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December 2009


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I love, love, LOVE this book! Packed full of useful and relevant information. Have passed it around to a number of friends.

Thank you for all that you do!
Karen


 

I am so excited by this Radio program. I love having Susun as the Interviewer. Multi-talented Wise Woman. Brava!!!! Enjoyed both interviews and looking forward to more.

Love, love, love,
Ginger


 

Thank you Susun for accepting my friend request, I am honored!! I have enjoyed reading your books and have used them as a reference, benefiting from them countless times, so again, thank you!

Blessed be!!
River Sweet

 

 

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Dear Susun,

I have ALL your books, including Breast Cancer, Breast Health. Because I did have bc. I should have listened to you in Menopause the Wise Woman way. You are my hero.

God bless you.
Joan

 

 

Dear Susan

Thank you so much for your helpfull information on stinging nettle, comfrey infusion's and elderberry tinture they have helped me and my family so much.

blessed be
Melissa

 

 

I was so honored to be with you this past weekend at Rowe Thank you for your smiles - wisdom and truth - the learning never ends

Laura

 

 

Dear Ms. Weed,

I am a student at Heart of Herbs School and I am studying your boks. I really admire all you've accomplished and am learning so much from you. The Godess has truly blessed all through you. May we be friends?

Thank you for all you do. Goddess Bless!
Dana

 

 

Hi, Susun,

I very much liked and benefited from your book Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way. Thanks,

Mary

 

 

I think your work is beautiful.

Kathy

 

I am an admirer of your passions and dedications. It would be an honor to feel a connection with you. I live in LA, but am a country girl from eastern Long Island with a lifelong desire to learn more about natural and herbal healing.

Blessed be!
Aimee

 

 

Hello Susun! I am a big fan of your work.

Elizabeth


 

Thank you Susun weed, for being a guiding light in this wonderful garden called earth. You are a real inpiration in my life and love the rays of wisdom u generously share.

Eternally grateful.
Allison


 

I just found out about you from a friend giving me your childbearing herbal book. I am inspired and feel empowered.

Thanks,
Baba

 

 

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Thanks for your e-newletter. It is a huge source of information and I always devour it! Hope to attend one of your classes in the coming year. Just wanted thank you for sharing your wisdom!

Sincerely,
Margo

 

 

I love your books susun!

Eva

 

 

You are and always ahve been such an inspiration and a guide through emotional and physical .

Jo-Ann

 

 

Thank you Susun for all of your exceptional work , I have all of your books . You teach me something new everyday. Greatest Blessings to you .

Blessed Be Sister!
Heidi

 

 

I own a number of your books & I've used them regularly over the last 15 or so years. I just want to say thank you. :)

Magg

 

 

You have helped me through many health & emotional issues and I am very grateful for all that you do to make a peaceful healthy life for so many. Thank you,

Jo

 

Thank you, Susun, for a lifetime of wisdom

Jeri

 

 

Susun, I love and admire your work... Bright Blessings,

Deborah


 

I just wanted to thank you for everything you do. I found your website a couple of months ago and love it!! I have also learned a lot from you since finding your website as you have a philosophy like mine. I try to use as much of the local herbs that surround me as apposed to getting them from somewhere else. I love your links & YouTube videos. Keep up the good work and bless you for getting info out there to those of us that want to be healthy and stay healthy naturally. You are a blessing & inspiration to all of us,

thank you.
Lisa


 

Blessings to you.

I remember reading your books back in the late '80's when I was being drawn to leave my tradtional life and find the path of a healer, when I came upon your herbal book. It was such an important time in my life and I implimented your remedies during a time when I was transitioning from an unhealthy marriage.

Nancy

 

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First off thank you for all do, I cannot tell you how much your website and your books have improved my life and the life of my children. You are truly an inspiration.

Jennifer

 

You don't know me personally but I so admire your herbal wisdom and get your newsletter and use your recipes and books....

Mary

 

 

I have been reading your stuff on the recommendation of a good friend and I LOVE IT. I'm 47 and have been doing infusions for a couple of months. I was healthy to begin with, but I think this is really helping me. I'm on the Cape and hope to come to a workshop or to volunteer sometime. You are welcome to stay here anytime if you wish to come to the Cape. A spare bedroom.

