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Medicine Stories

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

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

IN THE INTRO:

  • Free Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils online workshop!
  • 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:

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-

*8 w/ Stephen Harrod Buhner (sensory gating channels)

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

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

*30 w/ Cilla Whatcott (fever, illness, immunity)

MISCELLANEOUS-

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

*Period Tracker apps

*Dr. Zach Bush

Transcript

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0:00.0

that our bodies are so resilient and as long as we're providing them with good nutrients and herbs and rest and we're really giving it kind of what it needs that it has such a capacity to

0:15.5

rebuild and restore.

0:19.3

Hello friends and welcome back to Medicine Stories

0:27.0

episode 34 this is the second part of my interview with Anya Robinson if you haven't listened to the first part yet,

0:34.8

it's the most recent episode. I've gotten a huge response from listeners, some really helpful information about women's health and we continue that conversation today and we also

0:47.0

get into more of Ania's personal medicine stories.

0:51.1

I want to let you know that this intro is going to be I think slightly longer than

0:56.7

usual not much it's probably going to be about 20 30 minutes long if you really don't want to hear the intro, you can skip ahead.

1:06.7

Every podcast player has buttons where you can skip ahead by a certain number of seconds or you can also just put your finger on the little bar and you know drag the ball forward and just you can tell when the interview starts by listening.

1:24.3

So I also want to say that Onya and I give so many resources,

1:31.1

especially books in this interview, and I have made sure to put every single book in the

1:38.5

show notes, in the links section, and I always try to do that, but from now on I'm going to be super, super fastidious about doing it because I always hear from people who are like, what was that thing you mentioned and what was that book what was that film

1:53.7

that podcast and I mean I get it I do that all the time when I'm listening to stuff and

2:01.3

you know want to go back and make sure that I got the name right or whatever you know but what I would like to suggest because this is what I finally learned to do rather than going back to the podcast and trying to skip forward and backward and where was it where they talked about that?

2:16.0

Is if I don't have time right then to stop and write down the resource I'm interested in, I take a screenshot on my phone or on my computer

2:26.1

of where I'm at in the podcast.

2:29.2

And then I can go back later and say, oh, at one hour and six seconds six minutes and 32 seconds is where they

2:36.5

talked about that book and then I can hear it again and I can write it down.

2:40.0

I do always try to respond to people when they ask me that but I just thought I'd give that little tip and always of course check the show notes too because the info is going to be there.

2:58.0

So I've had a number of people write and ask me how keto is going for me. I talked about doing the ketogenic diet and why it makes sense to me as someone with a long-standing fascination with human evolution and diet.

3:11.0

And so I talked about that in the intro to episode 28.

3:18.2

So I have been like cycling in and out of ketosis

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