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Author Maureen Smith

Author Maureen Smith

Susun interviews Maureen Smith.
Maureen Theresa Smith is a writer, activist, and mom with a background in healing arts. She defines her life work as integrating spirituality into everyday practices and rituals that are inspirational and fun, in order to support girls and teens in becoming whole, strong women. Her company, Indigo Blooms offers personal coaching, support circles, workshops and products to empower girls and those that care for them by enhancing intuition, awareness, and inner-authority with beauty, joy and a fierce commitment to self-love and compassion for all. Maureen offers visionary coaching and to girls and women in times of transition and facilitates Indigo Circles for tween and teen girls. She authored First Moon, Celebration and Support for a Girls' Growing Up Journey, New World Library, Spring 2005 and recently, Your Moontime Magic, A Girls Guide to Getting Your Period and Loving Your Body, New World Library, 2020.



Q & A topics in this episode include:
menopausal fatigue
gallbladder pain
Chinese herbal preparations
facial skin complexion
100 proof vodka for tintcuring
cyst in the breast area
caller follow-up: improved blood pressure with yarrow and garlic
linden
flouride

Body-Peace coach Nina Manolson.

Body-Peace coach Nina Manolson.

Susun interviews Nina Manolson.
Nina Manolson M.A. NBC-HWC is a Body-Peace® coach. She helps women end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body. Really at home. The kind of at home where you can run around naked and not worry about what is "good enough" or what others will think. The kind of good that allows you to feel ultimate freedom and body-peace.
Nina is also a Certified Psychology of Eating Teacher, Nationally Board Certified Holistic Health Coach and Certified Body-Trust Guide. She helps her clients move past the deprivation-diet paradigm and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates deep, long-lasting change in and with their bodies.
Nina works with individuals, groups and writes body-poems – all in service of helping women create a respectful and nourishing relationship with their body.
Learn more at: NinaManolson.com



Q & A topics in this episode include:
menopausal symptoms - nourishment vs treatment
sprained wrist/ tendonitis
urinary tract infection
high blood pressure
linden infusion
herbal / nutritional book recommendations
poison ivy rash near eyes
sleep disturbances
digestive issues / gut health

'Why Didn't I Notice Her Before' author Beth Cramer

'Why Didn't I Notice Her Before' author Beth Cramer

Susun interviews Beth Cramer.
Beth is an accomplished editor / director producing independent film, commercials, music video and branded content. Her award-winning documentary "Plan B, Single Women Choosing Motherhood," explores the social picture single motherhood presents and the reason this trend is snowballing among women in their thirties and forties. Cramer launched Brave Films in 2007 making the companies home in NYC and The Hudson Valley. Cramer is a master of melding powerful, emotionally driven experiences in her work. Her portfolio spans styles including dialogue, visual storytelling, music-driven imagery, off beat comedy and evocative fashion/beauty. Cramer has collaborated with some of the worlds leading creative agencies and talent in the industry.
In 2017 Cramer was diagnosed with stage IV Ovarian Cancer and her memoir, Why Didn't I Notice Her Before?, documents her experience as a mother, wife, sister and daughter through her diagnosis. Today, Beth lives with her husband and son in the Hudson Valley and spends her time writing and creating.

The Alchemy of Love: Evalena Rose

The Alchemy of Love: Evalena Rose.

Susun interviews Evalena Rose.
Evalena Rose, M.A., The Alchemy of Love: Evalena is a therapist, intimacy and communications coach in private practice for 41 years. She blends metaphysical and therapeutic practices with healing work that is multi-dimensional and transformative. She also channels The Council of Twelve, co-creating deeply therapeutic and life-affirming sessions with individuals and groups. She has practiced Tantra for 30 years, teaching it for 20. She's had decades of study in alternative healing, shamanism, spiritual paths, Soul Retrieval, inner child work, and recovery from abuse, addiction, and trauma. She has channeled The Council of Twelve for 34 years to individuals and couples, especially healers, business owners and entrepreneurs. She sees clients in Asheville, NC and by phone or video chat world-wide (to date 16 countries and 24 states). Evalena has taught seminars for 35 years on channeling, skills for being an empath, and Tantra.
Website: https://evalenarose.com/



this episode Q&A includes:
• making nourishing herbal infusions is a daily ritual of selfcare..
• comfrey - horse with broken hip..
• 6 yr old with rash on hand- phage, viral infection, possible poison oak outbreak..
• cramping muscles- linden infusion as an antiinflammatory- much better for people of European extraction than tumeric..
• grassroots of peoples medicine is becoming stronger and stronger..

Poem by Melanie Mucciarone

Poem by Melanie Mucciarone

I am Earth.
Steady, strong and as slow growing as the ancient mountains peaks.

I am Water.
As the rivers of life-blood within me; as the Mother ocean ebbs and flows with the waning and waxing of the Grandmother moon.

I am Fire.
Transforming all that is consumed into nourishment, lessons and alchemical magick.

I am Air.
As the whispering winds which dance from all the sacred directions, which guide us to move, celebrate and to fly!

I am Spirit.
For all that is sacred is now honoured with every breath, every tear, and moments of tranquil silence.

I am this body.
A sacred temple adorned by the myriad of gifts my ancestors blessed me with. My ancestors who prayed for this expression to heal, to sing, and to evolve.

Our ancestors determined to empower each moment with appreciation that all of life, death and rebirth is a venerated blessing of the spiraling dance between Goddess and God.

I am all that was, all that will be and all that is.
I am infinite.

