Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with author & teacher Anodea Judith. Anodea Judith, Ph.D. is a globally recognized teacher and the author of several bestselling books on chakras, psychology, yoga, social change, and women’s leadership, which have been translated into 28 languages. Her latest book is Goddess: Blessed Reunions with the Feminine Face of the Divine. Anodea holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and a doctorate in Mind-Body Health, with advanced yoga certifications and other somatic therapy training. As a globally recognized teacher, her workshops have reached at least 163 countries with a live and online presence. She is the founder and director of the teaching organization Sacred Centers, a member of the Evolutionary Leadership Council, and has been called a “prophet for our time.”  anodeajudith.com.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Herbalist Carolyn Jones. Carolyn Jones, founder of The Healing Project, is an herbalist and holistic health practitioner who loves to share the message of natural self-care. She has certifications in aromatherapy, flower essence therapy, reflexology; and, acupuncture detoxification therapy (NADA). Carolyn is also the author of Pick Up Your Bed and Walk: A Guide to Improved Health and an affirmation book titled, Incantations. WEBSITE: www.behealed.info INSTAGRAM: thp_the_healing_project

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview  Z Budapest is author of the acclaimed The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (1989) originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on guide to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage. The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries contains just about everything you need to know and then some for actualizing a goddess-centered lifestyle. This interview is for any woman seeking to know more about themselves, women’s spirituality, and the goddess movement. Zsuzsanna “Z” Budapest was born in Hungary in 1940 and emigrated to the United States in 1959. She grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as god. Following her family’s spiritual tradition, she ultimately started the Women's Spirituality Movement. She also founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l, the first feminist witches' coven, which became the role model for thousands of other spiritual groups being born and spreading across the nation. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with KhadiYah Preciado, KhadiYah Preciado is a young stay at home wife and mother to two toddlers. On her small, less than quarter acre lot, she grows hundreds of pounds of food that she cooks from scratch and preserves on a daily basis. She loves gardening, raising chickens, and making natural beauty products and herbal remedies for her family.  KhadiYah strives to be the best biblical homemaker that she can be! Professionally, KhadiYah is a community herbalist, author and content creator. She specializes in teaching African and African American herbal traditions. She prides herself on being a self-professed "Kitchen Herbalist" and teaches others to be the same. Her "T.E.A. method" empowers students to craft unique, delectable, potent, and effective herbal blends. Her "4 Levels of Safety" offer a structured foundation, ensuring safe exploration of herbs. Her "4 Step Journey" embodies holistic healing, promoting gradual progress and deepening of knowledge.  www.yahsapothecary.com

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Dr. Catherine Clinton. Dr. Catherine Clinton, a licensed naturopathic physician, has spent over 16 years helping people overcome their health issues. Diagnosed with two autoimmune conditions and Lyme disease while in medical school, she began the long and difficult journey of healing- a path that led to the commitment to help others to not only heal physically but to return to the relationships we evolved over millennia with for a deeper sense of health and belonging. By healing herself and patients like her, she discovered that true health comes from our relationships. Dr. Catherine has learned how our quantum biological system is intimately and inseparably connected to the world around us. Our relationship with the dirt beneath our feet, the sun, the wind, the water, the plants, the seasons, each other- that is the real medicine. Her mission is to empower as many people as she can with this knowledge to encourage the paradigm shift, we so desperately need.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Joan Ranquet. Joan Ranquet is an accomplished animal communicator of over 30 years, an author, TEDx speaker, educator, and animal guardian. Joan’s hands-on animal communication and energy healing processes troubleshoot behavioral and medical issues, stimulate healing (in conjunction with conventional treatment), and deepen her clients’ abilities to care for and understand their animals. Joan believes the capacity to attune to animals and work with them energetically is not a gift for a select few, but an innate ability we can all access with guidance. She teaches down-to-earth skills that enable her students to communicate consistently and confidently with animals. Clients include hundreds of thousands of animal guardians, animal trainers, barn managers, veterinarians, sanctuaries, wildlife, rehab, and therapeutic riding centers, as well as everyday pet owners. Joan’s newest book, Emotional Freedom Technique for Animals and their Humans, Creating a Harmonious Relationship through Tapping (Findhorn Press, 2023) will be out in June.  She is also the author of Energy Healing for Animals: A Hands-On Guide for Enhancing the Health, Longevity, and Happiness of Your Pets (Sounds True, 2015) and Communication with All Life: Revelations of an Animal Communicator (Hay House, 2007). She contributed to: The Dharma of Dogs: Our Best Friends as Spiritual Teachers (Sounds True, 2017) and The Karma of Cats: Spiritual Wisdom from our Feline Friends (Sounds True, 2019).

