In this episode, Erica and Genevieve revisit the most important topic of all.  How and why we connect, honor, and receive wisdom from our Ancestors.  Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.  Resources mentioned in this episode: Dagara Elder, Malidoma Some': http://malidoma.com Ash Johns: https://www.ashleyjohns.com   Mark Wolynn: It Didn’t Start with You https://markwolynn.com/it-didnt-start-with-you/  Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedahl, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn, https://instagram.com/libertykohn/ May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

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Ancestral Wisdom: Connect with Your Ancestors

In this episode, Erica and Genevieve delve into the wonderful world of sensation, intuition, and knowing. They discuss how finding your senses often requires us to compassionately move into a realm that some would call “crazy” so that we might hear the wisdom coming up from our depths. May we all begin to listen to this wisdom now!  Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.  Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedahl, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn, https://instagram.com/libertykohn/ May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

Lose Your Mind to Find Your Senses

In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss the process of discovering, healing, and returning lost, hidden, and missing younger parts of ourselves. So often we hide a part of ourselves away in order to survive. Nearly every culture around the world, exclusive of Western civilization, has a process for restoring fragmented parts of of a person. This episode discusses the multitude of creative ways a person can engage in this deeply healing process. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.  . Resources Mentioned For the wild podcast episode 237 https://forthewild.world/listen/tiokasin-ghosthorse-on-the-power-of-humility-237  Earth Speaks Podcast episode 55 https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/ash-canty-55  . Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedahl, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Resources mentioned in this episode: The Healing Wisdom of Africa, Malidoma Somé It Didn’t Start with You, Mark Wolynn Ancestral Medicine, Daniel Foor Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn, https://instagram.com/libertykohn/ May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

Restoring our Lost or Hidden Child Parts

In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss the process of integrating back into community after healing. They discuss the need for isolation and why we can’t get stuck there. We need each other! Integration after healing is the whole point of it, so that we can return to community more whole, more in our authentic medicine, so we can fully offer the purpose and gifts we came here with.  Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.  Resources Mentioned Kinstone https://www.kinstonecircle.com  For the wild podcast episode 237 https://forthewild.world/listen/tiokasin-ghosthorse-on-the-power-of-humility-237  Earth Speaks Podcast episode 55 https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/ash-canty-55  Dagara Elder, Malidoma Somé, http://malidoma.com  Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedahl, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn, https://instagram.com/libertykohn/ May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

Integration for Sensitive People

In this solo episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about everyone’s birth rite relationship to the Earth and how our connection to Earth is deep medicine for healing the mother wound. She shares a powerful channeled message from the Earth.  Resources mentioned in this episode: Dr. Malidoma Some': malidoma.com Malidoma's books: Of Water and the Spirit and The Healing Wisdom of Africa Theresa Sykes Brittany, MS: ancestralevents.com Action steps you can take to connect with Mother Earth: Get your body on her Lay your burdens down Ask for assistance Ask for healing Trust her Be yourself! Live your life and no one else’s Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedal, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Listen on iTunes Listen on Spotify Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn https://instagram.com/libertykohn/ May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit.

Healing the Mother Wound

In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss the problem with mental health treatment in America, how it’s not a lack of mental health support (spoiler, it’s systemic breakdown and a need for different technologies), and how a whole bodied approach to healing is the beginning of the solution. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.  Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedahl, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Resources mentioned in this episode: The Healing Wisdom of Africa, Malidoma Somé It Didn’t Start with You, Mark Wolynn Ancestral Medicine, Daniel Foor Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn, https://instagram.com/libertykohn/ May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

15. Mental Health, Ritual, & Whole Bodied Healing - Part 1

In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss their process for transformation and how to navigate the uncertainty of it. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.    Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/   Genevieve Folkedal, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/     Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn   May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

The Process of Transformation

In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss the power of being silent, in body and mind, and the gifts that can emerge when we give ourselves permission to be quiet, and sometimes, do nothing. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.  Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedal, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

