Points of Light~James Davis, Bay Staters for Natural Medicine, “Advocacy from the Heart”

I had the pleasure of interviewing James Davis recently on TSC Talks. As you’ll hear in the podcast, we connected a little over a year ago when he was just getting started with Bay Staters for Natural Medicine and looking for volunteers. At that time, I’d been experimenting with microdosing natural medicine for mental health reasons, it was helping, and I thought I’d jump in. Life pulled me away from that volunteer work, but James made a profound impression on me, and I had the notion that he’d be successful in whatever he endeavored, particularly his advocacy around decriminalization of plant entheogens, as his passion, kindness, and honesty just stands out. When we connected to do the podcast, I was not surprised, but also surprised by the progress he and the growing team of volunteers he leads has made over the past year. He hits it home on so many topics within this pod, I thought it best just to include the full transcript. Thanks, James, for showing up, being such a divine-human and inspiring, and leading many to make a difference. Enjoy the pod!

Links: https://www.baystatersnm.org/

https://linktr.ee/baystaters

https://www.instagram.com/baystaters/

https://www.facebook.com/BayStaters

https://twitter.com/baystaters

“James Davis is a leader of Bay Staters for Natural Medicine. They have mobilized over a thousand Massachusetts volunteers to decriminalize Somerville, Cambridge, Northampton, and Easthampton and have pending resolutions in Boston, Burlington (VT), Amherst, Worcester, Needham, Salem, and Medford. These resolutions decriminalize growing and selling plants like magic mushrooms, which reduce the risk of opioid addiction 55% after a single experience and have been proven to have statistically significant benefits for PTSD and depression. Their resolutions also end all controlled substance possession arrests, referring people for addiction treatment and committing our cities to invest in these services. In this episode, you will also learn about the other types of entheogenic plants and the power they hold to help us heal”

Here’s an excerpt from the transcript, the full transcript is available here~https://tsctalks.com/tsc-talks-james-davis-transcript/

James D: Thanks, James, thank you so much for having me, Jill. I’m really excited to chat and I am really [00:02:00] grateful for the support you showed for bay Staters.

When we were just a 10 follower Instagram group. We only started about a year and some months ago. And at that stage, We were just weirdos, emailing our city councils, sharing our stories with plant medicine. We took the philosophy that we didn’t need to fundraise a lot of money. We didn’t need to even have a website active to just start doing this advocacy work and start speaking from the heart.

And you know, what this has snowballed into is really, really awesome and beautiful and all the lessons we’ve learned along the way and advocacy. About the medicines themselves just from meeting so many people whose lives have been changed with this psilocybin experience or an MDMA experiment experience or an LSD experience.

So just really honored to be here and really glad that we met too. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. To tell you a little bit more about who I [00:03:00] am. I know you mentioned all those credentials Yeah, they really don’t define who I am. I would say. So I, I grew up in Kansas in a trailer park that was on the wrong side of the railroad tracks.

So all the middle-class kids lived on one side a Walmart supercenter. And then I lived on the side that was mostly liquor stores and churches and run down streets. So. I was raised by my mom my biggest inspiration in life and she Growing up was always working multiple jobs to make ends me really inspire me to work hard as well.

And then she was dealing with a lot of intergenerational trauma herself. Her father’s had served in the Pacific theater, the Korean war and Vietnam. And. There was just a lot of, a lot of trauma that she had picked up from childhood and then relationships stemming from, from being a young woman and just growing [00:04:00] alongside her.

It really shaped me into the person I am today and made me really compassionate to help people who are struggling in poverty who have that intergenerational trauma. So that’s why I think fundamentally this line of work emerged from.

Jill W: That’s really beautiful. I know I’m sure that was not, it was a tough upbringing in a lot of ways, but I, yeah, just to have your mom, just to have that connection with your mom.

I, I remember when I first met you and I should say, I don’t know how our paths crossed specifically. Maybe through social media, but I ended up doing a little bit of advocacy work with James and I’ve had my own plant medicine experiences that have been transformational. Really. I don’t want to say saved my life, but really gave me the insight I needed to.

To kind of take charge and not to be, not be a victim and be a participant in my, my life. So I, you know, [00:05:00] I’m so supportive of this, I think it’s, I think it’s great. I want to say everybody, but if it might not be right for everybody, but for as many people as possible. And I do want to say as a special needs mom we’re, we’re kind of trapped in a lot of situations that can’t, that don’t necessarily resolve.

