Becoming the Medicine & Seeing the Wide Arc of Time - Sophia Rose
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
There is a wider reality behind and beyond the everyday world, and Sophia Rose's approach to plant medicine and healing reflects this in myriad ways. From using herbs in dream work to incorporating plant smoke in ritual to connecting with departed loved ones through flowers, the natural world provides countless doorways into the unseen.
Sophia Rose is a clinically trained and magically minded folk herbalist, word weaver, and educator based in Austin, Texas. Through the long-running La Abeja Herbs and her new project Garden Party, her writing is medicine to the soul and her plant potions are medicine to the body for thousands of people worldwide. I am honored to bring some of Sophia's personal story medicine to more folks with this interview.
We talk about:
- The archetypal energy of datura (moonflower)
- We are holographic representations of plants
- Dreaming with herbs
- Working with smoke medicine
- Seeing the wide arc of time
- Sophia's healing journey after a friend's suicide
- Intuitive grieving and grief as a sacred responsibility
- Sophia's radical reconceptualization of what death is
- The last ancestor who had a whole heart
- Your name is your first lesson
- We work with plant medicine so that we can become the medicine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:09.5 | Amber Magnolia Hill and today's guest is Sophia Rose. Sophia is a clinically trained and |
| 0:16.9 | magically minded herbalist folk healer, writer, teacher, and the creator and medicine maker behind La Abbeha herbs. |
| 0:25.0 | She was born and raised in Texas and after years residing in Colorado and New Mexico |
| 0:31.0 | and living on the road for a time in a bad-ass truck and RV |
| 0:34.6 | situation she put together. She was currently rooted back in her hometown of |
| 0:39.0 | Austin, Texas. I first met Sophia in 2015 at the Spirit Weavers Gathering where we were both teaching |
| 0:47.1 | about herbalism but we had been connected online on Instagram for a while before that. |
| 0:53.8 | Sophia has this big, beautiful, very tall |
| 0:58.3 | indigo teepee tent that she teaches in when she travels and such a beautiful space and |
| 1:05.1 | container to learn from her and to have circles of women sitting around in. |
| 1:10.8 | Sophia just brings this beauty everywhere she goes, |
| 1:16.4 | this very intentional and heartfelt approach |
| 1:20.8 | to the world, to the plant realm, to teaching and connecting with other humans, |
| 1:27.0 | and that comes through in this interview and in everything she does. |
| 1:36.0 | So I remember I told you in the first episode that this podcast would not be perfect. |
| 1:38.3 | We definitely had some sound issues recording this, |
| 1:40.6 | but my editor did a really good job cleaning them up. But. this but unfortunately the first few minutes was cut out that was bite me that |
| 1:49.8 | was fully my mistake so we just kind of get right into the first question without like |
| 1:54.6 | hellos or anything but we had said our hello sounds a little weird but just |
| 1:59.1 | so you know that. I want to thank Sophia also for introducing me to the dot love domain name. |
| 2:09.4 | Her new project which we talk about at the end of this episode is Garden Party and it's at |
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