Hello, dear listeners and welcome to Inner Work, a Spiritual Growth podcast. I'm your host,

Josephine, a second-generation intuitive healer, an English PhD, who taught college for nine years

before transitioning to spiritual work full-time. I now specialize in helping type A and highly

sensitive women, including empaths,

let go of perfectionism, release shame, and transform their inner critics into inner allies.

To find out more or join the tribe, visit www.purefieldhealing.com or contact me directly at purefield healing at gmail.com. As always, those links will be

in the show notes. And now, on to the show. Hello, dearest listeners, and welcome to another

episode of Inner Work.

I'm Josephine, your host, and I'm so delighted to feature a new guest today.

Her name is Arete Schaefer, and she is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.

She was born in Israel, raised in Canada, and now has a physical therapy practice in San Francisco where clients receive

much more than simply physical therapy treatments. They also experience a transformation of mind

and spirit through the process of self-healing that Arete refers to as having good blood.

And so she has actually written a book about this titled Good Blood, A Journey of Healing,

and we are going to have a link to that in the show notes.

This book tells the story of her awakening to the power of positive thought and the connection

of mindset to physical and emotional well-being.

From her childhood fascination with her father's

tale of healing from six gunshot wounds during the war to her own instinctive defiance of

pessimistic medical prognosis, Erete's journey reveals a grateful and compassionate understanding

of her roots as her keen intuitive gifts come to light.

Today, Ereid's physical therapy practice embodies the values set forth in this book

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