SUSUN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
Kathy

 

 

Dear Susun,

This study is a wonderful journey of deepening. Read . .Walk. . . .think . . know. WHOLE healing. BEING "healed - whole - holy" vs throwing pills (or herbs) at symptoms. Journeys of healing, with choices of Being in each river. I find that I am most comfortable in rivers 2, 3 and 4, though I used to sit long hours in the first river, and think I need to return to it's deep pools more often amid my busyness. But I have had to plunge into the seventh river for a lifesaving appendectomy (ruptured), and still benefited from all the time I spend in the first half of the divide. Thank you, thank you for this wonderful course. It has become a friend, and I look with a little sadness at the lesson number growing larger . . .
I hope your autumn there is being as beautiful and vibrant as ours is here.

Blessings to all at the Center on this Day of the Crone, of Hecate,
Greenstone . Joan

 

 

You are truly a legend in Herbalism.

Elizabeth

 

 

Hi Susun I'm an herbalist from England and just wanted to say that I really love you books. Great work! :-)

Cinzia

 

Dearest Susun,

My first Herbal Medicine Teacher (after my Grandmother!) (In 1980!)..when the Wise Woman Center was a "sprout!".( vision) We have seen each other a bit over the years..and I've been to your land a few times since those 1st days!..Sold many of your books at Esoterica as well!

Many Blessings to you Dear Susun!
Sue

 

 

I just wanted to write and tell Susun Weed how much i appreciate her books - for years i've used her Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Years and now at 36, i'm so glad to have found her Menopause book (via interlibrary loan!) - i will be buying a copy of this one as well... I was also so glad to hear that a new version of Childbearing removed the references to abortifacient herbs - they didnt' seem to fit in there, and i'm glad that you made that decision... The menopause book has been so encouraging - i'm a Christian, but i've gleaned so much from your writings, and there is so much we have in common in our approach to life and our gratitude to our Creator...

Love, stephanie

 

 

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Your menopause book has made this part of my life ever so much more pleasant! And now I have green friends: comfrey, nettle, skullcap...

Leanne

 

 

Hi Susun,

First I just want to mention to you that your book "Menopausal Years, the Wise Woman's Way" is probably the most valuable book I have ever purchased. Thank you, and have a wonderful day.

Joanne


 

I listened too. You are informative, enlightening and wonderful.

Maggie

 

 

I have your breast cancer book which I have pulled from for my mother in laws uterine cancer and I love your website.

Laura

 

 

Hi Susun,

Just listened to the replay of your interview on the Menopause 2009 Summit. Bravo! You were fantastic.

Joan

 

 

Bright blessings!

I am a huge fan of your Menopause, The Wise Woman Way. I have bought several copies for friends and family and for my self when I've given mine away.

Blessed be!
Gayle

 

 

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Hi,

You don't have to friend me as we don't know each other. I just wanted to let you know that I've used your books and been helped by them for many years.

Peace and Blessings, Eva.

 

 

Sending green blessings and so much appreciation for all you offer us through your green wisdom!

Tammie


 

I just wanted to thank you for everything you do. I found your website a couple of months ago and love it!! I took an herbal course a couple of years ago from a woman in the south and learned a lot. I have also learned a lot from you since finding your website as you have a different philosophy then she did, yours is more like mine. I try to use as much of the local herbs that surround me as apposed to getting them from somewhere else. I am on a limited income and am not able to take your course, but have found everything else that you offer very helpful. I love your links & YouTube videos, I have also learned a lot from Kiva's link that you provided. I don't know if you ever venture to the Pacific Northwest, but if you do I would love to try to attend one of your workshops. Keep up the good work and bless you for getting info out there to those of us that want to be healthy and stay healthy naturally. You are a blessing & inspiration to all of us,

thank you.
Lisa

 

 

I really enjoyed reading THE WISE WOMAN TRADITION EMPOWERS WOMEN. You always hear on TV about tests being done and the results only to find that they did the test on men and no women. I agree that the Wise Woman Tradition does empower women.

Sherryl

 

 

I saw you speak in Ann Arbor, Mi years ago and I simply never forgot you or what you had to say!

Rachel


 

Hi Susan.

I found your wonderful site a while back and have your regular newsletter sent to my inbox, hoping we can be FB friends to gain more of your wonderful knowledge.

