Feed Your Wild | Food For Your Ancient Body, Mind & Soul

>> 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! >> GET WILDLY UNSTUCK :: Sign up for Wildly Unstuck audio program (it’s free) + learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals & what to do about them. ABOUT EPISODE   Chris Maddox is the founder of The Wild Woman Project where she teaches women how to utilize the gifts of the Wild Woman Archetype in their everyday lives & how to lead women’s circles in their local communities. She is the director of the beloved annual WILD WOMAN FEST, a women’s retreat-festival hybrid which fosters a deep connection to nature, a direct experience of the divine feminine & profound spiritual sisterhood among the women in attendance. In this interview, Chris shares how she started the Wild Woman Project, and how it has grown from 1 new moon circle to hundreds in over 18 countries. We explore the power of the circle “architectu

  >> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up for newsletter to receive updates on upcoming programs and events >> GET WILDLY UNSTUCK :: Sign up for Wildly Unstuck audio program (it’s free) + learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals & what to do about them. ABOUT EPISODE   *Due to Monica’s location in nature at her home in Australia, the internet connection gets disrupted at certain points in the conversation - while we did our best to make the audio sound better at certain points, we apologize for the quality and encourage you to continue listening as she has so many amazing things to say.  In her book Thus Spoke The Plant, a “phytobiography”– or a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant –research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people–beings with subjectiv

>> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up for newsletter to receive updates on upcoming programs and events >> GET WILDLY UNSTUCK :: Sign up for Wildly Unstuck audio program (it’s free) + learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals & what to do about them. ABOUT EPISODE Happy full moon bbs! Today Venessa and Megan talk about how this full moon in Taurus is an awesome time for completing long term goals, making dreams a reality, and understanding and communicating your feelings. We’re gettin crafty and creating our reality by hand and voice, and physically, we’re tending the throat chakra and organs ie thyroid, tonsils, vocal cords, etc.  We share some of what we’ve been struggling with on a personal level, Venessa shares her challenges with communicating and activating her voice, and surfacing of deep emotions. We explore Truth-speaking as it relates to our health - how we often hold things in so as not to hurt others, and how this can impact our physiology. Of course we talk food, herbs, and a fall time stomach

>> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up to be on the email list and be the first to know about upcoming workshops, exclusive offers, & nourishment notes that you won’t hear on the podcast or anywhere else!   ABOUT EPISODE Happy 11/11! In this solo episode, I was inspired to get personal and allow some intuitive sharings to come thru straight from the heart. I speak to what 11:11 means to me and talk about my career journey including things I have not shared publicly before. I talk about what I learned working in “corporate” and in an entrepreneurial setting for 10 years before I jumped ship into my own company, and my take on the “medicine of disorientation” and the unbearable feeling of “not knowing what to do next”. I also share the biggest takeaway lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years and what I’ve been up to lately including new & exciting things coming out in 2020! This kind of intuitively led episode was a stretch for me (I like to prepare + plan, even for the Akashic readings!) so I trust there were sup

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>> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up to be on the email list and be the first to know about upcoming workshops, exclusive offers, & nourishment notes that you won’t hear on the podcast or anywhere else!   ABOUT EPISODE In this reading, our guides are inviting us to celebrate life and EXPRESS through this holy embodiment... use it, work it, feel it, be it. Each breath is life, each exhale a mini death. What are you going to breathe life into next? What are you extinguishing in the next cycle? We are reminded that we are not alone on this earth walk dance floor, support is all around us... yet we are blessed with the illusion of separation - experience it as a gift, not as a punishment.  Pick up the pen and be the active participant and co-creator you are meant to be. We are given recommendations of practices that will help us connect with the unseen support around us, our ancestors, and face the stories we carry. Above all, we are asked to simply pay attention, widen our heart’s perception thru intention, and see what

It’s Scorpio season and we’re taking it slow this new moon and week of Halloween & Samhain. Today Venessa and Megan talk about how this Scorpio moon is calling us to deepen our intentions and dares us to find a place in our life experience where we can take it slow. We share some of what we’ve been struggling with on a personal level, and the surprising remedies this moon has offered us. We discuss Scorpio’s influence on our 2nd chakra & reproductive organs, and how the medicine of Slowness facilitates deep healing & transformation in these areas (and assists other remedies such as our “hormone balancing” herbal allies and foods to work even better, or at all). From Slow Food to Slow Making, this moon and season we are inviting you to literally carve out moments of stillness and savor the medicine.    Click here for full show notes   ***** Ask Us Your Top Q's!   Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + int

>> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up for newsletter to receive updates on upcoming programs and events >> GET WILDLY UNSTUCK :: Sign up for Wildly Unstuck audio program (it’s free) + learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals & what to do about them. ABOUT EPISODE “Ancestral lineage healing is a potent process of healing and vitalization for your ancestral lineages, and by extension yourself.” - Maris Bergrune Musical clip at interlude: Ár Var Alda sung by Maris from her collection of Songs from Old Norse Eddic Poetry. You can find this one and more at www.livingvoicemedicine.com Maris Bergrune is an ancestral lineage healing practitioner, Norse ritual animist, and ritual healer. She helps people become deeply well with their ancestors and access Northern European wisdom traditions and transformational ritual.  Today, Maris and I are talking about ancestral lineage healing, what it is, how Maris got into this work, and why it’s critical to develop a connection to our “well ancestors” for reparation work with

>> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up for newsletter to receive updates on upcoming programs and events >> GET WILDLY UNSTUCK :: Sign up for Wildly Unstuck audio program (it’s free) + learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals & what to do about them. ABOUT EPISODE As an Author, Life Coach, Trazuma Release Practitioner and Personal Development Teacher Evette Rose strives to support people in their healing journeys.  She is the founder of Metaphysical Anatomy and Rapid Growth Healing Technique. Evette is best known for her work in helping people resolve trauma from their past, and freeing them to live successful and fulfilling lives. Evette’s work is drawn from personal experience moving from a difficult past into a well-balanced life and career. She has traveled around the world twice and taught personal development seminars in more than 43 countries and helped thousands of people world wide.  Evette learned many techniques to powerfully shift the trauma of abuse, until she hit a wall and stopped getting res

DISCLAIMER: The quality of my (Venessa’s) audio is subpar today because, well, sometimes technology decides not to cooperate! Apologies for the less-than-enjoyable listening experience, and we wish you a nourishing full moon

>> SUBSCRIBE :: Sign up for newsletter to receive updates on upcoming programs and events >> GET WILDLY UNSTUCK :: Sign up for Wildly Unstuck audio program (it’s free) + learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals & what to do about them. ABOUT EPISODE   I had a pull to share this episode I had previously recorded with Katie Hess on her The Flowerlounge Podcast, with the Feed Your Wild audience. Katie and I discuss how my mom’s breast cancer inspired my devotion to food as medicine. We talk about ancestral nutrition + feeding your wild with some unique approaches to figuring out what to eat in today’s crazy food world + how to get healthier. In this episode, we discuss: Functional Nutrition: from disease-centered model to person-centered model From Bandaid for symptoms vs. digging for root issues How Venessa’s ,om’s cancer inspired her to devotion food as medicine Epigenetics + our power of shift + deactivate our genetic patterns Ancestral Nutrition + role of Akashic Records in healing

*Heads up: I do a longer intro in this episode sharing personal insights and recent events, so if you want to jump straight to the Akashic Reading, it starts at 15:19 time mark. In this monthly reading, we pierce through a veil and travel to a different world where we’re shown the great unseen war that is happening right now and how “othering” is playing a primary role in a process of self-destruction. We see how our connection to the elements and the unseen world is going to be the bridge that reminds and reconnects us to the aspects of ourselves against which we are waging war. Tuning into the elements, our senses & pleasure will transport us to a level of awareness that’ll open up doors to a new world. We’re given 2 simple practices to connect to our expanded brain power and languages of the heart for “energetic fluency.” This reading had an interesting twist at the end after doing some research on a name given... we’re going scifi this month, folx. Enjoy the ride. For episode page, click here   *****

Happy New Moon in Libra! Today Venessa and Megan are talking about the influences of this Libra moon that supports us in forging new and loving alliances with your body for a melodious and compassionate partnership. We talk about the power of this sweet new moon in promoting reflection and intention-setting around relationships, collaboration, and self-nourishment. We discuss Libra’s influence on our veins, challenges with stagnation and flow, and our fave herbal support for varicose veins and cardiovascular movement. Finally we share our own personal body talk practices, & offer some new moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle. Click for full show notes   ****** Ask Us Your Top Q's! Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges. Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose ***** SUPPORT THE PODCAST Your support means the world... If th

If our reality - and hence our life experiences - are shaped by our perception and limitations of our imagination, then what can our dreams teach us about consciousness and our Selves? In this episode, we’re talking with Jennifer Dumpert, a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, and consciousness hacker to help us answer this question. She’s the author of the recently released Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep. Jennifer teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming—surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states. We discuss liminal dreaming as the doorway between waking and dream consciousness, how it differs from other kinds of dream & sleep states, and the healing benefits of liminal dreaming and yoga nidra being applied globally. We also talk about one of my favorite topics - imagination as a faculty of perception (and perhaps the most important one!) and what’s actually happening in the brain and body when we experience common collective experie

