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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.

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....
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 Suler

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 modern, disconnected overculture. The consequences of...
The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory

The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory

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 is one of the most...
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

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 at her...
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 Calvario

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 healing medicine with...
Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort

Sunshine Medicine: The Healing Magic of St. John’s Wort

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...