Medicine Stories
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Medicine Stories
Medicine Stories explores the healing intersections of herbalism, ancestral lifeways, and holistic wellness. Host Amber Magnolia Hill shares heartfelt conversations and personal stories that delve into women’s metabolic health, our deep-rooted connection to plants, and the power of storytelling. Wit...
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Reshaped by Parenthood: Families, Fathers, and the First Year - Rachelle Seliga
Birth opens the door, but what comes after walks you through it. Many new parents find themselves moving through the first year feeling lonely, confus...
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...
Women Making Medicine for Healing & Connection - Kami McBride
My most beloved herbal elder and I talk about our favorite subject- women throughout time using plants for self care, family healing, and community co...
Nourishment Lost: in Culty Spaces, Self Induced, & Culturewide - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
Suuzi and I continue the discussion sparked by my last episode about culty trends in the wellness space by talking about her past with Kundalini yoga-...
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 ackn...
Elemental Inheritance: Minerals & Metals in Modern Life - Niecia Nelson
What metabolic patterns did you inherit from your parents, and what may you have passed down to your own children? Many behavioral issues, and even wh...
Fertility is a State of Being: Metabolic Wellness Through a Woman's Lifespan - Niecia Nelson
Fertility is not just the ability to conceive, but is an indicator of overall health and the capacity to nurture life; it is how we extend genetic str...
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 metabo...
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 opinio...
The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
Nothing exemplifies the magic of nature more than honeybees. They are insects yet their colonies are akin to a mammalian being, they produce numerous...
Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
“I pray to the dead to help me remember who I am while I’m still alive.”
To be in relationship with those who’ve gone before us is a deeply huma...
Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
It is estimated that half of all Americans have chronic health issues, and yet these conditions are new to the human species. What has happened? And h...
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, d...
Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
The sun rules the rhythms and the well-being of all life on Earth, and humans are no exception to this rule. With the very recent (evolutionarily spea...
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 fo...
The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
We can’t talk about fascia, the connective tissue that touches every single cell in the body, without talking about water, memory, and the quantum inf...
Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth - Aimee Aroha
Our modern disconnection from land and lineage mirrors the culturally normal- but biologically abnormal- separation between mother and baby, parents a...
Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
How we eat (not just *what* we eat) is how we receive life, and our state of nourishment determines everything from our fertility to how we perceive t...
Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
Kids today face more challenges- and are showing more signs of distress- than ever before. Parents must learn to effectively co-regulate, repair when...
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 dire...
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...
The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
We were made from our mothers, who were made from the earth, which is made of stardust, which is made of minerals. A well mineralized body heals itsel...
Cervix is Self: Reconnecting to Your Inner Oracle & Record Keeper - Denell Barbara Randall (Cervical Wellness)
The women’s embodiment movement tends to stop at the womb, but cervix lies even deeper and contains an abundance of information about where we’ve been...
The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory (w/ special guest Kami McBride!)
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...
Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden
The cell is the foundation of life, and biological science is clear on what our cells need to most efficiently generate the energy that runs our bodie...
Entheogenic Earth Medicine - Mikaela de la Myco
Psychedelics are the most potent medicine we have for remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. Many ancestral communities integrated plant a...
Embodied Plant Medicine & Ancestral Heartbeats - Sean Padraig O'Donoghue
Please listen to Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Cancelled first.
Our ancestors were in constant biochemical conversation with the world, and so...
Our Complex Humanity Cannot Be Canceled
Let us step out of the mass psychosis of cancel culture and remember compassion, tolerance for differing viewpoints, and recognition of the deeply com...
Coming Home to the Mushroom Elders - Amanita Dreamer
When Amanita muscaria says “Hey bitch, what’s up?”, you listen. Also known as the fly agaric, this most culturally significant fungi of all time has b...
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...
We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli
It is through land that we find ourselves. It is through lineage that we return to ourselves. It is through community that we expand ourselves. In thi...
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...
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...
Plants are Infinitely Healing & Folk Herbalism is for Everyone - Farai Harreld
In these times, we all need all the healing help we can get. How lucky then that an infinite source of renewal and vitality lies just beneath our feet...
Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection - Marysia Miernowska
For most of human history, herbalism hasn’t had a name. It was just a way of life, part of being human upon the earth. The folk traditions of our ance...
Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing - Rachelle Garcia Seliga
How do we support thriving life on earth through the pathway of maternal health? Our physiologic design is the inarguable truth, but in today’s confus...
Learning Is Innate: Ancestral Childhood, Unschooling, and Healing - Akilah S. Richards
If the phrase “school wounds” stirs something inside of you, or the words “crisis schooling” describe your current reality as a parent or caregiver, o...
Mythopoetic Womb Release - Samantha Zipporah
Your ancestors are with you every time the portal of the womb opens; our blood connects us to our lineage, to the mythic archetypes that hold meaning...
Holistic Abortion Options
From time immemorial, women and wise folk have carried the knowledge of how to manage fertility. From menstruation to contraception to birth to miscar...
Life's Sacred Matrix: How To Be a Truly Hydrated Water Keeper - Isabel Friend
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel prize winner
We return to the endlessly fascinating and eno...