Sally

 

 

The first lesson of the Seven Rivers of Healing with Susun Weed is deeply inspiring, and touches on areas that are of great and growing interest to me. I am really looking forward to the next 45!

Thank you, Karen

 

 

Susan:
I am new to the herbal training world, but have been studying shamanism for several years. I have been trying to find a way to incorporate both in my life and practice....thank you for pointing out the way! I agree whole heartedly with your comments and opinions and hope I will be lucky enough cross paths with you one day! Thank you for your work and thank you for being out there! We need physical beacons on our paths through this world, and you are one of them!

Peace, Barbara

 

 

Georgiana says, "Hello from georgiana.....your book is always within reach....".

 


 

Hello Susan,

I love your newsletters, I've learned so much. Green
Blessings,
Carrie

 

 

Appreciating all your good works in the world!

Antara

 

 

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Dear Susun,

I really enjoyed seeing you again at the SE Women's Herbal Conference in North Carolina. I especially enjoyed your Intensive class---and I have bought your CD's on "Dosage" and intend to buy the rest. I first met you at the first Conference when, after the Conference, you rode with me to Earth Haven. Talking with you is like talking to an old friend of many years. You have quite a presence!!

Sincerely, Jackie

 

 

My friend Nancy Sherman suggested that I become friends with you. I already feel like I am because your books are my friends.

Judy

 

 

Susan,

Are you the Susan Weed that wrote wonderful books?
If you are I want to thank you for helping me through all the changes!! I made it! I tell every woman I know about your books.

Blessing!! Jill

 

 

Hi Susun!

You are one of those unique folks who I trust to guide me through health. I have seen you a several occasions in Toronto..was going to study with you in Woodstock but had to cancel a few years ago. Now I am studying to become a homeopath and hope to study with you in the future. Thank so much for everything you have shared with us! I pass your messages and resources along to others almost on a daily basis!

Kasia

 

 

I received Juliette de baraicli levy's book today. Thank you for prompt shipping. Great service.
kind regards,

Mandy

 

 

Hi Susun,

I'm Shannon, a budding herbalist from Olympia, WA. Love your work! Thank you, and blessings today and always.

Shannon

 

 

Susun,
Thank you so much for being so brave as to do the work you do. I have used your knowledge over the years to learn about myself and the healing properties of herbs. Due to your strength, I was able to find courage in my self to practice goddess worship, develop my psychic abilities and live my life as I choose. I found this like to email you and have always wanted to thank you.

Blessings ,
Paula

 

 

Hi, Susun!

Have a blessed evening....thank you so much for everything you've shared. Just referred two women to you, I think they really need some wise woman. :)

Doshia


 

Dear wonderful Susun,

I took your workshop in Ithaca a few years back, but your influence on me extends further back and forward.

Susan


I'm a big fan of Wise Woman herbals, I'm a Chinese Medical practitioner and have used your line and wisdom with great success. Thanks for contributing so much to the body of knowledge that is our profession!

Blake

 


just sold another copy in my store yesterday to a desperate and grateful budding crone. thank you for giving us all such a great tool to share with our sisters and ultimitly the world.

Shasta Homel

 


 

Thank you for this beautiful mid month newsletter with so many wonderful things to read!... With love from
Sophia xxx...

 


 

Dear Susan -

I LOVED the old menoposal years book! I was in my teens when I was diagnosed with fybroids (in my Teens!) and I happend to come across your book. Even though I was so young, my health at the time was very like menopause and even though I knew I was not going through true menopause, your book opened up an entire world of herbal healing for me! I am now fybroid free. For many years Susan I have wanted to thank you for putting this book out there. It was there for me, at the right time, and I am ever so grateful.

Love, Kjerstin


 

...I'm an herbalist in Cal. that just wants to say thanks for all of the inspiration you have given me through many years. I used your wonderful books when I was pregnant (over 20 yrs ago) & continue to recommend them to clients & friends. I really enjoy your Wise Woman newsletter emails also; they are empowering & even tho we are on opposite sides of the country, I feel connected to a kindred soul. Thanks so much!

Green Blessings, Linda

 

 

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This is an amazingly wonderful book! It's a classic! :-) Thank you Susun!