Written by: Melanie Mucciarone

IG: @green_rose_alchemist

 

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The Empowered Woman Laura Parker

The Empowered Woman Laura Parker

Susun interviews Laura Marie Parker.
Laura is a Birth Shaman, a Wise Wombyn Sex Educator, the creator of The Empowered Woman, a Community Created Herbalist (CCH) and a self-published Novelist.
She brings complimentary medicine to birth and family whole-health through teaching about herbs as people’s medicine, working with story medicine, and working with individuals to have their own unique empowering journeys through birth. Laura is the author of The No-Time Tango: A Traveling Memoir. She also writes a monthly herbal zine called “Tales from a Gypsy Momma”, which weaves the wisdom of herbal medicine and folk wisdom with her journey through life and mothering three boys.
Laura believes that nourishment is life. What we choose to nurture and nourish becomes the environment we live in. In honour of nurturing her vision for making her world a better place to live, she created The Empowered Woman, a nourishment series of classes and services for the Maiden, Mother, and Crone that inspire women to deeply nourish themselves and to write their own stories.



this episode Q&A includes:
• fermented kava kava...
• unable to sleep due to itchiness- menopause, shedding skin, molting..
• alopecia- stinging with stinging nettle..
• sinus infection- calendula, to the heart of the matter..
• most people are intuitive with dosing herbal medicines if they allow themselves to be..
• asthmatic cough..
• do we do our children a disservice by doing everything for them? • root canal..

Women of Wisdom Lama Tsultrim Allione

Women of Wisdom Lama Tsultrim Allione

Susun interviews Lama Tsultrim Allione.
Lama Tsultrim Allione is founder and resident lama of Tara Mandala, located outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado. She traveled to India in her late teens and at the age of twenty-two, was the first western woman to be ordained as a Buddhist nun. After living in the Himalayan region for several years she returned her vows and became the mother of three, while continuing to study and practice Buddhism. She has been awarded the international “Outstanding Woman in Buddhism” by a panel of distinguished scholars and practitioners in Bangkok, Thailand.
She is author of Women of Wisdom and Feeding Your Demons and her new book is WISDOM RISING A Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine.
www.taramandala.org/about/lama-tsultrim/



this episode Q&A includes:
• Frontier Coop, wholesale account: 5 lb bags, 5 herbs, a years worth of herbs
• Comfrey dried root: topical/external use, dried root in oil (ointment), sitz, poultice
• Herbal Infusions respond like wild food in the body; interpreted, understood and absorbed easily & wholely
• We can change a past pain/accident by remembering it differently; instead of hitting stairs, go through the stairs
• Chronic pain: look for symbolic causes, not for vulnerabilities to try and get rid of
• Our problems are portals to expansion
• Migraines: symbolic causes + herbal remedies, including CBD, Skullcap, liver lovers and Solomon Seal
• Our 'change agents' look like they make a mess of things, in proportion to our barriers of resistance

Fragments of Her Story Author Melissa Doordaughter

Fragments of Her Story Author Melissa Doordaughter

Susun interviews Melissa Dawson.
Melissa Doordaughter Was born in London, England in 1981. She studied anthropology and world religions in the smallest university in Europe. She has performed her poetry at Glastonbury musical festival, at Green Heart Ecological centre in Ibiza and at the Amsterdam International Festival of Poetry.
Her life has been significantly marked by her experiences as a victim of sexual abuse. She has spent a great part of her young adulthood seeking healing. This journey took her to organic farms around Europe, and back in 2003 she realised her own personal healing was deeply intertwined with the health of our children and the planet itself.
Her latest book- “Fragments of Her Story” is exactly that, a fragment of a bigger picture, a picture of her journey out of the hell realms and towards a life of joy and gratitude.
Melissa currently lives and works in Italy, where she works as a proof reader, teacher and translator.



this episode Q&A includes:
• making pine needle vinegar..
• try experimenting making herbal remedies, small amounts and see what happens..
• trauma- changing our minds using sound, color and writing your story..
• don't should on yourself..
• do you need a tooth implant with a bone graft?
• low iron levels and wanting off birth control..
• tremendous amount of stress...

Chakrubs Vanessa Cuccia

Chakrubs Vanessa Cuccia

Susun interviews Vanessa Cuccia.
Vanessa Cuccia is regarded as a pioneer in the sex toy industry for introducing her methods of using crystals for sexual healing and empowerment on a global scale. She is the founder and creator of Chakrubs. She continues to receive testimonials from people around the world who use her Chakrub products and methods. These overwhelmingly positive testimonials have inspired her to write her latest book, Crystal Healing & Sacred Pleasure. Since conceptualizing her initial designs for crystal pleasure tools in 2011, and establishing her brand in 2012, Cuccia has been an influencer in the social movement of sex positivity, self-love, and personal awareness by bridging the gap between sensuality and spirituality. As creator of products that symbolize the essence of these movements, she spearheaded the ethos of the brand which is inspiring many to nurture their own emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and spiritual connection.



this episode Q&A includes:
• hypoglycemia- nourishing herbal infusions, creating a new ritual around eating..
• prioritize yourself to be able to give without resentment..
• migrane relief- progesterone coated iud?
• preoperative care is more effective than post operative care..
• hemorrhoids that will not go away- witch hazel or oak bark sitz bath..

Ancient Feminine Wisdom HeatherAsh Amara

Ancient Feminine Wisdom HeatherAsh Amara

Susun interviews HeatherAsh Amara.
HeatherAsh is the bestselling author of Warrior Goddess Training, Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be. She travels the world working with groups of women to integrate the feminine wisdom of the ancients into their modern lives.



this episode Q&A includes:
• hypothyroidism healing success without taking medication..
• central sleep apnea- what is the problem with the problem..
• wholeness and integrating our darkness..
• teachings from Elisabeth Kubler Ross..
• tincturing yellowdock root..
• preventing and treating ovarian cancer with ginkgo biloba tincture..
• retaining plant volatiles from mint family plants by making pestos and honeys..
• harvesting linden flowers..