is through lineage that we return to ourselves. It is through community that we expand ourselves. In this age of...
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Serenading the Waters: Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care - Damiana Calvario
Serenading the Waters: Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care - Damiana Amber Magnolia Hill Download Herbalism is an outlet for creative expression, a tool for community care, and a pathway to our own inner knowing. Let us revel in the freedom we have to make our own…
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Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort
Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort Amber Magnolia Hill Download St. John’s Wort has evolved over millennia to capture the ultimate expression of sunlight on our planet and turn it into the molecule hypericin, which has numerous profound effects on our human bodies. Find our…
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Plants are Infinitely Healing & Folk Herbalism is for Everyone - Farai Harreld
Plants are Infinitely Healing & Folk Herbalism is for Everyone - Farai Harreld Amber Magnolia Hill Download In these times, we all need all the healing help we can get. How lucky then that an infinite source of renewal and vitality lies just beneath our feet. Connection with the earth and plants...
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Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection - Marysia Miernowska
Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection - Marysia Miernowska Amber Magnolia Hill Download For most of human history, herbalism hasn’t had a name. It was just a way of life, part of being human upon the earth. The folk traditions of our ancestors have deep nourishment to…
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Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing - Rachelle Garcia Seliga
Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing - Rach Amber Magnolia Hill Download How do we support thriving life on earth through the pathway of maternal health? Our physiologic design is the inarguable truth, but in today’s confusing online culture…
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Learning Is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing - Akilah S. Richards
Learning Is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing - Akilah S. Richards Amber Magnolia Hill Download If the phrase “school wounds” stirs something inside of you, or the words “crisis schooling” describe your current reality as a parent or caregiver, or you’ve just always intuited...
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Mythopoetic Womb Release - Samantha Zipporah
Mythopoetic Womb Release - Samantha Zipporah Amber Magnolia Hill Download Your ancestors are with you every time the portal of the womb opens; our blood connects us to our lineage, to the mythic archetypes that hold meaning for us, and to our deepest inner selves. Whatever sort of womb release…
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Holistic Abortion Options
Holistic Abortion Options Download From time immemorial, women and wise folk have carried the knowledge of how to manage fertility. From menstruation to contraception to birth to miscarriage to abortion, these processes and this knowing has always belonged to the people. Ending pregnancy outside...
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Life's Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper - Isabel Friend
Life's Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper - Isabel Friend Amber Magnolia Hill Download “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel prize winner We return to the endlessly fascinating and enormously important subject of water, exploring...
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Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health - Dr. Carly Nuday
Liquid Crystal: Water, Memory, Consciousness, and Health - Dr. Carly Nuday Amber Magnolia Hill Download We’ve all heard that we’re about 70% water by weight, but we are almost 100% water by molecular count. Water is the most abundant *and* the most mysterious substance on the planet. It is the...
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I Forgive You: A Story of Loss and Transformative Healing - Amy Mea Woodruff
I Forgive You: A Story of Loss and Transformative Healing - Amy Mea Woodruff Amber Magnolia Hill Download “If I could give my life for hers, I would” -Cheree’s murderer, expressing remorse at his sentencing. I first interviewed Mea on Episode 6, when she told us the story of being very pregnant...
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Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft with Yourself - Rupam Henry
Healing the Bones: Holistic Dental Health, Lineage, and Being Soft with Yourself - Rupam Henry Amber Magnolia Hill Download The health of the mouth reflects and predicts the health of the rest of the body (and our emotional, spiritual, and ancestral wellbeing too). Everything is connected, and…
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Cultivating Resilience with Home Herbalism - Kami McBride
Cultivating Resilience with Home Herbalism - Kami McBride Amber Magnolia Hill Download Relearning ancestral skills is the best antidote to the fear and chaos of these times. Let’s recreate a culture of simple home healing and feed the river of resilience so that all may drink from it. Check out...
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Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human - Nadine Artemis
Harvesting Light: The Alchemy of Sun & Human - Nadine Artemis Amber Magnolia Hill Download In a brilliant act of human photosynthesis, our cells evolved over millennia to receive and transform information from the source of all life on earth, the sun. Yet our species has moved further and further...
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Wild Remedies: Tending Relationships with the Land Around Us - Rosalee de la Foret
Wild Remedies: Tending Relationships with the Land Around Us - Rosalee de la Foret Amber Magnolia Hill Download It is our ancestral inheritance to know and work with the plants growing around us. Tending to, nurturing, and gleaning nourishment and medicine from the land is a way of life that is...
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When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana Young
When We Slow Down, Earth Heals - Ayana Young Amber Magnolia Hill Download As Slowness Medicine is being experienced by the collective consciousness on an unprecedented scale, we can more clearly than ever see that the frenetic pace of the human species under endless growth capitalism is the root...
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Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Control - Dr. Elizabeth Wade
Your Cycle, Your Self: Period Empowerment, Fertility Awareness, & the Risks of Hormonal Birth Co Amber Magnolia Hill Download Modern medicine now recognizes the menstrual cycle as the fifth vital sign. By simply paying attention to what our periods are telling us, we greatly increase our body...
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Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, & Human Ecology - Sajah Popham
Called to the Plant Path: Herbal Myths, Healing Forward, & Human Ecology - Sajah Popham Amber Magnolia Hill Download These times call for potent healers. If you’re feeling the call of the plants, this episode is for you. IN THE INTRO: There is no right way to be an herbalist Guidance for…
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Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness are One - Rachelle Garcia Seliga
Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness are One - Rachelle Garcia Seliga Amber Magnolia Hill Download We cannot talk about collective health, planetary health, or the health of future generations, without talking about the health of mothers. As Rachelle says, “The dysfunction and...
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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. Story is medicine, magic is real, healing is open-ended & endless.
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