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Brighid Doherty - Listen to her interview ...

Brighid Doherty is an herbalist honoring the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. For more than two decades, Brighid has worked with plants in a variety of ways; as a student and a teacher, a gardener and a forager, a medicine maker and health consultant. She has had many herbalist mentors including Susun Weed, Rosemary Gladstar, Katja Swift, and KP Khalsa. She offers information and inspiration to the home herbalist through herbal workshops, herb walks, and The Healthy Herb Podcast. Brighid founded The Solidago School of Herbalism in 2018. She offers an online course, called Nourish Yourself, teaching how to infuse common herbs, in simple ways, into daily life. Brighid inspires people to be more self-reliant in their health and healing process. She teaches how they can bring herbal medicine into their lives by relating to plants in their bodies, kitchens, gardens, and the wild. https://www.solidagoherbschool.com

Raven Keyes - Listen to her interview ...

Raven Keyes, CMRM, RMT, author of Medical Reiki, A Groundbreaking Approach to Using Energy Medicine for Challenging Treatments is founder of Raven Keyes Medical Reiki International (RKMRI™). The first to bring Reiki into the operating room of Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, Raven is presently working with surgeons that include Dr. Sheldon Marc Feldman of Montefiore Medical Center who is Chief, Division of Breast Surgery & Breast Surgical Oncology, Director Breast Cancer Services, Professor Department of Surgery at Einstein Medical School, and past President of the American Society of Breast Surgeons. Raven has been providing Reiki to patients before, during and after surgeries for nearly two decades. Based on this important work, she continues to train Reiki Masters from around the world in the creation of an elite credentialed team known as Certified Medical Reiki Masters ™. In the world of professional sports, Raven has introduced Reiki to athletes in the NFL and NBA. Featured in national magazines such as "Vogue" and "W," she was named "Best Reiki Master in New York" by New York Magazine and was televised as "New Yorker of the Week" on NY-1 for providing volunteer Reiki services for 8 ½ months after 9/11. She is also the author of the award-winning book "The Healing Power of Reiki" and of "The Healing Light of Angels."

Luba Evans - Listen to her interview ...

Luba Evans, MS is one of the most sought after, acclaimed and distinguished love and relationship coaches in the world for highly accomplished professional women who want to live their best life. Her personal growth and development company has been serving clients for over 20 years and her work has been recognized as a significant contribution to human development by Harvard Business Forum.

Chaya Grossberg - Listen to her interview ...

Chaya Grossberg is a graduate of Hampshire College, a Kripalu certified yoga instructor, graduate of the San Francisco School of Massage and has taught yoga and led support and writing groups at Windhorse Associates, the Freedom Center, Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community, Alternative to Meds Center, Mental Health Association of Portland and Portland Hearing Voices. She is a former Warm Line specialist at the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. Chaya has offered non-medical consulting to people coming off of and/or seeking alternatives to psychiatric drugs for over 15 years professionally. On podcasts she shares her own experiences of the psychiatric system and psychiatric drugs and also tell how she helps and supports those struggling to withdraw from psychiatric medications. Chaya questions the idea that some of us are "mentally ill" and others of us are not. Her book Freedom From Psychiatric Drugs is available on Kindle and in paperback.

Vanessa Nixon - Listen to her interview ...

Vanessa Nixon is a Traditional Naturopath who is passionate about empowering women to thrive naturally during mid-life so they can make this the most vibrant and impactful phase of their lives. She believes that we all have an innate wisdom and access to ancestral healing knowledge, if we only know how to tap into it. Once we are able to connect with this intuitive inner healer, we can become confident in taking ownership of our health.Vanessa shares a combination of spiritual and practical tools including exploring intuitive wise woman traditions, discovering herb witchery to craft a toolkit of natural remedies, embracing ancient movement meditations, and beauty practices to create radiant wellness. As an experienced expert and speaker on natural health who works with women around their mid-life challenges, Vanessa sees in her clients and virtual event students how these tools are so urgently needed right now, especially when people's access to health and wellness resources are limited due to Covid. .. https://www.herbsofgracehealingarts.com

Tania Oceana - Listen to her interview ...

