Plants + Reciprocal Relationship w— Herbalist Gina Badger

My guest today is Gina Badger, and she is an energetic clinical herbalist. She shares  about how to build reciprocal relationships with plants and with the land, particularly as a non-indigenous person. Gina also breaks down what our bodies need right now in light of the pandemic and what plants can be our allies and how we can use them.

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we discuss

• How she emerged from the art world into the work of a “kitchen witch”

• How being a settler is a fundamental orientation to how she relates to the land

• How she thinks about reciprocal relationship to the land in her practice

• Permission + consent in our relationship with plants

• How to do plant meditations

• The experience of dissociation as a coping mechanism

• How her definitions of self care have changed

• Her priorities for preventative care right now

• The plants that she recommends we interact with right now

• The teaching for this moment from gravel root

links

More about our guest —

Gina's website

Gina's IG

Mentioned in the episode —

Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine

Layla Feghali, River Rose Remembrance

Mugwort (artemisia vulgaris)

Raven Rose

Portland Plant Medicine Gathering

White Cedar (thuja occidentalis)

Robin Wall Kimmerer - "honorable harvest"

Karyn Sanders

Brunem Warshaw

The Rise Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein (book)

Get Radical, Boil Roots (document)

Gravel root (eutrochium)

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