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Hippie Witch Joanna DeVoe

Hippie Witch Joanna DeVoe

Susun interviews Hippie with Joanna DeVoe.
Joanna DeVoe is the life-loving creatrix behind all things Kickass Witch... and the author of several books & online programs, including Biz Witch 101 and Queen : A Five Week Audio Journey To Reclaim Your Personal Sovereignty. She also hosts a popular weekly podcast, Hippie Witch : Magick For New Age... and offers a variety of content designed to help create the kickass life of your dreams.
www.joannadevoe.com/p/your-kickass-life.html
www.joannadevoe.com/p/hippie-witch-radio.html



Q & A topics include:
fertility testing/hormone levels
story medicine/holding memories
canker sores
cirrhosis of the liver
cataracts
tooth abcess/antibiotics
gum health/rebuilding tissue
pine needles
using dried yarrow
circulatory issues

Author HeatherAsh Amara

Author HeatherAsh Amara

Susun interviews HeatherAsh Amara.
HeatherAsh Amara is the author of the Warrior Goddess Training series, The Warrior Heart Practice, A Little Book on Big Freedom, Awaken Your Inner Fire, and co-author of The Seven Secrets to Happy, Healthy Relationships with don Miguel Ruiz Jr. She is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from a variety of world traditions. HeatherAsh studied and taught extensively with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, and continues to teach with the Ruiz family. Raised in Southeast Asia, HeatherAsh has traveled the world from childhood and is continually inspired by the diversity and beauty of human expression and experience. She brings this openhearted, inclusive worldview to her writings and teachings, which are a rich blend of Toltec wisdom, European shamanism, and Buddhism.
http://www.heatherashamara.com



Q & A topics in this episode include:
hip & foot pain follow-up
planting boneset from seed
long term linden use
melanoma
itchy skin discoloration
allergic reaction to insect sting
pain after walking exercise
posterior postioned fetus
improving lung strength

Nature priestess Selena Fox

Nature priestess Selena Fox

Susun interviews Selena Fox.
Selena Fox is a Nature priestess, EcoFeminist, Pagan civil rights activist, Goddess Spirituality rituals facilitator, author, podcaster, teacher, spiritual psychotherapist and counselor. Also known as Rev. Selena Fox, Selena is senior minister of Circle Sanctuary which has been serving Nature Spirituality practitioners of many paths worldwide with publications, events, networking, civil rights activism, and other services since 1974. A lifelong environmentalist, Selena is founder of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve located in southwestern Wisconsin, USA, which includes Circle Cemetery, a national Pagan burying ground that is among the first Green cemeteries in North America. Selena has a MS in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and does consultations, readings, and counseling by zoom and telephone with clients across USA, Canada, and beyond. Selena's writings, rituals, chants, and photographs have been widely published on-line and in-print. Selena hosts two weekly podcasts, Nature Spirituality and Nature Mystic on Circle Sanctuary's internet radio network, CSNP, and presents workshops and rituals at conferences and gatherings online and in person. She is founder of the Circle Craft tradition which blends together ancient and contemporary Pagan folkways, Hedgewitchery, Multicultural Shamanism, and Nature Mysticism.
More info: www.selenafox.com & www.circlesanctuary.org



Q&A topics in this episode include:
chronic pain management
lyme disease & lymphoma in dogs
boosting immunity w/ nourishing herbs
high blood pressure
problems with blue-green algae

Red Earth Herbal Gathering's Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich

Red Earth Herbal Gathering's Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich.

Susun interviews Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich.
Astrid Grove is the founder and organizer for Red Earth Herbal Gathering. 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. To learn more about her offerings, go to www.astridgrove.com
Lorene Wapotich, MEd, will be co-facilitating the red tent at Red Earth this year as well as co-facilitating the community wide coming of age ceremony. She is an author and the founder and director of Feet on the Earth Programs, a non-profit organization in Boulder, Colorado. Her work focuses on creating regenerative culture and community by mentoring children into healthy young adults through deep nature connection and community-based rites of passage. Lorene recently completed a memoir and is currently working on a guide for parents and community members about how to create powerful coming-of-age ceremonies for girls and adulthood initiations for women.



this episode Q&A includes:
• shingles or herpes- fresh flowering tincture and infused oil from hypericum perforatum..
• Travel Kit..
• sonograms, vaccines, autism..
• deep splinter- yarrow and comfrey..
• kitty cat with cystitis- cornsilk tea mixed with milk, changing food, uva ursi..
• alfalfa for infusions?
• poulticing sprained ankle with comfrey..
• and much more...

