33. Root Cause Medicine & Breasts as an Intuitive Center - Anja Robinson

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In the Intro:

Living among the California wildfires
$200 herbal medicine giveaway!
The beautiful complexity of the female body

In the Interview:

The intersection between herbalism & functional medicine
Why "Just live like your grandmothers lived and you'll be healthy" doesn't work anymore
Health confusion and information overload
A name is a prayer: the meaning of Anja's name and how it ties into her life's path
The gateway of birth & the role of a birth attendant
Understanding the complex dance of women's hormones and what we can do to create better hormonal health (we talk about digestion, the liver, PMS, headaches, bloating, cramps, water retention, breaking out, PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, toxic overloads, xeno-estrogens, etc.)
The importance of the lymphatic system
The insanity of the truly toxic products that are marketed to women as real femininity
Don't put anything on your skin you wouldn't put in your mouth
A deep dive into breast health
Reframing self exams: knowing the terrain of your own body, what to look for, and what not to worry about!
The flexibility & resiliency of breast tissue

Links:

Anja's website Mana Medicinals
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
The Medicine Stories Facebook group
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
For the Wild podcast: The Myths & Misinformation of Wildland Fires

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's looking at the whole being at the body, mind and spirit and kind of coming together with all of that to find remedies for people.
0:17.0	Hello friends, welcome to Medicine Stories. Episode 33, I'm Amber Magnolia Hill and I'm glad you're here.
0:25.2	Big news around here, it just started raining a few minutes ago.
0:29.8	I am in Northern California.
0:32.3	I'm about an hour away from the campfire and I cannot begin to put
0:38.9	into words the relief of fire season being over and of just knowing that my house isn't going to burn down this year for the next six
0:50.8	months at least maybe longer hopefully hopefully much much longer it just it's
0:57.8	so welcome it's so needed the land will be so happy and I just am feeling a lot of deep joy and gratitude right now and
1:07.8	I wasn't able to really speak about the fire when I recorded the last podcast intro because I was just
1:14.7	kind of frozen in fear around everything and I did an Instagram post about it last
1:20.1	week and mythic medicine there if you want to check that out, but you know suffice
1:26.3	it to say it's just terrifying, terrifying living in this tinderbox and knowing at any moment it can wake up in the middle of the night and the flames are at your door.
1:38.0	It's always been my biggest fear since I was a tiny child to burn to death and I don't even like thinking
1:46.1	about it even like saying those words out loud and that it's such a reality now for so many
1:51.8	millions of people on the west coast is just so scary and of course I acknowledge that my my fear and my terror over the last couple weeks are nothing, nothing compared to the hundreds
2:06.3	of thousands of people affected by what happened in Paradise in the surrounding areas and in
2:12.2	Southern California as well and all the previous fires and the future fires is just so so intense.
2:20.0	If you're interested in all this, I really recommend a recent episode of the For the Wild podcast.
2:27.0	I think it's called like myths and misinformation about wildfire or something like that is really
2:34.3	really great and gives a much bigger sort of ecological framework for these
2:38.8	wildfires as well as tips for you know protecting your home if you're in this area
2:44.4	My husband Owen and I have done a lot a lot a lot of fire preparedness around our home and will continue to do so
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