Beyond The Goddess Issue #2 June 2023

The Power of the Goddess Plant Medicine and Healing Herbs written by Josie Anaya @livingconscious_33 In my early adulthood I began to experience chronic illness which affected my quality of life for years. I saw many doctors, took many different types of medications and even had surgery, but nothing had seemed to help and actually started to make my life worse. The last time I saw a doctor, they said I was crazy and I had to see a psych doctor because it was all in my mind. At that moment I decided to become my own doctor with the help of my amazing partner who had been speaking about diet and holistic lifestyle changes for at least a year, but I would not listen at first. Cannabis had been helping me get through these tough times, maintain a work life and somewhat a social life, but once legalization came around in 2017 we both noticed the cannabis we were buying was not helping both of us cope with our symptoms and actually made them worse. After further research we figured out that there had been a massive corporate take over of the cannabis industry which was now industrialized and adulterated. Being in the south Bay Area aka Silicon Valley there was no access to quality medicinal cannabis in our immediate area, we would have to drive 1 hour at the very least to get something worth consuming. My partner took it upon himself to be a producer and became a self-taught natural farmer who cultivated cannabis and food in biologically driven living soil under the sun. The first nug we ever tried of our own home-grown medicine absolutely blew our mind. The ease in the chest, the heavy eyes, the relief was back again and there was no turning back, it had completely changed our lives. This was a game changer, I was able to completely get off medications and heal from my chronic illness all because of consciously cultivated cannabis, food, other medicinal herbs and plant medicines.

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