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Medicine Stories Podcast

Medicine Stories is a gathering place for women seeking to rekindle their vitality through connection- with themselves, with each other, and with the living medicine of the earth.

Beyond “HRT or Not?”: Supporting the Bodies of Future Wise & Well Grandmothers - Jane Hardwicke Collings

Beyond “HRT or Not?”: Supporting the Bodies of Future Wise & Well Grandmothers - Jane Hardwicke Collings

Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Perimenopause & menopause are often framed as a problem to fix- and the conversation quickly collapses into a single question: HRT or not? But women’s bodies are rarely that simple....
The Epidemic of Women Undernourishing - Ashley Wulkan

The Epidemic of Women Undernourishing - Ashley Wulkan

Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Many (if not most) women today are- often unintentionally and without realizing it- undernourishing to the point that our basic biological needs are not being met. Exhausted, anxious, and...
The Peak Is Not the Path: The Physiology of Lasting Healing - Sena Maria

The Peak Is Not the Path: The Physiology of Lasting Healing - Sena Maria

Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Healing is often framed through the lens of heroic breakthroughs, peak experiences, and emotional catharsis, but this episode centers a steadier path. Many modern healing trends—amplified by social media...
Modern Midlife Hits Different (Especially for Mothers) - Jessie Harrold

Modern Midlife Hits Different (Especially for Mothers) - Jessie Harrold

Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Midlife is a powerful threshold, one that is often misunderstood or endured in shame and solitude. In this episode, we explore the in-between terrain where old identities dissolve and...
First Blood & Lost Rites of Passage - Kami McBride

First Blood & Lost Rites of Passage - Kami McBride

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 has fractured...
TCM’s 7yr Timeline of Women’s Life Transitions - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

TCM’s 7yr Timeline of Women’s Life Transitions - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

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 Hazen, doctor of...
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 Farmstead

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 together the shocking...
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

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 and trauma...
Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen

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 to maintain. In this conversation my good friend, third...