Part Two! Beth is Inuk, originally from Igloolik, Nunavut and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario who now works as a lawyer. I met Beth through doing somatic processing and inner exploration. Our work together focused on healing religious, political, and historical trauma. Beth and I connected to talk about how that work ultimately lead her to Islam and she expressed that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. I couldn't wait to hear her story and I was so overjoyed that ...

Beth is Inuk, originally from Igloolik, Nunavut and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario who now works as a lawyer. I met Beth through doing somatic processing and inner exploration. Our work together focused on healing religious, political, and historical trauma. Beth and I connected to talk about how that work ultimately lead her to Islam and she expressed that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. I couldn't wait to hear her story and I was so overjoyed that she chose t...

Welcome back to the pond. Last time you were here it seemed interesting enough, so why not make your way back in through the mud and the shrubs. Join, pull up a log, listen to the frogs. We go through topics such as Big foot, Middle Earth, Aliens, and probably much more. We will be recording more of these wetland adventures. Thanks for the support of the first episode we put out together! Glad you enjoyed it.

Welcome to the Pond dear story keepers. Imagine for a moment that you found a trail through a swampy forest. Watching your step, you weave through the dense willow bushes. In the fog you begin to hear voices and they are having a lively conversation. As you get closer you smell a familiar herb in the air, curiosity grips you! Who could be out here? Noticing that the voices are arising from a pond nearby you quietly approach. Peering over a large rotten log, you see a frog with a long pipe ac...

Hello and welcome back to this series "The Meeting of Medicines With Adam Fleisher". My friend Adam Fleisher has been navigating cancer and the different levels of perception available to our consciousness when it comes to disease. In this episode Adam tells me about his first encounter with the traditional plant medicines Hape, Sananga, and Yage provided to him by a Taita from Colombia. Please enjoy this catch up as Adam shares his experience with me and we chat about preparing to hea...

Hello story keepers and welcome back to season 4 of the Good Medicine. Our guest today is Vivian. Vivian is a certified meditation teacher through Dharma Moon and Tibet House. In this conversation Vivian and I discuss our teacher training, mindfulness and mental health, and the challenges the last few years have presented. Just starting out on her meditation journey Vivian hopes to see you on the trail. As mentioned in the episode you can join Brittany Valentino and Vivian Neff o...

Welcome Adam Fleisher to the podcast! This journey with Adam will be a series, so welcome to EP 1 If you have been a long time listener of the show than you will know Adam as the man who makes it sound good! Our editor extraordinaire! I met Adam when he came to do embodiment work with me. Our work together led him to becoming the editor of the podcast and a great friend of mine. He is a down to earth, rational, and very kind person that I feel very honoured to know. Over the last year Adam h...

Hello beautiful beings! Please welcome Noel Coakley to the Good Medicine podcast. Noel was one of my teachers in the 100hr mindfulness meditation teacher training put on through Dharma Moon. It was there that I felt the need to dive deeper with Noel and have the talk you are about to hear. Noel is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and former elementary school special educator. He has studied Tibetan Buddhism since 1997 and the Bön tradition since 2013. He is a father, husband, and friend...

*trigger warning that the topic of sexual abuse comes up in this talk* Todays episode is so special as we invite Victoria Bwikler to share her medicine. Victoria is a Thai-American, neurodivergent witch, and meditation teacher. Learning meditation can be impactful and beneficial on many levels and Victoria speaks beautifully on how it improved her quality of life and the work that she had done in the Haitian community teaching children this practice. Through the conversation we e...

A very special episode, please welcome Bobby Wade to the Good Medicine! Bobby is one of the cofounders of the Eagle Condor Alliance, a plant medicine centre in Colombia. In 2019 I was lucky enough to attend the centre and benefited first hand from the close knit team and the medicine they offer. I have so much praise for Bobby and the whole of the ECA, along with a wealth of gratitude for his coming on and sharing his story and wisdom. He has been as facilitator and integration guide to hund...

Welcome to season 3 folks, its getting wyrder. Opening up the season with a rambling chat with none other than Ryan Singer. Ryan Singer is a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, podcast host and paranormal investigator. He seeks to connect the high-strange and the familiar through his comedy and other creations. He recently filmed his first comedy special at an old haunted school in Ohio, called "The Super Natural," that will be released later this year alongside his paranormal investigat...

Kelsey is an anticapitalist astrologer, teacher, and community initiator. As a being ruled by Jupiter, she is deeply engaged in the processes of expansion and understanding of self, other, relationally, and consciousness. With a background in education and a natal disseminating moon in Sagittarius, Kelsey is hugely driven towards sharing her processing and conceptualizations with others through teaching, writing, and speaking. She embraces the simultaneous difference and sameness of each huma...

Welcome to Season 3 of the good medicine show! At the beginning of this episode I mention "the spooky season" and I was referring to halloween and scorpio season (when it was recorded) but as it turns out Sagittarius season is a lot scarier for me! I try to trust the timing of when these episodes come out, so welcome Sagittarius season and welcome Karen Rontowski to the Good Medicine! Karen has been a comedian for 30 years and a tarot reader for 25 of those years! She mixes the two in her ...

The last Episode of Season 2, and we end this one with a big dose of natural medicine! A beautiful soul, mother, daughter, sister, human trying to develop and maintain a healthy, respectful relationship with the visible and invisible beings of the land she lives on. Through plant magic and tarot Samantha explores what it means to be in relationship to other. I had so much fun recording this with Samantha, an incredible friend, student, and teacher I believe her story alone is medicine...

Welcome back to the show everybody! There will be 3 episodes coming out in October (I think!) that I am very excited about. The first one, this one, is with Mana Aelin! A good friend, a practitioner, artist, and otherworldian traveler. We dive into her tarot process and the story of how it found her. Mana speaks on the complex nature of studying fae culture as a paranormal investigator/researcher in the sea of misinformation that is out there. I ask her about investigations she has been on an...

Ashley Hayden is an animal channel, animal rights advocate, and all around animal realm bodhisattva (my opinion). We move through a wide range of topics such as animal symbolism, communication, and personal stories! A strong and earthed energy it is always a pleasure to talk with Ashley and I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I enjoyed recording it. You can find and work with Ashley here: @Divine.Dingo

Jayme-Lynn Gloade is a multitalented artist and all around wondrous gem of a human. In this episode Jayme and I dive into how art has been medicinal in her life and the different mediums she has explored. We discuss her Indigenous roots and how her heritage colours her art as well as societal expectations around connecting art to culture. We discuss the changing landscape of our humanity as people wake up to our interconnected nature, the good, the bad, and the horrific. Jayme is a part of an...

What is your reality tunnel? Join Mario and I on a fantastical chat about how we see reality and the nudges we have received from the infinite wholeness.

As a Humanist Chaplain, Darrin Parkin's focus is on palliative and end of life care of patients and their loved ones. Darrin walks with people through anticipatory grief, grief & bereavement during terminal illness, as well as after the death for a patients loved ones. Darrin worked for Hospice Calgary and Rosedale Hospice alongside end stage cancer patients providing grief support for the families. He is a conference speaker on topics like Spirituality in the modern age (compared to the ...

***We talk about suicide very casually throughout this ep - If you do not have the space for that please skip this one! Mind your mind!*** Rebecca is a Jujitsu brown belt and all around badass. She is a 1-1 coach who has launched multiple programs to help her students progress on the mats and in life. Boldly following her dreams and taking risks to make those dreams come into fruition make her an inspirational coach to work with (she has been there). In this conversation we look at the ups a...