Miriam

 

 

Excellent book! It has so much useful info and Grandmother Growth...What a delight!

Laura

 

 

Hello Susan!

Thank's for your beautiful energy, that you gave generously to us this week-end. It is still living inside of me! May the joy and peace be with you!

Catherine

 

 

I offered to give my copy of your taped lecture "Magnificent Menopause" to someone on the NEHA group. I think everyone wants it!

Sarah

 

 

I love this book, and also the Breast Cancer book...and you DON'T have to have breast cancer to benefit hugely from this book. I am drinking infusions now, and even made some of my own tinctures, so far. Thank you Susun!! I feel like I am on the right path now.

Sharon

 

 

...I keep that book right next to my computer. Has helped me so much and now I don't feel so bad when I have a hot flash. Make my infusions every night and eat my yogurt daily thanks to Susun.

Kathleen

 

I have so much to thank Susun for but this book would be top of my list everytime."

Lorraine

 

 

A must have book that you will treasure, I refer to it very often~

Suzen


 

love, love, love this book!! thank you susun!!!

Sherry


 

you, susan, have changed my life with ALL of your books of loving wisdom,but this one in particular has empowered me as a woman,mama,and grandmama!

Kimberly

 

 

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I love my book..I refer to it often. It's kinda dog-eared.

Glenda

 

 

always...always...Susun's knowledge and passion are a huge wealth of information and understanding.

Lulu

 

 

This book is one of my bibles and is a resource I often buy and pass on to friends just entering these years. I still refer to it regularly and I'm 7 years into this whole adventure!

Thank you, Susun!
Diane

 

 

Susun, when I was studying to be an herbalist you were one of my primary teachers. I'm looking forward to owning this new book on menopause. Thanks for all you do!

Valerie

 

 

I really admire the work that you do..I've read 1 or 2 of your books..they are truly spirited words.

Joline

 

 

Greetings:

I want to exclaim on the powers of Susun Weed's book, THE NEW MENOPAUSAL YEARS. For anyone facing menopause-this is THE book to purchase and use. It makes these menopause symptoms easy and exciting. The Grandmother Growth sayings are totally awesome. I actually looked forward to my hot flashes so I could direct it and feel empowered. I just want to go on and on about this book but the best thing I can say is please buy it and you will not regret it, I just love Susun and am thankful for her. Please post this where all women will read it; thank you Susun-hope to meet you at one of your
retreats in the near future.

-Blessed Be-cw

 

Dear Susun Weed,

I have just come from your website filled with inspiration. I've just given it a once-over; there's a lot of great information on there, and beauty too. I'll have to go through in more detail later. I am grateful that you are out there doing your work with such integrity. You have laid a lot of important groundwork. Thank you. I came across a flyer for a workshop you were leading in Eugene, Oregon years ago, and I was attracted to your work on a deep level just from that one piece of paper. I wasn't able to attend, but have been holding that spark within for all that time. Now it's starting to make sense.... Blessings on your life and work.

Sincerely, Amber

 

 

You started me on my path years and years ago with Healing Wise. I use the
wisdom from that book everyday. I thankyou for all you do. I look forward
to ordering the Rivers of Healing when I can afford it. I sounds like just
what I need. Again, thankyou. As crone, so many things have changed. It
will be good to put a lot of it in perspective.

Rosi


 

You are wonderful, powerful and just plain lovely!

Nora


 

I love your work and I have many of your books! Thank you for all you contribute to the world!

Michelle

 

 

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Susun...I would be honored to list you among my friends. Thank you for all you have, and are, contributing to the simplicity of our every day.

Peace. Eve

 

 

Susun,

Thank you so much for being so brave as to do the work you do. I have used your knowledge over the years to learn about myself and the healing properties of herbs. Due to your strength, I was able to find courage in my self to practice goddess worship, develop my psychic abilities and live my life as I choose. I found this like to email you and have always wanted to thank you.

Blessings Paula

 

 

Hi Susun,

Just received my Spirit and Practice correspondence course. Looking forward to learning the Wise Woman ways. Blessings to you!

Angela

 

 

Hi Susun!

Thank you for your wisdom and books. Your information echoed in my mind and saved my daughters life....when she had a kidney infection that was nearly fatal. Nettles has been in highest esteem ever since. Thank you, thank you thank you for sharing your wisdom.

