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Episode 15: Mental Health, Ritual, & Whole Bodied Healing – Part 1
In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss the problem with mental health treatment in America, how it’s not a lack of mental health support (spoiler, it’s systemic breakdown and a need for different technologies), and how a whole bodied approach to healing is the beginning of the solution.
Episode 14: The Process of Transformation
In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss their process for transformation and how to navigate the uncertainty of it.
Episode 13: The Power of Silence and the Gifts that Emerge
In this episode, Erica and Genevieve discuss the power of being silent, in body and mind, and the gifts that can emerge when we give ourselves permission to be quiet, and sometimes, do nothing.
Episode 12: Through the Darkness, Into the Light – Part 2
We have exciting news! Genevieve Folkedal is now co-host to We Are the Medicine. In this discussion, Genevieve and Erica follow up on their last discussion and go further into why dehumanizing the oppressor doesn’t work. We can’t heal with the same problematic energy that caused a problem in the first place.
Episode 11: Through the Darkness, Into the Light
In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, and Genevieve Folkedahl of Folklore Energy have a come together in a sacred conversation about how to find sanctuary during crisis. We discuss how to go through pain and change, essentially, how to go through the dark, so that we might emerge into the light.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction 8-Week Program
Mindfulness is a basic human quality, a way of learning to pay attention to whatever is happening in your life that allows you a greater sense of connection to your life inwardly and outwardly. Mindfulness is also a practice, a systematic method aimed at cultivating...
Episode 10: The Sacred Act of Following Your Own Truth
In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, and Genevieve Folkedahl of Folklore Energy have a come together in a sacred conversation that turned out to be a ritual where they discuss the importance of listening to and discerning your own truth.
Episode 9 – Coyote Wisdom
In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about questioning the status quo and our own conditioning. She questions the rules and conditions we have been taught to live by and how to begin to change your mind so that your medicine and life purpose can emerge.
Episode 8: Sacred Spaces, Creating Altars, and Making Offerings
In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about the art of creating sacred space. She dives into the creative and visionary process of creating sacred altars with the help of the otherworld. This is a joy filled episode.
Episode 7: What are we really hungry for? Feeding our Senses and Trusting our Knowing
In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about the hungers we all experience. She dives into the rich and wild realm of nature that connect us to who we really are. In nature, the influences of others are stripped away and we can sense ourselves again. In a time when we often don’t know who to trust, we can listen to the wisdom of our own knowing.
Episode 6: Pain as Sacred Teacher— The Wisdom of Discomfort
In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about transformation and alchemy that come from stepping through fear and looking at pain as a benevolent ally who trusts us enough to show up and teach us.
Episode 5: Paradigm Shifts into the Feminine and the Deep Healing Wisdom of Nature
In this episode, host Erica Thibodeaux, MS, LPC, shares about paradigm shifts into the feminine, slowing down, how playing is praying (thank you Kontomble), the wildness of Nature (thank you Wedamé), kitchen dance parties, and making my own Oracle card deck through ritual.