by Amber M Hill
Exploring both wellness and the weirdness in the wellness space, mostly through the lenses of women's metabolic health & herbalism. Mainstream medicine has many shortcomings, but many in the alternative sphere have lost their critical thinking faculties entirely. Let's navigate together.
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April 9, 2025
<p class="" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">In 2021 Tara and her family got the knock on their door that every parent fears most. In the days that followed they discovered eighteen-year-old Mila’s journal and were able to piece together the shocking and devastating chain of events that led to her death.</p> <p class="">Tara’s Instagram and Substack, Slowdown Farmstead, is followed and admired by tens of thousands of people. Tara and her husband raised their three daughters on their beautiful Canadian farm, lovingly tending to and butchering their own livestock in order to nourish their family and community. Deeply acquainted with the cycles of nature, Tara has a perspective on the interconnectedness of life and death that was the daily reality for our ancestors but eludes most modern people.</p> <p class="">But that did not prepare her for what could happen when a drug that is now bred to be as strong as any pharmaceutical- and which is often misunderstood as being a benign herbal medicine- snuck its way into her daughter’s life at a vulnerable time and completely rewired her brain in a matter of months.</p> <p class="">It is our hope that sharing Mila’s story will make more people aware of the <strong>increasingly common</strong> psychosis that is a side effect of the new high-THC strains of cannabis on the market, and especially of its dangers for the developing teenage brain.</p> <p class="">Please read the articles linked below for more.</p> <p class="">Tara's essay <a href= "https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com/p/what-happened-to-our-daughter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Happened To Our Daughter</a>- don't miss the dozens of resources about the risks of cannabis at the end</p> <p class=""><a href= "https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-weed-became-new-oxycontin-marijuana-psychosis-addiction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Weed Became the New OxyContin: Big Pharma and Big Tobacco Are Helping Market High-Potency, Psychosis-Inducing THC Products as Your Mother’s ‘Medical Marijuana’</a></p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.patreon.com/MedicineStories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patreon bonus conversation</a>- What We Want Our Daughter To Know: women, restriction, chronic illness & more on Tara’s metabolic journey</p> <p class="">Learn more about Tara’s book <a href= "https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com/p/radiance-of-the-ordinary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radiance of the Ordinary</a></p> <p class="">Slowdown Farmstead on <a href= "https://www.slowdownfarmstead.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Substack</a> and <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Instagram</a></p> <p class=""><a href= "https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21665-cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome</a></p> <p class="">Take our fun quiz <a href= "https://mythicmedicine.love/quiz">Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?</a></p> <p class="">My website <a href= "https://mythicmedicine.love/">MythicMedicine.love </a></p> <p class="">Mythic Medicine on <a href= "https://instagram.com/mythicmedicine/">Instagram</a></p> <p class="">Medicine Stories <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/groups/medicinestories/">Facebook group</a></p> <p class="">Music by <a href= "https://marieesioux.bandcamp.com/music">Mariee Siou</a> (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)</p>
March 1, 2025
<p class="" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">My most beloved herbal elder and I talk about our favorite subject- women throughout time using plants for self care, family healing, and community connection. After nearly 4 decades as a practicing herbalist and teacher, and in an age of informational overabundance, Kami has seen what actually works when it comes to truly embodying herbal knowing.</p> <p class=""><a href= "https://mythicmedicine.love/blog-full-archive/handcrafted-healing-herbal-oils" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Find Kami’s freebies & learn more about Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils</a> (including the peek at what you see when you log in to the course).</p> <p class="">Two <a href="https://www.patreon.com/MedicineStories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patreon bonuses</a> for this episode- an extended conversation with Kami where we share our stories of <strong>Mothering Without Elders</strong>, and two free videos with Kami entitled <strong>Garden Herb Walk</strong>- meet 9 favorite garden herbs that can calm the nerves, help with digestion, heal the skin, kick a cold, and more! Let’s meet beautiful edible and medicinal flowers, weeds, leaves and seeds and find out which ones are used for what.