Today, we’re diving deep into the Underworld to see what tools, teachings + resources it has for us in all seasons of life. Emily Prentice joins us to talk about the inevitable change the Underworld brings us, how our creative practices can be a practice for embracing joy and what is and is not our responsibility as mere mortals.

What does animism mean? This episode with herbalist + astrologer Sarah Corbett guides us into a story where humans are the stewards, caretakers and community of all beings around us and offers simple steps to make our way back to that reality.

The Relationship between the Earth + Human Healing / Herbs for Skin Care / Different Approaches to Healing Journeys / Empowering Your Body by Listening to It (+ the plants)

Loving Nature through Herbalism / the Microbiome breakthroughs in Health / Plant Wisdom for Abundance / Local Futures

Tami + Selima Lust of Iwilla Remedy talk with us about herbalism, the role of emotions in sustainable healing work and the value of forgiveness in our healing journeys.

This special episode is second (and final) look back over the first year of the podcast; and we're bringing you clips and highlights from both guest conversations and solo episodes. My hope is that long-time listeners will get a refreshing review and that newcomers will get a digestive summary of where we've been.

- The perspective of plants + plant memory

- Centralizing ancestral relationships in both everyday life + ceremony

- The importance of connecting to your own medicine from your own land first

- The harm of appropriating and capitalizing on Native culture

- How necessary joy + pleasure are to “stay with the trouble”

- Re-imagining the indirectness of our survival and primal needs

- The false binary of survival + pleasure

- The body as the altar + container for magic

- How she emerged from the art world into the work of a “kitchen witch”

- How being a settler is a fundamental orientation to how she relates to the land

- How she thinks about reciprocal relationship to the land in her practice