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to run barefoot
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our yard or gard
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in your body; a
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eath, we receive
our Mother
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cultures of our
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passion
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ognize the com
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and, perhaps, f
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said, “history is
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stories of wom
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monalities in o
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find the inspira
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e ourselves as p
ation to pursue
the human sto
                              
victors.” This
create today’s
atriarchal
“how things
modern world.
men are, at best,
n the
lization.
writers Casey
ft point out,
to “disappear”
or devaluing
ds and
man affairs.” Ye
shoulders of
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al contributions
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one before us
change today,
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part of a wider
our own
ory forward.
             
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dust, I'll rise.
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man Ways to Con
history
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bodies.
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ast Wise Women
nnecting
culture today, th
ingrained. We a
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uperior to our p
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We acknowled
dies, both throu
nsformative phy
ncy and birth to
move past the i
te ourselves, be
nal and spiritua
gin to feel whol
on’t have to be
on’t have to craw
desert for a hun
nly have to let th
what it loves.
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with Yo
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are encouraged
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physical existen
radition, we em
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ugh our intuitio
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o menopause.
llusion of sepa
ecoming more f
al aspects of ou
e again.
good.
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ndred miles, rep
he soft animal o
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our Own
of mind, body a
d to transcend
ith a “higher se
nce.
mbrace the sacre
n’s wisdom is a
on/inner knowin
ces, from menst
ration and dua
fully present wi
ur being.
es
penting.
of your body
                              
n Body
and spirit is
our bodies to
elf” that is said
ed in our
ccessed throug
ng and through
truation to
lity, we re-
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stress
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shift in
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streng
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odies is one of
in re-establishin
ection with ours
urprisingly, it is
ally discourage
ttention to our
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r than ignoring
fee, caffeine an
ion focuses on
ong-term health
caffeine and ot
y levels and co
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en typically nee
e far less than w
and energy. Nap
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and lowering b
down for even
body to reach a
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gthen itself. Eve
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selves
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bodies’ signals
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nd constant stim
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h and healing c
ther stimulants
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we need, due t
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ving memory a
blood pressure.
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our day repleni
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s, one of the fir
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hat feeling with
mulation, the W
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th a cloth over
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we release hum
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fall asleep, this
shed, refreshed
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stimulants suc
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at we need so
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on, which is
most women
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huge array of
mood, to reducin
your eyes allow
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man growth
to nourish and
rest allows you
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adversa
nourish
foods—
sources
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of eatin
and alte
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system.
sources
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children
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women
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nerals and othe
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love our bodi
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purities. Instea
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a variety of p
fats.
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functioning of
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stem, the men
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our focus to
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mainstream
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nal resources,
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special health b
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vered that reflex
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the body throug
studying the co
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mulate during st
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n                           
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cheerful, smile
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endorphins, our
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ace the spiral o
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nize the value
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for our grief,
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Tradition, we
of both light
ns, we
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needs that are
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capacity to gu
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surrender and
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losses. We all
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let go.
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nnect
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ling for us to
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need to mour
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your heart an
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ourselve
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we regularly st
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us back to the
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rone’s Year
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up emotions o
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struation
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to take refuge
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bleeding cycles
menstrual pain
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16 Wise Women Ways to Connect

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  • 3.   Southe   Those w grandm ancient in the g selves r with cu These a They sp them. T and to dance o The Wis absolut integrat the Eart cultivate spirit in “Stepp difficu the wh ~Maya east Wise Wome whispers you’re mothers, and th ways that hon great circle of reminding us t riosity and joy are the voices o peak softly so t They encourage walk our path our lives. se Woman Tra tely practical an te ourselves in th that sustain es her own sh n the eyes of h ping onto a bran lt than remainin hole woman.” a Angelou en                           e hearing are t heir grandmoth nor the Earth a Life. They’re al o trust our int y. of the Wise W that we will mo e us to listen d mindfully and adition doesn’t nd intensely pe our beautiful s us. The Wise ining spirit; she er sisters. nd-new path is d ng in a situation                              the voices of o her’s grandmot and our bodies so the voices o uition and eng Woman way. Th ove closer in o deeply, to obse reverently. Th dictate. It isn’t ersonal—callin bodies and re e Woman celeb e recognizes a difficult, but not , which is not n                                our thers: the s and our place of our child- gage our world ey don’t shout order to hear erve carefully hey invite us to t dogmatic. It’s ng us to re- econnect with brates and nd honors tha t more urturing to                e d t. o s at The m phrase wisdo integr knowi bodie suppo the ab thems live. We ar share medic benef city an Walk very e Tradit Many but w shiftin Come                                mind/body/spir e in the media m. Wellness an rated part of o ng; tending ou s with the who ort our systems bundant gifts o selves to us rig re in an allianc our home. Yo cine or move o its of this relat nd still be root along the path effective ways f ion in your eve are simple exe will reap wonde ng your lens so e closer and list            Wise Wom it connection t a has always be nd healing are ur lives. This m ur needs for re olesome, natur s; and respond of the plants a ght where we l e with the Eart u don’t have t off-grid to a pe tionship. You c ted in the Eart h with me and for you to cult eryday life. Som ercises; others erful rewards. O o that you can ten . . . man Ways to Co that has becom een at the hea proactive—an means trusting est and comfor ral—even wild— ding to health nd herbs that ive . . . no mat th and with th o be an “expe ermaculture far can be in the m h. we’ll look at s ivate the Wise me may alread require a bit o Often, it’s simp see things in onnect me a catch rt of women’s n ongoing and our inner rt; nurturing o —foods that w concerns with present tter where we e plants that rt” in plant rm to receive t midst of a busy some easy and e Woman dy be familiar. of commitmen ply a matter of a different way 3 our will the y d t, y.
