The Serpentine Path

What does the body remember and how does it attempt to communicate to us? How trustworthy are our memories and how sure can we ever be of “the truth”? What impact does childhood sexual abuse have on an individual, a family constellation, a community, and a culture? How do we find our way to peace, trust, acceptance, forgiveness, and love once more? These are the questions that I have been asking m...

In this extended episode I talk about the differences that I’ve noticed in how Europeans and White Americans relate to our ancestors. I also share some suggestions for how White people of European descent can begin and/or deeper their relationship with their ancestors and open themselves up to the beautiful, intricate, challenging, and healing complexities of their lineage.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ CLICK HERE TO S...

For the majority of my life I had an extremely fractured relationship with my ancestors. As a White American of European descent, I was cloaked in the guilt and shame that came with the reality of knowing that my ancestors had enslaved and committed genocide against entire continents of people. Thus, in my attempt to make things right, I did all that I could to learn about white privilege, white f...

In this extended episode I share about a few different stories: How I slowly gained the abuela’s trust with little cups of yogurt The abuela’s response when I asked her about midwifery and birth A precious and hilarious memory from one of my favorite days alongside abuelo and abuela How I received a mochila for my drum and protection bracelet from the abuela just days before she suddenly died ⁠⁠⁠⁠...

I searched for a medicine woman for many, many years. A female elder who could guide me and orient me on my path. A healer, a teacher, a mentor who I could come to for advice and instruction. However, in my ignorance and arrogance, I was initially unable to truly recognize the medicine woman in front of me when she finally crossed my path. Abuela María was the purest embodiment of a true medicine...

In this extended episode I share a handful of stories about abuelos life, his work as a médico tradicional, his role as a defender of his territory, and a very special day that we shared together on his porch.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠ CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE ⁠⁠⁠⁠

I was 25 years old when I first met Abuelo Querubín. It was a hot jungle evening in early March and he was relaxing on his porch, surrounded by his students, companions, and patients. Shyly, I presented him with the offerings that I had brought and did my best to introduce myself in my embarrassingly poor Spanish. What I know now that I did not know then was that this 108 year old man would very q...

In this extended episode I share about how I prepare and make space for rest and reflection during my monthly bleed as well as what tools I utilize (herbs, moon belt, creams, heating pads, etc) to support a healthy flow. I also offer advice to men who live with and/or are in a romantic relationship with women in order to better understand how they can best support the women in their lives through...

For the vast majority of my bleeding years I experienced my monthly menstruation as a painful and stress-inducing event that needed to be numbed, ignored, pushed through, and (in my birth control years) entirely shut down. As a consequence of being entirely disembodied from my menstruation and the hormonal matrix of my entire menstrual cycle, I experienced severe female reproductive health issues...

In this extended episode I share about the resources that supported me in my gender dissension journey—aka choosing to actively return to identifying with the gender/sex that I was assigned at birth after 7+ years of rejecting womanhood and femaleness. ⁠⁠⁠ CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS: ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ THE SE...

As a young child, I didn’t fit into the gendered norms that little girls were expected to follow. I hated dress up, couldn’t stand tea parties, and was actively allergic to the color pink. Rather, I preferred spending all of my time outdoors climbing trees, skinning my knees, and playing football with the boys. In comparison to my two younger sisters who engaged in more stereotypically “girly” act...

In this extra episode, I share about birth as an altered state of consciousness ⁠⁠ CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE ⁠⁠

For the majority of human history, mothers gave birth in the comfort of their own homes, surrounded by family and community members and the loving hands of those who will be supporting in the raising of the child. However, over the past few generations, this sacred rite of passage has been taken out of the safety and comfort of a familiar family environment and forced into the sterile, hospital se...

In this extended episode I share about the differences that I saw in how young children view death in Western society and indigenous jungle communities. I also share about my Grandfather Gary's last words as he passed away. ⁠ CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS: ⁠ ⁠ THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE ⁠

(PART TWO) My twenty-seventh year of life was marked by the four life-changing deaths of my blood and spiritual elders: my mother’s mother, Marnie, my father’s father, Gary, and my spiritual grandparents, Abuelo Querubin of the Cofan Nation and Abuela Maria of the Murui Nation.  Throughout this year, I accompanied four entirely different experiences of transitioning to the other side of the Great...

In this extended episode I share more about the deaths of my grandmother, Marnie, and my teacher, Abuela Maria. ⁠ CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS: ⁠ ⁠ THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE ⁠

(PART ONE) My twenty-seventh year of life was marked by the four life-changing deaths of my blood and spiritual elders: my mother’s mother, Marnie, my father’s father, Gary, and my spiritual grandparents, Abuelo Querubin of the Cofan Nation and Abuela Maria of the Murui Nation.  Throughout this year, I accompanied four entirely different experiences of transitioning to the other side of the Great...

In this episode, I share more about the inspiration behind the podcast, snake medicine, how I received the title song for the podcast and the ethos of the podcast in ceremony, and how I created the cover image for the podcast. ⁠ CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE SERPENTINE PATH PATREON TO ACCESS EXTENDED PODCAST EPISODES ALONG WITH OTHER EXCLUSIVE OFFERINGS: ⁠ ⁠ THE SERPENTINE PATH WEBSITE ⁠

Welcome to The Serpentine Path Podcast where we will be diving into all things related to plant medicine, the birth/death/rebirth cycle, ancestral reconnection, intergenerational healing, womb sovereignty + bodily autonomy, dreamwork, rites of passage/initiations, time travel, shapeshifting, dimension hopping, and the reclamation of our collective earth-based practices—all of which I consider to b...