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Welcoming Winter

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we talk about healing with hugs, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review an art house film about infant death and adoption, and interview Wendy Cruz-Chan, a doula and lactation counselor who has experienced the stillbirth of a son. Wendy is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, Certified Lactation Counselor and a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist in New York City. In July 2016, she gave birth to a son, Killian, who was born still at 19 weeks gestation. Following this loss, she pumped breastmilk day and night for three months, freezing each batch. After she reached her goal of 2000 ounces of breastmilk (that’s 62.5 quarts, or over 59 liters), she found six babies in need of milk and donated it to their families. She’s currently fundraising for a cooling cuddle cot for New York Methodist Hospital, which will allow parents to stay with their stillborn babies longer than a few hours before saying goodbye. For more information and babyloss healing resources, visit the Tiny Giant Losses website. You can also get more updates and information on our Facebook page and through Twitter.

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a plant-focused breathing exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review a very popular babyloss healing resource, and interview author / yoga teacher Catherine Keating (of “There Was Supposed to Be a Baby”). Catherine Keating is the author of There Was Supposed To Be a Baby: A Guide to Healing After Pregnancy Loss. She wrote her book as a way to share the path to healing she found after her first two pregnancies ended in miscarriage. Catherine lives in Seattle, WA with her husband, two children, and sweet, lovable dog. She is currently offering healing circles for women, teaching yoga, teaching preschool, and writing. For more information and post-babyloss healing resources, visit Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon. You can also get more updates and information on our Facebook page and through Twitter. Note: This is not a call-in episode.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Suzy Hoseus. Suzy Hoseus is the founder of Life Learning Ministries, a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging others to learn to live life God’s Way and reaching their fullest potential. As a pioneer in the mental health system since 1999, Suzy has dedicated herself to making life-giving choices and teaches alongside her husband, Mike, the God BLESSES ME Model to Whole Health in their weekly seminars.   Suzy is the author of Healing Bipolar and Depression, My Journey to Whole Health and the 2nd Edition and has lived medication free since 1999. She is the mother of three children and home and travel schools her youngest two.  If you wish to contact Suzy, please visit www.lifelearningministries.org.   this episode Q&A includes: • methods of taking echinacea for gum infection.. • Susun's thought on functional medicine- patients subjected to expensive tests, expensive treatments with horrible things.. • exposure to chemical solvents in a lab- seaweed, fiber, avoid supplements and essential oils.. • liver is an excellent source of iron.. • not fair to eat the babies of plant, not healthful either.. • coming off a breathing machine- mullein milk and pranayama.. • why tinctures made from 100 proof vodka are so effective.. • find information on fibromyalgia in Susun's book 'New Menopausal Year The Wise Woman Way'..    

Traveling with herbs

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share an inward-focus exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review one of my favorite babyloss healing resources, interview actress, filmmaker and poet Jhene Erwin, and more. Jhene Erwin is a Filmmaker and Writer currently living in Toronto, Canada. Her commitment to impact driven content continues to inspire her work. Her eleven year old daughter continues to poke fun at her when she says things like the previous sentence. You can learn more about her work at The House I Keep. Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we’re sharing lots of bonus rewards via Patreon, including two pregnancy loss greeting cards from Dr. Jessica Zucker (last week’s interviewee), an hour-long Q&A with trauma therapist Persephone Maywald (another podcast interviewee), an hour-long Q&A with our interviewee from three weeks ago (Nathalie Himmelrich, the author of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple"), a babyloss Ask-Me-Anything with me, a video tutorial on one of my favorite post-loss self-care routines, and a digital babyloss healing talking circle. If these resources sound healing to you, please consider becoming a Patron to support our work, and to access these (and many more) post-loss healing resources. For more information, visit Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon before Halloween! You can also get more updates and information on our Facebook page and through Twitter. Note: This is not a call-in episode.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of questions follwed by a 30 minute interview with Tao Orion. Tao is the author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration. She teaches permaculture design at Oregon State University and at Aprovecho, a 40-acre nonprofit sustainable-living educational organization. Tao consults on holistic farm, forest, and restoration planning through Resilience Permaculture Design, LLC. She holds a degree in agroecology and sustainable agriculture from UC Santa Cruz, grows organic fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts, animals on her homestead, Viriditas Farm. She has a keen interest in integrating the disciplines of organic agriculture, sustainable land-use planning, ethnobotany, ecosystem restoration in order to create beneficial social, economic, and ecological outcomes. Website: www.resiliencepermaculture.com this episode Q&A includes: • 7 medicines practiced in this order- serenity medicine, story medicine, energy medicine, lifestyle medicine, herbal medicine, pharmaceutical medicine, hi-tech medicine... •  hemangioma non issue- visualization and mantra for liver health.. • three parts of the stomach- heartburn and ulcers- slippery elm balls made with honey.. • cooking dandelion greens.. • dosing is one of the most individual things about herbalism.. • wormwood- herbs can alter our minds- a lot of variety from plant to plant.. • osha- use in very small amounts for emergencies only! prevents cells from absorbing large amounts of histamines and can prevent one from going to the hospital.. • when nature does something it hasn't done before, it is a miracle- come out and play! • mucus- natural healing substance- no disease is caused by mucus- tons of disease cause by lack of mucus..

