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Today I’m sitting with Liz Mullinar, a survivor of childhood trauma, trauma counsellor, and the founder of Heal For Life Foundation which has provided trauma recovery programs for over 20 years. She developed the Heal For Life Model in the early nineties when she felt along with other survivors of trauma that there had to be a permanent way of healing from the impact of childhood memories.  Liz latest book is a step-by-step guide called HEAL FOR LIFE: How to Heal Yourself from the Pain of Childhood Trauma based on the Heal For Life model that has helped over 8,500 people self-heal from trauma. It demonstrates how to transform painful trauma memories and emotional triggers into permanent healing. 100% of the book’s proceeds go back to Heal for Life to pay for survivors to attend programs!   Topics we cover: Liz perspective on trauma, what it is, and its impact on the brain Impact of trauma on brain and nervous system Importance of safety for healing and impact of shame, how do we acquire shame and how do we h

In this Akashic reading for March, Venessa shares the message from our guides: To Wake UP. We receive the call to enter the deepest parts of our Self, to wake up from the dream. And to open our inner eyes to see that the very thing we seek is beckoning us from within. The cosmic door lies inside our cells. It’s a journey back home, and along the hero’s journey we’re faced with danger, fear, death, and the chance to be reborn. This message is urgent in its feel yet reassuring in its directness. We’re given a few tips to help us along, including a reminder that the trees hold the medicine.  From Wolf stars to black holes and supernovas, this cosmic reading brings us back to Mama Earth and the power of connecting with Trees, especially upon the portal of the equinox on March 19.   Join the conversation in our private soul circle on Facebook: If you enjoyed this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it.  Join our NEW facebook group dedicated to listeners of the podcast! We’ll get to cont

Today we are speaking with Anja Robinson, Clinical Herbalist, Functional Nutritionist, Women’s Integrative Health Educator and founder of Poppy Herbals—an Herbal Elixir Bar and Apothecary in Ashland, OR. She’s also my co-facilitator for our upcoming Herbal Anatomy Series at Hawthorn Institute! In this episode, we’re talking about functional somatic syndrome (FSS) and the power of community health & herbalism in addressing complex health issues. FSS has been around for thousands of years and various terminology has been used to describe it, including hysteria, somatoform disorders, and medically unexplained symptoms. FSS highlights the inefficacy of the conventional medical system in addressing root causes, the undeniable mind-body connection, the startling rates of trauma (esp in women) impacting health, and the lack of community wellness and support. Together, Anja and I explore top ways to support those who have experienced FSS (many of us) and how to begin addressing the underlying issues related to so

Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz (Tewa/Xicana) is a curandera, indigenous foods activist, and natural foods chef whose work is deeply rooted in the healing properties of all earth medicines.  In this episode, we’re speaking on the topic of postpartum wellness, specifically la cuarentena - the period of postpartum recovery roughly 40 days of healing after childbirth. There is a version of the cuarentena in many cultures and Felicia shares her personal experience with the “4th trimester,” how she weaves in Ayurveda with Traditional Mexican knowledge, plus practical tips Felicia recommends for amplifying healing and setting yourself up for the most nourishing postpartum possible. We also have an important discussion around the title of Curandera and the power of honoring these sacred times in breaking ancestral & intergenerational trauma.   Click here for full show notes   >> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up for newsletter to receive updates on upcoming programs and events >> GET WILDLY UNSTUCK :: Sign up for Wildly Unstuck audio

In this episode, we’re speaking with Laura Cascardi. Laura’s passion for herbalism, healing, and well-being is evident in her 20 + years of working with herbs and people. In 2014, Laura co-founded the Equinox Center of Herbal Studies where she is the director and one of the primary teachers. You can hear Laura’s passion for educating others on using plants for wellness and self-reliance in her voice, as she shares her plant path story. Laura talks about how she originally learned the wild, medicinal herbs from her grandmother and shares lessons carried from her time living off-grid + the medicine she brought back into “city life.” You’ll hear Laura’s powerful message for aspiring healers and how to leave behind mechanisms of control and become our authentic selves. We talk about how our connection to our environment and local medicines promotes self empowerment, and how to harness this power. Laura shares amazing advice for people on the plant and healing path.   Click here for full show notes   >> SUBSCRIBE

