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Medicine Stories

24. Plant Spirits & Deep Remembering that Speaks to the Bones - Fay Johnstone

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Fay Johnstone is a Shamanic Practitioner, Herbalist and Reiki Master with a passion for helping people and plants grow together. She believes that restoring our sacred relationship with the Earth and connecting to our natural environment, seasons and cycles is essential in order for us to maintain our vitality, health and well being. Fay is the author of the book Plants that Speak Souls that Sing, a guide to transforming your life with the spirit of plants, inspired by Fay's five years as an organic flower and herb farmer. It’s her goal to help us weave nature and enchantment back into our own lives to feel more in harmony with our true nature and sense of self. Fay offers workshops educating on Plant Spirit connection and Earth based ritual and shamanic treatments across the UK, online and from her home in Scotland.

In the Intro:

In the Interview:

  • Returning to an ancestral homeland and taking up ancestral activities
  • Being called by something invisible
  • When something that feels like failure turns out to be a blessing
  • How plants can connect us to the source of creativity
  • Giving ourselves the time and permission for inner exploration and play
  • Bringing enchantment and ritual to our relationship with plants
  • A deeply transformative mugwort medicine story
  • Generational forgetting & shame around using plant medicine
  • A vision/visitation from the great-grandmother that Fay never knew
  • Our bodies carry our stories
  • Meeting the spirit of plants with the breath
  • The benefits of not having a ton of plant knowledge
  • Bypassing the brain to get to the heart

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0:00.0

because I really believe it's about our personal connection and exploring our relationship

0:06.2

with how the plants are speaking to us and we're all led to create different things and for me working with plants is a very creative process

0:16.3

because it's really connecting us to that source of who we are and what our magic is to

0:22.3

bring out in the world.

0:23.4

Hey friends,

0:29.9

welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we explore the mythic journeys we undertake when coming

0:36.1

to know ourselves through interviews with herbalists, storykeepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness explorers, earth dreamers, and other wise folk,

0:46.8

with the guiding assumptions, beliefs, truisms that story is medicine, magic is real, and healing is open-ended and endless.

0:57.0

My name is Amber Hill, and this is episode 24.

1:01.0

Today I'm talking to Urbolic and author Fay Johnston.

1:06.6

Fay is the author of a recent book called Plants that Speak, Souls that Sing,

1:13.9

and it's a really sweet book.

1:17.6

I love her whole message, her whole vibe,

1:20.9

and I'm excited to share this with you.

1:23.0

Some of the things that we talk about are returning to an ancestral homeland and taking up

1:29.1

ancestral practices, being called by something invisible when something that feels like

1:35.5

failure turns out to be a blessing how plants can connect us to the source of

1:40.6

creativity giving ourselves the time and permission for inner exploration and for play,

1:47.0

bringing enchantment and ritual to our relationship with plants.

1:52.0

Fay shares a deeply transformative mugwort medicine story.

1:57.0

We talk about generational forgetting and shame

2:01.0

around using plant medicine, a vision slash visitation from the great

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