Answering The Call of Plants & Pilgrimage with Herbalist Damiana [episode 1]

 
 
 
 

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Damiana, an herbalist on a community farm in San Diego, shares her story as a first-generation immigrant from Mexico City who left her job in the government to pursue the plant medicine path. Damiana also takes us deep into her experience walking the pilgrimage trail, Camino de Santiago, in Spain while facing her PTSD that is the aftermath of being held hostage by a gunman in rural Mexico.

 

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IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT:

  • Damiana’s surprising true feelings when she first heard the call of the plant path

  • Her unexpected ancestral heritage

  • Leaving a government job and “normal” life to pursue her true calling

  • The life-saving role she's played as the farm’s herbalist 

  • A recent near-death experience involving a farm goat named Amber

  • How serving the community extends beyond just humans

  • What compelled Damiana to walk 800 km in the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage

  • A peek into the pre-Christian pagan history of El Camino de Santiago

  • Damiana’s miraculous escape from being a hostage and with a gun held to her head

  • Facing the darkness of PTSD while walking pilgrimage

  • The phone call that brought Damiana home before the end of her journey

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Music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow // http://www.scarletcrow.org

 
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