Tania Oceana is a community herbalist in Portland, Oregon. After reaching a dead end with allopathic medicine and feeling like there's got to be more, she started her journey into holistic health about 12 years ago. After starting to feel better she was hooked, and started with reading all the books she could find. She got to know her local flora, enrolled in a local herbal school, then worked in an apothecary for 6 years. Tania's offerings include herb walks and online consultations. Visit her website at www.mossytonic.com.

Sara Chana Silverstein - Listen to her interview ...

Sara-Chana Silverstein is a Master herbalist RH (AHG), a classical homeopath, an author, a columnist, keynote speaker, adult education teacher, and a community advocate for women and children. She is a wife and the mother of seven children. Sara-Chana is an International Board-Certified Lactation/Breastfeeding Consultant (IBCLC) who has helped over 18,000 babies successfully breastfeed. As a doula, she has helped deliver 450 babies. Sara-Chana has walked thousands of women through a focused, natural regimen that nourishes their physical, emotional, and spiritual lives. Packed with hundreds of tools, tips, and strategies, her new book Moodtopia is a practical, easy-to-use guide to herbs, adaptogens, aromatherapy, color therapy, feng shui, intuition, homeopathy and so much more. Sara-Chana shares the best natural remedies to help combat stress, anxiety, and promote peace of mind and general health. She shows how herbs and other natural approaches are a gentle way to enhance one's emotional state without having to resort to antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills, or other medications that may have unwanted side effects. Find out more at www.sarachana.com

Sarah Ellen - Listen to her interview ...

Join Susun and Sarah as they discuss The Comfrey Conference
Sarah Ellen is a student of life. She cherishes the opportunity to live with awareness and experience the wholeness of being alive. Sarah Ellen lives at her home, Heartsong, in Barrington Hills, Illinois with her husband Jay, and their dogs, cats, goats and chickens. She intends each day to know and remember her inherent connection with the Earth and all the magic that surrounds her. Sarah has discovered that being with animals, especially singing with animals, and opening that awareness extends and enriches her connection to Nature and the remembering of the Ways of being she had once forgotten.

Shana Lipner Grover - Listen to her interview ...

Shana Lipner Grover, a clinical herbalist, health and nutrition educator, field botanist, ethical wildcrafter, medicine maker, and forever student of life and wonder is the director and primary educator of Sage Country Herbs School of Botanical Studies in north county San Diego. Shana runs a clinical practice in north county San Diego focusing on empowering people to take responsibility for their health. Beyond her field school, she teaches at a variety of outdoor education including Art & Wilderness Institute and Solidarity Farm School as well as Healing Hands School of Holistic Health, covering 350 hours of herbal medicine and nutrition programs. With bylines in Plant Healer Magazine and Herbaria, you can also find her teaching at a variety of herbal symposiums and conferences like the Plant Healer Botanical Medicine Confluence and TerraVita Herbal Symposium and Oshala Farms, Herb Camp.
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Amy Fournier - Listen to her interview ...

Amy Fournier has been in the holistic health and wellness space for over 30 years. After overcoming several physical and mental/emotional health challenges and a life of people-pleasing which had resulted in much pain, conflict and ultimately complete burnout and a mid-life crisis, Amy discovered how to live a life more tapped into her heart and soul and of her own choosing which was fully integrated, healthy and whole. Now she is passionate about helping others do the same and loves helping women harmonize their masculine and feminine energies, step into their natural Goddess nature and regain their feminine while still keeping their sovereignty and warrior spirit! You can connect with Amy on her popular podcast, Awakening Aphrodite and sign up for her weekly newsletter at www.amyfournier.com.

Jennifer Kurdyla & Abbey Rodriguez - Listen to her interview ...

Jennifer Kurdyla is a wellness educator and writer. For over ten years she has maintained a plant-based lifestyle, during which time she has come to revere the power of whole, natural foods to nourish the mind and body by developing, and sharing, recipes in her tiny New York kitchen. She has over 500 hours of yoga teacher training and is currently studying to become an Ayurvedic Health Counselor at the Kripalu School of Ayurveda. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at jenniferkurdyla.com and on Instagram: @JenniferKurdyla.

Abbey Rodriguez is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, herbalist, and food content creator. Over the last five years, she has been developing recipes for women and young families on her food and wellness blog, The Butter Half. She is deeply passionate about the power of plants and nutrition, and teaching others about holistic wellness. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three children. Visit her online at thebutterhalf.com and on Instagram: @thebutterhalf