Can those with settler privilege use Indigenous medicine tools to heal without appropriating Indigenous culture? In this episode, Asha Frost, Indigenous Medicine Woman and Spiritual Mentor, talks about cultural appreciation, colonial violence, giving homage to ancestors, and the connection between land, mind, and body. Asha shares how a life changing diagnosis prompted her to rediscover her Indigenous roots and find healing through Indigenous ways.

Asha Frost is an Ojibwe, medicine, healer, mentor, space holder and sear her life’s work is to help you connect to the medicine that has always been within you. Asha believes that if you are drawn to Indigenous medicine ways that you have power and beauty in your own lineage waiting to be discovered. You can find out more about Asha by going to ashafrost.com.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• The big emotion that often stops settlers from healing colonial violence (Asha shares how to move beyond that)
• How a diagnosis at 17-years old prompted Asha to seek out Indigenous medicine ways
• Why mindset training is not enough and what we must also include to truly move beyond limiting beliefs
• How Asha protects her energy while holding space for those who are unpacking generations of ancestral memories (this is an important boundary setting tip, especially for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)
• The one thing we need to connect to so we begin reclaim our humanity

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