Healing is communal. Settle in softly for this wide-ranging conversation with my most requested guest. Sophie and I talk chronic illness and trauma, diagnosis as blessing and as hex, the theater of medicine, the aquatic nature of memory, and the entanglements of time.
RESOURCES:
Sophie on Instagram
Sophie's newsletter Make Me Good Soil
The Lady's Handbook for her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey
ACE- Adverse Childhood Experiences quiz
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van den Kolk (giant trigger warning; read the book below instead)
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious by Erik Wargo
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Emerald (a podcast beloved by both me & Sophie)
Read The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics & the Entanglement of Matter & Meaning by Karen Barad
Time, As a Symptom by Joanna Newsom (lyrics here)
My blog post Ancestral Voices, women's Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear Time
What I'd Be Without You: My Mother's Life, Death, and Legacy of Love
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
My website MythicMedicine.love
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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