In this episode, I sit down with herbalist Megan Kendrick, who weaves alchemy into her medicine-making practice through the art of spagyrics. We begin by exploring the practical side of alchemy: how these ancient processes can potentize herbal extractions and deepen the experience of engaging with plant medicine.

From there, the conversation opens into more esoteric and expansive terrain. We reflect on alchemy as a mirror for life itself; moving through cycles of distillation, breakdown, and refinement that shape who we become. Megan shares her perspective on nature as a living teacher, revealing how its spiraling rhythms can guide us back into alignment when the human world feels overwhelming or disconnected.

Together, we explore what it means to become more embodied, to trust the wisdom of cyclical transformation, and to return to nature as both anchor and guide. This episode is an invitation to see your own life through an alchemical lens, where every phase of change carries the potential for depth, meaning, gnosis, and transformation.

Healing From Burnout Course

If you’re looking for clear, grounded guidance for healing burnout that honours the wisdom of your body, Healing From Burnout is for you. In this five week course you will learn the mindset shifts, nervous system healing, lifestyle changes, and herbal medicine that will support your healing journey.

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Megan's Instagram: @wildmedicinals

The Wild Rose Podcast

The Village with Wild Rose College

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Marie's Instagram: @althaeaherbals

Marie's Substack: @marieembodied

If the world has ever felt like too much for your nervous system, you’re not alone.

Thriving in the modern world as a sensitive or neurodivergent person is possible, but it takes awareness and intentionality to craft a life that honours your unique needs rather than overrides them. In this episode I open up about my experience as a highly sensitive soul, sharing both the hard truths and the practices that have genuinely helped me feel more grounded, spacious, and supported in my life.

This episode covers:

• Why you feel overwhelmed, and what to do about it
• How to build routines and habits that support you instead of drain you
• Herbal medicines to nourish your nervous system
• Simple mindset shifts that replace urgency with calm and clarity

If you’ve ever felt like you have to push through, numb out, or “keep up” just to function, this conversation will feel like a deep exhale. Whether you identify as highly sensitive, neurodivergent, or simply feel things deeply, you’ll walk away with insights that help you honour how you’re wired.

Healing From Burnout Course

If you’re looking for clear, grounded guidance for healing burnout that honours the wisdom of your body, Healing From Burnout is for you. In this five week course you will learn the mindset shifts, nervous system healing, lifestyle changes, and herbal medicine that will support your healing journey.

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In this episode, I sit down with Natalie Rousseau to explore the intersection between nature’s cycles, astrology, herbalism, storytelling, and embodied practice. Drawing from her experience as yoga teacher, herbalist, and somatic therapist, Natalie shares how reconnecting with seasonal rhythms can deepen self-awareness, resilience, and a sense of belonging. She weaves in her early fascination with the natural world, her path into herbalism, and the everyday magic of kitchen witchery to offer grounded ways to live more in touch with nature and connected to the wisdom of the body.

We dive into how astrology and seasonal wisdom can be integrated into herbal practices, and why embodiment and somatic awareness are essential for truly living these teachings rather than just understanding them intellectually. Through myth, archetypes, and the mirror of nature, this conversation offers grounded ways to navigate life’s challenges with more presence and a deep sense of being a part of something truly magical.

If you’re curious about earth-based spirituality, embodied herbalism, seasonal living, and looking for ways to feel more connected to the rhythms of the natural world, this episode is for you.

Healing From Burnout Course

If you’re looking for clear, grounded guidance for healing burnout that honours the wisdom of your body, Healing From Burnout is for you. In this five week course you will learn the mindset shifts, nervous system healing, lifestyle changes, and herbal medicine that will support your healing journey. Learn more.

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Natalie's Website

Marie's Website

Natalie on Instagram: @natalierousseau108

Marie on Instagram: @althaeaherbals

Marie's Substack: @marieembodied

Burnout is more then just feeling tired; it's a signal from deeper within, asking for real lasting change.

In this episode I share about my journey of recovering from burnout while unpacking why healing requires more than just lifestyle changes. From unconscious beliefs to nervous system regulation, I explores the deeper mechanisms that keep people stuck in cycles of stress and exhaustion. If you’re seeking sustainable change, this episode offers a perspective that honours the needs of the body, mind, and spirt.

Somatic Sisterhood Circle with Marie

The Somatic Sisterhood Circle is a weekly touch point to attune to the wisdom of your body while being held in sisterhood. Each circle includes embodiment practices and meaningful conversations. The next circle begins on April 7th. Learn more.

Healing From Burnout Course

If you’re looking for clear, grounded guidance for healing burnout that honours the wisdom of your body, Healing From Burnout is for you. In this five week course you will learn the mindset shifts, nervous system healing, lifestyle changes, and herbal medicine that will support your healing journey.

Stay in Touch!

Marie on Instagram: @althaeaherbals

Marie's Substack: @marieembodied

In this rich conversation, I sit down with Seraphina Capranos - homeopath, herbalist, and priestess - to explore the deep intersections of plant medicine, spiritual practice, and ancestral healing.

