Homestead And Heal Podcast

What does it actually mean to have a healthy relationship with food?
In this episode, Lindsay and Scott sit down with Katrina — farmer, mother, food lover, and the woman behind Meaty Mama — for a conversation about food that goes far beyond what we should or shouldn't be eating.
Katrina shares her journey from growing up between Colombian, Finnish, and Canadian cultures, to studying geochemistry, landing on an organic farm, moving to France, and eventually building a farm and family of her own.
She also opens up about the evolution of her relationship with food — from years of plant-based eating to embracing meat and nutrient-dense foods, experimenting with more extreme approaches, and eventually realizing that eating the “right” foods was only one piece of the puzzle.
Because our relationship with food isn't only about what is on our plate.
It's also about how we feel when we eat.
The guilt. The restriction. The comfort. The pleasure. The stories we've inherited. The signals coming from our bodies. And the amount of mental space food can take up in our lives.
Together, we explore what it can look like to come back into a more connected, nourishing relationship with food — one rooted in quality ingredients, body awareness, pleasure, moderation, family culture, and the land itself.
We talk about:
• Katrina's Colombian + Finnish roots and the food memories that shaped her
• Going from a city girl in Toronto to farming in the French countryside
• Her evolution from plant-based eating to a meat-centered approach
• The difference between nourishing yourself and obsessing over food
• Emotional eating, restriction, guilt + learning to listen to your body
• Why food quality changes the experience of eating
• Raising children with a grounded relationship to food
• Creating a family food culture without perfection or rigidity
• Slowing down enough to actually experience our meals
• Simple “slow fast food” and making nourishing meals realistic
• Fermentation, meat stock + foods that can't simply be bought
• Learning to love the foods that make you feel good
• Why small, sustainable shifts can be more powerful than changing everything overnight
Katrina also shares about her new program, Reclaim Your Love Story With Food, where she'll bring together nourishment, body connection, cooking skills, microbiome health, and family food culture in a small, intimate group experience.
This conversation is an invitation to look beyond the rules and ask a deeper question:
What would it feel like to be truly nourished by your food — without having your life revolve around it?
Connect with Katrina on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/meaty_mama
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What can seeds teach us about our bodies, our relationship with the Earth, and trusting the timing of our lives?
In this episode, Lindsay and Scott sit down with clinical herbalist, integrative health educator, bodyworker, and Herbal Womb Wisdom podcast host Kay’aleya Hunnybee for a winding conversation about plants, womb wisdom, seed keeping, and what it means to live in deeper relationship with the Earth.
Kay’aleya shares the unexpected path that brought her from growing up in New York City with very little relationship to plants, to farming in India, studying birth work and midwifery, practicing herbalism and bodywork, and eventually spending years immersed in the world of seed keeping.
Together, they explore the magic held within a seed, the parallels between seed keeping and midwifery, the wisdom of our bodies and the Earth, and why sometimes the most important thing we can do is slow down enough to listen.
In this episode, we explore:
Kay’aleya’s journey from feeling disconnected from plants to building a life deeply rooted in relationship with the Earth
How farming in India transformed her understanding of plants and agriculture
Her path through birth work, midwifery, herbalism, and bodywork
Seed keeping as a form of “seed midwifery”
The ancestral and cultural stories carried through seeds
Trusting the timing of seeds, bodies, and natural cycles
Allowing ourselves to experience fallow seasons
Why observation and listening can be some of our greatest teachers
Letting go of the pressure to move quickly and remembering that it’s okay for things to take time
Connect with Kay’aleya
Instagram: @herbalwombwisdom
Website: herbalwomb.com
Podcast: Herbal Womb Wisdom
About Kay’aleya
Kay’aleya Hunnybee, M.S., is a clinical herbalist, integrative health educator, and bodyworker whose work centers menstrual, hormonal, sexual, and reproductive health. Her background includes herbal medicine, massage and bodywork, doula work, and midwifery studies. Through her work and the Herbal Womb Wisdom podcast, she helps people deepen their relationship with their bodies, plants, and the wisdom of the Earth.
Connect with Lindsay & Scott: 
To learn more about our retreats: www.homesteadandheal.net
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Connect with Scott: https://www.instagram.com/alchemygardens/