And I think that having a tool like this can give you an ability to get above. The, the trauma that you’re actually you’re experiencing trauma. Either whether you’re witnessing it or you’re impacted by something that’s happening with your kids or the follow-up from relationship problems. And you know, this tool has been tremendous as well as I’d say cannabis as well, but the plant medicines, the plants, thank God for the plants.

Yeah. So how’s the, you know, you guys have done amazing since I last was even involved. So I don’t know if you want to talk further about that or move into a more personal discussion and talk about like what your life’s been like you gave a little bit, or [00:06:00] any particular lived experience that has moved you into, you know, further understanding why you’re here and what you’re doing.

Kind of thing.

James D: So I’m going to try to actually combine those questions, a segue into the ladder. So where we kind of left off in early 2020 is we had finally heard back from Somerville city councilors mantra. The old mantra goes, you know first, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you, then they debate you, and then you went and that’s the exact formula we have seen across the state with plant medicine is you’re not taken seriously at first, but then when they’re receiving an email a day, From people who are very credentialed and very serious about how this has changed their life, they start to pay attention because the city counselors see a lot of human suffering in their own communities and their own families.

See link above for continuation of transcript!

Conversations with God~on Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

by Jill Woodworth Did those individuals affected by Tuberous Sclerosis Complex drop in for this very time in our collective human history? When I consider the language of the definition of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and let myself drift into that dreamy abstract place of right-brained “thinking” and quantum insights, I imagine each soul in the … Continue reading “Conversations with God~on Tuberous Sclerosis Complex”

by Jill Woodworth

Did those individuals affected by Tuberous Sclerosis Complex drop in for this very time in our collective human history? When I consider the language of the definition of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and let myself drift into that dreamy abstract place of right-brained “thinking” and quantum insights, I imagine each soul in the ether packing their akashic record, knowing they wanted to incarnate on the 3D earth plane for this massive collective awakening and evolution we are now experiencing. At least that’s how I choose to see it. It kinda goes like this….

A conversation in the ether…

Soul to God, or higher guide (your choice here):  How could I put all the life lessons I need, into one tight package that will not only with the unfolding most assist me in my soul’s evolution to a higher plane and contribute to the overall awakening of humanity?  

God or higher guide: Well, let’s see, you could jump down in there with a chronic illness, an addiction, or some horrible, complicated cancer, or any number of excruciating “diagnoses”….Wait. Oh, I know, here’s one…There seems to be a number of souls that incarnated more recently with this condition that (get this) causes benign tumors to grow in all the vital organs and possibly all the organs of the human body! Whoa. And those living with this condition end up experiencing all the systems of care have to offer. The good, the bad, the ugly.  The system where they end up spending the most time in the healthcare system, because, oh boy, did you hear that? “benign” tumors, which is really like just saying, let me throw a freakin wrench in it b/c there is no such thing as “benign” in their current healthcare system.  

What happens in an organ-based medical system in which each bodily organ basically has its own system within the system, and these humans are just now realizing that the systems all need to talk to each other in order to actually fix anything long-term? Utter chaos. In the form of treatments organ by organ, and added diagnoses, medications and tests and regimens, “neuropsychiatric” issues, massive behavioral challenges, and all kinds of ways of “managing” what is truly unmanageable. Because their understanding of who they are as divine beings, mind, body, and spirit, a visible reflection of the living God, is not fully understood. Yet.

So, therefore, if you choose to do so, you’ll be taking on the core consciousnesses of humility, failure, guilt, shame, anger, frustration, gratitude, forgiveness, devotion, acceptance, and any exponential fragment of any and all of these that you can imagine. And more. You’ll be stacked. It’ll be the most exciting incarnation you could ever choose! Of course- one requirement. You’ll need to pack in, this huge heart, bigger than the entire world, that all these souls seem to have. Seems to be some sort of portal to the essence of these souls’ purpose. So, overall you’re looking at a really mixed bag. If you have some karmic debt, giddy-up. Past lives haunting you? Welcome. Wanna up level in one lifetime? Welp, sign right up. You will be able to clear it all with a good incarnation or two experiencing this conundrum of a role. But what an opportunity!! Every bodily system you can imagine with a literal “wrench” in it. It will force the humans to understand the dire need for the integration of their minds, bodies, and spirit all in one fell swoop!!

