About this episode

Robyn Moreno discusses her healing journey and the impact of ancestral wisdom on reclaiming one's sense of self.

n this episode of GynoCurious, Dr. Amy Novatt welcomes Robyn Moreno — Emmy-nominated TV host, storyteller, and author of "Get Rooted" — for a rich conversation about healing as a lifelong journey rather than a destination. Robyn shares the pivotal moment that set her on a 260-day healing path: a crescendo of life pressures that left her literally and metaphorically on the floor, prompting her to stop running from herself and start examining the wounds she had long been tripping over. Drawing on her Mexican American heritage and the ancient practice of curanderismo, Robyn introduces listeners to the Aztec concept of susto — a soul loss caused by trauma — and how recognizing it in herself became the first step toward reclaiming her wholeness. Central to Robyn's journey is the discovery of her ser — a deep inner knowing that lives beneath the noise of fear, trauma, and outside demands. She explores how the women in her lineage, including a great-grandmother who was a curandera, offered a map back to herself that was older and truer than the external markers of success she had been chasing. The conversation weaves together themes of ancestral wisdom, the end of old maps, the impact…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Amy Novatt

Guest: Robyn Moreno

Topics covered

• healing journey
• ancestral wisdom
• curanderismo
• soul loss
• midlife reckoning
• patriarchy
• colonization

Keywords

• healing
• curanderismo
• susto
• ancestral wisdom
• midlife
• trauma
• Mexican American heritage

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Get Rooted

Places: Mexico, Aztec

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