In this Akashic reading for February, Venessa shares a potent message about SAFETY & shame.  Safety. It is this that we all seek. Our guides invite us to look at the ways we are hindered by a perceived lack of safety, within. We are shown the ways our cultural conditioning, shame programming, and fear prevent us from expressing our true Self and Soul. We are guided to look at the ways we hold ourselves captive to erroneous beliefs. We are asked to cultivate safety within and a sense of Home in our own bodies. “There is a dance that we must all learn, & the music only plays when you move your feet.”  What holds you back from dancing the life you are meant to live, my love? Set yourself free. Co-create the safety net, starting by taking a small step. Our guides offer suggestions for doing so, and speak into the larger collective feelings of fear, lack of safety + control, and shame. Venessa offers some cultural context in the prologue, and insights including Imbolc blessings that tie in with the reading

In the intro, I share a personal check-in and insights, astral influences this month so far, and how to support ourselves by tending to our energetic ecologies and bodies. So much that manifests as physical symptoms or ailments have their origins in the energy body. All ancient healing traditions include energy medicine in one form or another, in my experience, when there is chronic illness present - we MUST look to its energetic influences. In this episode, we’re speaking with Cari Nadeau, a Certified EFT Practitioner and a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner. Cari shares how she went from bedridden from Lyme disease to thriving energy medicine practitioner. We talk about Cari’s journey with psychiatric medication, withdrawal from psychiatric medication, major depression and top resources Cari found for mental health support. We discuss how to remove trapped emotions, and the “masterpiece combo” that Cari uses to move through big negative patterns or stuck energies. Cari also shares the top beliefs that Cari

In this episode, we’re speaking with Tallia Deljou, a coach for transformation and founder of The Heart Work Method. In this in-depth discussion, Tallia walks us through the 5 pillars of having a high quality of life, how to dismantle the excuse of “I don’t have enough time,” and a great question to ask yourself if you truly feel that you don’t have time (Tallia gets real with us here!). Tallia also shares the biggest mindset challenges and hangups that people face, and how to break through them. She shows us how to utilize positive psychology to overcome blocks of self worth and lean into your biggest dreams - plus Tallia shares a practice that will change your life. Through her work, Tallia teaches us the tools to make space for change and cultivate a deeper relationship to ourselves. Her Forbes’ featured podcast, "Sincerely Me," explores self-discovery and the journey of turning inward in order to lead a life of depth and significance. This is a powerhouse episode, stay tuned to the end where Tallia shares

This is a special episode that is part of a series of interviews with highlighted healers, I’m speaking with participants from my Chronic to Creatrix program! In this episode, we’re speaking with Lily Dueren. Lily is a Soulful Self-Care Coach + Holistic Lifestyle Guide. Working with women intimately within the realms of beauty and wellness for the past 15 years, Lily believes women are overcoming an epidemic of distraction, depletion, dissatisfaction and disconnection. She herself has experienced the depths of this and is now devoted to weaving deep connection and rejuvenation by way of sisterhood, soulful self-care, nature and the wild wisdom of the heart. Our time is now! In this conversation, you’ll hear about her experience with loneliness and lack of self worth as a young person and how working in the beauty industry led to her intimate work supporting women today. Lily shares how developing an autoimmune disease became her wakeup call to make some big shifts, and how she chose to take a natural route to

Happy Full Moon in Cancer! In the intro, I speak about the significance of this day and cosmic alignment of the energy of Mother. These are intense times and we’re feeling all the feels - I open up about the anniversary of my mom’s death & my commitment to helping the helpers. Plus, you’ll hear about the Chronic to Creatrix Akashic Experience - a program for holistic healers, practitioners, coaches & helpers.  This is a special episode that is dear to my heart! It’s part of a series of interviews with highlighted healers - I’m speaking with participants from my Chronic to Creatrix program! In this episode, we’re speaking with Chelsea Feldman, a mama, a classroom educator, a budding herbalist, an urban homesteader, and a photographer who is guided by earth spirit medicine. She lives in the California Bay Area with her husband and two amazing boys. In this conversation, you’ll hear about Chelsea’s experience of becoming a mother and how that has been a critical part of her spiritual evolution as well as