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with mind-body healing expert Brandy Gillmore. Brandy Gillmore is a researcher and mind-body healing expert who has been captivating audiences worldwide with her incredible ability to demonstrate radical healing using only the mind. She has even shown visual proof of the power of the mind using medical thermal imaging. Due to these breakthrough results, her case studies have been published in a prestigious medical journal. She has also delivered a mind-expanding TEDx talk and has been featured in several documentaries.  Brandy's groundbreaking discoveries stemmed from her own debilitating injury. After an accident in 2003 left her disabled, in excruciating pain, and without hope of recovery, Brandy began searching for a cure. Through years of exploring every avenue for healing, Brandy eventually discovered obscure research that changed the course of her life and resulted in a complete recovery. Now, she is releasing her brand-new cutting-edge book, Master Your Mind and Energy to Heal Your Body, where she shares the hidden research that is the key to her success!  Several researchers and doctors have referred to Brandy's new book as a "must-read." It holds an incredible missing key to healing. The reality is that our minds possess an extraordinary ability to heal, far beyond the placebo, and Brandy's new book helps the reader understand the missing link to mind-body healing and provides a simple step-by-step process on how we can all access this hidden healing potential of our own minds.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with The Tarot Lady - Theresa Reed Theresa Reed (aka "The Tarot Lady") is a Tarot expert, astrologer, teacher and author who has been reading Tarot for over forty years. She is the author of The Cards You're Dealt – How to Deal WhenLife Gets Real and about a dozen other books. https://www.thetarotlady.com/

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with herbalist Linda Conroy Linda Conroy is a visionary, a bioregional/wise woman herbalist, an educator, wildcrafter, permaculturist and an advocate for women's health. She is the proprietress of Moonwise Herbs and the founder of Wild Eats: a movement to encourage people and communities to incorporate whole and wild food into their daily lives. She is passionate about women's health and has been working with women for over 30 years in a wide variety of settings. Linda is a student of nonviolent communication and she has a master's degree in Social Work as well as Law and Social Policy. Linda has been offering plant-driven, hands-on herbal programs, apprenticeships and food education for 3 decades. She has completed two herbal apprenticeship programs, one of which was with Susun Weed at the Wise Woman Center, she has studied with Isla Burgess and has a certificate in Permaculture Design. Linda is a curious woman whose primary teachers are the plants; who never cease to instill a sense of awe and amazement. Linda's mentor, and poetic friend Julene Tripp Weaver, eloquently describes Linda when she writes, "She listens to the bees, takes tips from the moon, and follows her heart." www.moonwiseherbs.com Happy Birthday to us. My birthday is the same day as Susun's, would love to spend a few minutes celebrating.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Reiki master Catherine Bastedo Catherine C. Bastedo is a Reiki master who has always been fascinated by birds. Over the last fifteen years, Catherine has taught Reiki, including an intensive master program, led workshops and retreats, volunteered as a wellness coach for cancer survivors, and sat on the board of a nonprofit organization devoted to women’s health. She practices yoga and meditation and writes online articles related to complementary health. Prior to this, Catherine enjoyed a fulfilling career with the Canadian government after having completed a master’s degree in Canadian Studies. She was then appointed executive director of an international nonprofit organization that promotes and supports Canadian studies. https://catherinecbastedo.com/

