106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

It is estimated that half of all Americans have chronic health issues, and yet these conditions are new to the human species. What has happened? And how does an afflicted individual navigate a medical system that dismisses them and offers little help, embedded within a culture obsessed with self improvement and the hero’s journey of triumph? Sarah and I talk about the multifactorial nature of chronic illness and what has changed between generations, walking the fine line between self-responsibility and acknowledging that we’re all embedded in toxic systems that are out of our control, navigating the mythic underworld of autoimmune and chronic illness, and telling our stories without the need for a heroic ending.

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RESOURCES:

Sarah’s website

Medicine Stories Patreon (enter the book giveaway by 12/14)

Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz

Whitney Dafoe’s website

Medicine Stories episode 105 w/ Sophie Strand Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche

The Heroine’s Journey: Woman’s Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock

My post about my father’s life and death

My website MythicMedicine.love

Mythic Medicine on Instagram

Medicine Stories Facebook group

Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

Transcript

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0:00.0	And that really to me really is the story of every single person that I know that's gotten sick,
0:05.3	every single person that's been through a terrible personal trauma or collective trauma is that they start to
0:35.6	get really interested in the health of systems and in fixing things down at the roots because it is not enough to fix things up just at the flowers and at the stems it's you have to fix things down in the roots and it's difficult and it doesn't it's not unlike the hero's journey it's not this like one epic journey where you go out and you fix it and then it's done.
0:49.0	It's this cyclical process that happens over and over and over and over again. Hi friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast. I'm Amber Hill.
0:50.8	This is episode 106 six my interview with Sarah Ramey. I've been trying to psych
0:57.2	myself up to give you a real you know efficient quick intro but I don't think I'm going to be able to so please bear with me.
1:07.3	My father died about a week ago. The news is crazy and horrific and sad and I haven't put out a podcast in four months because of extreme fatigue and adrenal and thyroid insufficiency and
1:28.8	bottomed out levels of electrolytic minerals as some of you will know from listening to previous episodes, recent
1:36.3	episodes.
1:37.3	I'm feeling better.
1:39.3	I'm having my energy slowly return.
1:41.1	I've learned so much that I hope to share in the future and have so much
1:46.2	I could share about my father's passing as well. I'll link to my post about it in the show
1:51.2	notes if anyone is interested. It's too big of a story, his life, his death, our relationship,
1:59.4	his alcoholism, for me to lightly touch on here, so I'll put it there if anyone wants and I'll dive deeper in the future.
2:08.0	Sarah has been living with chronic illness for almost two decades,
2:12.7	maybe two decades at this point.
2:15.4	Her incredible book is called The Lady's Handbook
2:18.0	for her mysterious illness.
2:20.0	I read it in the spring, interviewed her in July, and now finally getting this out in November.
2:26.6	I really look forward to picking up the pace a little more with this podcast.
2:30.8	Even just sitting here on my computer the last couple days getting it together I
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