You know all those systems never were created for real live people. More for ideas of people as they were, at a fixed point, about 40 or 400 years behind the rest of the world. Now it’s costing the humans dearly. None of us really are square enough to fit into their rigid round holes anymore. What’s needed is a bunch of y’all to jump on in and just be there. Just be in it, you’ll have help. What’ll happen is that big old heart that you are bringing down will force their hand. Those humans are now embedded within these systems and have lost sight of the bigger picture. The broader perspective one you see up here in the ether. The fully integrated divine human. The one that so many are becoming more aware of is possible to stand in, while they are still in a human body. You’ll be contributing to the frequency of heaven on earth, by creating awareness of the dire need for monumental changes in the way things are done down there!

In dropped the TSC affected, through our channels, and we were aptly chosen for the congruent nature of each of our core consciousnesses……some Magna Carta of soul contracts. The ripple effects of the TSC drop-in splash also contracts with many more souls who also can join in the akashic clean-up adventure of a lifetime.  Their needs are so complicated, and hard to tease out on any given day that those that are gifted with these souls’ presence in their lives, whether as their child, parent, sibling, will be in for some tough reckonings. And deep truths. They may fall deeply in love with these souls, forever transformed by the light they carry, so much so they will accept the loss of attachments to just about everything that they think ever mattered. And most will find it worth it. All will. In time.

So, if you ever question what you are doing here, please reflect on this. You matter. So much. You are here for a reason. Even if you don’t really believe this, I don’t care anymore I’m going to say it. This is a path like non-other, not better or worse but wholly unique and wholly worthwhile. Use your time here on the earth plane to keep finding the higher love, the one that resides in each of us, the one that connects us to the beautiful river of love that we are here to honor…

I’m not sure where it came from but it definitely flowed through me, this new/old soul, experiential learner, who awakened to the gift of being alive, here now, and honored to be awakening through the process of “caregiving” individuals with TSC. So much love to you, to me, to all of humanity but especially to those affected by this diagnosis. 💖

Points of Light~Kimrâh Minuty, Part Two-Healing Broken Hearts

Thank you Kimrâh for this inspiring inerview! See Part One for more

BIO~

“Welcome To Silver Lining Spirals where art is healing and healing is an art. I offer a range of services from custom digital business art creations to Ascension Coaching, Reiki energy healing,Intuitive guidance, Tarot/Oracle card readings and more

Experienced Writer with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Skilled in Public Speaking, Art, Book Writing, Poetry, and Self-publishing. Strong arts and design professional with a Bachelors Degree focused in Psychology from University of Central Florida.

✨My name is Kimrâh Minuty an Intuitive Ascension Coach Reiki Master, Spiritual Consultant & Author. As an expert shadow healer, I work with coaching clients to taproot their soul by transforming their lives holistically through addressing gut, heart and mind issues that keep you from living your best life. I am the Host of a practical spirituality podcast called Gaia Soars. Check out my inspirational poetry book called “Lighten Up Phoenix, Keep Rising!” : https://amzn.to/3kWUluS ✨Thanks For Joining me Lets have Fun and Lighten up! ✨click here to Book a session: : http://kimrahminuty.com/sls_intuitive-guidance-special/ ✨New Weekly Episodes of Gaia Soars: ✨Contact and Follow me on social media : ✨ Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2gx3sV/ ✨FB: https://www.facebook.com/kminuty ✨IG: https://instagram.com/kimrahminuty?r=nametag ✨ donations and support : PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/kim1381 ✨CashApp: https://cash.app/$globalphoenixsoln

Lighten Up Phoenix, Keep Rising!: Inspirational Poetry based on The Law of Attraction

Kimrah Minuty, Part 2 Time stamps

0-1:55 The shower. Big conference with her galactic team, angelics, elementals, spirit guides, ancestors~sometimes like 60 people there, but have to get practical as a Mom

1:55 Water-discussion of, combat everything with water, grounding, presence

3:25 Now I know my purpose, right on time, only Kimrâh Minuty in US-Google her, Silver Lining Spirals

5:10 Shadow work is so important!! Listening to our guides, ego vs. higher self, no ego when channelling

