Angela Linghu and Kevin Lian are the plant and Earth medicine-loving creators of Apotherie, a small-batch herbal company that is rooted in both Eastern and Western philosophies. We had the honor of speaking to them about their love-filled offerings, the compassionate ways in which they support the community, their inspiring journeys of awakening that guided  them to create Apotherie together, their van-life adventures and why a relationship with Nature and plants is so imperative to human existence and life. Find out more about Apotherie at apotherie.com and on Instagram @myapotherie.

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Nature, Our Healer And Friend

Katie Schomberg is the Rosewater Healer. She's a modern medicine woman, a psychic, intuitive, guide and creator of The Healing Farm, a small farm-to-apothecary healing experience in the Smokey Mountains. More than just a cultivation of plants, it's a healing container and a transformative space where you can let go and be free to learn to live authentically.  She shared her personal story of healing and reclamation with us, demonstrating that returning home is an inside > out process, that we have to go internal and begin to feel in order to remember who we are.  Katie's journey into herblism and holistic wellness, utilizing medical astrology and her gifts of one-on-one guidance through her Complete Woman program to help women walk home, inspire us to our cores. Ellen just received her first Medicine Box packed with herbal goodies and tools to support her this autumn – the love felt through these herbal products is deep. And Katie's personalized flower essences and teas show us a new way to look at what it means to hold space, to be present for another. We talked about what it means to truly let go, to surrender, and how that one lesson seems to be THE lesson to learn in this lifetime. Learn more about Katie and her Healing Farm at thehealing-farm.com and on instagram @_thehealingfarm.

Learning to Let Go

Lisa Wimberger is the creator of Neurosculpting®, a trademarked process of meditation involving five easy steps to relax the body while focusing the mind for stress regulation, pattern rewiring, and performance optimization. With Jody Levy (ep 61), she co-created the NeuroPraxis App, a series of meditation modules that support wellness, calm, and daily balance. Lisa created this modality out of her own personal desperate need to heal her trauma. On her 15th birthday, she was struck by lightning, which sent her already present freeze trauma response into overdrive. She began to have life-threatening seizures in which she would flatline and go through excruciating resuscitations. During her last episode, she vowed to find a solution as she knew she would not make it back if it occurred again. This prompted her deep dive into the world of neuroscience education. The result was the creation of Neurosculpting®, a form of meditation that targeted an unknown trigger for her condition and rehearsed a new script so she could circumvent another episode.  Lisa's story floored us. And her explanation of how Neurosculpting® works made us realize just how revolutionary this modality is, and how relevant it is as a tool for our current climate rampant with fear, anxiety and stress. Find out more about Lisa and Neurosculpting® at neurosculpting.com and on Instagram @neurosculpting. Download the NeuroPraxis app here.

Repattern Your Brain to Release Your Pain

Holly Wilmeth is a photographer that creates images embodying elements of nature, mysticism, and spirituality. Drawing inspiration from ancient mythologies, symbolism, diverse cultures and a deep spiritual practice, Holly’s images are a personal interpretation of her life’s sacred dance. She recently co-created and released the "Sacred Nature Oracle Deck," a stunning deck that features Holly's hauntingly beautiful images of plants layered over their human vessels. We talked to Holly about her creative process, her journey creating "Sacred Nature," the wisdom she has received from plant allies, the backstories behind some of her most striking images, her lifelong relationship with Nature and spirituality and how it shows through her work. "I had this kind of realization of – oh my God, if the world is my friend, if the world is my teacher, how come I haven’t learned to understand its code and language? And so that’s partly where Sacred Nature started." To order a deck (limited quantities remain), email hollywilmeth@gmail.com. Learn more about Holly and her work at hollywilmeth.com and on instagram @hollywilmeth.  

