Amy Walsh is a doctor, herbalist and mom. We met when Amy offered COVID grief processing rituals that I attended and became fast friends as we collaborated on Around The Hearth, a cozy Winter Solstice offering last year. I loved our conversation, which blew my mind a few times! We talked about:
being an ER doctor during COVID, and how that shaped her healing journey
the adulthood initiation process that helped her learn to be present with her emotions
intuition a lot: it’s place (or lack thereof) in Western medicine, how becoming a mother helped her value hers, balancing rational and intuitive thinking
how becoming a mom taught her that girl boss feminism is bullshit
trusting that she can be a channel for messages from the Universe in her divination and creative practices
her ancestral connection practices and some of the insights she’s gained
how the best healing acknowledges the ecosystem
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About Our Guest
Amy Walsh, MD is a mother, herbalist, and artist. She is an Emergency Physician with 15 years of experience. During COVID, she and her colleagues were asked to do more and more with less and less. They operated in crisis mode for years and were left feeling heartbroken and abandoned.
Those dark times forced her to learn that her emotions, even the inconvenient and unpleasant ones, had important information for her. They forced her to realize that she had needs that aren’t exactly the same as those of others. In this journey, she had to find what brings enchantment to my life: presence in the wild, creativity, and connection.
Check out her excellent Substack: thenettlewitchmd.substack.com/about
Or connect with her through her website: www.amywalshmd.com
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