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ABC's of Herbalism

Since I sent in my precious $100, I've been reading on the website and discovered the "Why is Susun angry?" essay.  Could I ask you if I should expect her to yell at me on the phone if and when I call her?  I need to be prepared to handle it.

**I also have another question.  I already own HEALING WISE and I see it is part of the course.  Would it be possible for me to substitute another book instead  of getting a second copy?  Thank you.**Anxiously excited to start, J

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Greetings, J, from the Wise Woman Center! 

We welcome you as an ABC of Herbalism correspondence course student.  Susun will be sending a welcome package, complete with a project booklet and more, very soon.  Thank you for the extra payment too

:)

We see that you have signed up for the payment plan.  Since we are not able to do the automatic deductions with paypal payments, you have the option of making your payments using the supplement payment option online or by mailing a check to Susun Weed at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498.  You can choose which option you desire each month, and do not need to let us know which it will be :)  If you let us know, we can send a payment reminder through paypal help keep our postal mailing records straight

It is up to Susun to decide if you can substitute.

I can not promise she will never yell.  Susun is very direct.  Those who come for apprenticeship ask for the level of growth that requires more confrontation.  For those not wishing it she suggests one day classes, or correspondence course.  So I doubt there is much to be concerned about. More likely you will find your interactions with her enjoyable.  Just as she is direct and passionate, this works towards her joyous passions.  I suppose in life it is good to be prepared for anything though.

love and blessings,

Karen Joy

Suggestions: reduce effect of mammogram.

Hello,

My thermographer referred me to your website.

Since the labs where I live in NJ will only take a mammo although I am only interested in a sonogram, she suggested your website to proactively do something to reduce the radiations's effects.

I would sincerely appreciate any recommendations or referrals you might give. me.

Thanks so much.

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Hello S., if you decide to have the mammogram, here are two articles from Susun that offer suggestions to help you deal with the damaging effects:

http://www.breasthealthcancerprevention.com/Mammograms_Excerpt18.htm

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

I would also love to invite you to our Wise Woman Forum and Email groups accessed through www.wisewomanweb.com for more ideas and support.

If there is anything in there I can explain further, please let me know.  It is your body I encourage you to give it the best care.  I know you know whatever that is for you right now!

Blessings,

Karen Joy
karenjoy@herbshealing.com
www.wisewomanweb.com

Apprenticeship questions.

Dear Susun,

   Last year I visited your farm, interested in a shamanic apprenticeship.  However at that moment I was not in the space for such an intence experience because of what I was coming out of and finances were not on my side.  Yet this past year I have still been thinking about your farm and the possibilities that could blossom there.  I have spent the past year seeking out woman who could teach me about the energy that I know is out there for woman but that I wasn't told about.  I have been seeking woman who could teach me the world of plants.  Yet now I am looking for something more intense.  I want to be utterly immersed, swamped, overwhelmed.  At the moment I am living on a farm in Costa Rica but plan to return to the states at the end of MArch or April.  I was wondering if you would tell me more about the shamanic apprenticeship. Is it only for woman and devoted to the study of womanhood?  What kind of work would happen.  gardening?  I like to work hard and learn hard and play hard.  As far as work study, how much could I work off in 13 weeks?  Could I pay as I go becuase finances are always hard at this point on my life.  Does this apprenticeship have a schedule or do you read your students and take it from there.  How many students are usually living with you?  Is there anyone I could talk to about thier experience?  I could rattle off questions cause I get excited but I guess I will wait for a reply.  So then, I will wait.  and I hope you reply, thanks, a.

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Hello A, thank you for writing with your interest to study with Susun through apprenticeship.  I think you will find most of your questions answered here: http://www.susunweed.com/Weed_Wise_Apprentice.htm You sound like you are in a prime place for this intense apprenticeship Susun offers...   Please let me know if I can answer further questions.  Or if once reading you have more questions you wish Susun to answer you can write her at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY.

Blessings,

Karen Joy
karenjoy@herbshealing.com
www.wisewomanweb.com

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hello, thank you for replying to my email.  I have some questions that the internet site does not answer so I thought i would try to call susun today, wednesday.  the phone is busy and I actually am in Costa Rica so that using phone is quite expensive.  So i was wondering if there was another way I could contact her with my questions? Or maybe you can help?   So here I go.  How much work exchange can a shamanic apprentice do?   Does the price of staying decline with more time at the farm?  Can i pay in weekly increments depending on how long I can stay for because of how much money i have?  Do i need a car?  Is there a maximum stay on the farm?  What are the differences between the simple and samanic apprenticeship.  Those are all the questions I had wrote down.  Yet I would love to contact Susun but don´t know how.  Let me know what you think.  Thanks. a.
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Hi A,

I understand about the distance and phoning.  You can contact Susun by postal mail at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498, USA.  When you do be sure to include your postal address and phone contact info in the letter so she can reply. I do not believe you need a car, nor is there a maximum amount of time to stay.  This depends on the person and the moment with Susun, what is the appropriate amount of time to stay.  She rarely has apprentices through the winter.  The difference between the two apprenticeships is the amount of minimum stay required and the intensity of the experience.  More of your presence and your work is required at the Shamanic apprenticeship -

"Shamanic herbal apprentices engage their muscles, their psyches, and their deepest Selves. With Susun's help, they melt themselves down so they may engage greater truth and deeper wisdom. But melting and changing is not always comfortable or graceful, from the inside or the outside. Both shamanic herbal and simple herbal apprentices will encounter intense emotions. These experiences are an important part of your apprenticeship in the Wise Woman Tradition."

