My favorite podcast of all time. I’ve been a loyal listener since 2021! I’m so grateful for Amber’s ability to not shy away from hard conversations. There’s so much ancestral knowledge in this podcast that needs to be shared!

I listen devotedly to Amber’s podcast and I can genuinely say: it’s changed my life. Not only does Amber discuss health and wellbeing, but she also highlights the misconceptions and harmful beliefs that hurt all of humankind. This podcast is inspirational! I leave every episode more grounded, aware, and comforted. I’ve recommended this podcast to every friend I have and ALL of my clients!

I’ve been listening for 3 years now. Amber, you got me through my post partum. I was so alone, so I’d listen to a podcast of yours while rocking my baby to sleep, feeling just a little less alone and a lot less crazy for feeling that way. I’m glad you’re currently on the track to feeling better. I’ll always feel gratitude towards you and will be rooting for you and your family.

For someone that purports to care about ancestral healing and living ancestrally, Amber’s obsession with essentialist gender biology seems both woefully out of touch and covertly racist. Ancestral societies have always made room for queer and trans bodies, so to sidestep this is cherry picking the argument AND ignoring the ancestral traditions of the global majority. Also to rail against trans people and their caregivers (i.e. medical professionals) as opposed to the “overculture” that created a society obsessed with biological essentialism as a method of control is short-sighted. I expect more from someone who claims to be a healer. Thirdly, Amber makes the argument that excluding trans bodies is a function of protecting children, thereby aligning herself with methods of social control typical of the far-right. This would align her with methods of control of the state to suppress the autonomy of women’s bodies. As someone who has chosen to live outside of mainstream society and has gone so far as to remove her children from social control of the state, her weaponization of the ‘innocence’ of children is hypocritical and points to scapegoating more than anything else. Furthermore, to make the argument that children’s intuition is pristine and should be protected from adulteration at all costs ignores her own arguments of ancestral trauma—and by extension, the cultural specificity of ancestral inheritance. To challenge a child’s point of view is not adulteration—it’s expansion, and it’s potentially an extension of ancestral healing. Anything else is puritan—perhaps a cultural inheritance she ought to examine. Fourthly, it is deeply surprising to me that Amber seems unwilling to examine her biases as possible trauma responses to events in her life. One would think that if she has had to work HARD to realign herself with the intuition of her own body, she would accept that trans people are simply trying to do the same. And to scream that they’ve got it wrong is exerting the same social control that she has worked so hard to remove herself from.

Your episode on GNM being a cult has been life-changing and has given important context and perspective to so many in the holistic community. Thank you for shaking things up with the truth about this movement and its dark history. There’s another adjacent cult out there in a similar community that would be awesome for you to cover one day. Thank you for having the courage. More episodes this like!

Not sure if you realized that Wise Medicine Podcast released their newest episode about GNM recently. 5 mins in to that episode I was like “eh, this feels off” and skipped the episode (I am not a fan of all of their content, but most of it I vibe with) a few days later your episode popped up and I felt validated in my intuition!! Thank you for helping to explain to folks who are desperate for healing that there is nuance & room for flexibility within modalities. Emotional impact can be a huge factor in health issues, but to say it is the only reason, is problematic and petty scary.

TERF-y language related to pregnancy is so disappointing. Antivax conspiracies aren’t surprising but are also disappointing. This misinformation and fear-based rhetoric is how white supremacist maga ideologies have co-opted much of spirituality, unfortunately.

Hi Amber! I have been listening to your latest episode, and *so* enjoying having you back after your recent absence. I have been a fan for a couple of years and have listened to every episode! There has been much important information received and corresponding changes made in my life as a result. I came to you via Mariee Sioux. Having discovered her by chance, and listening to her music quite a bit, I searched for podcast interviews and found your episode 49 (which I am currently re-listening to). That was a great one, after which I went back to the beginning and worked my way through them all. Some of my favorites are body oiling (I always have a bottle of St. John's Wort on the bed side table), Suuzi Hazen's Mothers Best Liver Pills (I was vegan, but am now taking these as supplements), Mineral Balancing via Hamid Jabbar (I have since delved into the Root Cause Protocol and been practicing that for a solid year now & feeling great!), I have read lots by both Perdita Finn and Sofie Strand - thanks for introducing them to me!, I signed up for but haven't finished yet the Healing Herbal Oils course by Kami McBride, I loved the Structured Water book by Carly Nuday, I use Rupam Henry's teeth cleaner (love it!). I am sure there is more, but these are things that otherwise might not have been part of my life without you. I am grateful for you sharing your wonderful self and wisdom and introducing your amazing guests to us. Thank you Amber!!!