  • 4.   Southe   What Our soc mainstr sensibil “The W know writte A wom and a comp perso ~ Sus east Wise Wome is the Wise ciety insists on ream culture, a ity and New A Wise Woman Tr n on our planet en or talked abo man-centered tr ll her creatures, passion, simple r on and maintain sun Weed, Heali en                           Woman Tr duality. There and even in mu Age spirituality. radition is the o t, yet one that is out. radition of self- the Wise Wom ritual and comm health/wholene ing Wise                              radition All e’s an either/or uch of the “alte ldest tradition o s rarely identified love, respectful an Tradition tel mon herbs heal t ess/holiness.”                                About?   r paradigm in ernative” of healing d, rarely of the earth ls us that the whole                  It’s all what which woma intertw The p conne achiev “highe us tha saved huma When config strivin divine In the sacred steepe conce Still, t cellula embra natura night, from y                                about the “lig is mysterious a remains untam an, whose body wined with the revailing parad ection to our b ve a high level er authority” th at we are, esse . It negates so n beings and a we move from guration of bot ng to transcend e is something e Wise Woman d and we trust ed in the cult o ept of wholene here’s a deep ar memory of a aces a spiral th al cycles of our from dark mo youth to old a            Wise Wom ght” and a pred and “dark.” Tha med despite a y and its great e Earth’s body. digm tells us th bodies and to t of spiritual “p hat dictates str ntially, dirty an many essentia as women. m a perspectiv th light and da d our bodies; f outside of us. Tradition, we our inner guid of duality that ss is difficult to resonance tha a way of life an hat includes bo r world consta oon to full moo ge and death. man Ways to Co disposition to at tends to inc ll efforts to ma t mysteries are hat we need to the physical pl purity.” It calls u rict codes of be nd flawed; in n al parts of our e of either ligh ark, we move a from a perspec understand ou dance. Often, w the Wise Wom o understand o t many women nd a belief sys oth light and d ntly move thro on, from winte onnect shutting out clude the Earth aster her—and intricately o overcome ou ane in order to us to answer to ehavior, telling need of being experience as ht or dark, to a away from this ctive where the ur bodies as we are so man Tradition or accept. n experience— stem that dark, just as the ough day and er to summer, 4 — d ur o o a g a e —a e
  • 5.   Southe   realizat women spiritua earth’s sacred t The Wis deep no bodies go from purifica wholen We hon our atte and tow spiritua health. east Wise Wome ion that in ord , there needs t l experiences, physical form that is around se Woman Tra ourishment an shifts when we m perceiving o tion, to recogn ess of our bod nor our natura ention away fro ward nourishin lly, our bodies en                           der for spiritual to be focus on in both our ow of plant and t us and within adition embrac d self-love. Ou e look through urselves as unc nizing the intri dy and our spir l cycles—our e om fixing or re g ourselves ph s respond by m                              As wise w Weed rem planet is a darkness! is an unna the Earth beings. Women o religious t are comin l language to t n the embodim wn physical bo ree, rock and w us. es the Earth, lo ur relationship h this Wise Wo clean and in n nsic perfection rit. ebbs and flows ejecting our ph hysically, emoti moving towards                                woman Susun minds us, our always half in Constant light atural state for and for all f various traditions today g back to the truly apply to ment of our odies and in th water--the ocal plants, with our oman lens. We eed of n and s. As we turn hysical selves ionally and s optimal                t r y e As wo Woma alread heard them You m today, time, and e Yes, a your d decad here. Not o invalu and sp immed You m benef consid Listen part o It says                                omen, we recog an path is a pr dy know. We m our elders spe from their fore may wonder ho , who are deal energy and res nriched by som nd in fact, inco daily life is far des, I’ve integra only are they re able for many piritual health diately; others might wonder a it my health to der a single pla deeper and y of you that reco s, “Trust. This i            Wise Wom gnize this way rocess of reme may recall it as eak of rituals a emothers. ow these pract ing with unpre sources. Can o mething that h orporating the easier than yo ated the simple elevant in toda women, in pro and wellbeing may be new. at some of the o lie on the Ea ant my “ally”? ou will hear a ognizes the int s a journey we man Ways to Co of life as fami embering much “folk wisdom.” and remedies t ices can apply ecedented dem our lives be pro has been within Wise Woman ou might imagi e practices tha ay’s world, they omoting physi . Some you m em . . . how co rth, or talk to clear voice tha terconnectedn e’ve been on a onnect iliar; the Wise h of what we ” We may have that came to to women mands on our ofoundly altere n us all along? Tradition into ine. Over the at I’m sharing y’ve proven cal, emotional ay recognize uld it possibly a tree, or at speaks to a ess of all of Li ll along . . . ” 5 e ed fe.
