The Making & Mending Rituals Podcast

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#113 Navigating the pandemic as a survivor Jul 14, 2021

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Hey beloved listeners, it is time for one of my slightly rambly solo episodes full of feelings and reflections! This time I am sharing some thoughts about navigating the pandemic with its touch starvation, loneliness, endless space to think and wild dreams as a survivor. There is nothing particularly graphic in here, fyi. I talk about my experience in hospital, reengaging with the world, what I am wishing for in our future, what beautiful aspects I want to hold on to , accessibility and how I came to a more empowered place of reframing some experiences I've had. Some of this is really positive and hopeful, some of it is challenging, all of it is complex I guess. Enjoy!

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#112 Resilience, creative joy & loving nature with Kes Otter Lieffe Jul 08, 2021

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Hey everyone, I'm so happy to bring this episode your way! It's given me a lot of joy & hope to listen back just now and I hope you'll feel the same. Kes is an absolute creative community building dream babe and has also been on episode #27. Here is some of what we talked about:

How the pandemic has changed creative lives
Making things more accessible & opening up new possibilities
Writing powerful trans women and radical sex workers
Our love for life & non-human nature

Kes Otter Lieffe is a working class, chronically ill, femme, trans woman. She is an author, teacher and community organiser currently based in Berlin. Kes is the author of a trilogy of trans feminist novels—Margins and Murmurations, Conserve and Control and Dignity. Her short story Synergy was published in ‘Our Entangled Future’ an anthology on social change and the climate crisis. Her short story Soft was published in the beautiful anthology on queer resilience, Glitter + Ashes. Kes is also the author of the colouring zine, Queer Animals, published by Microcosm, which will be made soon into a full colouring book. Kes facilitates workshops on subjects including trans-competency, queer ecology and consensus and has taught in various contexts from squats to universities. She also runs writing classes and has an online course, Writing from the Margins.

https://otterlieffe.com/

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#111 Ancestral Medicine & Herbalism with Raven Rose Jun 27, 2021

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Hey everyone, I'm happy to send a conversation with the wonderful Ravel Rose your way - I really loved talking to her and being reminded how important it is to take my time and listen to my body. Enjoy!

Here is some of the magic Raven and I talked about for this interview:

Shedding shame about our bodies
Finding gateway plant friends
Working with dreams as a way to navigate life
How food can impact all aspects of our being

Visionary and medicine woman Raven Rose, was called to her path while in search of natural remedies to overcome her debilitating menstrual pain. On that quest she became a menstrual health herbalist, Kambo practitioner, and revived many of her ancestral medicines. In her practice Moon Medicine, Raven helps others restore balance to their menstrual cycles, through embracing a cyclical lifestyle, traditional healing practices, and restoring ancestral wisdom.moonmedicine.co

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#110 Learning from our gardens with Mary Grace Allerdice Jun 03, 2021

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Hey friends, can you believe it's June now? I am the slowest at emerging from my deep hibernation, so if you are also unfurling cautiously you are not alone! I'm really happy to bring a beautiful conversation with Mary Grace Allerdice as well as a whole bunch of invitations for free summer magic your way. Mary was such a wonderful and generous guest and I loved listening back just now. So soothing! Here is some of what we talked about:

Experiencing our bodies as a part of the natural world
Working with both physical and emotional alignment
All the things gardening can teach us
Looking to the stars and understanding life as a circle

"I use astrology, divination, energetic healing + oracular practices to help others find their purpose, connect to wisdom + guidance, access their own healing, and bridge life's difficult moments or transitions. As a facilitator, I create sessions + programs that guide you towards a life that is in alignment with your own heart. I am also a dance artist, writer and podcaster who currently lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and garden." https://www.mgallerdice.com/

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#109 Living in a body that does not fit into capitalist society with Meghan Norean May 20, 2021

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Hey everyone, mmmhhh. This is a good one! I've known Meghan for a while and really love her work & approach and hope you will too. This interview ties so beautifully with where I am at at the moment - appreciating that inner and outer seasons can be different and letting myself be where I am. I shared about this a bit in the intro and I hope that if you feel the same you know you are not alone. Here is some of what Meghan and I talked about:

Trauma informed somatics and movement
Gender inclusive work around cycles and seasons
Living in a rhythm that does not fit into capitalist society
The beauty of really listening to our bodies

Meghan Norean (she/her) is a womb witch and cyclical living guide weaving together cycle magic for regeneration of body + earth + community. She creates sacred space for womb-bodied beings to journey into remembrance + reclamation of their power through ritual, bodyfulness, meditation and archetypal energy work. Meghan works within a trauma-informed, healing-centered, somatic-based, anti-capitalistic framework in her online offerings. She can often be seen in the wild dancing, reading, performing spells and hand crafting womb-based embroidery. Meghan’s work is informed by the lands that run through her blood, birth and love. She has Celtic + Germanic ancestral lineage. She was birthed on Turtle Island, the traditional lands of the Susquehannock, now known as Pennsylvania. She has spent the last 10 years living + working in Kolkata, India, the land of the Bengali people, where she met and fell in love with her partner. Free offerings: https://meghannorean.com/free IG: https://instagram.com/meghan.norean

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#108 Exploring Plant Communication with Kate Husted May 03, 2021

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Hey sweet listeners, it appears that it is indeed May, what a surprise! It took me a little while to publish this episode, but now that I did it feels perfectly times for the height of spring and the playful plant exploration offers itself to us everywhere. Kate Husted was a wonderful guest who shared so generously in a way that made me laugh, nourished me and left me feeling more curious and hopeful. Here is some of what we talked about:

