Medicine Stories - 56. Real Talk on Marriage, Plants, Kids, Business - My Husband, Owen Lindsay

56. Real Talk on Marriage, Plants, Kids, Business - My Husband, Owen Lindsay

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09/24/19 • 81 min

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Owen never thought he’d be a dad, neither of us planned on getting married, and we had no idea that our love for plants would play such a big role in sustaining our relationship. Here’s a peek into how we make our lives together work...

IN THE INTRO:

Elderberry & Motherwort
Three things that make our marriage work

IN THE INTERVIEW:

How we met and then, six years later, got together (St. John’s Wort oil played a role)
Why we pretended we weren’t falling in love even when we clearly were
What we were doing before we got together, and how we’ve changed and grown together
How Owen, who never thought he’d have kids, transitioned first into the role of stepdad and then new father
How we find balance and prioritize our marriage while sharing kids, land, a home, and a business (spoiler alert: we don’t)
What roles we each take on within the family and the business
Ramblings on getting married and raising kids in middle age
Parenting a teenager and a threenager
Adulting, we hate it but it brings us closer
Our reaction to our unexpected pregnancy
How we became homeowners and married people, two things we never envisioned for ourselves
What’s growing in our gardens, what tending our land looks like
Sustainable wildcrafting (and pivoting away from wildcrafting)
Why plant communication has been heavy for Owen lately
What Owen thinks about my activism around the issue of vaccine mandates
Civil uprising is the only option left to us on so many fronts, so many issues, as big businesses continue to destroy environmental and human health in the name of profit
What we’ve learned from our fights
Envisioning the future of our business and family

LINKS:

Our website MythicMedicine.love (herbal medicines & more!)
Medicine Stories Patreon
Amber’s/Mythic Medicine’s Instagram
Owen’s Instagram
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

IN THE INTRO:

Elderberry & Motherwort
Three things that make our marriage work

IN THE INTERVIEW:

How we met and then, six years later, got together (St. John’s Wort oil played a role)
Why we pretended we weren’t falling in love even when we clearly were
What we were doing before we got together, and how we’ve changed and grown together
How Owen, who never thought he’d have kids, transitioned first into the role of stepdad and then new father
How we find balance and prioritize our marriage while sharing kids, land, a home, and a business (spoiler alert: we don’t)
What roles we each take on within the family and the business
Ramblings on getting married and raising kids in middle age
Parenting a teenager and a threenager
Adulting, we hate it but it brings us closer
Our reaction to our unexpected pregnancy
How we became homeowners and married people, two things we never envisioned for ourselves
What’s growing in our gardens, what tending our land looks like
Sustainable wildcrafting (and pivoting away from wildcrafting)
Why plant communication has been heavy for Owen lately
What Owen thinks about my activism around the issue of vaccine mandates
Civil uprising is the only option left to us on so many fronts, so many issues, as big businesses continue to destroy environmental and human health in the name of profit
What we’ve learned from our fights
Envisioning the future of our business and family

LINKS:

Our website MythicMedicine.love (herbal medicines & more!)
Medicine Stories Patreon
Amber’s/Mythic Medicine’s Instagram
Owen’s Instagram
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Previous Episode

55. Highly Sensitive People are the Psychedelic Plants of the Human Realm - Lola Pickett

Empaths are trending right now; let’s dig beneath the surface into what it really means to be empathic and/or to have a highly sensitive nervous system, and then talk about the plant and fungal allies that can help us to relax, recalibrate, and ground.

IN THE INTRO:

The difference between empathic and highly sensitive people
High sensitivity is an evolutionary adaptation
Ritual is remembering

IN THE INTERVIEW:

Part I, Lola interviews me:

How I came to walk the plant path
My experience as a vegan postpartum woman
What fat does for our bodies- resilience and deep nourishment- and why it’s extra important for Highly Sensitive People
Remembering the intelligence that is woven throughout every cell in our body (not just the brain)
Overcoming the empathic tendency to shut everything out
Healing the legacy of highly sensitive/empathic ancestors making harmful decisions in an endeavor to self medicate
How psychedelics can help heal and empower HSPs
Reishi as an ally
The importance of touching something before ingesting it
Practicing the felt sense of our food
Making a game of tuning into and experimenting with changing the aperture of your sensory gating channels
Knowing your strength as an empathic person

Part II, I interview Lola:

How Lola came into relationship with psilocybin mushrooms
Time is the most persistent illusion
Knowing that all is well, not as a bypass, but as the deeper reality of nature
The stark difference between altering your consciousness recreationally and doing so ceremonially
Tracing the motherline to find the medicine that belongs to you
Being deep in an ancient cave with the bones of your ancestors
Psychedelics, neurogenesis, and healing trauma

LINKS:

Lola’s website
Empath to Power podcast
Foundations of Ritual online course with Daniel Foor
The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia by Paul Devereaux
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
My website MythicMedicine.love
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Next Episode

57. Own Your Self: Radical Healing, Rooted Health - Dr. Kelly Brogan

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -J. Krishnamurti

"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left." -Aldous Huxley

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer

IN THE INTRO:

Remembering that radical literally means “back to the root"- what we consider today to be radical health care is actually just our ancestral human biological inheritance

IN THE INTERVIEW:

How Dr. Brogan’s own diagnosis, and sitting with the cognitive dissonance that came with it, turned what she had been taught about health and healing on its head
Searching for the science that we aren’t given
It’s not so much information wars as competing paradigms that are causing the divisions in modern medicine
Embracing complexity and critical thinking
Psychiatric pharmaceuticals are the most habit-forming substances on the planet (Dr. Brogan hasn’t written a prescription since 2010)
Walking away from labels and tapering off psych meds
How a diagnosis can act as a hex, or as an opening into a more authentic connection to self
The dehumanizing that has to happen when medicine is practiced at scale
Suffering ends where meaning begins
How the Evolutionary Mismatch between our ancestral human bodies and our modern lives underlies so many physical and mental disorders
We have tremendous capacity to change our gene expression
Precision and bioindividual (the future of!) medicine v vaccine mandates (everyone gets the same 72 highly complex and inherently risky injections, no matter their individual health profiles)
How two of Dr. Brogan’s patients having 2nd trimester stillbirths after receiving the flu shot sent her down the path of 10,000 hours of vaccine research
The germ warfare paradigm is the ultimate expression of a control, fear-based paradigm of medicine
Creating the conditions that allow people to heal themselves
Kelly’s personal experience transforming motherline pain and trauma, and raising her daughters to report only to themselves

IN THE OUTRO:

The conversation they are trying to silence is the very conversation we need to be having; the information they are trying to censor is the exact information you need to know
The cultural cognitive dissonance wherein we live in a society that censors the hashtag #vaccineinjury while simultaneously paying out $4,182,078,646 through the government run national Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (as of August 2019, link below)
Google and social media search censorship
Some great accounts, websites, and one podcast for real vaccine information
How censorship and vaccine mandates will backfire on the Pharmaceutical industry

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