Sacred Nature

Jody Levy is an artist, maker, designer, investor and entrepreneur. She's the founder and chief of WTRMLN WTR, the NeuroPraxis App and The Milk Cleanse. Each of her products was conceived through a personal need, and showcases her intuitive problem-solving abilities, as well as her heart. Jody's unique story of contracting Lyme Disease and toxic mold poisoning led her down a self-motivated healing journey in which she explored countless modalities and treatments to heal her body. Her life changed when she encountered a treatment involving Ayurvedic herbs and milk that eliminated the debilitating symptoms she had been dealing with. Her transformation inspired The Milk Cleanse. This was soon followed by the NeuroPraxis app she co-created with NeuroSculpting founder Lisa Wimberger, featuring NeuroSculpting modules specific for overcoming pain, PTSD, stress, and symptoms associated with Biotoxic exposure including Lyme Disease, Mold disease, viruses, parasites, and more. We were so inspired hearing how Jody approached her healing through intuitive problem-solving, applying her entrepreneurial spirit to her health. Her message to us all is that we each hold the keys to our health and wellness through the freedom of our own discernment. Follow Jody on instagram at @nativenomad. Learn more about the Milk Cleanse at themilkcleanse.com and on ig at @themilkcleanse. Learn more about the NeuroPraxis app at neuropraxis.com and on ig at @neuro.praxis. Download the app here. Check out FREE modules on Soundcloud.

CEO-ing Your Health

Our jaws were on the floor as we heard Ashley Easter tell her story of growing up in a fundamentalist Baptist family and homeschooled under the Christian Patriarchy, Quiverfull and Stay At Home Daughter movements. Guided by her strength and intuition, she was able to survive and escape the cults she had been indoctrinated in, and is now an empowerment coach and trained abuse victim advocate, and founder of The Courage Conference, an internationally attended abuse survivor conference. She is also the Vice President of "Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests," the largest and oldest clergy sexual abuse victim advocacy organization. Ashley's story of surviving a religious fundamentalist cult hit us both so deeply as we recognized cult-like behavior in so many non-religious organizations – corporations, social groups, families, and particularly the spiritual community, where many teachers are treated as untouchable and unquestionable gurus that can do no wrong. And Ashley is passionate about teaching others how to identify, connect with, and listen to their intuition so that they can develop greater discernment when it comes to the choices that they make in their lives from business to personal relationships. Ashley's FREE Intuitive AF workshop is August 30 - September 1, 2021. Sign up on her site – ashleyeaster.com. Her site also contains free helpful content like her ebooks "Cults in Plain Sight" and "5 Signs of a Toxic Relationship." Follow Ashley on Instagram @ashleyeaster.

Intuition Helped Me Escape A Cult

Soundbaths have been growing steadily in popularity over the past decade. Michelle Berc, known as @SonicBeing on Instagram, jokingly deemed Los Angeles the "Soundbath Capital." Michelle is a sound healing facilitator, breathwork guide, HeartMath practitioner and sound healing teacher. Ellen had the honor of taking her Sound Healing Level 1 pre-lockdown. Michelle had just organized and facilitated a magical sound healing production for the New Moon in Leo in the Malibu hills when we had the pleasure of this conversation. We talked about... Michelle’s journey discovering and learning sound healing How sound helped her mom as she transitioned Being conscious of disruptive sound in healing spaces like hospitals How HeartMath technology is integrated into Michelle’s sound healing The power of vocal toning The need for awareness of the power of words and what we chant in rallies Why dosage is so important in sound healing The gentle yet potent nature of sound healing The differences between music, music therapy and sound healing. The vibrational nature of our world Find out more about Michelle and her work at sonicbeing.com. For those in the LA area, Michelle is offering a soundbath for the Full Moon in Aquarius on Sunday August 22 – tickets are now available on her website. Her next Sound Healing Level 1 course is November 1, 2021 – find details on her website. Michelle also has a new album featuring the Crystal Bowls coming out soon. Sign up for her newsletter to be notified of the release.

Our Vibrational Human Experience

How do you define "rest" and "restfulness"? Ours is culture that glorifies the hustle and burnout heroism. A culture that glorifies the myth that the harder you work, the more you gain. And then we wake up to find ourselves in an empty loop of workaholism, stress and growing dissatisfaction. Flory Huang is the creator of The Rested Revolution, which "rejects both burnout culture glamorized as The Hustle and the colonial capitalist harm fixated on productivity and output at the cost of the whole humxn." She is a creator, guide and facilitator certified as a professional mindfulness teacher, restorative yoga teacher, conscious energy medicine worker and former personal training coach.   We talked about... The psyche behind burnout Redefining rest and restfulness Responsibility of corporate leaders to shift burnout culture Using modalities like mindfulness, meditation, energy medicine and restorative yoga to regulate your body  Using divination tools like the I-Ching to receive wisdom The connection between restlessness and the colonization of the Reiki practice in the West We received so much potent wisdom from this conversation with Flory. To find out more about Flory and her work, join the Rested Revolution at therestedrevolution.com and follow @the.rested.revolution on Instagram.

