Womb Wisdom, Addiction, & the Way of the Wounded Healer - Anja Robinson

IN THE INTRO:

• Evolutionary health, symptoms as adaptations, why there's no such thing as the optimal diet, and why we didn't necessarily evolve to be healthy
• One of our last remaining collective/ancestral rituals

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• Why to start herbally & nutritionally preparing for your period at ovulation
• Understanding nutritional needs throughout the menstrual cycle
• Tracking your period
• Coffee & chocolate for the cycling woman- good or bad?
• Iron, blood, oxygen, and women
• How Anja overcame six years of alcohol and drug abuse and built a healthy, healing life
• We share our stories of growing up with an alcoholic parent, and of our mothers' deaths, and what it feels like when you get that phone call we all dread
• A super important but always overlooked perspective on nutrient deficiency in addicts and the role of nutrition in recovery
• It's never too late to change your path
• When Anja found out about her German great-grandmother being the town mystic and Tarot reader, and how this ancestor's sensitivity has echoed down through the motherline
• Food, drink, and herbs for winter nourishment
• Carminitives: a simple, delicious, and healing class of herbal medicine that you already have in your kitchen

LINKS:

• Anja's website ManaMedicinals.net
• My website & herb shop 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)

BOOKS-

*The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman

*Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler

*Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christianne Northrup

*Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shlain

*The Alphabet Vs the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain

*It's OK That You're Not OK by Megan Devine (and her website Refuge In Grief)

*Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth by Stephen Harrod Buhner

PODCASTS-

*LifeSpa with John Douillard

*Dr. Gabor Mate on Russell Brand's Under the Skin podcast

Past Medicine Stories episodes mentioned-

*w/ Stephen Harrod Buhner (sensory gating channels)

*w/ Suuzi Hazen (iron, liver, evolution)

*w/ Kami McBride (herbalism, oils, menstrual wellness)

MISCELLANEOUS-

*My video An Herbalist's Perspective on Cold & Flu

*Period Tracker apps

*Dr. Zach Bush