Herbs and Dreams

This episode is a blessing and a prayer to the summer in your heart. Having just crossed into the season on the heels of a solstice that felt like sweet medicine, I reflect on the turning of the wheel and the particular gift this time of year offers: permission to revel in the warmth, the light, and the beauty, and to shine your fullest, most authentic self. This is, in fact, exactly what lif...

Kris Haraldson is an herbalist, shadow work coach, teacher, healer and general badass who loves helping women wake up to realizing they don't need to be anyone other than who they are. Kris walks us through her early quest to understand  stories about women, how we conceptualize ourselves and how we can break free.  Her life has been guided by the questions: What are the s...

Join Alyssa Mancini of Herbs, Love and Yoga as we dive into the ancient and nourishing undercurrents beneath herbalism and what it truly means to heal. As a community herbalist apothecary owner, Alyssa has a unique insider's view on the currents in herbal healing and collective consciousness. With so much info out there on herbal medicine right now, Alyssa advises us to instead - go down the path...

Dreams grow soul - in our lives, families, communities and the world. But so what and who cares ? For any practice to be sustainable it must improve the quality of our lived experience. In this episode we explore the answer to the question so what and who cares about dreams... We explore the side benefits of dreamweaving. Side benefits are positive consequences that grow in our lives as...

Join my conversation with the grounded and wise Whitney Popham of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. Whitney's words are like a breath of fresh air, cutting through the superficial chatter that fills so much of today's spaces. Truly, I invite you to listen deeply to her words. I predict their simple wisdom will become more and more *absolutely essential* and rare, in the days to come.  Whi...

This is a bona fide masterclass on herbal medicine making.  Allow me to remind you how medicine making with the plants is your birthrite, and is really not that hard. Many are intimidated by the process of medicine making... when the truth is, it's just as easy is cooking, if not easier. All of your people did this and you can do it too.  In 20 minutes you will learn...  the fancy o...

Grow your own medicine for home, folk herbal care. Not too many generations ago EVERY home had basic medicine growing in their gardens (gardens include pots on windowsills!). Many people today are intimidated at the idea of growing and making their own medicine - believing it is too hard, or requires an amount of expertise that they don't have access to. But what most don't know is that growing ma...

The question of AI is touching every corner, every industry, every field of study, every brain... as a dream midwife and ambassador of dreams, I feel it's my duty to share what I'm tracking on the matter of AI and dreaming.  Here are my thoughts. In no particular order this shortie will cover... How YOU are the authority on YOUR dreams. A reminder to proceed with caution when outsourcing...

Each year in early spring, Mother Earth asks each one of us... will you create something this year to help me? Will you sing your soul song - a tune that only you were made and meant to sing - this year? Will you plant the intentions I have for you into the fertile soil of early Spring, and grow them in the garden of life, on behalf of All Life? A mighty and benevolent side blessing of being...

What we believe about what dreams are, why they come, and where they come from matters. Our beliefs also contribute to the shaping of the dreams themselves. Listen in as I share my beliefs, or cosmology, of dreaming that holds and shapes my dreams, and therefore my experience of life including how... It's no less and none other than my soul that dreams me I am the ultimate authority...

Children are the seeds of the future. If you care about dreamweaving a beautiful future for Mother Earth (which I know you do!) tending to the children might be the most important way. This episode is for moms, dads, teachers, grandparents, aunties and uncles, community members and human beings of great heart and purpose who are tending the seeds of the future.  Join Lily Ostle and...

Once again enjoy your time at the feet of this wise Earth elder as she speaks straight to our hearts. Great Spirit is right there waving in the winds, says Dancing Crow, and we need to go back to our hearts, not our heads, to listen. Our hearts are the way through these times. Dancing Crow shares stories from her new book Coming Home on the Wind.  She reminds us the medicine of wonder, a...

Learn to weave your life with dreaming's wisdom! By now, you likely know that a deep hope and prayer in all of my work is to inspire people’s hearts and minds to turn in dreaming’s direction.  For that reason, I want to share  my favorite books on the topic of dreaming with you. If you want more dream energy and dream juice, then these books will help to both ground and deepen your relat...