Burnout Culture Rest-volution

Charlene Chang is a multidimensional artist whose creative studio is an altar in devotion to her being and becoming. As an intuitive designer and lightworker of spaces, she invites the unseen into her creative process to alchemize and activate spaces as a living canvas for remembrance, healing and transformation.  Fundamental to her approach and mission is the understanding that the land is part of the same energetic fabric of our home and ourselves. Her studio, êtrechar, navigates spaces on residential (individual) and commercial (collective) levels, through the lens of energetics and ecology to radically change the way in which we engage with our spaces and ultimately, our environment.  We had such an inspiring, vulnerable conversation around Charlene's traumatic and transformative Saturn Return that led her to shed who she thought she should be and what she thought she should be doing with her life. And also her journey in how she began letting go and trusting the Universe to show her the "how,"  leading to the creation of êtrechar. She shared this Rumi quote that became her guiding light during this difficult phase – "Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. Move the way love makes you move." Learn more about Charlene's work with spaces at etrechar.com and on instagram @etrechar.

Your Home As Sacred Space

Hara Arayama is a Pleasure Embodiment Coach and wow, this convo opened us up so much. Hara works with women & the gender expansive community to birth a life governed by love, pleasure and abundance.  They walk hand in hand with clients as they shed societal conditioning, shame, guilt and false beliefs around their bodies, pleasure and sexuality. Formerly a burnt out registered nurse they have embraced their gifts to live in radiant alignment.  They hold spaces through offering sacred sexuality, shadow work, conscious boundary, intimacy and embodiment rituals to help clients fully reclaim their birthright to pleasure and abundance.  We covered... How Hara learned compassion as a sex worker  What we can learn about boundaries from the BDSM community The connection between burn-out and elusive orgasms The true power of sexual empowerment Higher dimensional connection through the body Embracing the dark void of the Womb Hara's newest Sacred Seductrix and Monarch Temple offerings to support  Learn more about Hara and find her offerings at themonarchtemple.com and on instagram @i.am.hara.

Follow the Pleasure. Release the Pressure.

After Ellen experienced a profound reading for her recently adopted pup Norm, we knew we had to talk to Jaime Breeze, a spiritual medium and animal communicator, about her special gift in connecting us with the animals in our lives. Jaime told us the story of how she came into her gifts as a young child, her ability to remember past lives she had had, her deep bond with her dog Breeze, the extreme grief she experienced when Breeze transitioned, and how she was able to work with Breeze's spirit to find her again after she reincarnated. Our jaws were on the floor – we couldn't get our questions out fast enough. Find out more about Jaime at jaimebreeze.com and on IG @themountainmedium .

The Wisdom of Animals

We spoke to Wellness Coach Dr. Ginny Orenstein about her personal journey of healing from severe systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, two benign vascular brain tumors, and a stroke. Through her own research, exploring a multitude of different healing modalities, and using her own body as the lab, Ginny was able to completely heal:  brain tumor free, brain disease free, lupus free and rheumatoid arthritis free.  "Healing should not be a lifelong pain. It should not. We are not meant to constantly heal. We are meant to thrive." FInd out more at eatpraylupus.com and on instagram @eatpraylupus.

Eat Pray Lupus

We had a blast nerding out on our mushie love with Alli Schaper, CEO + Cofounder of The Multiverse, the world’s first ever functional mushroom marketplace. We discussed... What functional and adaptogenic mushrooms are Fruiting bodies vs. Mycellium What to look for in mushroom supplements The compounding effect of mushrooms Psilocybin mushrooms  SuperMush, The Multiverse’s new product offering Learn more at yourmultiverse.com and on IG @multiverse.marketplace and @allischaper.  

Mush Love

Find "Healing Trees" at Simon and Schuster or Amazon. Find Ben on Instagram @integralforestbathing or integralforestbathing.com

Healing Trees

Find out more about Dear Luna Wilde dearlunawilde.com Learn more about House of Enlightenedhood. Learn more about Leena Lemos at @leenalemos.

The Real Real of Motherhood

After burning out from their digital marketing careers, Samantha Williams and Ellen Wong have embarked on personal journeys of self-discovery and healing, and we're bringing you along for the ride! We explore and demystify all things “woo” with open curiosity and a healthy dose of skepticism. What therapies and trends actually work for the "Burnout Generation" (vaginal steams, anyone)? Sam and Ellen are the cofounders of Daughters, a soul-care brand that provides tools for daily rituals and self-reflection to help women find inner-connection and purpose in their lives.

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