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In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a healing yoga exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review a babyloss healing resource that features an internationally known popstar, interview maternal mental health psychologist Dr. Jessica Zucker, and more. Dr. Jessica Zucker is a clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles, California. She specializes in women's reproductive and maternal mental health. In 2014, Jessica launched the #IHadAMiscarriage campaign with her first New York Times piece, last year she created a line of pregnancy loss cards that aim to fill a void in the cultural conversation surrounding loss and this year she launched a line of ‘rainbow baby’ and ‘rainbow mama’ t-shirts. You can find her online at drjessicazucker.com and she writes daily on Instagram @ihadamiscarriage. Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we’re sharing lots of bonus rewards via Patreon, including an hour-long Q&A with trauma therapist Persephone Maywald (last week's interviewee), an hour-long Q&A with our interviewee from two weeks ago (Nathalie Himmelrich, the author of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple"), a babyloss Ask-Me-Anything with Lindsey from Tiny Giant Losses, a video tutorial on one of Lindsey's favorite post-loss self-care routines, and a digital babyloss healing talking circle. If these resources sound healing to you, please consider becoming a Patron to support our work, and to access these (and many more) post-loss healing resources. For more information, visit Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon before Halloween! Note: This is not a call-in episode.

Susun S. Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lindsey Goodwin. Lindsey is a journalist, the founder of Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon.com and one of the hundreds of millions of women who have experienced pregnancy loss or infant loss worldwide. After having a miscarriage and then losing her newborn son, she was shocked by how few resources there are for empowering women to heal after baby loss, so she decided to create her own. In September of this year, she began using her background in journalism, as well as the wisdom she gained during her apprenticeship with Susun and her own healing journey, to provide a variety of empowered healing resources for other women who have experienced baby loss. Through Patreon.com, Tiny Giant Losses offers articles, audio recordings, videos, a WhatsApp support group, live Q&As and much more. You can become a patron to access the many resources Lindsey offers or you can simply peruse the free resources on offer at Patreon.com/TinyGiantLosses. this episode Q&A includes: • everything works sometimes for some people- we're looking for things that work most of the time for most people.. • bacterial infection from root canal- echinacea, juniper, usnea, wormwood.. • moluscum contagioso- hypericum, vinegar in bath.. • breast cancer, tomoxifen, red clover infusion.. • incontinence- check out Susun's book 'Down There'.. • warts cannot survive without oxygen, use duct tape to suffocate them.. • do you need an annual check up? over treated patients, prescribed unnecessary drugs and unnecessary surgeries..  

A WEEKLY ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION OF OUR HERBAL AND HEALING ADVENTURES

In this week's episode of Tiny Giant Losses, we share a laughter yoga exercise, continue to discuss The Six Steps of Healing, review the short film "The House I Keep" (about a woman's emotional and psychological healing after miscarriage), interview trauma therapist Persephone Maywald about healing through difficult emotions after babyloss, and speak some of our Patrons' lost babies names aloud. Persephone Maywald is a psychologist and therapist with a world-wide online practice. She specializes in healing trauma, PTSD, and the difficult emotions that result. As a long-time meditator, she also brings the healing resources of mindfulness to her work. She has personally experienced pregnancy loss. Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we’re sharing lots of bonus rewards via Patreon, including an hour-long Q&A with Persephone (this week's interviewee), an hour-long Q&A with last week’s guest (Nathalie Himmelrich, the author of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple"), an Ask-Me-Anything with me, a video tutorial on one of my favorite post-loss self-care routines and a digital babyloss healing talking circle. If these resources sound healing to you, please consider becoming a Patron to support our work, and to access these (and many more) post-loss healing resources. For more information, visit Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon before Halloween! Note: This is not a call-in episode.