Join Jennileen Joseph, a Rroma woman and herbalist, and I as we explore how nothing is ever lost, that time is not linear, and that dreaming is time travel. Though for many of us it may feel as though our ancestral connection and wisdom is lost... It's not. It's just sleeping. As Jennileen says, what better way to get access them then when YOU are sleeping?   Jennileen shares h...

Do you want to spread the herbal love with your non-herbie people? Me too - I've been on that mission for almost twenty years. Here are my top 2 "gateway herbal gifts" to inspire the hearts and minds of your people to turn towards the healing plants of Mother Earth. Easy, accessible, effective, inspiring. Enjoy! And from my heart to yours - happy holydays to and yours. With love, Lauren...

Human beings are dreamers, it's wired into our neurology. As relational communal beings, sharing dreams with fellow kind, loving souls is also wired into our beings. We're made for dream groups. There's usually an absolute feeling of rightness, wonder and yes - magic that enters the space when groups share dreams with one another in dream council. It feels magical because it's the way it's su...

Mother Earth is a seasonal being, and all of life within her - plants and humans included - are seasonal beings too. This is true on the physical and the level of spirit.  Join me on a journey through the medicine of Fall to explore grief, letting go and preparing to turn within. Along the way we will meet the mighty wise devil's club and sit with the spirit of the season. Fall's medicine ask...

Grandmother Jyoti Ma is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher, grandmother vision keeper and one of my deepest inspirations . I first discovered her through the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, whom she was instrumental in helping to convene, as you will hear in the episode.  You and I are very blessed to have this time with her. Grab a cup of tea, open the ears of...

How do we actually engage a plant spirit medicine walk? First by understanding that you and I are surrounded by no less than kin, elders, teachers, healers, spiritual masters. If herbalism is allying with plants to bring healing to the people ... how do we go about building relationships with these great, grand beings? The answer might be more subtle than you think, it's an internal alignment game...

Kimberly Gallagher is a community centered herbalist, co-founder of  LearningHerbs.com , creator of the Wildcraft! board game and author of the  Herb Fairies  children’s books as well as  Aphrodisiac: The Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living. She is also my dear friend, colleague and soon to be co-teacher for our upcoming course Rhythms & Relation...

Dreams come to this world, from the Otherworld, in hopes of living here. Our job, as the humans on the receiving end of dreaming's door is to catch them, wrestle them, filter them through our values, run them by our resources and then... to DO SOMETHING WITH THEM! Do, weave, act, be, create, weave our lives with the wisdom of dreams on behalf of All Life. This episode will inspire the weaving half...

Jason Taylor is a licensed acupuncturist, Eastern Medicine Practitioner, all around phenomenal healer and a delight of a human being. Before becoming a healer, Jason's journey begin as an ecologist and naturalist, he worked with Robin Wall Kimmerer on developing a traditional ecology knowledge section.  We  explore the many knows of knowing between the science paradigm and the tradi...

Rebecca Mains is a pharmacognosist and plant medicine advocate who has spent her whole adult life working to increase access to plant medicines and promote community models of healing. She owns a consulting firm that specializes in botanical drug development, is the president of the Clallam County Psychedelic Society, is an active board member of the Responsible Entheogen Access & Communi...

Your dreaming soul can come home and you might be surprised at where you find them. I didn't remember any dreams for 15 years. With conviction, affirmation, herbs and prayer my dream remembrance came rushing back in within weeks... along with my inner dreamer who had, to my surprise, been hanging out in a grandmother cottonwood tree learning the ways of magic, connection and traveling the threads....

Jaelyn Wielbicki is a psychotherapist, psychedelic guide, wise woman and all around force of healing and love. In this fascinating episode, Jaelyn and I explore the similarities between psychedelics and dreaming in many ways - but most especially as it pertains to the importance and practices of integration. We explore neuroplasticity and the importance of taking active, embodied steps to cha...