This is a special episode that is the first of a series of interviews with highlighted healers, I’m speaking with participants from my Chronic to Creatrix program! In this episode, we’re speaking with Cat Aldana Cat Aldana, Founder of EAT STRETCH NAP™ and 7+ year Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500). She is an Ayurvedic + Reiki Practitioner, Akashic Records Reader and a widely sought after corporate wellness consultant and speaker. Her passion for yoga stems from her contagious love for dance, holistic wellness and personal + professional development.  In this conversation, you’ll hear about Cat’s experience with her own skin challenges, working with Akashic Records personally and with clients, navigating the food realms, and the power of working with a coach/guide and community for accountability and support. You’ll also hear about Cat’s exciting new projects and her upcoming retreat in Colombia!   Click here for full show notes   >> ENTER THE GIVEAWAY :: Win the Creatrix Intuitive Healing Bundle

Happy New Year! In this reading for January, we are invited to look at our relationship to TIME and “see” with a new kind of vision. What if time were alive... would you treat it differently? What if you could “see” all of your problems... would you be willing to take full responsibility of your life experience? The choice is yours and the time is now. We’re being called to shift our outer world by shifting how we relate to time.  This month, we’re stepping into the realm of “All-time” and it’s a wild ride ;)  Click here for full show notes   >> ENTER THE GIVEAWAY :: Win the Creatrix Intuitive Healing Bundle for Healers ($860 of resources + goodies)! Go to http://bit.ly/creatrixgiveaway  >> JOIN THE WAITLIST :: Get on the list to learn more about the CHRONIC TO CREATRIX AKASHIC Experience for Holistic Healers & Practitioners (Opens Jan 2020)! Save the date to be the FIRST to know when doors open for this transformative program that’s helped other healers, practitioners, coaches, & changemakers like

In this episode, we’re speaking with Linda Garcia aka Luz Warrior on what it looks like to honor the medicine of hibernation and surrender to the changing tides of life... and doing so in a world that pushes against it. Linda tells us the story behind “Luz Warrior” and the Let There Be Luz podcast, and her struggles and trauma in earlier years. Linda shares how she transitioned from commercial storytelling in film, tv and radio to storytelling for wellness, her process of coming out of the “spiritual closet” and making conscious development teachings more accessible to her community. Linda also talks about the biggest challenges that she has faced in her transition and what following the intuitive path looks like for her, plus the dragons she has slayed along the way in stepping into her truth and breaking through victim mentality. Linda gives so much beautiful advice for those of us in the contraction phase in our path, and how to honor the ebbs just as much as the flows. As the final interview of 2019 and t

A gentle reminder: Enter the Creatrix Giveaway for Healers! (link below: http://bit.ly/creatrixgiveaway) Happy last new moon of the year (and decade)! Venessa and Megan talk about this new moon in Capricorn and reflections of 10 years past, how Venessa is celebrating her mom’s birthday and the 10th anniversary of her death. This is a great new moon for manifesting and now is the time to kick off the projects that have been at the back of your mind! We share ways to support and ground our dreams, including our favorite systems and apps to help us create a solid container that holds our visions and big projects. We explore some of our fave herbs and foods to support the body systems of focus with a Capricorn moon, including bones, skin, knees, and gallbladder. Megan shares her intention for moving forward into 2020: Keeping ONE promise to yourself every day; plus my love affair with water and the insights around water that are coming through lately. P.S. We’re taking a break from Moon Musings in January, so we

