Feral Intercourse: Conversations With Wild Women

Born with river blood, magic bones, and a moonlit heart, Lola Venado is a botanical bruja, word forager, gatherer of Moon circles and dinner parties. She believes comida es medicina and there’s nothing good food and drink can’t help heal. An ally to the salty and the sacred, she honors ancestral ritual, folk medicine, and story magik in her own way. When she's not traveling in her van to pray at the altars of forest, river, and ocean, Lola is cultivating everyday magic in the river city of Sacramento.⠀ ⠀ In this episode, Lola and Rachael Alaia discuss... ⠀ ↠ Remembering that not everyone in our people, liberation from needing to be "all the things,” and appreciating the mightiness within the small ↠ Illness and crisis as a catalyst for rebirth and transformation ↠ The lifelong evolution of self, accepting our multidimensionality, and owning who we are while also putting old versions of ourselves to rest ↠ Finding tenderness and creating space for the evolution of others around us ↠ The difference between putt