Seraphina unpacks the nuances between homeopathy and herbalism, and how each modality works on different layers of the body, mind, and spirit. She also speaks to other layers of healing including the ways unresolved patterns move through ancestral lineages and the collective, inviting us into a more holistic understanding of healing that goes beyond the individual.

We close the conversation by discussing what it means to stay grounded while being open to unseen realms, how to cultivate discernment in spiritual practice, and the importance of reconnecting with nature as a source of wisdom and medicine.

If you’re curious about ancestral medicine, nature based medicine, or walking a path that honours both the physical and the unseen, this conversation offers a thoughtful and nourishing perspective.

Somatic Sisterhood Circle

The Somatic Sisterhood Circle is a weekly touch point to attune to the wisdom of your body while being held in sisterhood. Each circle includes embodiment practices and meaningful conversations. The next circle begins on April 7th. Learn more.

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Serapina's Website

Seraphina on Instagram: @seraphinacapranos

Marie on Instagram: @althaeaherbals

Marie's Substack: @marieembodied

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In this deeply personal episode, I open up about a part of the healing journey that many would rather avoid: shadow work. I discuss my own shadows and basis that were born from being raised in a very sheltered Christian family, and how I’m shining a light on my own unconcious beliefs. I explore how the hidden parts of the self can shape the direction of our lives, and how the shadow holds powerful information about our greatest gifts, purpose and magic.

Drawing from my work as a herbalist and somatic therapist, I weave together my personal story, embodiment, and practical insight to show how turning toward these hidden aspects can become a profound gateway to self-ownership and growth.

This episode is an invitation to meet yourself more honestly, and to liberate yourself from the pain, shame, beliefs, patterns, and traumas that have been hidden for too long.

Somatic Sisterhood Circle with Marie

The Somatic Sisterhood Circle is a weekly touch point to attune to the wisdom of your body while being held in sisterhood. Each circle includes embodiment practices and meaningful conversations. The next circle begins on April 7th. Learn more.

Unmasking the Shadow

Within every person lives an unexpressed shadow - aspects of the self that have been hidden, rejected and pushed away due to trauma, pain and cultural conditioning. The shadow contains our deepest pain, and, when integrated, has the potential to reveal our greatest gifts, purpose and magic. In Unmasking the Shadow we'll work with somatic (body-based) tools to peel back layers of conditioning and create a space for your wild and authentic self to flourish. Learn more.

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Marie on Instagram: @althaeaherbals

Marie's Substack: @marieembodied

What does it mean to decolonize wellness?

In this thoughtful conversation, I sit down with Ariana Fotinakis and Vanessa Lesperance, the founders of Decolonize and Rize, to explore the decolonization, healing, and community care. They discuss how colonial mindsets shape the wellness industry, and why reconnecting with Indigenous wisdom is essential for collective healing.

They also dive into the role of nervous system work in reconciliation, the importance of community resilience, and practical ways people can engage respectfully with Indigenous knowledge. This episode invites listeners to reflect, unlearn, and reimagine what true well-being can look like, both individually and collectively.

Somatic Sisterhood Circle with Marie

The Somatic Sisterhood Circle is a weekly touch point to attune to the wisdom of your body while being held in sisterhood. Each circle includes embodiment practices and meaningful conversations. The next circle begins on April 7th. Learn more.

Reconciliation and Well-Being Cohort with Decolonize and Rize

A cohort for leaders, practitioners and change-makers who want to engage in Reconciliation with care, integrity and trust—without causing harm to others or themselves. Learn more.

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Marie on Instagram: @althaeaherbals

Ariana on Instagram: @arianafotinakis

Decolonize and Rize Website

Decolonize and Rize Linkedin

Marie's Substack: @marieembodied

Book a somatic therapy and/or herbalism session.

What does it mean when people quote Bessel van der Kolk and say "the body keeps the score"?

In this episode I sit down with guest Tess Rouse to delve into the transformative power of breathwork and the mind-body connection. Tess shares her personal journey from battling autoimmune diseases for nearly two decades to discovering breathwork. Through the breath she realized that the diseases that she'd been told were incurable were rooted in unprocessed chidhood trauma, and her willingness to breath through her emotions became her pathway to healing.

We explore how the breath can support people to awaken within their own lives by processing unfelt emotional baggage from the past, and widening people's capacity for presence, leadership, and authenticity. If you have been seeking out practical somatic tools for nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and mind-body healing - this conversation is for you.

Somatic Sisterhood Circle

The Somatic Sisterhood Circle is a weekly touch point to attune to the wisdom of your body while being held in sisterhood. Each circle includes embodiment practices and meaningful conversations. Learn more.

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Marie on Instagram: @althaeaherbals

Tess on Instagram: @trwellness_

Tess's Website

Marie's Substack: @marieembodied

Book a somatic therapy and/or herbalism session.