Hey, everybody.

This is the Mary M. Williamson podcast, and this is Mary M. Williamson.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

We're here to talk about war and peace.

It was around 2000 that I first heard former congressman Dennis Kucinich talk about a

department of peace and why one was necessary as an executive level cabinet position in

the executive branch of the U.S. government.

I was completely excited by it because it was completely aligned with the relationship

that I perceived between sickness and health.

You can't just wait till you get sick, don't take care of your body, don't take care

of exercise, don't take care of diet, then just wait when sickness almost inevitably arises

and then apply the old alopathic model of healing, which is to then through external remedies

seek to eradicate or suppress the physical symptoms.

If that's all you do, because the symptoms were caused by something, if all you do is

seek to eradicate or suppress a symptom, then frequently the symptom will simply end up

morphing into another one.

So in terms of healing the physical body, the whole notion of integrative health came

on to the scene towards the end of the last century.

Everybody was very excited, body, mind, and spirit.

And this included the notion of preventative health.

It included the notion of proactively cultivating health, not just waiting till you get sick,

but cultivating health.

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