New - Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Michael Griswold

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with psychedelics advocate Michael Griswold.
Michael Griswold is a survivor of deep-seated trauma, who has devoted himself to helping others heal from similar experiences. Michael's journey to healing began after he tragically lost his pregnant wife and unborn son in a car accident, leaving him consumed by grief and guilt for years. Despite trying various methods such as therapy, medication, yoga, and breathing techniques, Michael still felt like something was wrong with him, and that's when he turned to psychedelics. 
During a Heroic Journey with LSD, Michael found the healing he had been searching for. He discovered that the love he had for his wife was both tragic and beautiful, and that his thoughts did not have to control his reality. This experience led him to a new understanding of life as a present experience, free from the endless stream of thoughts that had plagued him before. 
Today, Michael is a passionate advocate for the healing power of psychedelics and offers a supplement that helps people suffering from depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Through his work, Michael seeks to spread awareness about the benefits of psychedelics, so that others can experience the same transformative healing that he did.

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Elisha Deva

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Elisha Deva.
Elisha is an interdisciplinary thinker who has been researching social inequality for almost thirty years. Her degree is in Human Biology from Stanford, a multidisciplinary combination of anthropology, psychology and biology. After working for four years in neuroscience at UCLA, the politics and sexism drove her out of academia. Since then she's collected data across disciplines to interpret it for the public, reading every book, article, and paper she could find on the rise of dominance in the Bronze Age. She's travelled the world, visiting matrilineal cultures and searching museums for clues to our ancient past. Meanwhile, she worked as a computer engineer on the forefront of creating the Internet in the 90s, built a wilderness retreat, and developed a trauma-informed healing practice.
 
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Wendy Van Allen

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview Intuitive Consultant Wendy Van Allen
 
Wendy Van Allen is a graduate of One Spirit Learning Alliance's Seminary and Interspiritual Counseling program. She received two bachelor's degrees from Rutgers University, and is graduating with a Master's in Clinical Counseling from Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, in August, 2023. Wendy is a certified Intuitive Consultant from the Holistic Studies Institute, New York, NY, and teaches and serves students at two progressive seminary programs. Wendy's spiritual traditions are Earth-based and include initiation and practice of Wicca, Lukumi, and Spiritism. She was initiated as a Green Witch with Susun in 1996 and has held a life-long interest and practice of natural magic, medicine, and spirituality. As a former archaeologist, she has a strong interest in the intersection of culture, spirituality, religion, evolving human consciousness, social justice and environmental concerns. Wendy lives in Kingston, New York, and offers private interspiritual counseling, classes and workshops from her home, Soul Blossom Center. She is the author of Relighting the Cauldron: Embracing Nature Spirituality for the Modern World, published by Llewellyn's Worldwide Publications in early 2023.

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Astrid Grove

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Midwife & Herbalist Astrid Grove.
Astrid Grove is the founder and organizer for Red Earth: The Mountain West Women's Herbal Gathering and co-creator of  The Wise Woman Sisterhood 12 month apprenticeship.  She celebrates life with her husband, her two daughters, her two cats and her many chickens.  Her passion lies in facilitating and supporting women's empowerment through midwifery, hands on healing, plant medicine and sacred ceremony. 
This year is the 7th Annual Red Earth: The Mountain West Women's Herbal Gathering September 15-17th, 2023 at 13 Moons Ranch in Carbondale, CO.
Red Earth: The Mountain West Women's Herbal Gathering, Colorado
 
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Lucretia Jones

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Herbalist Lucretia Jones
Lucretia has been working and learning with plants for over twenty years and was first introduced to the wise woman tradition while living an artist's life in New York City. Her father had passed away three days prior to the World Trade Center collapse in 2001, and that uncertainty sent her on a quest to find more autonomy and connection with the natural world.
Lucretia loves connecting people with plants. As a wise woman herbalist, her favorite times are spent meeting new and old plant friends wherever she happens to be. Sharing those relationships with other humans led her to create House of Lukaya in 2003. House of Lukaya, is a mobile and online source for offerings including plant medicine workshops, incense twists and other handicrafts, and a pocket Guide to Nourishing Herbal Infusions which she self published in 2018. 
Lucretia joined the board of Herbalist Without Borders in 2015 and is also on the planning team for the Black Tiny Home Festival, two organizations that are bringing communities together with nature as their guide. In 2019, she and her partner purchased land in Virginia where they are building a homestead from scratch.  
Throughout several changes in lifestyle and location, Lucretia has been making infusions consistently for many years and is excited to share her journey with you. She welcomes your communication at her website houseoflukaya.com, on Instagram @houseoflukaya, and at patreon.com/houseoflukaya. 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Kylea Taylor