In the intro, I announce an exciting Giveaway for Healers (link below: http://bit.ly/creatrixgiveaway) as well as the fun collaboration I did with today’s guest, Chloe Slattery of The Mojo Mecca! Chloe Slattery of The Mojo Mecca hub and podcast is an artist of many different mediums, who is passionate about creating media, celebrating people's passions and living in reverence. Chloe is the founder of The Mojo Mecca - a media, wellness & artistry hub that is in celebration of the Earth, inspired to live in a mindful, health-full way, humbled by the depths of inner exploration and the power of practicing daily rituals, in love with the beauty of cultures worldwide and the adventurous nature of travel, dedicated to a life of heart-centredness, purposeful pursuits, and a whole lotta mojo. In this interview, we talk about Chloe’s path to creating her conscious media hub The Mojo Mecca + the medicine in its namesake, the Jim Morrison connection, and the guides and allies that informed her journey. We speak abou

Brandon Ruiz is a community herbalist and urban farmer living in Charlotte, NC. He owns Atabey Choreto Medicinals, directs the CLT Herbal Accessibility Project and spends his time working in urban gardens, making medicine and working with his community. Brandon works mainly with plants of the tropics, specifically from the Caribbean and Borikén (Puerto Rico), his ancestral homeland. In this interview, Brandon shares his plant path starting with a remedy from his grandmother that saved him from surgery. We discuss how he mingles herbal medicine with herbal history and herb cultivation, and also with community activism - looking at the elements we need to cultivate a community movement.  Brandon shares how he started a community garden project and how connection to plants can bring people together, why he began growing plants for food with ancestral connection, and the importance of growing your own food to connect with your ancestors. We talk about the challenges of tracking ancestral history and lineages for

Full moon blessings, bbs! Venessa and Megan talk about this full moon in Gemini and the opportunity it brings to reflect on communication in the realms of love and money - and it all starts with you. We discuss the importance of effective communication for the healing process, tending to our inner realms of communication, and how breathwork can support this process, esp around the realms of release work. Megan shares her amazing rituals including a year-end review, using a talking stone at the dining table, and we both share how creating a connection and communication with Divine/Source/God/Universe through the power of prayer can cultivate a safe container for being witnessed and accepted wholly. We explore some of our fave herbs to support the Gemini connections to the nervous system and the lungs, such as Venessa’s love affair with milky oat tops, and valerian as Megan’s trusted nightcap. Click here for full show notes >> GET YOUR FREE BOOK LIST :: Get access to the Chronic to Creatrix Book Club List of 40

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>> GET YOUR FREE BOOK LIST :: Get access to the Chronic to Creatrix Book Club List of 40+ of my fave books to boost your intuition, nourish your body & connect to your Inner Healer! >> SPECIAL AKASHIC OFFER 3 FOR 333 :: {Offer Ends Tuesday 12/3/19!} BUY 3 x 45 min Akashic Soul Record Readings and save $132!. You can purchase these intuitive sessions and give them as gifts too - simply forward the unique code you'll receive upon purchase and send me a quick email letting me know who will be receiving the reading. Click here to NOURISH your soul and roots this winter, set up your 3 Akashic Soul Record readings for just $333. Offer ends December 3rd 2019! To learn more about Akashic Soul Record readings, click here.   ABOUT EPISODE In this reading, our guides direct us to our roots and the seeds we hold within our heart. We are reminded that Collaboration is the key and to tune into Divine Source to allow the flow of creativity that informs our reality. We can tap into our collective gifts, abilities and

>> GET YOUR FREE BOOK LIST :: Get access to the Chronic to Creatrix Book Club List of 40+ of my fave books to boost your intuition, nourish your body & connect to your Inner Healer! ABOUT EPISODE Happy new moon! Venessa and Megan talk about how this new moon in Sagittarius houses a beautiful energy to reflect on recent themes before Eclipse season arrives, invitations for working with our root chakra, and adapting to change. We discuss the importance of working with our bodies and mining our thoughts, and ways to support our internal fires so we don’t burn out.  We share some of what we’ve been working on to support our root and allow more flow (i.e. are you holding your pee too?) such as honoring our body’s rhythms, self massage and twerking as medicine. We explore some of our fave moistening and circulatory foods & herbs to support the flow of that heat related to weakened or imbalanced Sagittarius fire.   Click here for full show notes   ***** Ask Us Your Top Q's!   Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcast