Nov 13, 2018
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
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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
- Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
- Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
- The Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)