Naming Your Lineage & Deeply Releasing Fear - Amy Mea Woodruff
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2018
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
When she was 7 months pregnant, Amy Mea Woodruff's best friend was murdered by a stranger in her home. Amy speaks about this experience publicly for the first time, sharing the alternative grieving pathway she quickly carved out for herself as she sought to nurture and protect the life growing inside of her while simultaneously mourning the loss of her beloved soul sister.
Experiences from her past that had grounded Amy deeply into herself were an anchor throughout this process, including the conscious use of psychedelics and a longstanding practice of learning about and connecting with her ancestors.
Amy (aka Daughter of the Sun) is a mother, craftswoman, land steward, budding flower farmer, and the founder and organizer of the Spirit Weavers Gathering.
In the Intro:
My experience with Spirit Weavers (from skeptic to enthusiast)
My first psychedelic experience
In the Interview:
Amy (Mea)'s two (& more!) names
Claiming your lineage and invoking your ancestors by speaking their names aloud
Amy shares the story of her best friend Cheree's murder and her grieving and healing process
My and Amy's journeys with forgiving the people who caused the deaths of our loved ones
Diving deep with Amanita muscaria & the time/space collapse (we also each speak about our relationship with cannabis)
Naming the land that raised us and listening to indigenous women
Amy's feral childhood, Choctaw & Cherokee ancestors, and the wild foodways she grew up with
The challenges and rewards of founding and running the Spirit Weavers Gathering
Stewarding land and listening to nature
LINKS:
Amy's blog post expanding on this conversation and sharing photos of Cheree and of her ancestors
Lyla June on the For the Wild podcast- On Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy
Stay on the Spirit Weavers land in Southern Oregon via HipCamp
Music by Mariee Siou (from the song Wild Eyes)
Mythic Medicinals herbals
Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
Medicine Stories Facebook Group
Medicine Stories Patreon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, Tizai, Amber Magnolia Hill. Welcome to the Medicine Stories |
| 0:10.9 | podcast. I'm really excited to be back at it after taking some |
| 0:15.7 | much needed time off over the holidays. We had a great Christmas, Christmas is |
| 0:21.6 | so far when you have kids and I just really relaxed and |
| 0:26.3 | like didn't even check my email for like a week and it sounds so good. |
| 0:33.0 | You know, no matter how you feel about the holidays, |
| 0:36.1 | I hope that your life enables you to take some time |
| 0:40.1 | out of time for at least a little while, step outside the linear time race that we're all in and just be. |
| 0:51.5 | But I'm also equally stoked to be back at it and to be here in front of my computer |
| 0:56.6 | working on and getting this very special episode out to you. Today's guest is Amy, also known as Maya Woodruff. She's a mother, |
| 1:08.4 | craftswoman, a soon-to-be flower farmer. We don't talk about that in this interview but you can |
| 1:14.8 | follow her on Instagram at Daughter of the Sun to watch that unfold and the |
| 1:19.6 | founder and organizer of the Spirit Weaver's gathering. If you don't know about Spirit |
| 1:24.4 | Weavers, you know, you can find their website, find them on Instagram. It's a big |
| 1:30.6 | women's gathering that now happens twice a year. It was once a year for a while. |
| 1:36.0 | Coming up on the sixth year now in 2018. And if you're listening to this podcast in the first couple days it's released, |
| 1:45.0 | then you might be interested to know that tickets for Spiritweavers will go on sale on January 11th. |
| 1:52.0 | They sell out within minutes, literally, within minutes. So if you're |
| 1:57.2 | interested, they're going to go on sale at 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 11th, |
| 2:02.1 | you can go to their website and click register to find out more. |
| 2:06.7 | We don't really talk about Spirit Weaver's a little bit at the end here, but I wanted to share |
| 2:12.2 | a little bit of my story with it. So it's cool to watch that now it sells out within minutes because the second year it happened. I remember Amy posted on Facebook like we still want to get |
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