7:10 most of the time in “the channel zone”, ground to start day, she can tell when she misses her practices, ground more than once if needed

9:45 Talking to mother earth

10:00 pulls a Tarot card, “Happiness” 😊, Abraham Hicks, law of attraction one of 12 universal laws. Issues with law of attraction~there’s more to it than is often discussed in the mainstream

12:00 Abraham Hicks-Kimrâh got in the hot seat, story about being on the show, leveraging the power of the universe

13:05 “my greatest gift to give is my happiness”

13:55 not feeling pain when in connection/meditation, did a lot of drugs, sensitives often end up using to mute clairvoyance

15:10 special needs kids are tapped in

16:05 teachers that learn techniques vs those with more lived experience

17:25-generational differences

18:10 Cannabis discussion, our moms, dosage, can become an oppressor, vary methodology, numbing out vs. intentional use

20:20 Spiritual awakening-dark night of the soul-subject for Kimrâh’s next class. How to navigate

21:20 Her book, how many challenges she had to bringing it forward. (see link) https://www.amazon.com.au/Lighten-Phoenix-Keep-Rising-Inspirational-ebook/dp/B07YFN481H Fibromyalgia, major pain, had car accident which was a major setback, TBI!

24:05 The book came from deep pain, Kimrâh shares pictures from book (see youtube video!)

25:15 Hard to sell her art, it’s a skill! The book is her baby, her art/poetry

26:30 Pain after accident, medical community treated poorly….another concussion, reinjured-this time medical community supportive, balancing the scales.

28:30 Recovering now, a long road back, movement challenging, not being able to go for walks, etc. Living with anger

30:10 Body coding verses general energy healing

31:00 “dude you’re awesome” we are not alone!

32:40 Reading of DARE TO DREAM, from her book! Message Kimrâh for a signed copy

34:30 Book tour was ruined by covid, no strength to fight disability decision, ended up taking a job just to fill in gaps

36:05 Silver Lining Spirals, Licensed Insurance Agent in 15 states, ACA under 65…

37:00 Started podcast in 2020 during pandemic, wasn’t freaking out like everyone, appreciated some aspects of covid w/6 ft apart, out of energetic field. Kimrâh transmutes energy, is a clear channel! Empath discussion

35:05 if you have shit boundaries, you take on everyone’s stuff

39:30 Reiki-energy healing, clears debris so you can come into focus, need maintenance

40:40 every 6 mos or so, Kimrâh calls her Reiki Master, with clear open chakras anything is possible, tough to function in 3D Muggles world

41:35 Society has become anti human, we are people, we’ve lost our humanity, industrial revolution is greatest detriment

42:40 outside in nature is where the truth is, we’ve lost the concept of cycles, cycles for everything

44:00 cut ourselves off, Seasonal Affective Disorder, we are out of the cycle. It’s ok to let stuff go, including people

45:55 Parenting-worst fear is losing a child, stages of life, we do not move with our won cycles of life, hold on too tightly. The only constant in life is change

47:45 We get attached b/c we think things are supposed to be here forever. Seize today-we hold back

49:10 tiny choices, do I say the right thing? forks in the road, on being an author, getting certificates so she could charge people $, never needed the paperwork -priceless lived knowing wisdom

50:55 Gotta do the thing to be of service

51:15 Credentials

52:15 Priestess!

53-end our discussion of using leftovers 😉

Points of Light~Kimrâh Minuty, Part One-Healing Broken Hearts

I had the pleasure of interviewing Kimrâh Minuty recently on TSC Talks! We had a free-flowing conversation with the main inquiry being how has her lived experience prepared her to step more fully into her soul’s purpose. As an Author, Poet, Ascension Coach, Reiki Master, podcaster, clear channel, communicator, Mother, (and more) she has signed on for many roles in this lifetime.  She went into great detail sharing the events of her life relating it to what she was learning through each experience. We went on a few sidetracks, which always circled back to the main topic beautifully.  Her sense of humor, depth, and powerful presence, plus her excellent oratorical skills made this a fantastic, detailed conversation that fed my soul. See timestamps below

BIO~

“Welcome To Silver Lining Spirals where art is healing and healing is an art. I offer a range of services from custom digital business art creations to Ascension Coaching, Reiki energy healing, Intuitive guidance, Tarot/Oracle card readings, and more

Experienced Writer with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Skilled in Public Speaking, Art, Book Writing, Poetry, and Self-publishing. Strong arts and design professional with a Bachelors’s Degree focused in Psychology from the University of Central Florida.

