Reclaiming Kitchen Wisdom & Ancestral Healing - Darla Antoine
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Calling in the grandmothers! The more dependent we are on the industrialized food system- and the more entranced we are by diet culture- the further removed we are from our ancestors. Food is a bridge between the land, our bodies, and those whose bodies we come from.
Darla Antoine is a mixed race Okanagan tribal member, ancestral activist and healer, mother and accidental homesteader in the high mountains of Costa Rica. Darla helps mixed-race and mixed-culture seekers become rooted into place and lineage by combining her master's degree in food and culture, ancestral healing and her own experiences as a mixed race woman and expat.
In the Intro:
- My unexpected, super transformative podcast hiatus: shingles and a family emergency
- Fat is love (and an absolutely necessary nutrient for the brain & every single cell in the body)
- Giveaway!
In the Interview:
- Ancestry that's deeply embedded in the land
- The Grandmother Hypothesis
- How diet culture keeps us separated from our ancestors
- Disordered eating & how the fear of fat is pushing us away from what it means to be human
- To learn about your ancestor's lives, look below the level of empire (& what that means)
- Reclaiming kitchen wisdom as an act of resistance against the dominant, patriarchal, industrial food system
- The medicine that people of mixed race are bringing to the world right now
- Dreams as guideposts
- A mythic matriarchal dreamscape
- Charting serendipity: When you're in the right story, nothing doesn't fit
Links:
- Darla's website
- The Medicine Stories Patreon page
- The Medicine Stories Facebook group
- The Mythic Medicine website
- Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
- Zach Bush's website
- How to Feed a Brain by Cavin Balaster
- Head Strong by Dave Asprey
- Fat for Fuel by Dr. Joseph Mercola
- Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And your ancestors, like, they lived and died for you and it's in their interest to see you succeed and it's in their interest to see you have what you need to be well resourced. So it's in your interest to cultivate a relationship with them. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast. This is |
| 0:26.6 | episode 19 and I am Amber Magnolia Hill. On the show we explore the mythic journeys we undertake when coming to know ourselves |
| 0:36.3 | through interviews with herbalists, storykeepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness explorers, |
| 0:42.3 | earth dreamers, and otherwise folk. Story is medicine, |
| 0:47.3 | magic is real, healing is open-ended and endless, and we are here to have conversations about all of these things. |
| 0:56.7 | I have missed you guys, I have missed doing this show. |
| 1:01.4 | It's been such an unexpectedly transformative month for me I got |
| 1:09.9 | shingles so yeah I flew to the Good Medicine Confluence in Durango, Colorado. I taught three classes. I had my toddler with me and my husband, but it was still really hard and really depleting to be traveling |
| 1:26.1 | and working while traveling with a 20 month old and I knew I knew I was super depleted and super tired when I came back and then two days later I got some dental work done and it |
| 1:45.0 | Awakened the show and it awakened the shingles in me. |
| 1:49.4 | The shingles virus, the varicella zoster that had been sleeping since I got the chickenpox |
| 1:51.7 | when I was four on the trigeminal nerve on the right |
| 1:56.0 | side of my head I you know it's the depletion and the low immunity and the exhaustion |
| 2:01.1 | from traveling and then just boom, exacerbated and woken up by the dental work. |
| 2:09.9 | So, oh man, I was 10 days in before I figured out what it was and got a diagnosis in the ER and it was the most excruciating pain. And as in my head. I read later that the trigiminal |
| 2:27.6 | nerve in the head is the source of the worst pain a human can feel and we all know that Shiggles is amongst the worst pain |
| 2:36.4 | experiences a person can have. So it really put my whole experience into perspective. |
| 2:42.1 | The intense head pain lasted for seven days and this is before I figured out what it was. I just, I didn't know what was going on, you know, I just thought I had a really bad headache. I'm very prone to headaches in the right side. |
| 2:56.1 | This is a much bigger story than what I can tell in this intro, but in the long run, |
| 3:02.4 | this experience really helped me put some of my bigger long-term health issues into perspective |
| 3:08.9 | and I'm seeking a lot of healing modalities that I had never looked at before because I'm sick of this |
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