Traditional Medicine

Healing the Colonized Body: From Fight or Flight to Tend and Befriend

November 14, 2025

Discover how relational healing, oxytocin, and the tend-and-befriend stress response expand traditional biomedical models and support trauma recovery, resilience, and holistic well-being.

On Storytelling

Since I began this lifelong project of learning and preserving Indigenous knowlege about plant foods and medicines, story telling has played a central role in the process.

About the history of oral tradition…..

This is the idea behind sharing these stories now…

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