Ep 113| Featuring: Ed Cohen

*Host's Note - to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video here.

This episode features our guest, Ed Cohen - author, professor, and advocate for "the art of healing" by exploring his own path through chronic illness.

TOPICS COVERED:
- His journey suffering through childhood chronic illness, autoimmune disease, learning medical capacities and limitations, side effects that no one warned him about, mental health stigmas and medically induced psychiatric issues, a life threatening situation and near death experience
- Spontaneously going into trances in the hospital and falling into peaceful trance states
- How he got well so quickly and stunned the doctors
- Getting curious about why doctors know so much about illness but not as much about healing and wellness
- The inquiry about the difference between the science of healing v. the art of healing
- What is the body and how can we tap into the capacity for it to keep living and thriving
- Accessing augmented and peaceful states in many different ways
- The intrinsic nature of moving forward
- Trauma: the past that endures into the present; it comes from without and lodges within
- We have responsibility to heal - for ourselves and for the greater good of mankind and those around us
- The ethos of "healing is possible" and why there is an ethical orientation toward healing
- Compassionate conversations - to turn toward each other; all persons involved are changed
- Creating resonance and holding space
- Alternative possibilities of medicine

GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Finding great teachers
2. Modalities of somatic embodiment/Continuum
3. Finding what works for YOU.  Make a choice to be open to the experience as you TRY things.  BE curious to the possibilities.

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1.  Website
2. His new book "On Learning to Heal"


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