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Amanda Kemp. Dr. Amanda Kemp, also known as Aminata Desert Rose Plant Walker Fire Woman, graduated from Stanford University after surviving the NYC foster care system. She is the founder and producer of the Mother Tree community and the Mother Tree Network podcast, which is in the top 10% of all podcasts globally. Aminata is the Amazon best-selling author of Stop Being Afraid: 5 Steps to Transform your Conversations about Racism, a workbook for individuals who want to be more effective in racial justice.  Her memoir, "Say the Wrong Thing: Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice and Authentic Community", is used in high schools and colleges throughout the U.S.  She is also a Visiting Scholar at Franklin & Marshall College and the winner of the 2018 Advoz Dignity in Dialogue Award. In her capacity as a Board member of the Lancaster NAACP, performing artist, and master teacher, she has helped over 30,000 people have more open-hearted conversations about racism and compassionate community. In 2021 Dr. Amanda had a spiritual awakening where she received her new names from an ancestor and received the message to stop everything and that the trees on her land wanted to adopt her. Over the course of a two-year learning journey, she has been working with deeper truths underneath social justice, journeying with plants and fungi, and has since integrated the wisdom from trees into her Mother Tree Network podcast and community and continues her deep apprenticeship to the Earth and the feminine divine.   She can now be found teaching, and creating theatre, poetry, and ritual via Theatre for Transformation and inside the Mother Tree Community.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Charlene Oesterling.  Charlene Oesterling is the creative mind behind A Stoopid Good World International. ASGWI is a growing multifaceted brand that brings together a lifetime of experience as an athlete, chef, artist and life guide. After years of self-study and learning from clients, friends, and mentors, A Stoopid Good World was born. ASGWI includes personal growth, spiritual, and fitness tools, a fun funky functional high protein/fiber food line called Stoopid Good Food and Wear Your @, a progressive inspirational themed t-shirt, clothing and livable art line dedicated to self-recognition and accepting who you are where you are. Her love, passion and dedication to maintain optimal health and fitness has led her to study not only what makes her drive and focus razor sharp but how to teach others the same by using life experience, purpose, and the amazing tools of her brand as her guides. After finishing a college and professional basketball career, Charlene was called by life down the path of studying her life in order to heal past emotional experiences, conditioning and the patterns she developed through them. With the help of 3 amazing healers, using 3 different healing modalities, she was able to surrender what she thought she knew about her life and let the past surface to see it from a new perspective that allowed her to forgive, heal and let A Pinhole of Light be written from her soul through her fingertips.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Priestess Dawn DelVecchio. Dawn DelVecchio MA, Ascension Guide, Priestess, Astrologer, Divine Mother Channel & Earth Gaia Devotee. For more than 38 years Dawn DelVecchio has been a devotee of Divine Mother and Mother Gaia. Over these years she has cultivated mastery as a teacher, ceremonial facilitator, spiritual guide, tarot & Soul astrology reader.  She is the founder of the Return of the Priestess speaker series, the Return of the Priestess private community, co-founder of the monthly, Prayers for Humanity monthly gatherings online, and the lineage bearer of the MotherSpirit Priestess line. Dawn is also a dedicated student of the practice of forgiveness and Christ Consciousness, as is taught in A Course in Miracles. Since 2017, Dawn has been hosting retreats and online courses for women called to the path of Sacred Feminine Leadership. Her work is devoted to supporting women who wish to embody the Feminine Ray of the Divine, that they may serve humanity's awakening and lead with Love.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Therapist Whitney Walker Whitney Walker is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in addiction, eating disorders, trauma, and Spirituality. She also works as a recovery coach and spiritual guide. Whitney opened a private practice in the California Bay Area where she sees clients, couples, and families. Whitney incorporates spiritual concepts into her work including the return of the Divine Feminine to our world and moving from a place of Fear to Love; releasing self-destruction and rejection to embrace unconditional self love and acceptance. These ideas form the concept of Women Waken, her business and vision for the future. Whitney created The Women Waken Podcast; A Holistic Guide to Wellness and Abundant Self-Love along with an accompanying Youtube channel, please check it out!

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with meditation teacher Kimberly Brown.  Kimberly Brown is a popular meditation teacher and author. She leads classes and workshops that emphasize the power of compassion and kindness to reconnect us to ourselves and others. Her teachings provide an approachable pathway to personal and collective well-being through effective and modern techniques based on traditional practices. Kimberly studies in both the Tibetan and Insight schools of Buddhism and is a Certified Mindfulness Instructor. An updated and revised edition of her first book, Steady, Calm, and Brave: 25 Buddhist Practices of Resilience and Wisdom in a Crisis, was released in January 2023.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with physical therapist Dr. Cathleen King Dr. Cathleen King, DPT is a physical therapist who is passionate about teaching neuroscience-based practices targeting the brain and nervous system. She is the CEO and founder of the Primal Trust™ Academy & Community. She weaves together brain retraining, vagus nerve toning, somatic movement, and trauma-informed attachment repair techniques in her online, worldwide platform. Her focus is to help people with self-healing from chronic illness and trauma patterns. She personally found freedom from over a decade of debilitating health chronic Lyme disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, mold toxicity, PTSD and more and has been presenting as an expert on nervous system healing to both traditional medical providers and mind-body healing communities. Learn more at www.primaltrust.org