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Medicine Stories

32. Having Cancer, Facing Grief, & Choosing Your Own Healing Path - Tara Coyote

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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:

Transcript

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0:00.0

The only way we can really embody our lives fully is if we accept death because if we're walking around with a fear of death

0:07.5

Then we're holding ourselves back from really being as full and expansive as we can be.

0:14.0

Hello and welcome to Medicine Stories.

0:20.0

Episode 32.

0:22.0

Today I'm talking with Tara Coyote about grief, cancer, ancestry. You know, I want to, I want to give a little disclaimer, I suppose, since we are talking about choosing a different path for treating cancer. What I want to say is that my intention on this

0:47.5

podcast is never to tell people how to live, how to treat their own illnesses, how to be in their own bodies.

0:58.0

I think that's pretty clear if you've really listened to any of the episodes but you know I've just it's

1:07.6

become clear to me that I need to actually spell that out just because I

1:12.4

interview people or present ideas that are outside the

1:16.7

mainstream doesn't mean I think it's right for everyone in any way. I'm not anti-medicine, the scientific model as it sometimes called, the dominant paradigm.

1:32.4

And I'm very pro-science, as you know if you've listened to this at all.

1:38.0

In fact, I was just reminded through my Facebook memories that in 2015 the Huff Post included me in an

1:48.2

article that was like 13 witchy accounts you need to follow or something and either they called me the science witch or other people called me that afterwards. I don't think they called me that. I think someone called me that afterwards.

2:02.0

Anyway, I... that I think someone called me that afterwards. Anyway I am not interested in

2:10.0

telling people how to live or what healing paths to take in their lives.

2:14.1

I'm interested in what works and a lot of what doesn't work is firmly entrenched in the

2:21.6

mainstream and so you know I know that a lot of people

2:25.3

don't have access to the information that I've had access to for a long time

2:29.8

being deeply in the herbal community for 13 years now and just like living in California where there's so much so many

2:40.3

alternative practitioners and so much information.

2:44.0

And I really hate the word alternative too.

2:46.2

I've talked about that before.

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