  • 6.   Southe   Con Before focus o true ho generat shipped capsule further neighbo in their east Wise Wome nnecting the healthcare on pharmaceut me remedies t tions. Before th d from the oth es that mimic d than the plant oring woods a salads, soups, en                           g with t   industry took icals—there wa that have susta he craze for ex er side of the drug compoun ts that grew on nd fields for th infusions, tinc                              the Plan hold—bringin as folk medicin ained and heal xotic herbs—dr planet and de ds—wise wom n their doorste he ingredients ctures, and tea                                nts ng with it a ne: tried-and- led for ried and livered in men looked no eps and in the that they used s.                d Many weeds are ab growi we do within In the medic live, w those of goi watch medic and liv As yo medic worke them when don’t expos exhau Let’s s plants grow their g                                local wild plan s, have long hi bundant, free a ng and thriving o, they are eve n the ecosystem e Wise Woman cine blur. When we have the op plants and the ing outside, co ing her throug cine—as well a ves. u begin the pr cinal plants, a g ed with Peterso to be very use it comes to th want to be ing ed to chemica ust. start our journe s that are fairly right around y gifts.            Wise Wom nts, including s stories of edib and extremely g in the same n better able t ms where we li Tradition, the n we work with pportunity to d e Earth, and to onnecting with gh the seasons s her physical rocess of explo good field guid on’s Field Guid er friendly. You he area you are gesting plants al toxins, includ ey with five wa y ubiquitous—c you—and easy man Ways to Co some that are ble and medici potent. Becaus climates and g to support our ive. lines between h plants that g develop a relati o receive the h a particular p s, and inviting medicine—int oring your loca de is a vital res es for many ye u should also b e harvesting. Y from a patch t ding fertilizers ays to connect common plant ways that you onnect considered nal usage. The se they are fre geographies th r own thriving n food and grow where we ionship with ealing benefits lant being, her energetic o our bodies al edible and source; I have ears and find be observant You certainly that has been or automobile t with some ts that probabl u can receive 6 ey esh, hat e s ly
  • 7.   Southe   1. Drin When y is one o otherwi wood n Barn ne opposit soils (so Wood n forest s Nettle o highest iron, all hormon nettles when th Year ro immers and allo you’ll g dried n prepari materia Drinking all phas women east Wise Wome nk Nettle In you want to su of the best pla ise known as b nettle (Laportea ettle resembles te leaves. It like o she often gro nettle has alter streams. offers a concen t chlorophyll le nourishing fo nal systems. In in soup or a s hey’re dried or und, you can u ing one cup o owing the infu et some medic ettles in a teab ng the herb as al, steeped for g a pint a day ses of life, from ’s hormonal sy en                           nfusion upport your fem aces to start. St barn nettle or E a canadensis) a s a large mint, es to live near ows near build rnate leaves an ntrated dose o evels available r the blood an early spring, y auté (don’t wo r cooked). use dried nettl f dried nettle i sion to sit for cinal benefit fr bag, you’ll get s an infusion, w an extended b is a wonderfu m menarche wh ystems, throug                              male body with tinging nettle ( English nettle, are plentiful in with serrated, creeks or in m dings that shelt nd prefers to s of nutrients—in in a plant—mi nd beneficial fo you can eat fre orry, they lose e to make an in a quart of b at least four h rom by making exponentially with a large vo brewing time. l ongoing toni hen it can sup h menstruating                                h herbs, nettle (Urtica dioica), and her cousin most areas. blue-green, manure rich ter livestock). ettle around ncluding the nerals, and or women’s esh stinging their sting infusion by boiling water ours. While g a tea with more by olume of plant ic for women i port young g years,                n, in pregn transit Many nettle bodie Once yourse M 1 2 3 4 A sta in th infus                                nancy, birthing, tion and post- women find t infusion: they s and they nat you start drink elf becoming e Making Nettle 1. Put one cup 2. Fill jar with b for at least fo 3. Strain the liq days. 4. To drink, reh summer, you honey or oth andard dose is 2 e fridge for a fe sion has turned            Wise Wom breast-feedin menopausal su hat they devel fall in love wi turally begin to king nettle infu enamored with Infusion Daily of dried nettle boiling water an our hours, or ov quid and store in heat and serve w u might prefer it her flavorings yo 2 cups of nettle ew days, a quick sour. Otherwise man Ways to Co g, and into me upport. op a strong re th how it trans o crave it on a usion, you too h this velvety g Women’s Herb in a quart jar d allow the infu vernight. n the refrigerato warm. Or in the h t chilled. Feel fre ou enjoy. infusion per day k sniff will let you e, drink up! onnect enopausal elationship with sforms their regular basis. may find green brew. bal Tonic sion to sit or for several heat of the ee to add y. If it’s been u know if the 7 h