Have you ever thought about working with your personal story and considering your story as a mythology? Janelle believes that we can heal and transform when we work with our personal mythologies instead of against them. Janelle supports creative, courageous, sensitive women + non-binary people in reclaiming their brilliance, vibrancy and strength via a transformation memoir-writing process called The Art of Personal Mythmaking. A huge belief of mine is that we have the power to change our stories and that’s directly connected to our health and life experiences in our bodies. The work that Janelle does is navigating people through this personal memoir writing process that leads one through personal transformation. Janelle also has her own podcast, The Personal Mythmaking Podcast, today she published my episode where we dive into a fairytale that I have loved since a little girl - The Little Mermaid! Janelle shares her personal story and how she came to develop the Art of Personal Mythmaking process. Janelle di

We’re back! Venessa and Megan are happy to dive back into the depths of our beloved Moon Musings, kicking it off with this Harvest Full Moon in Pisces. The themes we cover of this episode and moon are all about staying rooted AND in flow, standing tall and in full alignment starting with our feet. We discuss the medicine of this transitional season and share tips on ways to support getting back into alignment and routines. We share our own personal updates, fall transition time practices, & offer some full moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle. Click for full show notes   ****** Ask Us Your Top Q's! Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges. Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose   ***** SUPPORT THE PODCAST Your support means the world... If the show has helped, inspired or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you

GET ON THE LIST Sign up to be on the email list and be the first to know about upcoming workshops, exclusive offers, & nourishment notes that you won’t hear on the podcast or anywhere else! Click here to subscribe ***** ABOUT THIS EPISODE We’re speaking with Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon and Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez, aka The Brujas of Brooklyn. As Afro-Dominican identical twins, raised in Brooklyn, New York, they believe in the power of Spirit to cast spells that aid in collective healing. The Brujas of Brooklyn are healing generational traumas of gendered racism, which women of color often hold in our wombs, or Yonis. Their craft is therefore dedicated to womb-healing, or what they call Woke Womb Work. In this conversation, we talk about what bruja means to them and the reclamation of this word and way of being. They share how they came into “Woke Womb Work” diving deep into the sacred realms of the Yoni and how it relates to socioeconomic and political events and forces. The Brujas breakdown for us the

GET ON THE LIST Sign up to be on the email list and be the first to know about upcoming workshops, exclusive offers, & nourishment notes that you won’t hear on the podcast or anywhere else! Click here to subscribe ***** ABOUT THIS EPISODE And we’re back! Kicking it off with the Akashic message for September: It’s time to question the great illusion of the Linear, the stories we’ve been sold, & support the powerful spiralic centrifugal forces within you by taking yourself for a spin. In this season of transition (and fall time in the northern hemisphere), we’re reminded of how everything blossoms into a death and rebirth process - encouraging us to embrace the medicine of letting go. BEING the flow of change versus being a victim of change. Our guides ask us to question the stories we’ve being sold... Consider how the linear ways of life are holding you back from your own truth. How are they keeping you safe in a tiny box but preventing you from experiencing the fullness of what a spiralic expansive mu

Venessa and Megan dive into the themes of this New Moon in LEO: Leading with HEART, Broadcasting LOVE & physically supporting the heart + cardiovascular system. We share tips on how to support your heart and heart-brain vibes with herbs and foods. We cover the concept of shen, share our own personal practices and ahas around heartwork, & offer some new moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle. ******   Ask Us Your Top Q's!   Go to wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect to send us your top questions around health + wellness, nutrition + herbalism, natural cycles + intuition, & your top challenges.   Connect with Venessa @wildlyrooted Connect with Megan @amethyst_and_rose ***** SUPPORT THE PODCAST Your support means the world... If the show has helped, inspired or spoken to you, it would mean the world to me if you show your support through a small financial contribution. Each FYW episode is a labor of love that takes me about three days to produce... From as little as $1 a month, your

The message for August is Tune out to tune in, and the waves within. Get ready to open up to receive divine downloads this month - we are reminded that we don’t need anything other than our body and heart’s intention (and SPACE) to receive these messages. Clean the mind slate, don’t be afraid to enter the void, and “follow the bouncy red ball.” It’s time to claim our rightful place as both drummer and beat follower, setting your own rhythm so that We as a collective can begin to work together in sync and harmony. Can you feel that drum beat? For more detailed show notes, click here   FREE AUDIO PROGRAM Wildly UNSTUCK :: Learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals & what to do about them... Get out of your own way and master the mindset of health.  Join this free audio program here.   INTERESTED IN YOUR OWN AKASHIC READING? Get your personalized 1:1 reading with Venessa here (+ learn more)   ***** LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE We can now accept your feedback, questions, & comments by voice message! C