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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28. Seaweed: Deep Medicine for Earth, Ocean, & Humans - Angela Willard
27. Anti-Racist Genealogical Research (for Everyone) - Darla Antoine
26. Ancestral Reverence as Devotion to the Earth - Daniel Foor
25. Self Attunement & the New Myths We're Making - Maia Toll
24. Plant Spirits & Deep Remembering that Speaks to the Bones - Fay Johnstone
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