✨My name is Kimrâh Minuty an Intuitive Ascension Coach Reiki Master, Spiritual Consultant & Author. As an expert shadow healer, I work with coaching clients to taproot their soul by transforming their lives holistically through addressing gut, heart, and mind issues that keep you from living your best life. I am the Host of a practical spirituality podcast called Gaia Soars. Check out my inspirational poetry book called “Lighten Up Phoenix, Keep Rising!” : https://amzn.to/3kWUluS ✨Thanks For Joining me Lets have Fun and Lighten up! ✨click here to Book a session: : http://kimrahminuty.com/sls_intuitive-guidance-special/ ✨New Weekly Episodes of Gaia Soars: ✨Contact and Follow me on social media : ✨ Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2gx3sV/ ✨FB: https://www.facebook.com/kminuty ✨IG: https://instagram.com/kimrahminuty?r=nametag ✨ donations and support : PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/kim1381 ✨CashApp: https://cash.app/$globalphoenixsoln

Lighten Up Phoenix, Keep Rising!: Inspirational Poetry based on The Law of Attraction

Timestamps

0-5:00 min Introduction

5:30 -7:15 Discussion on Facebook,  pigeonholing,  toxic social media

7:15   Using Facebook for therapy, feeding the energetics of social media.

9:00 “we are free to choose to be in bondage” Abraham Hicks

9:45 Comfy in anger -what is deeper fear?

10:45 viruses in society are the consciousness of fear

12:00 social media tracking, solo entrepreneurship is tough, going dark occasionally, goals for 2020  

15:00 discussion on spirituality and spiritual journey

16:00 stuck in the systems -how we get stuck in our systems of care over time

1645 Spiritual bypass discussion, Integration of Mind Body Spirit

17:35 people walking around with broken hearts

18:15 working from the heart chakra up, many people in the spiritual community do this, you have to embody

19:03 lower chakras. The Sacral Chakra, sexual trauma, people-pleasing.

21:22 the energy of Creation, taking advantage of people, take advantage of you if you have the energy of Creation. They perceive it as sex, objectivity, misogyny.

23:21 my baseline for relationships is abuse, Shadow Work discussion

25:20 Worst has happened. So, you’re the instrument of your demise. You are the author of your story becoming the Creator

27:00 leaning into eternal Divine, Self-expansion

27:31 The algorithm is screwing me, focusing on TikTok

28:44 backstory~ moved to Florida, from Boston at a young age, dealing with asthma, racism rampant in Florida, it’s difficult

30:44 Heard planet cry at age nine when she got her first period. desperation to understand more, book on abnormal psychology, diagnosed herself as depressed anxious, and bipolar. Got her first Crystal

31:58 never fit in

32:49 Said fuck it, had a major awakening in 2014, in a mental home for 7 days, gave away her stuff

34:08 The global awakening in 2012….her version in 2014, lost everything, lost sanity, came through knowing she was a divine being but people thought she was crazy, became the guru

36:10 After that, more focused, embodied “A star was born”. Spent time clearing rubble, building a super solid foundation, smooth, level, clear, supported-support system

37:50-limiting beliefs and higher self

40:00 Let the universe go on around me, “know you can change that”, you can teach a man to fish…

41:45 6-month coaching practice, talk about how deep she can go with coaching, transmuting energy when the world falls apart

43:15 Once you shift the awareness, the universe has to respond. If you’re not manifesting, something is wrong

44:00 Unable to have another baby, she found out she would die if she had another message from the universe

44:30 “in the devastation, the gratitude is there b/c my awareness of dodging that bullet…”

46:30 Resources, Laureen Neau Shefchik, Emotion and Body Coaching, pinpoint an emotion and release it,  can find specific years

48:15 Medications blunt your emotional variety-if you cannot tap emotions you cannot tap into spirit, coming off medication you have a huge range of emotions like a whole new world

50:15 Cannabis can help you connect to the divine and look at your shit. You’re so fully in flight mode that you cannot relax without relaxation turning into a full-blown panic attack

53:15 Kimrah can feel the energy of everything!