The Power of Silence and the Gifts that Emerge

We have exciting news! Genevieve Folkedal is now co-host to We Are the Medicine. In this discussion, Genevieve and Erica follow up on their last discussion and go further into why dehumanizing the oppressor doesn’t work. We can’t heal with the same problematic energy that caused a problem in the first place. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on iTunes.  Resources in the Episode Donate to the Therapy Fund for black girls and women: https://thelovelandfoundation.org  Stay Connected Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Genevieve Folkedal, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

Through the Darkness, Into the Light - Part 2

We are the Medicine is a place where we share ancient stories for modern times. In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, and Genevieve Folkedal of Folklore Energy have a come together in a sacred conversation about how to find sanctuary during crisis. We discuss how to go through pain and change, essentially, how to go through the dark, so that we might emerge into the light. (Hint: It involves facing our traumas and shadows so we might emerge from the chrysalis, spread our wings, and fly.) Resources mentioned in this episode: Genevieve Folkedal, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Story read during the intro is by: Judith Barr, https://judithbarr.com  Stay Connected Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

Through the Darkness, Into the Light with Genevieve Folkedal of Folklore Energy

We are the Medicine is a place where we share ancient stories for modern times. In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, and Genevieve Folkedal of Folklore Energy have a come together in a sacred conversation that turned out to be a ritual where they discuss the importance of listening to and discerning your own truth.  Resources mentioned in this episode: Genevieve Folkedal, Folklore Energy Website: folkloreenergy.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/folklore_energy/   Stay Connected Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

The Sacred Act of Following Your Own Truth with Genevieve Folkedal of Folklore Energy

We are the Medicine is a place where we share ancient stories for modern times. In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about questioning the status quo and our own conditioning. She questions the rules and conditions we have been taught to live by and how to begin to change your mind so that your medicine and life purpose can emerge.  Resources mentioned in this episode: Eliza Ceci - Flower Coven and Perfect Timing, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizahc/  Website: https://www.elizaceci.com  The Spirit of Healing: Stories, Wisdom, and Practices from Native America by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, https://www.amazon.com/The-Spirit-of-Healing-audiobook/dp/B0055UG1JY  Stay Connected Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

Coyote Wisdom - The medicine of thinking upside down, backwards, and opposite

We are the Medicine is a place where we share ancient stories for modern times. In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about the art of creating sacred space. She dives into the creative and visionary process of creating sacred altars with the help of the otherworld. This is a joy filled episode.  Resources mentioned in this episode: Malidoma Some’ https://malidoma.com/main/  Stay Connected Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

Sacred Spaces, Creating Altars, and Making Offerings

We are the Medicine is a place where we share ancient stories for modern times. In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about the hungers we all experience. She dives into the rich and wild realm of nature that connect us to who we really are. In nature, the influences of others are stripped away and we can sense ourselves again. In a time when we often don’t know who to trust, we can listen to the wisdom of our own knowing. The parts of us that are revealed when we connect to nature. Resources mentioned in this episode: New Class offering: Meditation Medicine, 5-week online class learning meditation with nature as a focal point.  https://www.ericathibodeaux.com/meditation-medicine.html  FREE Recorded Meditations https://www.ericathibodeaux.com/recorded-meditations.html  Stay Connected Website: ericathibodeaux.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/we_are_the_medicine/ Music Credits: Intro and Outro music: Liberty Kohn May these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fire, water, and minerals that we are all from.  And may this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit. 

7. What are we really hungry for? Feeding our Senses and Trusting our Knowing

We are the Medicine is a place where we share ancient stories for modern times and explore holistic mental health, ancestral healing, connection to the natural world, ritual, and other sacred topics. My hope is that these ancient stories return you to your ancestors, to the land, to the sacred fires, waters, and minerals that we all come from. May this medicine help you to awaken to your true spirit.

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