Making friends with the plants around us
Working with anxiety in times of upheaval
Running a free herbal clinic
Unraveling systemic harm as a white settler herbalist

Kate Husted is a plant person, clinical herbalist, teacher, writer, and founder of The Herb Hut Free Clinic. Her non-profit organization provides free and mobile herbal medicine to underserved communities. Her online courses provide practical tools for engaging with the sacred, and healing our relationship with the natural world. She lives in the ancestral home of the Southern Ute people in Southwest Colorado. https://www.katehustedherbalist.com/ http://www.theherbhutfreeclinic.com

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#107 How we can hold ourselves and each other through this time with Eryn Johnson Apr 23, 2021

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Hey everyone, I hope spring is making you feel hopeful and a bit lighter if you're in the Northern hemisphere. I'm happy to send another interview with the wonderful Eryn Johnson, who was also my guest in episode number 65, your way. Talking to Eryn is always a delight and I'm sorry it took me so long to publish this one! Here is some of what we talked about:

Working with the grief that the pandemic has brought up
Aligning our work with our values and what that can practically look like
Releasing shoulds and shame to find our voice and express it
How we can hold ourselves and each other through this time

Eryn Johnson (she/her) is a breathwork facilitator, tarot reader, and Reiki Master based in Fishtown, Philadelphia. She is also the host of the Living Open podcast for mystics and seekers, a storytelling tool here to support you on your healing journey. Her work focuses on breath and energy work for the heart, intended to help come back to yourself - back to your power, back to your magic, back to your heart. Back to who you were before everyone told you who and how to be. https://www.living-open.com/

Take the web design course I mentioned: https://yarrowdigital.com/web-design-adventure-course/

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#106 Decolonizing Medicine through Food with Jamee Pineda Apr 13, 2021

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Hey everyone, I'm so happy to share this episode with you - a true joy to record. I hope you'll enjoy it too and check Jamee's work out below. Here is what we talked about:

How Jamee came to the healing arts and how the pandemic has changed his work
What decolonizing medicine means to him and why stinky food matters so much
What gateways to ancestral connection we can explore
The magic of food as ritual, as healing, as a practice of reclamation

There is a content note for colonial violence roughly 20 to 28 minutes into this episode, take care of yourself and skip this if you like.

I am a hilot binabaylan, acupuncturist, and Chinese medicine practitioner. My practice is informed by my identity as a queer, trans, non binary, Tagalog person living in the U.S. With the combination of my lived experience and training, my goal is to help individuals and communities live their fullest lives by offering a decolonizing approach to medicine rooted in traditional and ancestral practices. Here are all of Jamee's links, including the sign up for the upcoming workshop: https://linktr.ee/Jameepinedahealingarts

This is the Embodied Business Community I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/ And here is the Web Design Course: https://yarrowdigital.com/web-design-adventure-course/

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#105 DIY everything & archiving queer culture with Darcy Leigh Apr 05, 2021

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Hey everyone, I'm excited to send this conversation with Darcy Leigh your way! I love Darcy's zines and I hope that all the imaginary permissions slips we've handed out to ourselves in this episode will make you feel excited to DIY more things too. Here is what we talked about:

How Darcy co-founded a press and why stamps are permission giving magic
How the butch archive came to be
What it's like to write and share very personal stuff
Creating our own creative processes to survive academia

Darcy Leigh co-runs @easterroadpress, an insurrectionary transfeminist press based in Scotland. She is into DIY everything, from her zines about butch bodies, to her DIY archiving and curation at butcharchive.com. Themes from her work include fatness, transness, tits, ambivalence, Jewishness and psychiatry. She lives half in Edinburgh, half in Brighton (it’s complicated), and appreciates pigeons, innovative zine folds and dark truths. When not in queer zine land, Darcy works in the ivory tower and is also committed to its destruction (aka, is a Lecturer in Law who researches the ongoing history of the British Empire). This is the Easter Road Press Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/EasterRoadZines Easter Road Press on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/easterroadpress/ Glasgow Zine Fest on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glasgowzinelib/

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#104 Joyous Resilience with Anjuli Sherin Mar 30, 2021

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Hey everyone! It's spring (in the Northern hemnisphere)! This episode feels so joyful and spring-like, it seemed like perfect timing for this week. My guest is Anjuli Sherin is a therapist and writer specialising in trauma recovery and the cultivation of joy. Here is some of what we talked about:

The cycle of suffering and the circle of resilience
Anjuli's path towards joy and what she learned along the way
Limitations of the "Western mental health mindset"
Building exquisite self-care as well as an intersectional approach wellness, joy and resilience

Anjuli was really generous and shared so much from her practice, creativity and experience - I hope there is lots in here that might provide some inspiration for you too. Anjuli Sherin, M.A., is a Pakistani-American licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma recovery, resilience building and cultivating joy. She has 15 years of practice working with immigrant, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Muslim and LGBTQI+ populations. Sherin received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Mary Washington University and her M.A. from CIIS. She has trained and mentored with leading figures in trauma recovery and energy psychology, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Staci Haines and Vianna Stibal. In addition to awards for academic excellence and community service, Sherin received the 2007 Emerging Leader Award from the E-women Network and has been featured in O Magazine as a finalist for the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project. Her new book is Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thrivingin an Inequitable World. Learn more at: www.anjulisherinmft.com.

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