Choosing an unconventional treatment route for a disease that scares us all, what it looks like when you really face your grief, and a beautiful story of ancestral echoes, connections, and healing.

In the Intro:

• Only you know the healing path that's right for you
• Defining "alternative medicine" & (yet another) plea for nuanced thinking
• The metabolic approach to cancer

In the Interview:

• Meeting at the Death Cafe
• How Tara came to choose the cancer treatments that she did, and what her protocol looks like
• Apitherapy: the medicinal properties of bee venom
• Healing with horses
• Being embodied during grief and the power of grief rituals 
• The gifts of a cancer diagnosis
• Feeling your ancestry in the earth
• The uncanny echoes between the lives of Tara and the grandmother she never knew, and a discussion of intergenerational trauma and healing
• Dealing with a major life disruption in the midst of a cancer journey

Show Notes:

• Tara's website Cancer Warrioress
• Cancer Warrioress on Facebook and Instagram
• Donate to Tara's Healing Fund 
• Tara's article on Apitherapy & Cancer
• Death Cafe
• The WeCroak app
• The Metabolic Approach to Cancer by Dr. Nasha Winters & Jess Higgins Kelley
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
• The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martín Prechtel
• Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson
• Cancer: The Emperor of all Maladies
• My website MythicMedicine.love
• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
• The Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)