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Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & ’Reimagining Death’ Lucinda Herring

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lucinda Herring. Lucinda has worked at the cutting edge of the green funeral movement for more than twenty years, beginning with others in the 1990s to quietly care for loved ones after death. Today she is one of the leading voices for more healing and ecological ways to care for our dead. Herring is a home funeral/green disposition consultant and guide, an interfaith minister, and a licensed funeral director in the state of Washington. She speaks regularly about her work, and through her company Limina LLC--Thresholds Consulting and Ministry, she offers Advance After-Death Care planning, home funeral/green disposition education and trainings, and celebrant/ministerial services for families and communities who are reclaiming their innate right to care for each other and the earth at the end of life. Lucinda is also a storyteller and festival maker, committed to bringing art, beauty, ritual and celebration to all of life's thresholds. She lives on an island in the Puget Sound, amongst people who love exploring and creating new paradigms and ways of being that can be of service to all.

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Sacred Stream’s Isa Gucciardi

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Isa Gucciardi. In the mid-nineties, Isa began developing Depth Hypnosis as she entered into clinical practice. Her studies, both in academia and in the field, of cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology formed the basis of her approach with clients and students. As the body of work that grew out of her clinical practice became larger, she began teaching others so that more people could benefit from the techniques she had developed. In order to accommodate the number of classes that grew out of this process, she co-founded the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, which is now a school for consciousness studies in Berkeley, California, serving hundreds of students each year. Isa teaches and speaks nationally and internationally, and she has published numerous articles, podcast episodes, videos, and the books Return to the Great Mother and Coming to Peace. She maintains a private practice with institutions and individuals in Depth Hypnosis and Coming to Peace processes. Isa speaks five languages and has lived in eleven countries. She is the mother of two children and lives with her partner in San Francisco.
this episode Q&A includes:
• low blood cell count - low compared to who?
• red meat- why you need heme?
• hart time losing weight..
• if by virtue of us wanting something, is it adding to my health?
• addiction to diet coke- how to wean yourself off using natural sweetners..
• life is not about order, it is about chaos..
• Reinventing Eve..
• when your heart is greiving it is in the process of expanding..
• releasing tension in the body causing digestive upset- Realization process to fully inhabit the body..
• subtle and nourishing practices..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Sparkle and Shine Guidance Abigail Barella

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Abigail Barella. Abigail is an energy healer and astrologer originally from the Adirondack mountains of Upstate NY.   She immersed herself in nature to empower herself.  Raised in a matriarch under her storytelling beloved Grandmother.  Her career began as a birth doula and childbirth educator.  Finally in 2013 she created Sparkle and Shine Guidance with a focus on helping people to see their natural gifts and empowering individuals to share those gifts with their community.  She is a mother, auntie and medicine woman.  In her spare time she likes to hike, dance, cook and read. 
this episode Q&A includes:
• diagnosed with breast cancer- choosing what is wanted based on good information..
• quality of life or quantity of life- nourish with infusions and adaptogenis herbs..
• red clover tincture and red clover infusion are as different as raisins and champagne..
• mushrooms are some of the best herbs to prevent metastatsis..
• guidance for going into sugery..
• heroic tradition tells you what toxins you need to cleanse and how to get into balance- wise woman tradition tells you to nourish..
• heart nourishing herbs, especially hawthorn!
• sonigrams are not healthy for you or your baby..
• plant families are where to start with herbs..
• hawthorn for damaged capillaries..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Midwest Women’s Herbal Linda Conroy

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Linda Conroy. Linda Conroy the founder and one of the organizers of The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference. With a legal and Social Policy background one might find it a surprise to find that she dedicates her life to connecting with the green world. Linda is committed Herbal Educator and Practitioner, provider of Workshops and Apprenticeships for her local community and is a skilled 'wild food and medicine' gatherer. She offers workshops and consultations as well as handcrafted herbal wares through her business Moonwise Herbs. For more information see www.moonwiseherbs.com and/or wwwmidewestwomensherbal.com
this episode Q&A includes:
• knowing your value- it's not self care, it's caring for ourselves..
• scar tissue- castor oil, violet, calendula..
• growing herbs in small spaces..
• working with fasia after a car wreck..
• veganism, sibo, victim stories, chronic pain..
 

