Choosing an unconventional treatment route for a disease that scares us all, what it looks like when you really face your grief, and a beautiful story of ancestral echoes, connections, and healing.
In the Intro:
Only you know the healing path that's right for you
Defining "alternative medicine" & (yet another) plea for nuanced thinking
The metabolic approach to cancer
In the Interview:
Meeting at the Death Cafe
How Tara came to choose the cancer treatments that she did, and what her protocol looks like
Apitherapy: the medicinal properties of bee venom
Healing with horses
Being embodied during grief and the power of grief rituals
The gifts of a cancer diagnosis
Feeling your ancestry in the earth
The uncanny echoes between the lives of Tara and the grandmother she never knew, and a discussion of intergenerational trauma and healing
Dealing with a major life disruption in the midst of a cancer journey
Show Notes:
Tara's website Cancer Warrioress
Cancer Warrioress on Facebook and Instagram
Donate to Tara's Healing Fund
Tara's article on Apitherapy & Cancer
Death Cafe
The WeCroak app
The Metabolic Approach to Cancer by Dr. Nasha Winters & Jess Higgins Kelley
The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martín Prechtel
Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson
Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
The Medicine Stories Facebook group
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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50. Kneeling to the Earth: Herbalism is Remembering - Rosemary Gladstar
49. Grieving the Spirits of the Land & Bringing Healing to the Ancestors
48. Matriarchy in Action & Ancestor Assisted Birth - Emilee Saldaya
47. Rose Medicine: Softness & Strength From the Queen of the Flowers
46. Sex, Trauma, Magic, & the Ancestors - Pavini Moray
45. The Deepest Magic: To Know Yourself, Know Your Ancestors
44. Animism: Coming Into Kinship with All Life - Daniel Foor
43. A Plant Spirit Healing Story
42. You Are Your Own Healer: Earth Intuition & Self Knowledge - Asia Suler
41. The Dreaming Channel & Remembering Ourselves Home - Toko-pa Turner
40. Ancient Medicine & the Love of the Ancestors - Atava Garcia Swiecicki
39. Kitchen Herbalism: The Body Remembers - Kami McBride
38. Healing Our Indigenous European Ancestors - Lyla June
37. Ancestral Legacies, Lost Cultures, & Personal Mythmaking - Janelle Hardy
36. Magic Makes Us Human & Plants Keep Us Rooted- Rebecca Altman
35. Giving Life to Songs & Babies - Alela Diane
34. Womb Wisdom, Addiction, & the Way of the Wounded Healer - Anja Robinson
33. Root Cause Medicine & Breasts as an Intuitive Center - Anja Robinson
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