Medicine Woman and Earth Speak Co-Founder Shawna Cason on Answering the Call and Many Ways of Being [episode 30]
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Shawna Cason is a medium, medicine woman, floral designer, brand alchemist, writer, and co-founder of Earth Speak. Shawna has trained in Jazz studies, Shamanic herbalism, design, and as a trauma-informed yoga teacher. She has always been a dreamer, a seeker, and deeply connected to the spiritual realms. Through her business Scentient Botanicals, Shawna creates luxury products to enhance ritualistic lifestyles & whimsical intentional floral arrangements for love ceremonies, editorial shoots, and intimate gatherings.
In this episode, Shawna shares her story and why it took so long for her to feel comfortable and safe to do so. She shares of growing up in a Christian family that denied her exploration of Earth-based spirituality, of magic, and her connection to the Other-World. Shawna speaks openly about her experience of racism and prejudice, of being told she is both too white and too Black. And speaks of the loneliness of her experience of being raised Black, but being white presenting.
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The difference between clairaudient and clairvoyant
The story and path our parents want for us
Growing up getting exorcised
Shawna’s early search for answers in the bible
Losing a long time best friend after parting ways with Christianity
Being raised as a white presenting black woman
The privilege of white skin, and educating white folx
The difference between clairaudient and clairvoyant
Receiving messages through the throat chakra
Reclaiming the self with the word Witch
Working energetically with the spirit of Ayahuasca
Shawna’s deep knowing of wanting to work with plants and heal folx
Of not knowing where one fits in the world of herbalism
Answering the call
The synchronicities that led to the birth of Shawna’s floral arrangement business
How picking flowers connects Shawna to her lineage of farmers
Healing ancestral trauma
And more!
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Links:
Learn more about Shawna’s offerings at www.scentientbotanicals.co/
Connect with Shawna on Instagram @shawna.cason // https://www.instagram.com/shawna.cason/
Connect with Shawna on Facebook @scentientbotanicals
Share your story with Shawna at shawna@earthspeak.love
Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret
References:
IPCC reports https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/
Earth Speak Meet the Team // episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clEXTBSqCQ0&t=1602s
Dr. Daniel Foor https://ancestralmedicine.org/
Daniel Pinchbeck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pinchbeck
Terence McKenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna
Ayahuasca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
Taylor Parker Photography @taylorparkerphotography // https://www.instagram.com/taylorparkerphotography/
The Never Ending Flower Farm https://www.theneverendingflowerfarm.com/
Book // What Are You https://amz.run/3YSK
Earth Speak Anti-racism resource https://ggle.io/3PJp
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