What's the Deal with Cacao? with Mary Ellen Valverde

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What's the deal with cacao? We ask nourishment coach Mary Ellen Valverde about how this plant magic from her ancestral lands can make our lives more awesome.

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We've got a totally awesome guest this week. We're welcoming Mary Ellen Valverde of Nourished by ME to talk about how she uses cacao in her spiritual and self-care practice. But first, she's helping us bring some witchy wisdom to a listener who wants to build up her spiritual tool box.

Then Mary Ellen answer's Renee and Louise's burning questions about cacao. What's the deal with cacao? How do you make it? Why is it not as delicious as chocolate? What makes it "ceremonial?" Who's it for? And most importantly, how can it make our lives more awesome? As both a spiritual practitioner, a licensed nutritionist, and an Ecuadorian citizen, Mary Ellen shares all her knowledge and experience, and we're so grateful.

Then, Renee has been doing some Tarot tutoring, Louise is laughing at some good Scottish weather-related puns, and Mary Ellen is becoming a more confident yoga instructor.

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