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In this episode, Lindsay and Scott sit down with Adena Rose Bright, an Ayurveda practitioner, educator, and women’s health practitioner with nearly two decades of clinical experience.
Together, they explore what it looks like to live in deeper relationship with the body, the seasons, and the natural world - and how Ayurveda can offer a practical framework for understanding women’s health through every season of life.
Adina shares how her own journey through painful periods, conception, pregnancy, postpartum, and now midlife shaped the work she does today. The conversation moves through digestion, pelvic health, herbal medicine, postpartum depletion, seasonal transitions, and why so many health challenges can’t be understood by looking at one isolated part of the body.
They also talk about the importance of becoming an active participant in your own healing — not rejecting modern medicine, but building enough body awareness, practical knowledge, and self-trust to have more choice in how you care for yourself. 
In this episode, they explore:
 How Ayurveda approaches women’s health and seasonal wellness 
 Why digestion is considered foundational to overall health 
 Simple Ayurvedic practices for transitioning into fall and colder weather 
 The relationship between digestion, pelvic health, inflammation, and the nervous system 
 Adina’s experience healing painful periods and reconnecting with her body 
 Postpartum depletion, anxiety, and the plant medicine that became a turning point for her 
 Motherwort, herbal medicine, and building relationships with plant allies 
 The limitations of compartmentalized healthcare 
 How Ayurveda and Western medicine can work alongside one another 
 Trusting the innate intelligence of the body 
 Becoming an active participant in your own healing 
Adina also shares the advice she wishes more women heard earlier: “Let the animal body take over.” Her reminder is that the body already carries an innate intelligence toward healing — and our job is often to create the conditions that allow it to do what it knows how to do. 
Connect with Adena: 
Website: https://www.adenaroseayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adenaroseayurveda
Connect with Lindsay & Scott: 
To learn more about our retreats: www.homesteadandheal.net
Follow Homestead & Heal:  https://www.instagram.com/homestead.andheal/ 
Connected with Lindsay: https://www.instagram.com/lindsaycourcelle/
Connect with Scott: https://www.instagram.com/alchemygardens/

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What does it really mean to belong....to a place, a community, a family, or even your own body?
In this episode of Homestead & Heal, Lindsay and Scott sit down with author, somatic practitioner, and educator Kimberly Ann Johnson for a wide-ranging conversation about motherhood, embodiment, place, community, aging, and what it means to build a meaningful life.
Kimberly shares how her own challenging postpartum experience and years-long healing journey eventually led to her first book, The Fourth Trimester, and how her work has continued to evolve through pelvic health, the female nervous system, sexuality, grief, elderhood, and the changing seasons of a woman’s life. 
The conversation moves into our relationship with home, land, and belonging. After living and traveling around the world, Kimberly shares why she’s become less interested in asking whether a place feels like home and more interested in what it means to devote ourselves to the places and people already around us. 
Together, they unpack the modern search for the “perfect” community, the homestead dream, and the belief that a better life might be waiting somewhere else. What if belonging isn’t something we find—but something we participate in building?
They also explore the messiness of real community: working alongside people we wouldn’t necessarily choose, developing practical skills, navigating disagreement, taking responsibility, and committing to something larger than our individual preferences. 
The conversation ultimately returns to the body and the different seasons of a life—from motherhood and fertility to perimenopause, menopause, aging, and becoming an elder. Kimberly offers her perspective on respecting biological limits, questioning some of our cultural ideas about freedom, and allowing the experiences of our lives to mature us. 
In this episode, they talk about:
 Kimberly’s postpartum healing journey and the story behind The Fourth Trimester
 Pelvic health, embodiment, and the female nervous system 
 Perimenopause, menopause, sexuality, and aging 
 Motherhood and watching children enter new seasons of their own lives 
 Connecting with nature even when you don’t live on a traditional homestead 
 Homemaking, domestic arts, and the importance of the hearth 
 Kimberly’s experiences living and traveling around the world 
 The difference between finding belonging and building belonging
 Why moving somewhere new doesn’t necessarily create community 
 The modern “homestead dream” and our search for a better life elsewhere 
 Why meaningful community requires commitment, responsibility, and practical skills 
 Staying in relationship with people who have different perspectives 
 Following what calls you before you understand where it will lead 
 Motherhood, fertility, family, and biological limits 
 Our cultural relationship with aging and elderhood
Connect with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Website: kimberlyannjohnson.com
Instagram: @kimberly.ann.johnson
Connect with Lindsay & Scott: 
To learn more about our retreats: www.homesteadandheal.net
Follow Homestead & Heal:  https://www.instagram.com/homestead.andheal/ 
Connected with Lindsay: https://www.instagram.com/lindsaycourcelle/
Connect with Scott: https://www.instagram.com/alchemygardens/

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In this episode of Homestead & Heal, we sit down with Adelaide Biggs, founder of Faith in the Body, for a conversation about women’s health, movement, healing, faith, and the wisdom of the body.
Adelaide’s work looks at how the way we sit, stand, walk, breathe, and move can impact pelvic health, nervous system regulation, and whole-body wellbeing. We talk about everything from prolapse, pain, incontinence, postpartum recovery, and structural integration to the deeper relationship between embodiment, suffering, faith, and healing. 
Adelaide also shares how a lifelong relationship with horses shaped her ability to notice movement, pressure, body language, and subtle patterns — skills that later became foundational to the work she does with women today. 
The conversation also moves into her own healing journey after a severe injury, her experience as a home birth midwife, seasons of loss and suffering, and the role faith has played in how she understands the body, healing, and what it means to receive the life in front of us.  
This is a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation about listening more closely to the body, understanding our own patterns, and seeing healing as something that can involve both the physical and the spiritual.
Learn more about Adelaide: 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithinthebody/

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