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Church’s Sister Dandelion

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health quetions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sister Dandelion. Sister Dandelion is a cofounder and trustee of the Church of Modern Witchcraft. A poet and priestess, she has been practicing witchcraft and reading the Tarot for 25 years. She honors Z Budapest, Starhawk, and Susun Weed as her witchcraft mentors and foresisters. As a radical feminist, Sister Dandelion has organized and collaborated with women on issues such as male violence, reproductive freedom and women's health, liberation, and the creation of woman-loving culture in the context of a woman-hating system. 
this episode Q&A includes:
• first choice when there is an irritation to the uninary tract is corn silk..
• bloating and gas pain- aromatic seeds of any kind..
• gotu kola preparations..
• CBD extractions- it's complicated, but up for experimentation..
• bitter melon?
• flooding..
• menopause..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Awakening Shakti Sally Kempton

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 miute interview with Sally Kempton. Sally Kempton is a widely respected teacher of meditation and spiritual wisdom, known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others, and to help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. A former swami in a Vedic tradition, she has spent over four decades delving deeply into meditation and self-inquiry. Sally is the author of the best-selling book, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, and ofMeditation for the Love of It," which Spirituality and Health magazine called "the meditation book your heart wants you to read". Her audio program, Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation, is a powerful introduction to advanced meditation practice. She is on the faculty at Esalen and Kripalu, teaches meditation on the websitesYogaglo.com, and and at Gaia.com, and leads retreats and workshops in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Her website iswww.sallykempton.com.

People’s Medicine Show

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Medicine Woman Shonagh Home

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Shonagh Home. Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author and poet Her specialized private sessions and retreats assist clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. She is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and an expert on traditional foods. She is author of Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine, Love and Spirit Medicine, Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms, and Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissa Speaks. www.shonaghhome.com

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Birthing a New World Kathleen Hanagan

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kathleen Hanagan. Kathleen is spiritual teacher, modern mystic, and psychotherapist, whose work integrates the essential wisdom of the great spiritual traditions with scientific knowledge, 30 years working intimately with individuals, couples, and groups, and her own quest for liberation. With the clarity that comes from one familiar with the territory of the heart, Kathleen shows us how to expand our awareness beyond the subconscious limitations of a culture that has lost its Soul.  She teaches us how to remain awake at every stage of the journey, so that we can do what we came to earth to do: to live wholehearted and prosperous lives of loving kindness, generosity and truth.   Her book, Loveseed: The Template for Birthing A New World, shows us how to create miracles through shifts in our perception, that allow us to trance-end the fear that creates personal and collective pain. Find out more at her website www.KathleenHanagan.com
this episode Q&A includes:
• oozing hot spots on dogs- 7 medicines..
• hildegard von bingen
• success is defined by a person who gets up after they fail..
• woman’s first right is the right to change her mind..
• resistant to change? Best not to should on yourself..
• muscle tear- hypericum and comfrey..

Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed & Black Feminist/Womanist EbonyJanice Moore

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health quetions followed by a 30 minute interview with EbonyJanice Moore. Ebony Janice is a womanist scholar and activist doing community-organizing work, most specifically around black women's body ownership as a justice issue, and equal access to education and pay for women of color in the U.S. and in several African countries. Her work as an activist focuses on decolonizing everything (specifically authority, education, and mindfulness) and discussing the ethics of excluding hip-hop from a conversation about what is sacred and cite-worthy. EbonyJanice has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science, and a Master of Arts in Social Change with a concentration in Spiritual Leadership, Womanist Theology, and Racial Justice. 
this episode Q&A includes:
• vertigo- inner ear, losing balance- slippery elm..
• any plant that reduces blood sugar or blood pressure is not an adaptogen, adaptogens are regulators..
• create deep heat with bone broth, amla, goji berries, hawthorn, blueberries- using as foods
• traumatic birth story- physicalize your anger..
• going back in time to care for the hurt parts of ourselves..