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Medicine Stories

37. Ancestral Legacies, Lost Cultures, & Personal Mythmaking - Janelle Hardy

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

The stories that call to us, the ancestors who live in us, the cultures that are lost to us, and so much more...

IN THE INTRO:

  • Self care and energy hygiene for sensitive types
  • Ancestral languages
  • Elderberry magic

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • Making peace with our names, the legacy of patriarchal naming, changing names, prehistoric kinship ties, and pondering how our most ancient ancestors chose names
  • Spectral visitations from the grandfather who died before Janelle was born
  • Rootlessness, and what is lost when people set out on their own and leave their land and people behind
  • How our ancestors live in us, even when we can't claim their culture as our own
  • Language as a gateway to the ancestors
  • Megalithic monuments and the transition from hunting and gathering to farming in Europe
  • Starting a podcast
  • Knowing whose land you're living on
  • The ancient tales we're drawn to
  • Diving deep into embodiment and creativity
  • The profound inner and outer journey of Personal Mythmaking
  • Navigating the world as a Highly Sensitive Person and empath- "I need a lot of self care to be connected to my deep self"
  • Biodynamic craniosacral therapy, somatic experiencing, and other coping mechanisms/self care
  • Chronic trauma responses and nervous system stuckness
  • The more ephemeral cultural transmissions: textiles, fiber arts, music, dance, cooking, etc.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I think it's really important to consider the devastating impact of rootlessness, of trauma, of abuse, and what happens when people kind of embody the great adventure and the mythological dream of being this wild wanderer and just finding a better home somewhere.

0:22.0

And in doing that, leaving behind everyone and everything including culture language friends family

0:31.2

hello friends friends and friends Welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast, where we are remembering

0:36.9

what it is to be human upon the earth through interviews with

0:43.7

herbalists, storykeepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness explorers,

0:47.1

earth dreamers, and other wise folk, with the guiding principles that story is medicine, magic is real, and healing is open-ended and endless. Today is episode 37. I'm your host, Amberolia Hill and I'm interviewing Janelle Hardy.

1:07.0

Janelle has a podcast called The Personal Mythmakers Podcast that I think you'll probably like and I was

1:15.6

interviewed on it the day before I interviewed her for this show and we're

1:20.6

releasing them at the same time so if you're listening to this show,

1:25.7

then that one's out as well,

1:27.4

and I think you might like it,

1:28.8

not just my interview, but so many good ones.

1:32.2

Janelle asks the same four questions of each guest and we talk about those four questions

1:37.6

in this interview so I'm not going to say them here but it's pretty deep pretty juicy pretty personal and just yeah really

1:48.2

revelatory and beautiful conversations that come out of those four

1:52.2

questions so I'll have a link to that in the show notes of course or you can look for the personal mythmakers podcast which until now was called the Wild Elliccer Podcast. So there might be some name confusion or you'll need to look for one or the other but I know at least in iTunes and the Apple Podcasts app, it's personal mythmakers now.

2:15.0

Janelle and I talk a lot about names, making peace with our names,

2:20.0

the legacy of patriarchal naming, changing names, like, you know, when people change their names,

2:25.6

and then a lot of times people change their name back. prehistoric kinship ties and pondering

2:31.8

how our most ancient ancestors chose names.

2:35.0

We talk about the spectral visitations from the grandfather who died before Janelle was born

2:41.0

that she saw as a kid and rootlessness and what's lost when people set out on their

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