  • 8.   Southe   2. Use Found externa for trea easing t Wise w because a planta poultice Plantain varietie intercha plantain and lan (Plantag will not run dow than sid into the on the The eas as a “sp chew u You’ll fe east Wise Wome e Plantain P nearly everywh l skin ailments ating and pullin the pain, itchin omen’s kids of e when they h ain poultice, af e on to enhanc n is easily iden s that can be u angeably: broa n (Plantago ma nce-leaved plan go lanceolata). tice parallel vei wn the leaf, rat de veins that fe e mid-rib, mos back of the lea siest way to pr pit poultice,” w p some of the eel immediate en                           oultices here, plantain i s. Our great gra ng out infectio ness and swelli ften refer to th ave scrapes an ffix it with a ba ce its drawing tified by its lea used ad leaf ajor), ntain You ins that ther eed t visible af. repare this plan which is, indeed leaf, spit it ou relief from pa                              s a favorite he andmothers us ns or splinters ing of insect b his as the “ban nd bites, they k and-aid and le properties. aves. There are nt for topical m d, just what it s ut, and slap it o in or itching.                                erb for most sed this plant s, and for bites. d-aid plant” know to make ave the e two common medicinal use i sounds like: on!*                n s When poulti times *Althou protect loved o choppin “I bro realiz thum was s foref “Whe alarm stabb must that d withi Have “That wrap to my up, in pulle faith                                treating an in ce on overnigh during the da ugh we may think o tive enzymes that h ones) prefer not to ng leaves with a kn One w oke a glass dishw zed that not only mb. I winced as I still very painful. finger. I treated it en I woke up the med that when I bing pain of bein t still be in there! day, to no avail. n my wound. Wo e my thumb cut o t night, I made a pped it up. In the y delight and am n the center of m ed it out. That wa in plantain’s dra            Wise Wom nfection, you’ll ht, and/or refre y, in order to m of saliva as dirty, it help with the heali o use saliva, the po knife or in a blende woman’s planta washing, and wh y was I cut, but I pulled it out with Especially when t gingerly as I we e next morning, t pressed my thum ng cut inside by t ! I tried again wit I couldn’t even c ould I need to go open?” spit poultice of e morning, I tend mazement, the sh my wound! I rush as it; no more pa awing powers!” man Ways to Co probably want esh and replac maintain medi it actually contains ing process. Certai oultice can also be er, with a bit of wa ain love story . en the bleeding still had a shard h tweezers. Half I pressed it aga ent about my tas the pain had sub mb against the ta the sharp edge o th the tweezers s catch a glimpse o o into the emerg plantain for my derly removed th hard of glass was hed to get the tw in, no more glas onnect t to leave the ce it several cinal potency. s a large number o inly, if you (or your prepared by finely ater. . . slowed, I of glass in my an hour later, it inst my sks that day. “ bsided--so I was able, I felt the of glass that several times of the glass gency room? thumb and e poultice, and s now sticking weezers, and ss. And a lot of 8 of r y
  • 9.   Southe   3. Mak Wild pla and oth absorb. years o wild pla conside Making your ya Studie produ compo moder demen The lo years a phyton plants have b resear with th Wild d have s which ~Jo Ro east Wise Wome ke a Wild Sa ants contain co her nutrients th Our bodies ev f our ancestors ants growing a ered “weeds” to your own wild ard, or a nearby es published wit ce is relatively lo ounds with the p rn scourges: can ntia. ss of these bene ago, as many as nutrients from o some 10,000 ye been made poss chers to compa he produce in o dandelions, once even times more we consider a ‘s obinson, New Yo en                           alad oncentrated do hat we are able volved over hu s receiving nou around them— oday! d salads is as e y wild spot wh hin the past 15 ow in phytonutr potential to red ncer, cardiovasc eficial nutrients ssume. Unwittin our diet since we ears ago and be sible by new tec re the phytonut ur supermarket a springtime tre e phytonutrients superfood.”” ork Times, May                              oses of vitamin e to readily dig undreds of tho urishment from —many of which easy as steppin here you like to years show that rients, which