Susun S. Weed
Author of Childbearing Year
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Image credit: © Susun Weed -Wise Woman Center
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Things We Don't Talk About: Women's Stories from the Red Tent [2013 film] — Actor — 2 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1946-02-08
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- Herbalist
writer - Short biography
- Susun S. Weed has no official diplomas of any kind; she left high school in her junior year to pursue studies in mathematics and artificial intelligence at UCLA and she left college in her junior year to pursue life.
Susun began studying herbal medicine in 1965 when she was living in Manhattan while pregnant with her daughter, Justine Adelaide Swede.
She wrote her first book -- Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year (now in its 30th printing)-- in 1985 and published it as the first title of Ash Tree Publishing in 1986.
It was followed by Healing Wise (1989), New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way (1992 and revised in 2002), Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (1996), Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way (2011), Abundantly Well - Seven Medicines (2019)
In addition to her writing, Ms Weed trains apprentices, oversees the work of more than 300 correspondence course students, coordinates the activities of the Wise Woman Center, and is a High Priestess of Dianic Wicca, a member of the Sisterhood of the Shields, and a Peace Elder.
Susun Weed is a contributor to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies, peer- reviewed journals, and popular magazines, including a regular column in Sagewoman.
Her worldwide teaching schedule encompasses herbal medicine, ethnobotany, pharmacognosy, psychology of healing, ecoherbalism, nutrition, and women's health issues and her venues include medical schools, hospital wellness centers, breast cancer centers, midwifery schools, naturopathic colleges, and shamanic training centers, as well as many conferences.
Susun appears on many television and radio shows, including National Public Radio and NBC News. - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Places of residence
- Woodstock, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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I devoured this book cover to cover and am now using as a reference book.
Insightful, helpful and very empowering for women who want to understand the risks of preganancy and healthy, simple, nourishing ways to support the health of the mother and child. A very important learning is to consider childbearing as 13-months -- the two months prior to conception, 9 months of carrying the baby en-utero and two months following.
Highly recommend for all women to read -- separate to childbearing the show more benefit of reproductive knowledge & nourishment is worthy. show less
Insightful, helpful and very empowering for women who want to understand the risks of preganancy and healthy, simple, nourishing ways to support the health of the mother and child. A very important learning is to consider childbearing as 13-months -- the two months prior to conception, 9 months of carrying the baby en-utero and two months following.
Highly recommend for all women to read -- separate to childbearing the show more benefit of reproductive knowledge & nourishment is worthy. show less
This book is a true gem - a timeless classic of herbal medicine. What I particularly like about it is the in depth look into 7 different herbs (instead of just superficial info on 30 or more herbs). I especially love the first part which contrasts and compares the Wise Woman, Heroic, and Scientific approaches to healing.
Although this book is mainly focused on women's health, everyone can benefit from the information in it as the 7 herbs covered are nutrient and mineral dense.
This is one of show more the books that I refer to again and again as I find a new treasure each time I open it. show less
Although this book is mainly focused on women's health, everyone can benefit from the information in it as the 7 herbs covered are nutrient and mineral dense.
This is one of show more the books that I refer to again and again as I find a new treasure each time I open it. show less
This book is, quite simply, something else. I couldn't get through the first section without skimming, it was just way too Earth-Mother for my taste.
The sections on the "weeds" were cool but I found it annoying how she wrote from the weed perspective, and I had to completely skip the dandelion section which was in a fake French accent.
Read this book only if you don't mind reading stuff like "Think of chickweed as increasing your permeability to solar, lunar, universal and cosmic energies." show more This book goes way beyond hippie. show less
The sections on the "weeds" were cool but I found it annoying how she wrote from the weed perspective, and I had to completely skip the dandelion section which was in a fake French accent.
Read this book only if you don't mind reading stuff like "Think of chickweed as increasing your permeability to solar, lunar, universal and cosmic energies." show more This book goes way beyond hippie. show less
there's only two reasons this book didn't get five start - the cover design and the annoying fake french accent in one of the chapters. the cover design is freaky, i admit, but really, the info inside is pretty amazing and very understandable.
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