Fees must be paid before you arrive.  If you and Susun decide you stay longer that originally paid and agreed, then you both will work out payment at that time.  The fee does not change, but the amount of work exchange available to you, to offset the cost, may. 

Please do write her for further clarity, expressing what you would like, so she can work with you.  And as always feel free to write me with any questions!

lots of love,
Karen Joy

Balsam Leaf Salve and Root Tincture

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Hello,

could you tell me please if i can make a tincture

to take in from balsam root, i just got the flower and

i did dry them ,i understand that natives eat the roots

but what about the flower ? or shold i try to make a

salve ? is that good for bruises to apply on the skin

like arnica ?

thanks a million and god bless

A)

I understand Balsam Root as Balsamorhiza sagittata.  Before you use this as medicine please be sure this is the plant you have.  Too often there is more than one, completely unrelated, plant with the same common name.  http://www.nccn.net/~cnps/balsamrt.jpg

 

If this is the plant you are speaking of, I understand the leaves and roots to be used.  The leaves harvested spring to midsummer and dried then used as a poultice or, yes, prepared as a salve.  And the roots, preferably dug in spring, used fresh or dried as a tincture or decoction at times.  The poultice or salve of the leaves can be wonderful for skin ailments, though I am not sure of its use for bruises.

Please let me know if I can help further.

 

Blessings,

Karen Joy
karenjoy@herbshealing.com
www.wisewomanweb.com

 

Serious Sweet Tooth Cravings

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Dear Karen

 

I receive my books today.  I am so excited I can't wait to start reading.  I was also happy and surprise that Susun sign all the books in my favorite color purple.  Thanks a bunch! oh one more thing I have a serious sweet tooth and I have to stop craving bad sugar. Any suggestions? Thanks again.

 

Many Blessings

A)
  Hello!  So wonderful... I will let Susun know you are pleased.

It is my feeling that all our cravings have a wonderful healthy source. Cravings for sweet are very basic and very healthy in my opinion.  I have found two sources of these.  For some it is from a need for protein.  For others a craving for sweet is a very basic craving for life and/or comfort.  Our first food is sweet, milk, as are our next, usually, grains.  Of course in the face of so many refined sugars these no longer seem sweet to us.  Regardless I think our craving for sweet is our need for the nutrition that grains can provide.

With any craving, there can always be mental/emotional aspects to explore. In addition though I believe all cravings are directly connected with our innate wisdom and connection with our deep needs.  The trick I suppose is to find how to connect the craving with the food, or other thing, that satisfies it truly.

Blessings,

Karen Joy

http://www.wisewomanweb.com

The Vagina- Part 1 and 2

Q)
Hello,

Your new article "The Vagina - part 2" was excellent.

I then went searching for "The Vagina - part 1" on your website, and my

skills did not permit me success in that search.

Can you please help me with this?

Thanks so much,

p.s. the White Pine article is excellent and opening.... now out to chew

some White Pine!

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Hello, here is the link to the first part of that article, http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/January08/grandmother.htm, from the issue the month before. We are so glad you are enjoying Susun's writing, and will pass that on to her! I love munching on white pine needles this time of year, especially when coated with ice, right of the tree :)

Blessings,

Karen Joy

karenjoy@herbshealing.com

http://www.wisewomanweb.com

A Letter About Learning

Thank you for writing.  I know you write this of Susun.  She does not have internet  to be able to correspond through email.  If you wish please do write her a letter at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY  12498.  It is her daughter, with the help of a few of us, and Susun's financial support that allows us to share what we do online.  I hear you wish to learn more from Susun.  There is an abundance to learn online through our many websites, and I am happy to help you find whatever you are searching for within them.  Also through most libraries you can get her books to read.  I recommend you start with Healing Wise, though any would be of benefit.  What else could I help with?  I hear your passion and your needs.

I would also love to invite you to our Wise Woman Forum (http://www.herbshealing.com/wisewomanforum.htm) and Email Discussion Group (http://groups.google.com/group/Herbal-Healing) for more ideas and support.

We welcome you to join our Weed Wanderings ezine mailing list at http://www.herbshealing.com/WeedWanderings.htm !

Blessings,

Karen Joy

Dear Susun,

Hello. I am a divorced woman and I have five of the most precious gifts anyone could ask for!!! My children. I am going to be very honest with you about who I am.

#1…A woman very dedicated to children.

#2…A healer of unknown talents.

#3…A heart that is wide open.

#4…and a woman that feels out of place here in my family.