I love this woman and her knowledge and dedication and her voice is so calming all at the same time.

Amber’s voice is a blessing in these times. Yes she has the courage to dive into deep and controversial topics which inevitably will leave some listeners upset. But that’s what happens when you remain true to your beliefs despite knowing you will get hate. Thankyou Amber for your opinions on all these sensitive matters. Sometimes we need a strong voice to guide us and not one that is trying to please the masses. This podcast feels like i am sitting with dear friends and has kept me company during hard times. Xoxoxo

Interesting topics but the host exudes an air of arrogance and self-importance that’s really off-putting. It’s evident she needs to work on herself before taking on the role of interviewing others. I recently listened to an episode where she harshly criticizes an elder she once admired for being a vegetarian, which was quite shocking. The interaction between the two women left me and my husband really taken aback, and we’re not even vegetarian.

So much great information shared and Amber’s voice is so soothing to listen to.

Listening to Amber share her wisdom is both comforting and empowering. After listening to Mythic Medicine, I feel like I just had a heart-to-heart with a best friend or big sister. I’m so grateful for her pioneer work in the realms of health and family. Thank you Amber for your inspiration!

If you’re looking for a podcast that discusses traditional and modern medicine in a thoughtful and intelligent way, this isn’t it. I like a little woo and earth/plant connection with my herbalism, but 10 minutes into the first episode I listened to, they’re already devolving into anti-vaxxer conspiracies. Anecdotes are not evidence. The only research study that ever linked vaccines and autism was retracted because the data were so terrible (as in, the “scientist” hand-picked the data he included and rejected any data that didn’t support his story), and the continuing obsession with avoiding vaccines because of this ridiculous pseudoscience is disgustingly ableist.

This podcast kept coming up in my suggestions and its content definitely sounded appealing! I followed for a while but was becoming more and more turned off to the host’s negativity, judgemental attitude and arrogance. I tried revising again after a year with an open mind but was turned off again in the first ten minutes when she was telling a guest she couldn’t respect someone or find them credible after learning they were vegetarian…despite her having been a vegan herself. She seems to believe that whatever path she’s on at that current moment is the right one and everyone else is wrong. Weird.

I lived the concept of this podcast and connecting to healers and wise folk, but a recent not-too-subtle rant about vaccines causing autism was my line. I’m autistic and the misinformation and catatrophizing of my neurotype is the worst of the “autism mom” trope. There’s a difference between helping folkx connect to ancestral ways of being and peddling dangerous misinformation.

I was surprised that the guest seemed unaware of the reasons why we have so much chronic illness and autoimmune disease. It’s a huge topic with our Independent Presidential Candidate RFK,Jr. It is one of the major focal points of his campaign. The reasons and solutions are out there.

I have been recently called to listen to so many episodes of this podcast lately and, as a result, feel like I understand myself, my purpose, my body, and my connection to the earth so much more for it. I’ve had so many moments in the last couple weeks listening to episodes that I got chills because something resonated so deeply or because I realized I was led to listen to the episode at that exact moment in time. Amber’s voice is a soothing balm for the soul and I’m so grateful for the medicine that is shared here. Thank you for this podcast 💐

I used to enjoy this podcast but the host, Amber, has become increasingly more didactic, dictatorial, and angry. She used to sell her oils/herbs but now she is peddling a bunch of other things, some which seem questionable and similar to multi-level marketing and pyramid scheme products. Her most recent jag on instagram (October 2023) made me decide to unfollow. After the recent attacks in Israel and in Palestine, she first posted the words of an online personality/"therapist" stating people shouldn't feel the need to post about political events they do not know about. Fine. But then, amost immediately after, Amber went on a jag - dictatorially posting her feelings about what is happening, and lashing out at people who tried to either correct her lack of knowledge and/or provide more context on what is happening in the region. She commented angrily about "women in Portland", which would be almost funny if it weren't suggestive of deeper issues she seems to be struggling with, and if she wasn't irresponsibly spreading misinformation/disinfo to her many listeners. When she gets into judgy hostile mode it's so alienating, especially because there is a sort of hope (however simplistic) that people who care about plants and herbal medicine would be a bit more reasoned, even-keeled, and open-minded. I mean, during her October jag, she even wrote the words "I pray wokeism ends". Again, ridiculous, funny, and over-the-top, but also fear-mongering and irresponsible. She seems to take on certain perspectives or lifestyles (e.g. she used to be a vegan) and is vociferious/judgemental about why it's right, only to change her mind and go on to judge and yell about why her new-found lifestyle is correct. Big unfollow.

