Magic Makes Us Human & Plants Keep Us Rooted- Rebecca Altman

How strategic inefficiency can make us more efficient, knowing your personality type, and being deeply rooted in place.

IN THE INTRO:

• What time can do (my recent family emergency)
• Ancestral Lineage Healing
• Lion's mane mushroom & hawthorn berry medicine

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• How the journey through grief, depression, and getting on and then getting off 5 different pharmaceuticals at once led Rebecca to herbalism
• Meeting the spirit of a place/seeing your home with new eyes
• Sexy desert plants: creosote (chaparral/Larrea) & ocotillo
• Where there is no word for magic because it's just a normal part of life & why believing in magic makes us human
• The West's missing rites of initiation & why we have such a hard time adulting
• Realizing that no one else is going to tell you that you belong, that you have the gift, that you are magical
• The humoural approach to herbalism & healing: why knowing your personal balance of temperaments (sanguine, choleric, meloncholic, and phlegmatic) can help you to know yourself better
• The debilitating cultural preference/lie embedded in The Hero's Journey
• The virtues of working inefficiently
• A practice to get you rooted and step you back inside yourself: reconnecting to what we cut off in order to get things done quicker & better
• Root medicine: shatavari & ashwaganda

LINKS:

• Rebecca's websites: King's Road Apothecary and
  The Wonder Sessions
• Ancestral Lineage Healing Intensive in Berkeley 2/8-10

• My website MythicMedicine.love

• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)

• The Medicine Stories Facebook group

• Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

• Mythic Medicine on Instagram

• Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

• Malidoma Somé