are uce the risk of f ular disease, dia did not begin 5 gly, we have be e stopped forag ecame farmers. T chnology that ha trient content o s. The results ar eat for Native A s [ital added] tha 25, 2013                                ns, minerals, gest and ousands of m the edible h are ng out into o walk. t much of our e the four of our abetes and 50 or 100 en stripping ging for wild These insights as allowed f wild plants re startling. mericans, an spinach,                Pick o wild e found salad. Chickw abund weath fall. La ancest summ seaso If you wild e those bloom Your w washi you to green Back i delicio wome *As alw identify                                one mild-tastin edible herb to ation of your w weed is most dant in the coo her of the sprin ambsquarter, a tor of spinach, mer. Violet leave n.* notice some d edibles that yo leaves as well ming nearby, by wild salad can ng or pruning o gather your e leaves and br inside, add you ous bounty. An en! ways, use your field ying these tasty op            Wise Wom g, be the wild ol, wet ng and a wild , is prevalent in es are found t dandelion leav u’re familiar w . If you have v y all means, ad be constructe required. Bring edible weeds; reak them into ur favorite dres nd remember . guide and/or the ptions. man Ways to Co n many areas d hroughout the ves or other str ith, add a sma violet or dande dd those in as d entirely outd g your bowl o harvest the cle bite-sized pie ssing and enjo . . wild plants guidance of a tra onnect during the e growing rong-flavored ller quantity o elion blossoms well. doors, with no r basket with ean, vibrant eces. oy the fresh, make wild ined herbalist in 9 f
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  • 11.   Southea   5. Ally Like any getting amazed cultivati ally’s ph Look ar and stay Your all be over reclusive If a plan how tha until we Come to her. Res in her c differen differen prepara help yo My first in the s high, I c for infus ast Wise Women y with a Plan y good relation to know a sing how much you ng a dedicated hysical, medicin ound the garde y open for a pl y may be a pla rflowing with vi e plant that yo nt calls to you, at plant is indic e’ve worked wit o know your al search her attrib hanging beauty t parts of the p t seasons—and tions and mens u to receive he plant ally was pring for soup collected the le sions during th n                           nt for a Yea ship, investing gle plant ally ca u learn about h d course of stud al, edible, and en, yard or plac ant you feel es ant that’s in gre olets or dandel u feel an intuiti pay attention. W cated for us per th it for some t ly throughout t butes and her p y. In this way, y plant that tend d you can also struums (alcoho er gifts. nettle. I started and as the pla af stalks—the t e winter.                               ar the time and a an reap great re herbal medicine dy to working w energetic aspe ces where you w specially drawn eat abundance; lions. It may be ive connection We often don’t rsonally in term ime. the circle of the phases. Make s you can learn a to reach peak experiment wit ol, water, vineg d collecting the nt grew to a co top half of the                                attention in ewards. You’ll b e through with your plant cts. walk frequently to. your yard may e a more with. t realize why or ms of our health e year. Observe sketches of her bout the potency in h various ar, oil) that can e young sprouts ouple of feet plant—to dry               be y y r h e n s When collect plants unexp After t I harve of the As you the pla conve                                the nettle wen ted the seeds a I had cut back ected second s the hard frost, w ested the roots nettle root. u develop the r ant . . . and hea rsation—it’s the           Wise Wom nt to flower and and made tinctu k or harvested r season of tende when the abov s and experimen relationship, yo aring from the e Wise Woman man Ways to Co d seed in the su ures. I found th re-grew in the f er greens for so veground portio nted with medi u may find you plant as well. E n Way. onnect ummer, I hat the nettle fall and I had a oup and vinega on had died ba icinal preparatio urself talking to Engage in this 11 an ar. ck, ons o