Susun S. Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lisa Kivirist. Lisa is a Senior Fellow, Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Minnesota, focusing on developing opportunities to champion leadership development among female farmers and rural women.  Her new book in 2016 is Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers, compiling advice, support and resources from over 100 women in the sustainable agriculture movement.  She is also co-author of co-author of Homemade for Sale, Farmstead Chef, ECOpreneuring and Rural Renaissance and founded and leads the Rural Women’s Project of the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service. Lisa and her family run Inn Serendipity Farm and B&B in Wisconsin, completely powered by the wind and the sun. this episode Q&A includes: • drugs have side effects and direction of action- herbs work in a multitude of ways... • shoulder and neck tension- hypericum tincture and oil.. • baby with thrush- yogurt in the mouth and plantain oil or ointment on diaper rash.. • torn ligament- comfrey drunk as infusion and used as poultice- infusions are not drugs- there is no dose.. • comfrey and pyrrolizidine alkaloids.. • check out Susun's Time Monk Radio show for information on Leonotis leonurus- Lion's tail.. • dermatitis- rubbed the wrong way, trapped in our skin... • no other food is as beneficial to our health as fish- cardiovascular, brain and whole body health.. • stye on eye- chickweed.. • hypericum oil used as sunscreen.. • motherwort tincture daily- cystic acne gone!           

Tiny Giant Losses is a new podcast from one of Susun Weed's former apprentices, Lindsey. Lindsey has experienced both miscarriage and the unexpected death of her infant son. Episode Two of Tiny Giant Losses continues to describe The Six Steps of Healing (a.k.a. The Seven Medicines) as a simple way to approach any healing modality after babyloss. It also includes an interview with Nathalie Himmelrich (author of "Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple"), a breathing exercise, a review of the film "Rabbit Hole" (which deals with child loss) AND information about special offers and resources available this October (Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month). Like all interviewees on the show, Nathalie (pictured here) has personally experienced babyloss. She lost one of her twin girls a few days after they were born, experienced miscarriage and lost the ability to have subsequent children. For more babyloss healing resources, you can read about Tiny Giant Losses on Patreon, follow Tiny Giant Losses on Twitter, "Like" Tiny Giant Losses on Facebook and check out Nathalie's book, "Grieving Parents," on her website. Note: This episode does not include a live Q&A.

Rev Suzy Meszoly DSH, CHHC, Suzy has been teaching workshop classes on the healing arts, the chakra system and spiritual living in New York and internationally for over twenty years. In 2000, she founded “The Art of Energetic Healing School” and has taught the one year course now to hundreds of students, both in the NY area and through webinars worldwide. Suzy has founded and organized several reoccurring events. Find out more about Suzy here: wwwEnergyHealingSchoolNY.com and www.SuzyMeszoly-Healer.com  and on youtube: LOVENOWMENT and Love Now Movement this episode Q&A includes: • the original crystal wand- To help strengthen vaginal muscle, fascia and tissues... • midwife reports virtually no problems when pregnant women drink nourishing herbal infusions.. • when we drink nourishing herbal infusions we stop being so critical of ourselves.. • bacterial infection in the bladder after antibiotics- corn silk, slippery elm, marshmallow, comfrey- soothing and nourishing.. • plantain is a wonderful vulnerary- heals wounds and skin quickly- if wound is deeper and ulcer is forming use honey.. • sudden vision issues- communicate with your eyes and rest them on something beautiful.. • one herb at a time to understand how our bodies are in relationship with each other. • hawthorn tincture in earl grey tea with honey and goats milk.. • use motherwort in small doses when you need it- do not transfer your anxiety into taking motherwort tincture excessively.. • keeping it simple has a powerful effect on us emotionally.. • hawthorn for the aging heart..