Wiccan Priestess Phyllis Curott

Wiccan Priestess Phyllis Curott

Susun interviews Phyllis Curott.
As one of America’s first public Witches and an Elder Wiccan Priestess, attorney Phyllis Curott became an outspoken advocate in the courts, media, and interfaith movement, handling groundbreaking religious liberty cases for Witches and Pagans. Named one of The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine, she was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Clergy and Scholars, served as Vice Chair of the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions and created the historic Inaugural Women’s Assembly. Her trailblazing, international bestselling books, including Book of Shadows and WitchCrafting helped make Witchcraft accessible to the world. Her latest book, WICCA (made easy), Awaken the Divine Magic Within You, was released in November, 2018, with a companion online class coming in July of this year, and the 20th Anniversary Edition of Book of Shadows will be available from Phyllis’ website, www.phylisscurott.com starting at the end of May. She is currently creating a new Witch’s Tarot for Hay House with artist Danielle Earp, ready in Spring of 2020.



this episode Q&A includes:
• headaches- allying with skullcap..
• tinctures and vinegars are different..
• what are the best plants to make vinegars out of?
• protecting children from sunburns...

'Reimagining Death' Lucinda Herring

'Reimagining Death' Lucinda Herring

Susun interviews 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.

PWHC's EagleSong Evans Gardener

PWHC's EagleSong Evans Gardener

Susun interviews EagleSong Evans Gardener.
EagleSong Gardener is a gardener/herbalist, grandmother/earth-keeper and a pilgrim-adventurer from the Pacific Northwest corner of North America. She is woman with a passion for culture which she notices grows from the connection of people, plants and earth, EagleSong is founder of RavenCroft Garden in Monroe, WA. where she tends heart and soul at the hearth of RavenCroft. She is the Director of the Pacific Women's Herbal Conference. A gathering for women interested in tending life the wise woman way.
A daily practice of natural health, simple living and herbal medicine anchors her herbal apprenticeships for those interested in the rigorous journey of being human.

Feminist Witch Zsuzsanna Budapest

Feminist Witch Zsuzsanna Budapest

Susun interviews Z Budapest.
Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika’s themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, “Z,” grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women’s newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess. The California Institute for Integral studies in San Francisco recognized Z’s contribution to Women’s Spirituality Movement. Today Z lives in Santa Cruz, California, giving workshops and lectures but always making time to smell the roses. She is the founder and director of the Women’s Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring Goddess spirituality retreats and festivals for women and young girls.



this episode Q&A includes:
• cervical spondylosis- affirmations and visulizations give us our life back, comfrey..
• castor oil pack to treat bone spurs..
• every atom in my body is new every 7-10 days- atoms make up cells..
• a poultice or fomentation..
• low iron- red meat, liver, nettle infusion- plant iron needs animal iron to circulate in the blood..
• yucca used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis- desert southwest plant, preparations..
• soul retrieval by covering the body with the earth..

Medicine Woman Beata Alfoldi

Medicine Woman Beata Alfoldi

Susun interviews Beata Alfoldi.
Beáta is a medicine woman, workshop facilitator, shamanic practitioner, healer, ceremonial leader, seer and speaker with a gift for assisting individuals through deep transformation. She facilitates private sessions, classes, workshops and international retreats in Australia, Bali, Thailand and Mexico.



this episode Q&A includes:
• emotional differences between men and women - women need health relationships with women for a healthy living..
• the power of competitiveness between women used to lift each other up..
• gender studies is not women's studies- women's studies makes it out that we have not been living in the patriarchy..
• HPV can live on a toilet seat for several days..
• transitioning off a vegan diet- the difference between fixing and nourishing..
• endometriosis caused by environmental toxin dioxin from things like bleached tampons, sanitary pads, plastics, burning garbage..
• plantain oil heals the skin..
• what does low estrogen mean? meaningless...
• acid reflux- slippery elm balls..
• appetite suppression- drinking something warm or hot at the beginning of meals such as green tea, bone broth, warmed infusion..

'Invoking Animal Magic' Hearth Moon Rising

'Invoking Animal Magic' Hearth Moon Rising

Susun interviews Hearth Moon Rising.
Hearth lives in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where she practices a nature-based craft. She is an ordained priestess in two traditions (Dianic and Fellowship of Isis) and has taught magic for over twenty-five years. She is the author of Divining with Animal Guides: Answers from the world at hand and Invoking Animal Magic: A guide for the pagan priestess.



this episode Q&A includes:
• routine pap smears- do you need them?
• uterine polyps- ultrasound and biopsy- do we need to appease others out of fear?
• yarrow as a dentifrice, why not to use glycerides, what part of the plant to use and why..
• middle ear infections in 4 year old- antibiotics are not working, how to use echinacea, and why tubes are a good idea..
• over 200 cold viruses- your child is not unhealthy for getting sick, teaching the immune system how to work..
• tincture of licorice or powdered preparation in water is highly antiviral..
• compound fracture in vertebrae- comfrey to heal the bone, hypericum to heal nerve damage..