  • 12.   Southea   Con The Wis and enc her gifts requires and the 6. Lie As child drawn t the swe amid th on the g reclaim A large verified Earth fo simply l woods b Lie on t energy. anger— flow thr the hea ast Wise Women nnecting se Woman Trad courages us to s. Stepping bac s us to let go o e creatures that on the Eart dren, we were n to run barefoot eet summer gra e autumn leave ground. It’s tim that joy. body of resear what ancient p or guidance and ying quietly in benefits physica the Earth, belly Lie on your ba —energies that m rough you into ling arms of th n                            g with t dition is ground remember that ck into right rel of the concept o inhabit it. th naturally --to lie in ss, to play es, to sit me to rch has people knew ab d comfort. Even the park, in yo al, emotional, a down, to receiv ack to release a may be “stuck” the soil to be a e Mother.                              the Eart ded in the Earth t with every bre ationship with of being “other bout “earthing”— n just a few min our yard or gard and spiritual he ve nourishment nd let go of te in your body; a absorbed and t                                th h and her cycle eath, we receive our Mother r” than the land —lying on the nutes a day of den or in the alth. t and healing nsion, grief or allow them to transformed in               s e d Much your m Even i walkin feeling So go “Th will us i dam ear plu of t The pro pro rad The tha turn dem of c by ~D                                like snuggling mind and body f you can’t fully ng for a while in g that attachme on . . . wiggle he earth’s surfac ing and waiting is chock full of f mage, causing o th is meant to b g into to receive this inflammatio e earth and hum ovide oxygen an ovides negative icals and togeth ere is literally no t does not posit ns out, most so- mentia, heart dis chronic inflamm plugging into th r. Laura Koniver           Wise Wom with a beloved to rest, relax a y recline, simply n the grass or s ent is calming a your toes. e is negatively c g for us. As hum free radicals tha our bodies to ha be a docking sta e a head-to-toe on. mans are yin and d we provide ca electrons and w her we live in ne othing -- from P tively respond t -called age relat sease, stroke... i mation. Take awa he earth and wh r, From the Grou man Ways to Con d, laying on the and receive. y taking off you sitting on a roc and restorative. charged, full of f an beings every t cause inflamm ave a net positiv ation for us, a po e, inside and out d yang -- just lik arbon dioxide, t we provide posit eutral joyous ha PMS to jet lag to o time spent ea ted changes like s actually relate ay the chronic in hat do you get? und Up nnect Earth allows ur shoes and k or log and . free electrons y single one of mation and ve charge. The ort we can t neutralization ke trees he earth tive free rmony. o dementia -- arthing. As it e arthritis, ed to a lifetime nflammation Healing.” 12
  • 13.   Southea   7. List The cap one of t our min the wise new line you mig thought Yes, tha may be sense— As a yo enthrall eager to came th I started felt a bi nearby, When I powerfu weeks, I minutes I admire about th Soon, I clarity a ast Wise Women en to a Tre pacity for deep the great gifts nds and being p e woman, this c es of communic ght not have pr t possible. at includes com a soft “voice,” —or images that ung herbal stud ed by the conc o experience di hrough the ced d getting a sen t nervous abou but keeping so finally did sit d ul sense of peac I was drawn to s at time, nearly ed her strength he questions an began to receiv about decisions n                           e listening is of quieting present. For can open up cation that reviously municating wit but more often present thems dent reading Th cept of engagin rect communic ar trees outside se that they we ut that, so I bus ome distance. down with the t ce and connect sit with a parti y every day. It h, talked to her nd confusions o ve guidance ab I had been str                               th plants. Occas n it’s a feeling— selves in your m The Secret Life o ng with plant en cation. My first e my home at t ere, somehow, c sied myself in t trees, I received tion. Over the n icular cedar tree was like visitin about my prob of my life. bout some of th ruggling with. A                                sionally, there —an intuitive mind’s eye. of Plants, I was nergies, and connection the time. calling to me. I he garden— d a very next few of e for five or ten g with a friend. blems, mused he next steps— As I look back,               n . — those the pa If a pa start b Invite Then c the po “. . . Th when C decide dracae Finding would lightin And th and ou though the de . and fo had gr [Furthe to them kill the played contro ~Susan                                decisions were ath of what eve articular plant o by introducing y her to tell you clear your mind ower to hear pl he whole scientifi Cleve Baxter—th ed on impulse to ena in his office, t g that the plant happen if he thr g a match to the hat was when som urs. For the plant hts! He also disco ath of anything, ondly remember rown and tended er research show m, they bend sha em. But plants do d to a field of cro ol fields that rece n Barber, Ma’at M           Wise Wom e some of the fi entually became or tree whispers yourself, silently about herself. d, open your he ants talk! ic uproar about hen America's for attach his polyg then water the p indeed reacted t reatened it, and e leaf where the mething happen t didn't wait