This is a short epilogue to the Healing Culture Podcast in which host Eric Garza announces that his new podcast, Embracing Apocalypse, is not live. Enjoy it!

#66: Embracing Apocalypse, Final Episode

Aug 7th, 2019 50m 29s

In this solo episode Eric talks about planetary boundaries and a few of these boundaries human society seems to be flirting with, about apocalypse and what it means to live in a time of endings when many truths are being revealed, and about the

#65: Meeting Our Need For Touch, with Epiphany Jordan

Jul 31st, 2019 1h

Epiphany Jordan wrote the book Somebody Hold Me: The Single Person’s Guide to Nurturing Human Touch, and has been offering Karuna sessions since 2013. She talks with Eric about the consequences of adults being so touch-deprived, the differences

#64: Exploring Fermentation, with Sandor Katz

Jul 25th, 2019 50m 5s

Sandor Katzis an author of several books about food and fermentation, among them Wild Fermentation and The Art of Fermentation. He has taught hundreds of workshops demystifying fermentation and empowering people to reclaim this important transf

#63: Animism, Fragility, and Co-Regulating with Death, with Dare Sohei

Jul 16th, 2019 1h 11m

Dare Sohei is an animist counselor-facilitator and expressive artist work spirals around the integration of animist/indigenous lifeways with liberatory anti-oppression politics and trauma-informed somatic counseling. They talk with Eric about w

#62: Prayer, Grief, and Connecting with Ancestors, with Nala Walla

Jul 9th, 2019 1h 7m

Nala Walla weaves a holistic approach to wellness as a practitioner of ancestral healing, grief recovery, nutritional therapy, and permaculture design. She talks with Eric about prayer as a connective versus coercive tool, the importance of doi

#61: Grief, Gratitude, and Extinction, with Carolyn Baker

Jul 2nd, 2019 1h 7m

Carolyn Baker is a former psychotherapist and professor of psychology and history. She is also an author, and her most recent book, with Andrew Harvey, is Saving Animals From Ourselves: Healing the Divine Animal Within. She talks with Eric abou

#60: Harmonizing Our Eating Practices and Our Health, with Lisa Masé

Jun 25th, 2019 59m 29s

Lisa Masé grew up in Italy, manages her business and website Harmonized Cookery, and advocates for food as medicine, social justice, and food sovereignty. She talks with Eric about what wild and local foods she has been eating lately, harmonizi

#59: Compassion, Connection, and Effective Anti-Racist Communication, with Dr. David Campt

Jun 21st, 2019 1h 9m

Dr. David Campt is a speaker and media analyst who founded and facilitates workshops on his White Ally Toolkit. He is also an author, and wrote the Compassionate Warrior Bootcamp for White Allies, among other books. He talks with Eric about th

#58: The Health Impacts of Trauma, with Jason Prall

Jun 17th, 2019 1h 26m

Jason Prall is a speaker, health educator, and practitioner who produced, with others, the 9-part documentary series The Human Longevity Project. He talks with Eric about the impact trauma can have on our personal health and wellness, the impor

#57: The Ethics of Harvesting Wild Edible Plants, with Arthur Haines

Jun 10th, 2019 1h 20m

Arthur Haines is a botanist and human ecologist who speaks and educates about the health benefits of wild edible and medicinal plants. He is also an author, and most recently wrote A New Path. He talks with Eric about what wild plant foods he h

#56: The Cultural Somatics of Politics and UBI, with Tada Hozumi

Jun 3rd, 2019 1h 16m

Tada Hozumi coaches and consults on the practice of cultural somatics and manages the website Selfish Activist. They talk with Eric about the political implications of cultural somatics, universal basic income, cult dynamics, and how ancestral

#55: On Men and Masculinity, with Robert Schicker

May 26th, 2019 51m 44s

Robert Schicker is a therapist in Vermont who specializes in working with people navigating the evolving landscape of what it means to be a man. He talks with Eric about what attracted him to men’s work, the differences between being masculine

#54: Healing Culture in the Traumacene

May 19th, 2019 44m 43s

In this solo episode Eric reflects on Jem Bendell’s essay Deep Adaptation and how many of our social and environmental predicaments are rooted in the trauma that our cultural body has accumulated. He talks about our stress response and how it g

#53: Talking to Children About Race and Racism, with Emma Redden

May 12th, 2019 1h 24m

Emma Redden is a preschool teacher in Vermont with a background in race, gender, and justice. She wrote the book Power Means Who The Police Believe: Talking With Young Children About Race and Racial Violence. She talks with Eric about the inspi

#52: The Healing Practice of Focusing, with Rebecca Young Allen

May 5th, 2019 1h 5m

Rebecca Young Allen is an ordained inter-faith clergy, a spiritual and emotional healer, a certified Focusing practitioner, and a nature lover, gardener, and homesteader. She talks with Eric about the healing practice of Focusing, leads him thr

#51: Planting Seeds of Resilience, with Taína Asili

Apr 26th, 2019 55m 29s

Taína Asili is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, activist, and filmmaker who has been creating fiercely political music since her teen years. Her newest album, Resiliencia, was released in mid-April 2019. She talks with Eric about the story be

#50: The Art of Critiquing Whiteness, with Tad Hargrave

Apr 19th, 2019 1h 6m

Tad Hargrave blogs at Healing From Whiteness, writes for the Facebook page Dear White Men, and wrestles with the complicated and thorny mess that is whiteness, white privilege and white guilt. He talks with Eric about how white shame and guilt

#49: On Decolonizing Academia, with Clelia Rodríguez

Apr 12th, 2019 1h 13m

Clelia Rodriguez is an author, mother, knitter, gardener, and educator born and raised in El Salvador. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at colleges and universities around the world, and wrote the book Decolonizing Academia: Po

#48: On Language and Identity, with Karl Haloj

Apr 5th, 2019 1h 4m

Karl Haloj is a polyglot linguist whose areas of expertise include romance, Celtic, and Iroquoian languages, language acquisition, language pedagogy, and critical discourse analysis. He talks with Eric about the differences between American ind

#47: Healing Bodies and Healing Cultures, with Tada Hozumi

Mar 28th, 2019 1h 4m

Tada Hozumi coaches and consults on the practice of cultural somatics, wrote the viral essay Why White People Can’t Dance: Because They Are Traumatized, and manages the website Selfish Activist. They talk with Eric about cultural somatics, anc

#46: Plant Medicine and the Path Through Trauma, with Larken Bunce

Mar 20th, 2019 1h 22m

Larken Bunce is a clinical herbalist, educator, gardener, writer, and photographer who co-founded and directs the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. She talks with Eric about the physiological and neurological bases of our stress respons

#45: On Being Chronically Undertouched, with Aaron Johnson

Mar 14th, 2019 1h 10m

Aaron Johnson lives in a self-made 13 x 13 ft earth dome in Southern California, and is a singer, photographer and filmmaker who uses these media, and others, to dismantle racism. He talks with Eric about why so many people in the ‘civilized’ w

#44: Whiteness is Deified Trauma, with Tad Hargrave

Mar 6th, 2019 1h 1m

Tad Hargrave blogs at Healing From Whiteness and writes for the Facebook page Dear White Men. He wrestles withthe complicated and thorny mess that is whiteness, white privilege and white guilt. He talks with Eric about the traumatic roots of ra

#43: Dancing with the Cannibal Giant, with Sherri Mitchell

Feb 26th, 2019 54m 40s

Sherri Mitchell is an attorney who speaks and teaches around the world on issues of indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change and author of the book Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. She