I love love love this podcast. So many good things! I’m even a Patreon member. The guest on Ep 98 was disappointing. Not at all what I expected to hear from the title. We as white people have to understand the “black illiteracy rate” this guest speaks of IS a symptom of the systematic oppression of black people for centuries in our country. To fix the illiteracy rate is to acknowledge systematic oppression in our history. If any child “feels” bad for learning this, it is our job as parents to help them navigate it. Not shield them from it. Ugh. I had to turn this episode off half way through.

I have loved listening to this podcast for its wide ranging topics and insights but this episode was a source of some seriously incorrect and I researched claims about gender, gender expression and children’s knowing about themselves. I was really disappointed.

A must listen to. It’s rich with ancient, sacred wisdom that somehow has made it through all of the years and generations. Thank you so much for your generous, curious and wise spirit.

In episode 98 either Amber or the guest says that children always know gender. Have you ever witnessed children around transgender people? or in a social space where gender is more nuanced? Why do we need to teach children to be afraid of men or trans ppl? i was interested in this episode and then shocked where it went. i have listened to this podcast for years and often felt so comforted by it. but the anti vax and transphobic stuff makes me feel like its created by someone who lives in a small myopic world and is reporting those world views. its strange to listen to. such a reflection of a warped internet space

I’ve been recently looking for a new podcast to listen to because I am a birthworker aka Doula and only listen to Birth podcasts. But after attending a very long 60 hour birth, I was exhausted and my soul needed healing. After asking others for recommendations for a spiritual podcast, nobody could give me what I was truly looking for. I came across this podcast two weeks later and I was like oh cool let’s see what this is. I’m only 9 episodes in and am completely in love! I feel like all of my questions about certain creatures and roots have been answered. I know I was led to this podcast by my guides and ancestors. I even found two newborn kittens while driving and listening to this. I was looking for a female name for the white kitten I am keeping and heard Ariella aka Ari on this episode and my soul resonated so much. Thank you so much for this, you have made my soul happy. And if you would like a new guest for your podcast, as a birthworker or someone who has sat with Kambo, huachuma, and other medicines please let me know. I have a VERY interesting story to tell. Please follow me on IG @phenomenal_womban_birthworker A’ho 🪶

I have learned a lot about how to take care of myself from this podcast. I’ve learned about the importance of trusting my gut even when so many people around me are telling me I’m crazy. I owe my relationship and healing from the plant world to this podcast and a book called “Flowers for a girl - plant medicine and sexual trauma.” I would love to see the writer of that book (Amanda Dilday) on this podcast. I hope it’s ok I post this on here?! I just felt inspired!

The podcast used to be about herbal medicine but now it’s full of conspiracies, transphobic rhetoric, and her trying to sell items that sound like an MLM or scam. It’s laughable how they market themselves as “truth tellers” when they’re actually just being harmful to others.

Love this podcast. Amazing honest conversations.

Some really great episodes with fabulous information early on, but in the past year or two have been increasingly disturbed by the host’s philosophy on gender roles and some anti-vaccine beliefs. Some guests also seem to be pretty problematic recently as well. I have unsubscribed twice, and may check back to listen to the occasional, non-problematic episode, but don’t think I’ll subscribe again. For the best content, go back a few years.

Love this podcast! Thank you!

I used to love this podcast for its insight into many things that interested me. Over the last year or more it seems like the host has been poisoned by Instagram and the internet. At first is was just the expression of so much anxiety around that space and the retelling of weird feuds, then came the marketing stuff and guests only found through the gram. And now it’s full on transphobia and just plain ugliness. I had to unsubscribe. A true bummer to see someone brought to such a low place. Maybe get off the internet for a while?

