Wild Resilience
a podcast for herbalists, healers, artists and the people who love them.
I'm your host, Friede Sander
Welcome to the Show!
Wild Resilience is the place you find at the edges of things, the thickets where the fields meet the forest, the lush wilderness in a forgotten lot in the middle of a city.
It is the strength and connection we feel when we hear a story that inspires us, helps us to grow, to heal. It is the courage it takes to veer from the path laid out for us, to pick our own meandering trails through the wilderness of life.
Join me as I explore that wilderness. In each episode I interview an herbalist, artist, or healer on their journey of becoming. Why was someone drawn to the plant world? How did they decided to be an artist? What was it that lead them down the path of a healer?
Wild resilience is a communion with the worlds outside our daily perceptions, it is creativity, passion, medicine, connection, curiosity, humor, beauty.
It is the stories that fill our cup,
and how we keep it full.
season one
Welcome to Wild Resilience, a podcast for herbalists, healers, artists, and the people who love them. I’m your host Friede Sander. I am so excited about this show- not only do I have an excuse to ask all the questions I have ever wanted to ask other herbalists, artists, and healers but I get to…
7 Song is the teacher and director of the NE School of Botanical Medicine. In 1981 he hitch hiked to Santa Cruise to attend his first herb class at the Platonic Herbal Academy. He kept hitch hiking for a few more years then settled in at the California School of Herbal Studies in 1983. He…
Tammi Sweet feels like a tree amongst the flowers. Twenty years ago a friend brought her to the Northeast Women’s Herbal Gathering and it was there she found her community of people who love plants. In this interview she shares her journey as a seeker of spirit which first brought her into devout catholicism, but…
Kara Timmons decided college wasn’t for her at 19 and left to see the country. In the national forest in New Mexico she found a flier for 7 Songs program (from Episode 1) that brought her into her herbal journey. That journey ended up spanning the whole breadth of North America. Once she hung her…
In this episode Kris Miller shares with us how she “tracks aliveness” & uses herbs in her therapy sessions with clients. She studied plant spirit medicine with Pam Montgomery, herbal medicine with Rosemary Gladstar and is a co-director at Heartstone Herbal School with Tammi Sweet from episode 2. They have developed a brand new course…
In this episode Kirsten Aune talks about her journey as a textile artist. Her youth in 1980’s NYC and her move to Duluth in search for a cheap studio space (she paid $20 a month when she first arrived!). We explore the search for beauty and inspiration in nature and how some of the most…
This interview is just gorgeous, we go all over the map of Alyssa’s life: including her jaunt on the ren fair circuit, her journey to becoming a dynamic body worker, and her music career. Alyssa is such a joy to listen to, I know you will enjoy this one! We met in Alyssa’s lovely apartment…
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