for h overed that plan strongly disliked red and extende d them. wed that] plants d arply away from o like classical m ops, more and he eive no serenades Magazine: Truth man Ways to Con irst steps that d e my life’s work s to you, engag y or aloud. Adm eart and listen. plant communic remost lie-detec graph electrodes plant and see if th to this event, he formed in his mi electrodes were ned that forever c him to light the m ts were aware of d people who kil d their energy o don't like rock m the source. Ove usic and jazz. Wh eavier grain is pro s.” Becomes Clarity nnect directed me do k. ge her. You can mire her beauty You, too, have ation began in 1 tor examiner— to the now-fam he leaves respon decided to see w ind the idea of attached. changed Baxter's match. It reacted f each other, mo led plants carele ut to the people music. When it's p r a long time, it c hen that music is oduced than in y 13 wn y. 1966 mous nded. what s life d to his urned essly . . e who played can s
  • 14.   Southea   8. Fee Cultural arbitrary Woman is more the “Ear cycles a the moo and the the year this, we our heri based c ancestra We all h roots, w America The sea experien sproutin our own rebirth. Just like to our r As you tree, no spiritual ast Wise Women el Into the S ly, we operate y. The Wise n’s sense of tim closely linked rth Clock”, the and rhythms of on, the seasons e natural cycle o r. As we tune in reconnect with itage: the earth cultures of our al grandmother have indigenou whether they we a . . . sons have a po nces. As the pla ng, growth, frui n journey throu e the plants, in roots; in the sum watch and are otice the ways t l experiences ar n                            eason on clocks and e to s of nto h h- rs. s ere in Africa, Ru owerful way of ants move thro tion and death ugh the cycles o the wintertime mmer our atten in relation with hat your own p re mirrored in h                              calendars that ussia, Ireland, N reflecting wom ugh their passa , we can see th of birth, growth we’re naturally ntion turns outw h your plant ally physical, emotio her seasonal ph                                are somewhat North or South men’s inner ages of he reflection of h, death and y pulled inward ward. y or a particula onal and hases.               r Ackno year— oursel gracef "Wint calm There winte plain sprin when And a for be This i When inner all arg she is unive destr need Winte shou and o grand                                owledging and c —the solstices an ves with these fully. As our for ter’s woman is a eyes. Winter’s w e is wisdom in w er’s includes all. in the dry cold g, summer, fall, n all seems clear all seems comp eginnings will c is the time of re n winter comes r self, her deepe guments that sh s resting, but sh erse within herse roying what sho s to thrive. er women are th ld be saved. The of power. Not fo dmother. In her           Wise Wom celebrating the nd the equinox rhythms and to remothers did, a still pond, mirr woman is rooted winter. Earth sea What is invisibl of winter. From can see all thei r. lete. There is no ome soon enou est. to a woman's so est spaces. She r he should engag he is more than elf, examining a uld not be reviv hose who bring ey are the deep or nothing did a calm deliberate man Ways to Con e natural turning xes—can help u o dance with th all around the roring the world d, coiled, full of ason has its own e in growing tim m winter, one can r patterns. This ot yet a call to b ugh. This is the f oul, she withdra refuses all conne ge in the world. resting: She is c nd breaking old ved, feeding in s into the next cy conservators of ancient peoples eness, she winte nnect g points of the us re-align hem more world. d from her potential. n wisdom, but mes becomes n remember is the time egin again, fallow time. aws into her ection, refutes She may say creating a new d patterns, secret what ycle what f knowledge honor the ers over truth, 14
  • 15.   Southea   Con Societal tremend shadow nearly u place as have a l continue Much o primal c daughte protecto thread t Cultivat ages—a Traditio learning whole. B more fu “Wom people Loves strugg ~Alice ast Wise Women nnecting norms shift ve dous progress i ws. With strengt universal oppres s co-creators of long way to go es to be both e f what sustains connection of w ers, sisters, and ors of Life. It’s p that joins us wi ing a deep, sup and throughout n. We share ou g from each oth By embracing a ully love and va manist: committ e…Womanist: lo the spirit. Loves gle. Loves the Fo e Walker, In Sear n                            g with Y ery, very slowly. in bringing wom h, perseverance ssion, women a f a new paradig o in a world wh endemic and in s us through ou women through mothers—the part of our biol th every other pportive relatio t the ages—is k ur stories and o her and contrib and honoring o lue ourselves. ted