Herbalism, Menstruation, & Innate Knowing - Kami McBride
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In the Intro:
- My number one herb book
- My healing pilgrimage to the skull of a blue whale
- I say somthing that's hard to say
- Edible & Medicinal Flowers eBook
- The dark places of the soul & sharing our stories
In the Interview:
- The strong childhood memory, and teenage crisis, that started Kami on the plant path
- Recalling the era when being an herbalist was an underground, misunderstood, frowned-upon thing
- You never know where or when the seeds you plant will sprout
- Bringing information to the culture so that it can later be mirrored back to our children (or loved ones) by someone other than us
- Unspoken soul transmissions from the ancestors
- How to extract ancestral stories from your living relatives (do it now!)
- What you are seeking is also seeking you
- We are downloading decades of ancestral information right now & it's causing information overload- when do we know enough?- an ancestral strategy for simplifying our herb learning
- You don't have to know everything, too much information clogs the channels
- Stepping into power as bleeding women
- Healing menstrual shame & a look at the learned cultural practices of plugging and drugging (which, in the long run, just repress and create more pain)
- How your blood & bleeding time reflects your state of health back to you
- Aligning with the energy of your moon time- enhanced perception, clarity around boundaries, awareness of emotion
- Menstruation is a truth serum
- Sensitivity is what's gonna save us
- Women, exhaustion, and rest
- One small change that has dramatically reduced PMS symptoms for many of the women Kami and I know (including me!)
- Returning to our innate body wisdom
Links:
- Kami's website
- The Herbal Kitchen book
- Kami's Instagram
- Herbal Medicine Woman Retreat
- MythicMedicine.love
- Medicine Stories Patreon bonuses
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine Instagram
- Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
- Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | the earth is still, the harvest is on. We just need to remember and remember our connection. |
| 0:07.1 | It's our heritage and start to activate that way of being where we say hello to the earth, we open that |
| 0:16.6 | communication pathway and and and re you know recreate our culture. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello friends and welcome to the medicine stories podcast. This is episode 20 and I'm your host Amber Magnolia Hill. |
| 0:38.1 | Today I am interviewing my first ever herb teacher, Cammy McBride. |
| 0:44.0 | And I'm just going to go ahead and refrain from gushing about her right now |
| 0:49.0 | because I do quite enough of that in the interview. I think when you hear it and you hear the wisdom |
| 0:57.8 | that just spills out of her, you will understand why I hold her in such high regard and why she had such a profound impact on my life and just knowing |
| 1:09.7 | You know who my listeners are who my audience is and how you all have reacted to |
| 1:15.2 | guests and topics in the past I cannot wait to get this interview out there and it's it going to have profound impact on so many lives. |
| 1:27.0 | If this is your first time listening on Medicine Stories, we explore the mythic journeys we undertake when coming to know ourselves |
| 1:35.9 | through interviews with herbalists storykeepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness explorers, |
| 1:42.0 | earth dreamers, and otherwise folk. |
| 1:45.2 | With the underlying guiding principles that story is medicine, |
| 1:50.2 | magic is real, and healing is open-ended and endless. |
| 1:55.0 | If you're curious what I mean by that last sentence. |
| 1:59.0 | I haven't mentioned this yet on the show, |
| 2:01.0 | but I was recently interviewed on Susan Weeds radio show. So she asked me what I meant by that and you can find that I guess you just Google Susan Weed Amber Hill |
| 2:15.2 | Susan Weed mythic medicine something like that and can listen to the to the |
| 2:20.5 | interview if you like it was an interesting experience it was definitely an honor to speak to an herbal elder whose work has really influenced me. People ask me all the time, you know, the main herb books or book I would recommend and really the number one is healing wise by Susan Weed. The wise woman tradition I think is just so foundational to my approach to herbal medicine and to my approach to herbal medicine and to healing and I think it should be the foundational |
| 2:57.2 | approach to most people's approach to herbal healing as well. It's just, you know, one of those kind of paradigm shifting moments when I read |
| 3:06.9 | that book and I started to really see the difference between the scientific approach to |
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