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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.

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...
Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride

Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride

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 sanctuary from...
Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand

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...
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

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...
Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride

Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride

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 Earth....