The Medicine We Carry - Lola Venado
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
In the Intro:
- I share an ancestral story
- How I define spirituality
- The food your bones are made from
- Herbal body oils & elderberry elixir
In the Interview:
- Being the the daughter of a secret witch + becoming a botanical bruja years after the mother passed and the chance to learn from her was gone
- Racism, secrecy, lineage, and cultural evolution
- Following the breadcrumbs to get a bigger picture of who your people were (there are more holes than solid information in all of our lineages)
- Letting your silvers shine
- Locating yourself within the myths of your ancestors
- Being empowered to heal yourself
- Listening to the understory- amplifying the voices of people of color within the worlds of herbalism, spirituality, and the creative arts
- Comida es Medicina
- Most magic is mundane
- When women's knowing and/or calling out injustice are labeled "irrational"
- What white folks are learning/dismantling right now
Links:
- Lola's website
- Lola's Branch + Bone Medicine Show podcast
- Kitkitdizzi in Nevada City
- Lola's Instagram
- Medicine Stories Patreon
- The Mythic Medicinals online herb shop
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- The Medicine Stories Facebook group
- 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 | You know, we all carry that medicine within us. We all have it. We have medicine for our own healing. |
| 0:06.1 | We have medicine for the healing of others. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey all, welcome to the Medicine Stories Podcast. It's me, Amber Magnolia Hill, and this is |
| 0:21.7 | episode 21. Today I'm talking to Botanical Bruja |
| 0:26.8 | Lola Vanado. We talk about being the daughter of a secret witch and becoming a botanical brouha years after the mother passed and the chance to learn from her was gone. |
| 0:38.0 | Racism, secrecy, lineage, and cultural evolution. |
| 0:43.0 | Following the breadcrumbs to get a bigger picture of who your people were. |
| 0:47.0 | There are more holes than solid information in all of our lineages. |
| 0:52.0 | Letting your silvers shine, |
| 0:55.0 | not dyeing your hair, |
| 0:57.0 | which is a choice that I am making |
| 0:59.0 | and that Lola is having to un-un-make her previous choice to dye her hair. |
| 1:06.9 | Locating yourself within the myths of your ancestors, |
| 1:11.1 | being empowered to heal yourself, listening to the understory, |
| 1:16.7 | amplifying the voices of people of color within the worlds of herbalism, |
| 1:20.5 | spirituality, and the Creative Arts. |
| 1:23.0 | Gomida's medicinea, white flower is no one's ancestral food. |
| 1:29.0 | Most magic is mundane when women's knowing and or calling out injustice are labeled |
| 1:36.7 | irrational. Oh, makes me so angry. And what white folks are learning and dismantling right now. |
| 1:44.0 | I want to share a story, a story that's just been coming up for me lately, |
| 1:50.0 | different conversations with people, and a with podcast, interviewees. |
| 1:56.9 | And it's an ancestral story for me as well. |
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