Doniga Markegard is a wildlife tracker, regenerative rancher, speaker, and author of Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild and Wolf Girl: Finding Myself in the Wild.

In this episode, Cheryl and Doniga talk about the connection between our health and the health of the soil. 

Doniga's teen years in nature school started her on a path that led to a career in animal tracking and then permaculture and ranching at her farm in California, Markegard Family Grass-Fed, where she works to regenerate both soil and community through farming. Using the innovative, carbon-storing methods of regenerative ranching, she’s restoring the land she tends, bringing native grasses and wildlife back.

Doniga is a consultant and guest instructor at nature awareness programs around the country, has led retreats in places such as 1440 Multiversity, Canyon Ranch, and is a regular speaker at events such as the Bioneers Conference, Food Inspiration Trendsummit, and The Grassfed Exchange. She is a certified educator with Holistic Management International. Most recently, she has been featured in the film Kiss the Ground which is available on Netflix. 

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Doniga's Reading List: 

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer     Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert    Grow Wild and Move your DNA by Katy Bowman

Annah Taylor Phinny is a Priestess of Avalon, author, and psycho-spiritual healer whose mission is to support the remembrance of the divine feminine in all beings. Her forthcoming book titled “Lady of the Lake, Rise: Breast Cancer as a Path to Wholeness Through the Eyes of a Priestess of Avalon” is poised for release in 2022. Please follow her on Instagram @avalon.calling and read more at avaloncalling.org

Annah shares with Cheryl about the way she reframed surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy so she could receive them as sacred medicine.

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Annah's Reading List:

The Cancer Revolution by Leigh Erin Connealy MD Spiritual Bypassing by Robert Augustus Masters PhD Loyalty to Your Soul by H. Ronald Hulnick Ph.D., Mary R. Hulnick PhD Breasts: the Owner's Manual: Every Woman's Guide to Reducing Cancer Risk, Making Treatment Choices, and Optimizing Outcomes by Dr. Kristi Funk The Book of Lymph: Self Care Practices to Enhance Immunity, Health, and Beauty by Lisa Levitt Gainsley Living Foods for Optimum Health: A Highly Effective Program to Remove Toxins and Restore Your Body to Vibrant Health by Brian Clement and Theresa DiGeronimo Food is Medicine volumes 1-3, by Brian R Clement Ph.D., NMD, LN,  Farmacy Kitchen Cookbook: Plant-based Recipes for a Conscious Way of Life by Camilla al-Fayed Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine by Jean Shinoda Bolen Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson Anything by my teacher Kathy Jones available at https://kathyjones.co.uk/bookstore,  The Podcast "Breast Cancer Conqueror" hosted by Dr. Veronique Desaulniers aka Dr. V.  

 

Our guest Ian Becke started his career as a family physician. He went on to co-found Hospice of the Verde Valley in Arizona, and served as the director of Group Health Hospice Kitsap County in Washington State.

Claire chats with Ian about the history of hospice and the need for holistic cancer care, even (or especially) when the cancer isn’t curable.

Ian was born in Sydney, Australia in 1948 and migrated to the United States with his wife Bonnie in 1973, where they have resided ever since. In 2020, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme. 

He has three boys and five grandchildren and he speaks with us today from his home in western Washington.

Ian's Reading List: 

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, MD.

On Death and Dying and The Five Stages of Grief by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Our guest Christine Chen teaches humanities at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a professional violinist and less professional wrangler of 2 kids. 

Claire talks to Christine about picking up the pieces after cancer and trying to let go of the desire to return to the way things were before.

Christine's Cancer Lit:

Anne Boyer, The Undying

Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

Paul Kalanathi, When Breath Becomes Air

Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Christine's Fiction List:

Herman Melville, Moby Dick;

Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Albert Camus, The Plague

Rachel Cusk, Kudos, Transit, Outline

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CancerTalks es un podcast que comparte historias personales de transformación de personas cuyas vidas han sido tocadas por el cáncer. Este es el primer episodio de CancerTalks en español! 

