My body is what guides me.

You know, I'm like, okay, if I'm going to, for this podcast, I'm like, I'm about to bleed. I'm going to need, like, warm, really warm water with honey. I'm going to need a blanket on my lap. You know, it's like very, like, mundane ways I'm preparing myself for this. I didn't sit down and pull a tarot card to ask me, like, what's the message that I need to bring to this podcast?

Healing is often framed through the lens of heroic breakthroughs, peak experiences, and

emotional catharsis. But this episode centers a steadier path. Many modern healing trends,

amplified by social media and the promise of instant transformation,

can quietly deplete the body, especially for women, leading to everyday burnout, long-term exhaustion,

and chronic illness. Rather than bypassing the physical, we return to the essentials. Food,

sleep, and relationships that stabilize the nervous system.

Recognizing that illness for modern women is often rooted in chronic stress and physiological

depletion, not the lack of spiritual epiphanies or endless emotional processing.

I'm your host, Amber, and I'm joined today by women's health practitioner and

mineral balancer, Sina Schellenberger, who brings grounded clarity to what true lasting healing

requires, helping us understand the body's intelligent responses to modern life and

offering a vision of healing that is slow, nourishing, and sustainable.

Thank you to my patrons at patreon.com slash medicine stories for continuing to make this show

possible. Over there, Sina and I have had an extended conversation about how psilocybin and even

microdosing it can cause serotonin imbalance in the gut

and the role this plays in histamine response and in estrogen dominance. I am dealing with my

yearly cedar pollen allergies right now. And so even if you've never taken psilocybin,

but you have histamine or estrogen dominant symptoms,

this conversation is for you because there is a correlation with serotonin with both of those issues.

And you will also probably be interested then in the next Medicine Stories episode,

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