*; Takes you through the eight directions of the Medicine Wheel to ignite your spirit fire, inspire deeper connection with all life on Earth, and open your creative, sensory, emotional, and intuitive intelligences*; Shares practices such as deep listening, healing with the four elements, making death an ally, transforming limiting beliefs, discovering your animal teacher, and accessing inner wisdom*; Explains how the transformation of consciousness influences those around you, allowing individual inner work to initiate collective change and ecological healingTHE FUTURE OF HUMANITY is in question, the world is in crisis and the Earth on fire.
*; Details the healing techniques and folk wisdom the author learned from her Italian grandparents and from healers in Southern Italy, including plant preparation methods, medicines, rituals, recipes, kitchen magic, and protective magic*; Provides a materia medica of plants important in this tradition, sharing each plant's history, mythology, and both practical and magical uses*; Reveals how working with traditional plant medicines can help us connect to and revitalize our own ancestral traditions for deep inner healingBuilding upon the in-depth folk wisdom she learned from her immigrant grandparents as well as from local healers in Southern Italy, second-generation Italian-American and experienced herbalist Lisa Fazio shares herbal traditions and practices from the Italian diaspora and reveals how working with traditional plant medicines can help us connect to ancestral traditions for deep inner healing.