Angela

 

 

Dear Susun:

I'm sure you've heard many thanks for your 7 Rivers of Healing correspondence course. Although I have not taken the course, its outline provided a framework to aid me in making an important health care decision: whether to proceed from blood testing and gluten free diet to biopsy to confirm a diagnosis of Celiac Disease. The outline itself helped me to address issues of harm to the body by having to reintroduce gluten into my diet to prepare for the biopsy; the "need" for a label, info vs. wisdom in what I was being told by doctors and Celiacs, etc. For what it's worth, I've accepted that my dramatic improvement on a gluten free diet is evidence of a severe gluten intolerance, which a biopsy would confirm - and for which the only treatment is a gluten free diet. I'll forego the biopsy. Thank you so much for your course. As my daughters would say, the wise woman way rocks.

Leslee

 

 

I enjoy getting your newsletter every month!

Bobbi

 

Hi Susun,

I came across one of your books one day and have been blessed with your wisdom. It was "The book Menopausal Years...The Wise Woman Way." What a great thing for me to have it and read the descriptions of Grandmother Growth. I loved it. And so much helpful information. It helped me understand what was happening to me and made the menopause easier with that understanding. Thank you so much for all you do. I visit your website at times also and want to thank you for all the information available on it.

Laura

 

 

Thank you.I am sooo touched. That you and Susan even responded to me- with how busy I imagine you both to be running the Wise Woman Empire! Susan has my utmost respect for sharing all her knowledge with us... I saw her speak at the first herbal conference in Black Mountain. That was my first experience being surrounded by the power of women. So many women together was moving. I have not been able to return, but that experience has stayed with me and fueled me for years! I feel that way again. I just sent this to you last night, when I woke up I had 7 emails from the kindest ladies! I really do feel loved and special like never before. Even though I do not know one of these people, I know I am circled in a brighter light because of them. Because of you. I know I will get through this. I really feel it now. Thank you for taking the time and thank you for allowing me teach what I have learned. I am not a crone yet, but I am on my way!! 66 prayers of love and peace to me and my family is absolutely amazing. I feel like a whole wise woman.

You are the best!!
xoxox, Kim

 

 

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Dear Susun,

Green Greetings from the Heartland of the Shuswap, British Columbia.
Well, it's a rainy morning here in my beautiful Green Shuswap Home! We haven't had rain for quite some time (despite the fact that this is an Interior Rain Forest ecosytem) so it's a blessing, indeed and I'm sitting here at my computer looking out the window. Everything is soaking up this long awaited moisture - you can feel the happiness of the trees.

Anyway....it's about time I wrote to thank you for all that you have given to the Herbal Community and to Humanity in general! It's been going on, hmmm...well over 15 years now that I first picked up Healing Wise. It changed my life and my whole approach to Herbalism and Healing! I've chosen Nourishment as the cornerstone of my life....I approach every "problem" with the Six Steps to Healing model (now incarnated to the Rivers of Healing).....and not just health problems but everything! My two most favourties are Do Nothing and Nourishment!

A couple of years ago I had a serious fall from a horse....a young stallin, in fact.....I landed on my right hip ie my butt (good thing I didn't land on my head or I wouldn't be here to tell you this story) so hard that my jeans were shredded to pieces! I did go to the hospital to have it xrayed because it was looking like I had a broken bone and it was incredibly painful but amazingly, I didn't suffer any broken bones!!!! It did turn into the biggest hematoma on record tho! When the doctor saw the bruise, his jaw actually dropped and he was amazed that I hadn't broken my hip! I know you already know where this story is going :) I attribute the fact that I didn't suffer any broken bones (at any age when most women are prone to developing brittle bones) to the fact that I have been drinking nourishing herbal infusions for a long time - horsetail, oatstraw, nettle, red clover, pinches of comfrey.....and my bones are not only strong but flexible! No calcium supplements for me! I could go on with more stories but it's time to go out and play!

Thank you again for all that you have so freely given..... for your courage, strength, wisdom, kindness, generosity and love!!! Across the miles...connected by the Green Spiral....

In Love and Nourishment,
Barbara from the Shuswap

 

 

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Susun's 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 29th 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), and Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (1996).

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.

   
   

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