PLAY PODCASTS
Ancestral Legacies, Lost Cultures, & Personal Mythmaking - Janelle Hardy

Ancestral Legacies, Lost Cultures, & Personal Mythmaking - Janelle Hardy

Medicine Stories · Amber Hill

January 22, 20191h 34mExplicit

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (traffic.libsyn.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Original episode page

Show Notes

The stories that call to us, the ancestors who live in us, the cultures that are lost to us, and so much more...

IN THE INTRO:

  • Self care and energy hygiene for sensitive types
  • Ancestral languages
  • Elderberry magic

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • Making peace with our names, the legacy of patriarchal naming, changing names, prehistoric kinship ties, and pondering how our most ancient ancestors chose names
  • Spectral visitations from the grandfather who died before Janelle was born
  • Rootlessness, and what is lost when people set out on their own and leave their land and people behind
  • How our ancestors live in us, even when we can't claim their culture as our own
  • Language as a gateway to the ancestors
  • Megalithic monuments and the transition from hunting and gathering to farming in Europe
  • Starting a podcast
  • Knowing whose land you're living on
  • The ancient tales we're drawn to
  • Diving deep into embodiment and creativity
  • The profound inner and outer journey of Personal Mythmaking
  • Navigating the world as a Highly Sensitive Person and empath- "I need a lot of self care to be connected to my deep self"
  • Biodynamic craniosacral therapy, somatic experiencing, and other coping mechanisms/self care
  • Chronic trauma responses and nervous system stuckness
  • The more ephemeral cultural transmissions: textiles, fiber arts, music, dance, cooking, etc.

LINKS:

← All episodes of Medicine Stories