The Medicine We Carry - Lola Venado

In the Intro:

• I share an ancestral story
• How I define spirituality
• The food your bones are made from
• Herbal body oils & elderberry elixir

In the Interview:

• Being the the daughter of a secret witch + becoming a botanical bruja years after the mother passed and the chance to learn from her was gone
• Racism, secrecy, lineage, and cultural evolution
• Following the breadcrumbs to get a bigger picture of who your people were (there are more holes than solid information in all of our lineages)
• Letting your silvers shine
• Locating yourself within the myths of your ancestors
• Being empowered to heal yourself
• Listening to the understory- amplifying the voices of people of color within the worlds of herbalism, spirituality, and the creative arts
• Comida es Medicina
• Most magic is mundane
• When women's knowing and/or calling out injustice are labeled "irrational"
• What white folks are learning/dismantling right now

Links:

• Lola's website
• Lola's Branch + Bone Medicine Show podcast
• Kitkitdizzi in Nevada City
• Lola's Instagram
• Medicine Stories Patreon
• The Mythic Medicinals online herb shop
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• The Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
• Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)