In this episode, Amy sits down with your new Boo, Iranian-American community herbalist, storyteller, land tender, and joyous member of the mycelial network of liberatory-movement stewards and lovers, the co-founder of Wild Gather, School of Herbal Studies, Mandana Boushee. We talk about plants, pollen sex juice, ceremonies, Tick Magic, smoke breaks, woman-led revolution, ‘Women Life…
Tag: healing
EP 169 WF Shabina Lafleur-Ganji on Ancestral Knowledge – Plants Are Smarter Than We Think
In this episode, Amy sits down with community herbalist and the co-director of Seed, Soil and Spirit School, Shabina Lafleur-Ganji to talk about “Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge for Collective Liberation”. Together we dive into the cultivation of plants and the cultivation of relationships. From healing to hexing, roses to weeds, food to medicine, rooting and uprooting,…
EP 155 Lammas 2022: Panel For CHOICE with Iyalosa Olaomi Akalatunde aka GOT2BOSHUN and Mackenzie Ni Flainn
“Our connection to the universe cannot be combated.” – Olaomi CW: laughter, tears, rage. Today we gather to invoke an idea that Dr. Beverly Smith shared with us in the past: A conversation can be a protection spell. May this conversation be a spell of Protection for all those pushed to fear by the overturning…
EP 148 WF Granddaughter Crow – What A Person Believes Constitutes How They Behave In The World
Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine person, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. She is an award-winning author. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and most recently, Belief, Being,…
EP 139 – WF Asha Frost: You Are The Medicine
In today’s episode we’re chatting with Asha Frost, author of You Are The Medicine and self-proclaimed ‘peaceful warrior’. We talk about appropriation, extraction, chronic illness, feeling worthy and unworthy, animals in the moon. Asha says, “conversations around the harm of appropriation are vital for true reconciliation, equity and healing.” Asha Frost (she/her), is an Indigenous…
EP 124 WF – Charlie Watts, Aura Weaver: It’s All Weaving, Everything’s Weaving
“I come from a lineage of colour-seeing psychics…I had a near-death experience when I was ten, and that’s when things got really weird for me, in a beautiful way.” Occupational Therapist, Artist, Doula, Aura Photographer, Neurodivergent Witch, and utter delight Charlie Watts joins the circle this week. Charlie, her partner Judah, and their AuraCam 6000…
EP 120 WF Rebecca Beyer: You Can Know 10 Plants Deeply And Be A Wonderful Healer
In this episode, Risa and members of the Missing Witches coven sit down with ethnobotanist, forager, wild-tender, and teacher of hedgecraft: Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spice Bush. Rebecca holds us gently and invites us into practices that offer direct action toward negotiating the wounded spaces of cultural appropriation between Witches and first nations communities;…
EP 117 WF Jarod K. Anderson, The CryptoNaturalist: Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously
In this episode, we talk about magic and masculinity, depression and climate anxiety, graveyards and kids, and writing what needs to be said. We get to meet with a poet whose writing about nature echoes around the world, and on this quiet evening, our kids in their beds, we read poems and find small places…
EP 115 Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates
This is our spell for the season: the cheapest, richest gift you can give. Picture your most powerful council, and then write a love letter of recommendation for the person you most want your council to know, in the ways that you know them. Amplify the pleasure of storytelling, story-weaving the bonds between us all….
EP 114 WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making
“My partner left me, I had a miscarriage, and the pandemic started. I wrote this really long novel and it got rejected 27 times. My doctors were not feeling great about my health, and I thought… if I’m going to die, if I’ll never get published, I better just write about the things I would…