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You Are Magic & Fear is Never the Truth - Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman

Medicine Stories

Amber Magnolia Hill

Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 103 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

 In the Intro:

  • Books to live by
  • Mitochondrial meanderings
  • The deep ancestry of all humans

In the interview:

  • The sound of the thing you are called by, and choosing a name with multilayered meaning
  • From outcast to leader
  • What being the daughter of an immigrant taught Yaya about communication & self expression
  • When you realize you're magic
  • Making the radical choice to express the way you really feel (that way, if people hate you, at least they hate the real you and not a false impression of who they assume you are) (also, that way, you attract the exact right people into your life)
  • Why dreams are real, our favorite dream teacher/writer, & how to work with your dreams (and nightmares)
  • Fear is never the truth
  • Magic, nature, and layers & layers of ancestral depth ("I feel like I have an intact ancestral identity in a way I didn't even three years ago")
  • Healing chronic pain
  • Sensory overload and how "there's a lot of undeniably magical things happening all the time, but life is loud"
  • Navigating the world as an empath/Highly Sensitive Person
  • A lot of chronic conditions are due to long term nervous system overwhelm
  • Herbal body oiling
  • How a radical diet change healed Yaya's endocrine (hormonal) and nervous system
  • It's good to do things that our ancestors would recognize from their time on earth
  • Shapeshifting mythical archetypes & fields of consciousness
  • Discovering your own relationship with the plant realm

 

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0:00.0

You realize God, I better do something important with my life if all of these ancestors and all these plants and animals are all giving their lives so that I can just be here for another day.

0:12.0

I better do something, like do the thing

0:13.8

I said I was gonna do in this lifetime. Oh, hey, Medicine Stories. Me Amber, glad to have you back, glad to be here. It is fun putting out

0:31.8

a podcast only a week after the last one. This is the production

0:35.4

schedule I would really like to be on all the time. It's just not not always

0:40.1

possible at this deeply intensively mothering phase of my life but thank you thank you

0:48.6

for being here thank you for listening and today I'm talking to Yaya Aaron Rivera Merriman who I first

0:59.6

met on Instagram like so many of the podcast guests and we first met in person I guess in

1:05.7

2014 yep at the Spirit Weaver's gathering. It was in Joshua Tree that year.

1:15.8

Aaron is active culture family online on Instagram, her website. I'm thinking a lot of you know who she is and for those of you who don't

1:25.3

I'm thinking you're going to be pretty stoked to be introduced to her today.

1:40.8

Man we talk about so much. We talk about loving the sound of the thing that you are called by and choosing a name with multi-layered meaning, going from being an

1:46.3

outcast to being a leader, what being the daughter of an immigrant taught Yaya about communication and self-expression, a moment when you realize your

1:56.8

magic, making the radical choice to express the way you really feel.

2:02.2

That way if people hate you, at least they hate the real

2:04.3

you and not a false impression of who they think you are. Also that way you attract the

2:09.0

exact right people into your life. Why dreams are real, our favorite dream teacher, a writer, and how to work

2:17.6

with your dreams and nightmares. Fear is never the truth. Magic, nature, and layers and layers of ancestral depth.

2:27.0

Yaya says,

2:28.0

I feel like I have an intact ancestral identity in a way I didn't even three years ago.

2:33.0

Healing chronic pain, sensory overload,

2:37.0

and how, quote, there's a lot of undeniably magical things happening

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