Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ll never forget the day I felt something inside my mind break. It was the day after the Manchester Half Marathon. Physically, I was the strongest I’d been in months; exhausted, yes, muscles screaming in pain, yes, yes, and yes, but I’d smashed my personal best and felt exhilarated. It was October, 2016. It was […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Recently I had an addiction medicine specialist who’s investigating the use of cannabis in recovery ask me about my own experience, and he wanted it in writing. Here’s my response. I’m a cannabinoid medicine patient, researcher, and very outspoken activist who speaks at a lot of events. I’ve fought off multiple health issues using cannabis […]
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Reading Time: 13 minutes When we meet the members of the Plant Kingdom as shamans, we see and/or describe it and its medicine differently than the West or the scientific world, for many, many reasons. Our shamanic interactions and relationships with the medicine produce distinct descriptions and terminology as well. When we explore the Plant Kingdom with the naked […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Fourteen weeks migraine free, then bam! Over the weekend I was struck with a migraine: a day and a half of pain and puke. “This is painful” I tell myself. I allow myself to feel it and accept that yes, it’s unpleasant; adding a reminder: that it too shall pass. That’s unlike last year, from […]
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Reading Time: 14 minutes Sitting quietly this morning, as I listened to the universe for inspirational writing to share, I was taken back through my past, to my days of hard suffering. Up until my thirties I had always been under the control of ill health, diagnosed with fibromyalgia, hypermobility joint syndrome (HJS), Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and chronic fatigue. […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” (Lewis B. Smedes) Sometimes we are hurt by someone or something so deeply that it seems we can’t put the situation aside. This person or thing keeps coming to mind, each time creating all kinds of unpleasant feelings: anger, pain, […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I have seen people who are hurt and depressed spiral into crippling depression rather suddenly, losing their energy and desire to live. A lot of people face depression—at least 264 million people world-wide—and that statistic is pre-pandemic (WHO, 2020). Crippling depression may include symptoms of major depression such as a loss of appetite or interest […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes This edition of Healers Magazine, “The Other Pandemic: Integrative Medicine’s Defining Moment,” is the least successful in accommodating those living in bad faith; still, so long as we don’t trigger anyone, maybe that’s for the best. My good friend here in Florida had to leave her Indian ashram this time last year after becoming terribly […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I really want to help people. That’s what I have been telling myself, at least consciously since 12 years old when I participated in the D.A.R.E. club doing skits about not taking drugs at a rave party. But how? How can I REALLY help people? My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and I […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Resilient: A person able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. Throughout our lives, we are all exposed to trials and unexpected events that will ultimately impact us. These adversities can be anything from daily struggles such as an alarm not going off or an argument with a friend. To life-altering events such as […]
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