Navigating Nourishment with Susan Staley

You can purchase the recording of Susan’s class on Pre- & Postpartum Herbs & nutrition Here!

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Welcome to Earth Body Podcast. I’m Kate Douglas, Fertility Awareness Educator and founder of Earth Body. Each week, we feature conversations, stories, and essays exploring cyclical wisdom in the modern world.

Today, we're talking about navigating nourishment in the contemporary landscape with clinical herbalist Susan Staley.

KEY MOMENTS:

0:35 - What is your definition of nourishment?
2:00 - What are some of the challenges to accessing nourishment in modern life?
4:29 - The relationship between the brain-gut axis
6:40 - Herbs & food for supporting the gut microbiome
9:04 - What will you cover in your upcoming knowledge share “Form & Fare: Navigating Food & Nourishment with Grace”?
10:48 - What is the most nourishing aspect of your work?

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Susan Staley is a clinical herbalist with a focus on relationship to food and nourishment in today’s world. Her work is informed by the human experience, traditional wisdom, contemporary literature, and of course, the earth. Tea is Susan’s absolute favorite way to share and work with herbs. She believes tea can change a person’s life. With over 10 years of clinical experience, she began formal study of herbs and plant medicine in 2009 and nutrition in 2004. She is a founder of Railyard Apothecary in Burlington, VT. Susan lives outside of Portland, ME with her husband and toddler. She has a love for the ancient world and days past, eating with loved ones, being outside and the wisdom of the human heart. You can find her improving her meal prep skills, trying to make time to paint and washing dishes. Susan hopes to build a hoop house for winter greens and help increase interest and accessibility of herbs in her community.

Relevant links:

• Standing Land

• Purchase class recording: Pre- and Postpartum Herbs & Nutrition with Susan Stanley

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Through a range of guest artists and teachers, we share classes aimed to support the holistic health of our bodies, our communities, and our planet.

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Episode recorded, mixed, and produced by Kate Douglas

Theme song is by Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez

All content is provided for general informational purposes only. It not medical advice, and should not be construed as such.