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Therapist Kylea Taylor
Kylea Taylor, M.S., LMFT is licensed therapist who has been thinking, writing, and teaching about ethics for almost three decades. She developed and teaches InnerEthics®, a self-reflective, self-compassionate, approach to relational ethics. The model includes a set of awareness tools that are especially useful to those working with psychedelic-assisted therapy. Kylea started studying with Stanislav Grof, M.D. and Christina Grof in 1984 and worked with Stan Grof as a Senior Trainer in the Grof Transpersonal Training throughout the 1990s. She is the author of The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients (2017), and several books about Holotropic Breathwork®. InnerEthics.com

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Kris Franken

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Kris Franken
Kris Franken is an author, intuitive, and wayshower. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology, is a certified Reiki healer and meditation teacher, and was a journalist for sixteen years. 
Kris is the author of Wildhearted Purpose: Embrace Your Unique Calling & the Unmapped Path of Authenticity, and The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight, plus numerous sets of oracle cards, including Soul Purpose, Spirit Animal, and Lightworker. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Kris gratefully calls the rainforest of Byron Bay, Australia, home.

*Previously Recorded * Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest EagleSong

** Previously recorded **
Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Herbalist EagleSong Gardener.
EagleSong Evans Gardener dances her mischief in the hedge, the veld, that luminous place between wild and tended. She is a 3rd generation northwesterner raised on salmon and cedar long enough to find a root and love for a place she calls Home. EagleSong is a practicing herbalist in the wise woman tradition and a lifelong gardener. She is most at home cultivating life and watching things grow. Working with apprentices for over 25 years, her “Healing From the Ground Up” community centered herbal apprenticeship is a 9 month journey for the rigorous adventurer. EagleSong is known for her wit and kitchen table wisdom and her incessant need to go outside and play! She stays busy these days weaving the Pacific Women's Herbal Conference back into being and teaching at her home place, RavenCroft Garden and the flumdiddley kitchen school. 
Learning opportunities with EagleSong can be found online at: www.eaglesong-gardener.com
Join Susun, Eaglesong and many other presenters at:
The Hypericum Conference 
St. John's/Joan's wort 
https://www.wisewomanschool.com/p/sjwcon
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Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Rhoda Jordan Shapiro

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview Rhoda Jordan Shapiro
Rhoda Jordan Shapiro has worked for over a decade as a tantric educator, teaching others to step into their power by way of meditation, movement, dance, and yoga. She leads womb healing circles for women, and has a YouTube channel where she teaches meditation classes and shares wisdom on the ancient practices of tantra and kundalini yoga. Rhoda is the author of Fierce Woman and Magic Within. She is also the Founder and Editor in Chief of The Milpitas Beat, a local newspaper. Rhoda lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children. Visit her at RhodaJordanShapiro.com. 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed with guest Carmen Turner-Schott

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Carmen Turner-Schott.
Carmen Turner-Schott, MSW, LISW, is a licensed clinical social worker, psychological astrologer, author and teacher with national and international clientele. She has been researching astrology, trauma, healing, and transformation for the past 25 years. Carmen began her astrological work at the age of 16 after an experience with a glowing ball of light in her doorway and began studying metaphysics and the Edgar Cayce material at that time. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1997 and her Master of Social Work degree at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1999. She is the author of nine books. 
Carmen was born with intuitive abilities that she inherited from her maternal grandmother and uses these spiritual techniques to better serve her clients and those who reach out to her for assistance. She is an avid dream researcher who uses dream incubation to help assist others on a deeper soul level. As a certified Reiki Master Energy Healer and Akashic Records International Consultant she brings her knowledge of astrology and specific training in various healing modalities and specialized techniques to help with trauma recovery and psychological implications of trauma on the brain and impact of trauma on the emotions, physical body and mental processes. Her goal is to share her love of astrology with others and make it understandable on a basic, practical level to help others see what a powerful psychological tool astrology can be in our lives.