The energy of this podcast has been off for me for awhile which is a shame because I really have loved it in the past! I’ll keep dipping in for a check every now and again!

I thought this podcast would be inspiring so I picked an episode, #98 and things get pretty transphobic towards the middle. The host & guess express a lot of fear about Trans / gender identity education, it’s pretty disturbing and harmful.

I found this podcast almost a year ago and fell madly in love. I can’t recommend it enough! Huge thank you to Amber for creating this space, sharing her stories, letting us listen to the most nourishing conversations and courageously using her voice.

This episode will promote violence against the trans population. It is hateful and contains harmful misinformation. I’ve never heard this podcaster so enraged about something as she is about how teaching kids that transness is valid is “gaslighting” them, teaching them to fall for manipulation and that transness is essentially a “lie”. It clearly speaks to the ignorance of these women, who clearly do not have the experience of being trans (or any trans friends for that matter) and therefor cannot speak on the subject from a place of truth or real-lived understanding. Shame on this episode. This is why trans people are being killed all over the world. I hope others follow suit and stop supporting them after this. We deserve a public apology and so do your Indigenous listeners whose culture you appropriate/pretend to revere (those whose cultures revere two-spirit, 5-genders, etc.)

So disappointed about the direction of the show. Used to be about herbalism and ancestry, but now just an infomercial for affiliate products, sprinkled w episodes who share the authors (extreme and boring) opinions on culture wars topics. The titles of the show do not match the content. Two stars cause you used to be so good, sad to see where the show has landed.

Used to absolutely love the show. I appreciated the nuanced conversations and deep dives into topics I care deeply about (rewilding, ancestral wisdom, stepping out of the overculture, homesteading) but now that Amber has discovered affiliate marketing, she and her guests have the most pointless, surface level chats that only serve to peddle silly e course bundles on listeners. Snooze. Not looking to listen to one giant ad.

Episode 98 is downright violent and foolish it to mention tripping over itself in contradictions.

Used to love this and now it has turned into a scary white woman thinking she knows how to educate on racial education and trans people. Was a Patreon supporter in the past but this change in views has made me question a lot of other voices in the spiritual space that I used to turn for guidance. This past episode…WOOF!

Thank you for not being afraid to confront the and speak your mind on the gender ideology. Please do not back down. We need voices like yours.

I guess sometimes good, often not. This is what I imagine privileged people doing herbalism sounds like. Not a perspective of someone who lives in the real world. Her talk about vaccines makes me want to crawl inside myself and die….in fact on several subjects. Sometimes affirming good info, but think for yourself and don’t believe everything you hear.

I was expecting a helpful episode I could share with my friends about neuro-divergent children and instead found a lot of surface level and damaging assertions being made about trans children. It makes me doubt your expertise, Amber, about other topics I know less about. The podcast promotes unschooling and child-led learning and claims to trust the innate knowledge of children, and yet you don’t seem to believe that children can draw a distinction for themselves between others’ reality and their own. Children can be impressionable but they can also be taught how to be discerning. If I really believed the extent of how you teach your child to sense danger relies on noticing the shape of someone’s body, I would be worried. It’s hard for me to believe that you truly think your child is intuiting some feminine or masculine essence rather than simply relying on physical markers they have learned from mass culture. There have been many successful societies that have lived in close connection to land that have recognized more than two genders. This episode really shows me that you haven’t fully researched this topic but rather have only looked for evidence to support your personal bias. I don’t see any of the nuance that I normally hear from you about other topics. I know you care deeply about people’s wellbeing. I also respect that you say what you believe. I think you ask some good questions in this episode but you are answering them from a place of ignorance. You have misrepresented the experience of trans children as being all about surgery and hormones (it’s not, I know trans children and adults who have done neither) and reducing it to body dysmorphia. You, who are often quite critical of Western medicine, have latched on to Western medicine’s diagnosis and terminology as though that (dysmorphia) is the root experience for all trans folks—hint: it’s a lot more about identity. You and your guest’s assertion that people aren’t oppressed due to the color of their skin is simply wrong. Poverty is a massive oppressor but so is skin color and if you don’t understand how or why you might consider learning from people with identities other than your own. You’ve reduced “teaching children about race” to “telling children they are bad” which isn’t at all the point. I think its probably true that since the experience of trans people and people of color is generally misunderstood by white or cisgendered people that many teachers (mostly white and cisgender) aren’t yet fully equipped to have the best conversation in the classroom. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t value in teaching our children about how problems of power with race and gender are still negatively impacting us all or how to respectfully use pronouns. Personally I find trans people’s disruption of gender and stereotypes liberating and inspiring. I’m surprised you of all people would fear this so much. I would like to see you explore how people support and legitimize trans identity through the modalities you trust and practice – especially if you believe it’s important to offer strategies for still-growing bodies and minds.