54:40 What we can do today

55:11 autism spectrum disorder, daughter possibly affected

56:24 Using tools-post it notes on the cabinets, building in affirmations, so then you eventually say them to yourself

58:00 grounding

Points of Light~Cannabis & Spirituality with Janna Champagne, RN, BSN

I had the pleasure of interviewing Janna Champagne, RN, BSN recently to discuss cannabis and spirituality. Janna has been a fantastic TSC Talks Podcast guest several times in the past. I am linking to those podcasts for anyone interested in hearing more from Janna, including her initial “story”, and more detailed information on using cannabis to heal and her work with Autism, leading to developing Autism Safe Haven. Our most recent interview delved into Janna’s story and teased out how her lived experience led her to step more fully into her soul’s purpose. Janna delivers heartfelt, vulnerable glimpses from her journey thus far in this lifetime. Her lived experience is testimony to the power of continuing to show up, work on herself, and allow herself to surrender and be led by spirit despite some overwhelming odds. A story of personal transformation, hope, and healing.

Previous podcasts with Janna:

https://tsctalks.com/tsc-talks-guest-jenna-champagne/ Janna’s story 12/2019

https://tsctalks.com/tsc-talks-guest-janna-champagne/-on Autism Safe Haven, Autism/Cannabis 12/2020

Links:

http://www.integratedholisticcare.com/providers.html

https://jannachampagne.com/

https://www.facebook.com/cannanursejanna/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannachampagne/

https://www.instagram.com/nursejanna/

From bio: Nurse Janna’s introduction to the cannabis industry began as a cannabis patient who happens to be a nurse, when she suffered a debilitating immune health collapse in 2012.  Janna credits cannabis for helping to reduce her reliance on harmful pharmaceuticals and support her ability to regain her health, including reversal of autoimmune disease, against all odds.  Janna is also known for her success in treating her daughter’s Autism with cannabis, which was featured as a cover story in a national cannabis industry magazine in 2017.  www.integratedholisticcare.com/news

Nurse Janna’s focus is holistic treatment–natural alternatives to pharmaceuticals including CBD and cannabis therapy.  Her work as a cannabis-specialty nurse since 2015 included educating thousands of patients, helping them optimize their cannabis therapy outcomes through an individualized and well-informed approach.  Janna has since applied her extensive clinical knowledge to educate medical professionals about cannabis, and help producers create therapeutic quality and targeted cannabis products, with a goal of improving cannabis patient success rates.   Janna is also founder of Autism Safe Haven, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to improving cannabis-inclusive Autism care resources.

Nurse Janna’s specialties include: Autism, Inflammatory/Chronic Pain Syndromes, Autoimmune, Neurological, Gastrointestinal, and Mental Health conditions.  Janna found that success with cannabis often led to reduced reliance on pharmaceuticals, meanwhile improving quality of life and function. 
Nurse Janna is a founding member of Cannabis Nurses Network, serving on CNN’s Speaker’s Bureau, and as leadership.   Janna was awarded Leader of Nursing and Outstanding Author for Cannabis Nurses Media in 2019, and nominated/awarded Cannabis Nurses Network 2020 Educator of the Year.   Janna offers accredited cannabis nurse education programs, and also serves as a cannabis college professor, teaching graduate student medical practitioners through John Patrick University’s Master’s of Integrative Medicine Degree Program.  Helping producers create optimal cannabis products resulted in one of the CBD product lines winning Top 10 CBD of 2020 designation using Janna’s formula recipes (Verdania Fields).   Janna also serves as medical advisor and patient advocate for United Patients Group, dedicated to educating consumers with reliable cannabis information.  Nurse Janna is a member of the Oregon Cannabis Clinician’s Group and volunteers on the Patient Care Subcommittee of the Oregon Cannabis Commission, and the Ryan’s Law Oregon Advocacy Team. 

