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Podcast: My Life is the Medicine
Episode: Mandy Bishop - Ritual Artist, Medicine Maker, Nature Based Mentor, Plant Tender - Part 1
Description: Mandy and Chuck explore the vast terrain, tension, and challenge between western-oriented and traditional nature-based philosophies, Kronos (linear/quantitative) and Kairos (soul/spirit/qualitative) time, meaning-making, story creation, paying for healing work, masculine patriarchal goal/objective-oriented work versus really listening and following what's being called for from someone's soul and life journey, being honest about not knowing and not guaranteeing an outcome for clients, ritual, ceremony, sweat lodge, relationship to ancestors, tending plants, and how all of this informs the ecosystems of our lives. Mandy shares from her experience with significant trauma and how a long road of ceremony, c...