I have made many a journey in nature to speak with…Life…. I heard or felt those who chose to respond to my presence. I have witnessed many beautiful happenings and also was shown the sorrow of Mother Earth.  I am at a place where I left my husband and in so doing, had to leave my four boys with their father and my daughter with my mother. I am considered homeless. I do not feel that way because of the connection I found within myself. I feel like I am a fire that keeps getting doused. I knew that the finer parts of me would die if I stayed in the marriage. I did not know that I would rouse my family into thinking that I am way out there and need help. I know what I experienced and it has been difficult keeping that knowing in my being when I am confronted daily with others that really do not know the Love of the Earth personally.  I feel like crying because I miss my kids so much but I know that the ball started and I have to move with the movement.  My heart sounds so great toward the natural healings that my path is split in two. On one side I would die to self to live again with my children and their father. On the other side I feel like the blood of the “people” is on my hands because I am not being the healer Mother Nature knows I am. I know that I have struggled because of the lack of examples that come from the human. I do know that I need to be an example to those that come after me of a Human Being living here on Earth. The bottom line is that I would cherish an opportunity to learn your sacred way. My dream is so huge that it is difficult to express. I gladly let my dreams pass to others so that the dream doesn’t have to wait on me. I want to live in a way that is very connected to the Earth and I found your website. I am unable to find a place to make money because my natural healing gift is calling from deep within and the normal workplace is so hard for me to be in. I am writing to you because I feel I have to try to make connections for my spirit to survive this space here in Kansas…Please, if you are able, let me know if there is a way to be in your sacred area and bring back into practice what I’ve learned to Kansas.

My thanks to you, for being on the Internet, at a time when who and what you are spoke volumes to my heart.

Apprentice

This is a great question, as I imagine apprenticeship with your girls could be a great benefit to the girls!!  Susun's live-in apprentice program is intense, so it would not leave time for the caring of your girls, since you are asked to focus deeply on yourself.  However you CAN study with her through correspondence course (http://susunweed.com/Correspondence-Course.htm) and take her one-day classes (http://www.ashtreepublishing.com/bookshop/workshops.php) with your girls along if you feel they are able to focus.  You can also do her live-out apprentice program (http://www.susunweed.com/apprentice_wisewoman.htm) if you are able to be away from your girls one weekend a month.  I intend to open up my space for live in apprenticeship for families, though will not be ready until next summer likely, so I am sure places do exist :)

I do not know who else you may do a live-in apprenticeship with, with your girls but imagine there are some places.  I encourage you to research by asking those through our Wise Woman Forum (http://www.herbshealing.com/wisewomanforum.htm) and Email Discussion Group (http://groups.google.com/group/Herbal-Healing).

We welcome you to join our Weed Wanderings ezine mailing list at http://www.herbshealing.com/WeedWanderings.htm !

Blessings,

Karen Joy

Hello!

I am looking to apprentice with someone but I have two little girls.

Are there places that you know of where one can have their children? Thank you for your time.

ABC of Herbal Medicine -- from Budapest?

Susun has correspondence course students all over the world and will be thrilled to work with you!!  Thank you for checking first to be sure :)  She does not have internet to be able to correspond through email, but will send a course packet out to your right away upon your registration.  Know you can register online here, http://www.ashtreepublishing.com/bookshop/courses.php, as well as through postal mail.

Please let me know if I can help further.

Blessings,

Karen Joy

Dear Susun,

I'm very interested in taking the ABC Herbal Medicine Correspondance Course. I used to live in Seattle, and have taken a course with you and with Sally and Eaglesong at Ravencroft.

Currently, I live in Budapest, Hungary, and I will be moving to the island of Hvar, Croatia in January of next year. Is it possible that I can still take the course? I wondered how much information you had about herbs in Eastern-Central Europe. I've already found nettle (my herbal ally), elderberry, plantain and of course, dandelion in the Budapest area -- and that's without really trying too hard. I've also located an organic herb farm on Hungarian-Croat border that looks like a promising source for herbs.

Anyways, let me know. If so, I'll sign up for the course right away, I just wanted to make sure you were comfortable with working in foreign terrain.

Poke for arthritic pain

To whom It May Concern:

Please be advised tha I have arthritis in right knee and right hip.  The pain is very severe.  I have tried most everything and it has not helped.  Please Email me if you hove or know some type of herb treatment or advice.    Also, I want to buy some powdered golden seal? Do you sell it?

Thanks

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Hello Moses, thank you for writing.  One thing I have heard for arthritic pain is Poke, http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/September05/healingwise.htm: "In Appalachian folk medicine, the berries are swallowed as a treatment for arthritis and for immune stimulation -- one berry (either fresh or dried) is the equivalent of one drop of root tincture."  You might also enjoy this article about ayurveda for arthritis: http://www.susunweed.com/AugustAyurveda_Arthritis.htm.

We do not sell herbs, but you can see a list of some herbal suppliers here: http://susunweed.com/Links_herbal_resources.htm#h3

Please let me know if I can help further.

We welcome you to join our Weed Wanderings ezine mailing list at http://www.herbshealing.com/WeedWanderings.htm !

Blessings,

Karen Joy

karenjoy@herbshealing.com

http://www.wisewomanweb.com