The flow:

0:00-4:00 Introduction of Janna, bio

4-6:00 Janna gives brief thoughts on her bio

6:25-7:04 Family life, early years, codependency/dysfunction/religiosity family of origin

7:05-8:04 Early experience with spirituality through Reiki

8:05-8:40 Graduated from hs at 17, went right into college, lots of jobs

8:41-55 Age 27 had a daughter and got ill later that year, the start of chronic health issues

8:55-9:39 Age 28 hospitalized, was septic, almost died and had a near-death experience that made her want to become a nurse, her daughter was only 9 mos old

9:40-10:19 contrast between a nurse that was an advocate vs shamin’ blamin’ nurse, demonstrated the impact and importance of good care

10:20-11:04 Natural childbirth was a breeze -compared to ongoing stomach issues

11:05-12:14 Root of pain turned out to be perforated appendix leaking! She was septic, peritonitis

12:15-15:00 Ongoing discussion of pain issues..NDE, own mother wasn’t sure she’d make it through surgery w/the perforated appendix did not see white lights but was given a choice of whether or not to return. She had thought of her daughter…

15:05-16:35 Starting nursing school, daughter diagnosed w/autism in 10/2004, did a lot of research related to autism, graduated with Bachelors, continued research, worked in intense nursing units, cardiac cath lab, conscious sedation patients…ended up getting sick

16:35-17:49 Dropped out of nursing school b/c she was so sick, 5 credits short of Masters! Felt suicidal, without a purpose, diagnosed with lupus, on antibiotics, had kidney failure, chronic autoimmune issues

17:50-20:59 Started on Cannabis! Felt some guilt due to upbringing, programming…husband got some white widow, health improved, she couldn’t believe it. She started learning everything she could “hungry brain syndrome”

21:00-22:24 a Huge rift in her family of origin over her cannabis use. Catastrophic break, they couldn’t accept her use, despite her mom being a nurse. She had a lot of awarenesses about her childhood upbringing

22:25-23:19 Breaking long-standing generational patterns with family, doing a lot of inner work

23:20 Was told by a healer with whom she was working that Cannabis is one of her spirit guides

26:00-27:19 Discussion of deep programming around cannabis and other subjects, are we not allowed to question but just have faith? Religious beliefs question everything

27:20-28:19 She was sent to ultra-conservative HS, almost cultish and you were looked down upon if you hadn’t received the gift of speaking in tongues, also discussed PTSD

28:20-29:14 Cannabis is a piece of healing, led her to other tools such as transcendental meditation which was life-altering

29:15-30:09 Special needs moms….the need to step out of the fire, meditation, walking meditation, being present

30:10-31:04 thoughts the root of all suffering, shifting beliefs, paradigms, we are supported always…

31:05-32:00 Staying in the flow of your life, inspired action, surrendering-the hardest moments have silver linings, stepping into your soul’s purpose, higher calling

32:00-32:59 writing a book, questioning medical system with daughter pediatricians clueless, “there’s nothing we can do here”

33:00-34:04 Neurodiversity, autism, pain issues, gut issues, goal to help her daughter live her best life, best possibility of reaching full potential

34:05-34:54 had inclination w/Reiki, biomedical approach to daughter’s autism, imbalances in the gut, epigenetics/nutrigenomics, cannabis started in 2014 w/puberty crisis

34:55-36:19 Puberty crisis-behaviors become more extreme, pain formulations, communication

36:20-37:59 Narrowly escaped out of home placement, credits cannabis sparing her that additional trauma

38:00-39:14 Start researching cannabis NOW, Jill mentions why it’s important, cannabis doesn’t fix everything, can even just reduce reliance on pharma

39:15-40:05 Are stories are powerful, she published her daughter’s story!

40:06-40:49 Endocannabinoid system  (ECS) deficiencies lead to chronic illness, autism, etc, many common conditions can be treated by regulating the ECS

40:50-42:09 Cannabis is a gift for our highest good, used for mainstream medicine until 1937. It should be a basic human right….Jesus may have used cannabis, what would Jesus do?

42:10-43:29 Autism Safe Haven, guided by following cannabis patients needs, cannabis inclusive autism care resources

43:30-44:04 Unity Formulas, for-profit entities, in exchange for contributions…help overcome barriers

44:05-44:54 Building for profits to support nonprofit

44:55-48:34 Cannabis nurses network, Jim Bartel, Ryan’s Law, www.cannabisnurseapproved.com can find cannabis nurses

48:35 talk to Jesus, it’s a tool, tip of the iceberg, post-traumatic growth, stepping out of our stories, finding purpose in the story, seeing the benefit for others

Thank you, Janna!