La Dra. Marili Leopold es egresada de la Universidad Anáhuac, con Maestría en Ciencias Médicas y Diplomado en Nutrición. Con especialidad en Medicina Integrativa en el Dr. Weil Center For Integrative Medicine en la Universidad de Arizona. Es co-autora de varios artículos científicos publicados en el extranjero y tiene su práctica clínica enfocada en medicina Integrativa, estilo de vida y medicina ambiental. 

Victor Saadia es empresario, autor, consultor, speaker y profesor. Es Licenciando en Economía por el ITAM y tiene una Maestría en Pensamiento Social Interdisciplinario por la Universidad de Nueva York. Ahora cursa su segunda maestría en Medicina Regenerativa y su Doctorado en Pensamiento Crítico en Suiza. Es fundador de BioCenter, una agrupación de negocios relacionados a la medicina regenerativa; y de ALIVE, una consultora de bienestar. Victor es curador de contenidos en La Ciudad de las Ideas, profesor de tiempo parcial en el ITAM y autor de artículos científicos relacionados a la educación, la epistemología y filosofía de la ciencia. Es Presidente Fundador de la Asociación Mexicana de Medicina de Estilo de Vida, autor del libro: “Estilo de Vida: En Consciencia” y creador del Podcast: “Volver al Futuro”.

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Our guest this week is Terri Tate - humorist, memoir coach, and author of A Crooked Smile. Terri has lived many lives: psychiatric nurse, therapist, hypnotherapist, speaker, consultant - but her favorite work of all is teaching memoir writing classes.

Check out Terri's website for more info! 

Terri's Reading List:

1. I Am the Word by Paul Selig

2. Love, Medicine & Miracles by Bernie Siegel

3. A Course in Miracles 

4. When you are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

5. Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott

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Our guest this week is Rev. Nancy McKay, a feminist Christian minister in the United Church of Christ who offers spiritual direction. Nancy taught healing prayer for years and these days, she participates in expressive writing classes. Nancy attended the first Healing Journeys conference in 1994 and has been committed to that work ever since. This conversation will be guided by Cheryl Buck.

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Naturopathic doctor Chris Holder invites his patients to explore everything that led up to their cancer diagnosis - medical, spiritual, emotional - in order to empower patients to make changes in their lives that might prevent cancer recurrence.

Chris talks with Claire about the power of educating patients so they can make their own health decisions without fear. His healing practice centers around trust - whether a patient is working to stay on this planet, or making peace with death. The process of building trust requires a lot of listening - taking the time to understand a person’s belief system and any trauma that might be getting in the way of healing.

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Morhaf Al Achkar MD, PhD, is a family physician and associate professor at the University of Washington. After migrating to the U.S. from his birthplace of Aleppo, Syria in 2006, he obtained his PhD in Education from Indiana University. He is the author of three books, including Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer and Being Authentic. 

In 2016, in his early 30s, Morhaf was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. Since then, his research has focused on the experience of people living with cancer, exploring how these patients find meaning, cope, and build resilience. 

Morhaf's Reading List: 

1. The Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2. The Theory of Communicative Action by Jürgen Habermas

3. Making It Explicit by Robert Brandom

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This week we talk with Pauline Koinis, a medical intuitive who incorporates many different healing modalities into her work. Her forthcoming book, Cancer is Personal, tells the story of her cancer journey and how she forged her own path to wellness. 

Pauline is a force of nature. A “motorcycle mama,” as her kids call her, Pauline has faced two near-death experiences head-on. Rather than closing her eyes and wishing illness away, she believes in inviting it in as you would a guest in your home. When not writing, counseling, and speaking, Pauline enjoys traveling, singing, dancing, walking on the beach with her dog, Poe, and riding her motorcycle down long winding roads.

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Pauline's Reading List

1. Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds by Kelly Turner 2. Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani 3. Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cohen 4. Awakening to the Dream by Leo Hartong 5. Sacred Contracts" Awakening your Divine Potential by Carolyn Myss 6. Why People Don't Heal and How They Can by Carolyn Myss 7. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings by Pema Chodron 8. Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chodron 9. Tripping over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer by Travis Christofferson 10. How to Starve Cancer by Jane McClelland

Pauline also holds these two poems close to her heart: The Guest House by Rumi and The Invitation by Oriah.

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