Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz is an author, indigenous foods activist, natural foods chef, and curandera (Mexican traditional healer) educating and supporting others in reclaiming the kitchen healer approach to health with Indigenous wisdom and whole food cooking. Her holistic wellness background spans over 25 years in which she has had the opportunity to work with grassroots activists, tribal leaders, top wellness resorts, and professional athletes–helping people (re)connect to their ancestral foods, earth medicines, and health practices.

Felicia’s work has been featured in Spirituality & Health, Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, and many other media platforms including The Original Americans episode on Padma Lakshmi’s Taste The Nation (Hulu). Felicia presents frequently around the country on Native American healing practices, holistic wellness, and Native American food sustainability at community events, universities, and museums–including the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

  In This Episode: 

• Felicia’s origins story growing up in Phoenix, AZ and how connecting to the land led her towards her Curandera path. 
• What is a Curandera? 
• How I found Felicia and the magic of your words and intention. 
• Felicia shares how she manifested being on a television docu-series. 
• Being on the show Taste the Nation and what it meant to her. 
• How Felicia has worked through resentment and her healing process. 
• Felicia’s journey towards understanding that food is medicine.
• How Felicia works with her clients. The process includes listening to her intuition and connecting people to the food from their lineage. 
• How food from our ancestral lineage is a pathway for healing and grounding.
• Felicia talks about her book and the genesis of how it came to be. 
• Felicia talks about aging, her skin, her grey hair and being seen in a youth-obsessed culture. 

  Full Show Notes:

• Kitchen Curandera Website
• Felicia's Instagram
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura's Offerings
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Try The Class For One Month Free
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• Reiki 1 + 2
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

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