This idea of grounding these concepts that we're told are really ethereal,

that they're somehow off-planet, and they're actually not.

And this idea that intuition actually is a natural byproduct of being connected to the natural world and the many

worlds that that encompasses and I think that all of our ancestors knew this innately.

This was just the waters that they swam in.

Hello friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are

remembering what it is to be human upon the earth and exploring the mythic

journeys we undertake when coming to know ourselves through interviews with herbalists, storykeepers,

ancestral listeners, consciousness explorers, earth dreamers, and other wise folk. Our guiding principles are that story is

medicine, magic is real, and healing is open-ended and endless.

I am Amber Magnolia Hill.

This is episode 42 and today I'm talking to Asia Sewer.

This is Asia's second time on the podcast and she is very much back by

popular demand. In this interview we talk about how plants bring us deeper into

ourselves and the kind of second sight that only comes

when we tune into the aliveness of the earth, the cultural fallacy that spirituality and rationalism can't coexist. that to the plant path, how we don't have to do it alone, and how when it comes to healing the body

works on its own timeline.

Asia tells the story of the one willow to rule them all, how one ever evolving plant relationship can transform a life.

But literally on an actual physical, biological level, you are your own healer.

Your pain, symptoms, ailments, everything is happening for you.

The daily routine that keeps Asia's past chronic health issues at bay, the interplay

between stress, the nervous system, and health, especially useful conversation

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