</p> <p class="">Kami’s book <a href= "https://kamimcbride.com/theherbalkitchen/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">The Herbal Kitchen</a></p> <p class="">Amber’s website <a href= "https://mythicmedicine.love/">MythicMedicine.love </a></p> <p class="">Take our fun <a href= "https://mythicmedicine.love/quiz">Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine?</a> quiz</p> <p class="">Amber/Mythic Medicine on <a href= "https://instagram.com/mythicmedicine/">Instagram</a></p> <p class="" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Amber’s <a href= "https://ambermhill.substack.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Nourishing Motherlines</a> Substack</p> <p class="">Medicine Stories <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/groups/medicinestories/">Facebook group</a></p> <p class="">Music by <a href= "https://marieesioux.bandcamp.com/music">Mariee Siou</a> (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)</p>
February 17, 2025
<p class="" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Suuzi and I continue the discussion sparked by my last episode about culty trends in the wellness space by talking about her past with Kundalini yoga- what drew her in and, eventually, how noticing the state of nourishment of those deepest into the cult precipitated her exit. We then catch listeners up on our midlife metabolic meltdown hEaLinG jOuRnEyS and what path we’re taking forward as we continue to recover our vitality and deepen our understanding of why women’s bodies are so metabolically expensive.</p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.patreon.com/MedicineStories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patreon bonuses</a> for this episode include an extended conversation w/ Suuz about the reaction to the German New Medicine episode (114) & how it surprisingly kindled a discussion amongst patrons about a remarkably similar ideology, a 10% off coupon code for Suuzi’s grass fed, grass finished liver pills, and a chance to ask us questions. Also photos of Suuzi in turbans!</p> <p class="">Dr. Suuzi on <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/drsuuzihazen/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Instagram</a></p> <p class=""><a href="https://mothersbestliverpills.com" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Mother’s Best Liver Pills</a></p> <p class="">Amber’s <a href="https://ambermhill.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nourishing Motherlines</a> Substack</p> <p class="">Amber’s website <a href= "https://mythicmedicine.love/">MythicMedicine.love </a></p> <p class="">Take our fun <a href= "https://mythicmedicine.love/quiz">Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine?</a> quiz</p> <p class="">Amber/Mythic Medicine on <a href= "https://instagram.com/mythicmedicine/">Instagram</a></p> <p class="">Medicine Stories <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/groups/medicinestories/">Facebook group</a></p> <p class="">Music by <a href= "https://marieesioux.bandcamp.com/music">Mariee Siou</a> (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)</p> <p class="">Mentioned in this episode:</p> <p class="">Kimberly Ann Johnson on <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/episode/6OE9KAG3krAbVWbAhruAaJ" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Whose Body Is It</a></p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.hbo.com/breath-of-fire" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Breath of Fire</a> Kundalini cult/Guru Jagat documentary</p> <p class="">The <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLalvruAE7sWoHXRU15DIXQqdYNJL4f-Ri" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rooted in Resilience</a> podcast and specific <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLalvruAE7sWrmVNBrwNAq2P9QSXkerexc&v=S2uuUctp-4Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Minnesota Starvation Experiment</a> episodes with Kathleen Stewart</p> <p class=""><a href="https://www.jayfeldmanwellness.com/podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Energy Balance Podcast</a></p> <p class=""><a href="https://cronometer.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Cronometer</a> nutrition tracking app</p> <p class=""><a href= "https://fundamentalnourishment.substack.com/p/how-to-not-get-fat?isFreemail=true&post_id=154143994&publication_id=1122085&r=ldyk9&triedRedirect=true&utm_campaign=email-post-title&utm_medium=email&utm_source=post-email-title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Not Get Fat on the “Pro-Metabolic Diet”</a>: a guide for switching to nourishing foods while avoiding fat gain by Kaya of Fundamental Nourishment</p> <p class=""><a href= "https://fundamentalnourishment.substack.com/p/pro-metabolic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eating a “Pro-Metabolic Diet” Will Not Heal You:</a> an appeal for having context to understand the big picture by Kaya of Fundamental Nourishment</p>
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