to the surviv oves music. Lov s love and food olk. Loves hersel rch of Our Mothe                              Your Si In the last cen men’s issues ou e and non-viole are reclaiming o gm of equality. ere violence ag nternalized. ur journey is the hout the world unwavering nu logy; it is our e woman on the nship with our key to the Wise our skills, teachi buting our gifts other women, w val and wholene ves dance. Loves and roundness. f. Regardless.” ers’ Gardens                                isters ntury we’ve see ut of the ent resistance t our rightful And we still gainst women e profound, in our roles as urturers and essence. It is the planet. sisters of all e Woman ng each other, to the greater we come to ess of an entire s the moon. . Loves               n o e 9. Ga Comin wome is nou done workin tendin the ill togeth weavin and so Wome of the called It stim with o belong Engag sacred us to d The Re world, to em Imagin A wom Who i ~Patri                                ather with W ng together wit n in groups lar rishing to our s it since the daw ng side by side ng to the family and the elderly her: cooking, se ng. We share se orrows. We laug en tend to feel reason is that the “love horm mulates relaxatio our sisters a prio ging, providing ging in women’s d circle or simp dissolve the int ed Tent movem offers safe, ble brace our com ne a woman wh man who sits in s reminded of t icia Lynn Reilly,           Wise Wom Women h other rge and small spirit. We’ve wn of time— in the fields, y—the young, y. We create ewing and ecrets, joys gh, cry, sing an better when su we have high l mone” which, am on, trust and alt ority in our live us with inspira s rituals, wheth ly sitting down ternal barriers o ment, which is g essed space for monality. It’s ve ho values the wo circles of wome the truth about Imagine a Wom man Ways to Con nd dance in com urrounded by o levels of oxytoc mong other thi truism. Making es galvanizes a ation and stren er they involve for tea and co of competition gaining popular r women of all ery powerful, in omen in her life. en. herself when sh man In Love with nnect mmunity. other women. P cin, sometimes ngs, is pro-soc our relationshi sense of gth. gathering in a onversation, allo and separation rity all around t ages and stage ndeed. . he forgets. h Herself 15 Part ial. ips ows n. the es
  • 16.   Southea   10. Re As Wins helps to hierarch sciences bearing When w and the we reco celebrat context passion ast Wise Women ead Her-Sto ston Churchill s o clarify both th hies, and the ph s and the arts t and raising ch we explore the s e women who a ognize the com te our uniquene and, perhaps, f s in a way that n                            ory said, “history is he antagonistic hilosophical sub histor came In thi suppo devel Not s Miller there wome “wom partic we al vision who in virt to spirituality an ildren. stories of wom are at the vangu monalities in o ess. We can see find the inspira helps to bring                              written by the contests that c b-text of the pa rical version of e to be” in the m s version, wom orting players i lopment of civi so. As feminist r and Kate Swif ’s a tendency t en, neglecting o men’s lives, deed cipation in hum ll stand on the nary and courag have made vita tually every are nd social cause en who have g uard of social c ur struggles, ev e ourselves as p ation to pursue the human sto                                victors.” This create today’s atriarchal “how things modern world. men are, at best, n the lization. writers Casey ft point out, to “disappear” or devaluing ds and man affairs.” Ye shoulders of geous women al contributions ena from the es, often while one before us change today, ven as we part of a wider our own ory forward.               , t                                  You may writ With your bit You may trea But still, like d Does my sass Why are you 'Cause I walk Pumping in m Just like moo With the cert Just like hope Still I'll rise . . Does my sexi Does it come That I dance At the meetin Out of the hu I rise Up from a pa I rise I'm a black o Welling and s Leaving behi I rise Into a daybre I rise Bringing the I am the drea I rise I rise I rise. ~Maya Ange           Wise Wom   te me down in h tter, twisted lies ad me in the ver dust, I'll rise. siness upset you beset with gloo k like I've got oil my living room. ons and like sun tainty of tides, es springing hig . iness upset you e as a surprise like I've got dia ng of my thighs uts of history's s ast that's rooted cean, leaping an swelling I bear i nd nights of ter eak that's wond gifts that my an am and the hop elou, “Still I Rise” man Ways to Con history , ry dirt u? om? wells s, gh, ? monds s? shame d in pain nd wide, in the tide. rror and fear rously clear ncestors gave, e of the slave. ” nnect 16
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