I was an early listener, patreon supporter, and fb group member. I loved many of the intriguing ideas Amber and her guests explored, but the show has gotten harmfully pseudoscientific. In the current climate I feel this is especially harmful and have tangible consequences — not for the better. I am disappointed that this is the direction the show went. I encourage listeners to think critically about the information presented and for potential new listeners to give it a miss or stick to earlier episodes.

It feels almost trite to say that I love this podcast and now feel like I don’t want to listen to it anymore. I understand the direction opened up by episode 98 with Teva Johnstone as perpetuating harm. I am not willing to continue to listen to something that mixes in hate towards trans people and proudly claims an unwillingness to be with the complexity of harm and responsibility that comes with inheriting a colonial legacy. For other podcast options for lovers of herbalism I recommend Smoke Break by the folks at Wild Gather herb school, and lovers of story medicine Finding our Way by Prentis Hemphill. Let us not misinterpret each other's creative life force as a pathology. And for those who would like to understand more of where I am coming from, I share these reflections and questions: we know from surviving indigenous cultures on turtle island (the united states) that two-spirit people have been an integral part of the not so distant past. they have been honored as knowers and holders of liminal space. we lose so much medicine and kinship when we decide to exclude identities whose manifestation feels unusual today. is this not the same struggle we have when we want to communicate with plants in a city park or feel called to dance with the water at the beach? that we will be seen as crazy, pathologized, and thus denied access to that which brings us life and connects us to our divine creative energy? As for our children, helping them to understand what trans identity is, is very different from pretending it's not present when they have questions. We help them to understand so many other things about the world, this seems like a sad place to draw a line in the sand.

I was looking for something special to listen to and just happened to see this. What a great show. Loving every minute

I just stumbled across this podcast, and immediately had a deep connection with the stories and the voice of the hostess. I could listen to her for calming, loving, tender voice for hours. Immediate IG follow, and podcast follow. The vacation story hooked me and I fell deeply into the journey. Wonderful weaver of takes. Cant wait to discover more!

Title pretty much says it. It’s interesting and I like some of the perspectives presented on this podcast, but the insane amount of pseudoscience (antivax propaganda, promoting a meat heavy diet for health, etc, etc) can make it hard to listen to.

I could listen to Amber’s voice for hours and hours and hours. Thank you for sharing all of your beautiful wisdom with the world!

I’m a relatively new listener but I began my journey with plants and their medicine two years ago. I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts, watched many YouTube videos, and read many books; but this podcast is the only one that has everything I’ve been searching for. I don’t mean that it has all the info, because no single resource does; I mean it’s the only one that calls to my spirit. I’ve found so much validation in the episodes I’ve listened to, and also so much to think on and challenge my own beliefs. I’m so thankful for the work being done here and I’m so excited to become a part of this community!

These stories are vast and varied and yet weave together into the most incredible tapestry that grows higher, wider, and deeper with every episode. I feel myself buzzing with joy and curiosity long after listening to every episode, and I’ve been introduced to SO many incredible teachers and seekers! When my friend recommended this podcast a little over a month ago, she included the disclaimer that it was a life changing podcast. I was sure I was in for a treat, but WOW was she right. My life has shifted in so many beautiful and meaningful ways since I started listening. I feel more hopeful, connected, and grounded than I’ve felt in a decade. Many many thanks to Amber for creating this truly life changing podcast. I’m coming home to myself, my true self, in blazing color, wrapped in Amber’s soothing and captivating voice. Her patreon is amazing too!

Listening to Amber and her guests have given me such a sense of community and belonging. The serendipity I feel in the experience of listening and how it directly speaks to exactly what I needed to hear, or gives meaning to what I have feeling or experiencing has been PROFOUND. I have found my people! Thank you for your honesty, vulnerability, and love that goes into this podcast. It has truly been my lifeline since I have found this in 2020.