How I Healed Podcast

Podcast co-creator Mary Lou Singleton tells the story of healing her chronic asthma in our third episode. Born needing resuscitation, Mary Lou was born out of breath. She also didn't have the chance to bond with her mother in the first three days of life. Expressing her own and the grief of her lineage began early, through her weak lungs, asthma, and painful eczema. When wheezing for breath and covered in rashes, she got attention from her mother. She finally had the chance to bond with her mother and receive the nurturance they had both always longed for, only as her mother was dying of cancer. Mary Lou picked up a heavy smoking habit to hold and process her grief, which only exacerbated the disease. It was a long road to recovery, but however bitter the medicine, it brought Mary Lou healing for much more than her asthma.

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On the second episode of How I Healed, podcast co-creator Jocelyn Macdonald tells her story of healing from decades of chronic health conditions including bipolar disorder, anxiety, rheumatoid arthritis, sjogren’s syndrome, psoriasis and endometriosis. Engagement with the medical system created and proliferated disease identities that then could only be treated with more and more engagement with the medical industry. Pharmaceutical prescriptions, with side effects often as severe as the symptoms they were intended to treat, became dependencies. 

We discuss the psychic origins of disease. Lack of self love and poor boundaries manifest physically in disease states that offer protection of a kind. We explore some of the techniques Jocelyn used to heal her autoimmune disease over the last year, while being completely medication free.

More of Jocelyn’s work can be found at: 

@auntflossy on instagram

Woodworking at solidsunstudio.com

Book a session with Jo here https://calendly.com/jocelyn-teal-macdonald

Mary Lou Singleton is a family nurse practitioner, herbalist and apprentice trained homebirth midwife. She has been caring for the health of New Mexican families for over 25 years. Mary Lou believes all health care modalities, from allopathic medicine to energy work and everything in between, have healing potential, that healing is always an individual journey to be supported by community, and that when it comes to healing effectiveness is the measure of the truth. 

You can see more of Mary Lou’s work at:

Enchantedfamilymedicine.com

Enchantedfamillymedicine.substack.com

@marylousingleton on Instagram

@ML_Singleton on Twitter

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Welcome to How I Healed.

In our first episode, Jocelyn and Mary Lou discuss why we created the How I Healed podcast. We share our critiques of mainstream medicine and discuss how the healthcare industry in the US would be better labeled the disease maintenance industry. 

But we don’t just complain about the status quo! We discuss what true healing means to each of us and offer insight on liberation from chronic illness and pharmaceutical drug dependence. We delve into the mythic world, exploring how every illness has a psychospiritual as well as a physical origin. We talk about the primal importance of birth, the medicine of a good death, and the messy joy and pain of everything in between. 

Jocelyn Macdonald is an artist and storyteller. She is enlivened by the infinite potential of humans to heal, and helps others to walk this path through her art and music. Her healing practice focuses on making and finding meaning out of the crises and major choice points of our lives. She offers one-on-one support through coaching, archetypal astrology and tarot. She specializes in assisting with psychedelic integration and pharmaceutical cessation.

More of Jocelyn’s work can be found at: 

@auntflossy on instagram

Woodworking at solidsunstudio.com

Book a session with Jo here ⁠https://calendly.com/jocelyn-teal-macdonald⁠

Mary Lou Singleton is a family nurse practitioner, herbalist and apprentice trained homebirth midwife. She has been caring for the health of New Mexican families for over 25 years. Mary Lou believes all health care modalities, from allopathic medicine to energy work and everything in between, have healing potential, that healing is always an individual journey to be supported by community, and that when it comes to healing effectiveness is the measure of the truth. 

You can see more of Mary Lou’s work at:

Enchantedfamilymedicine.com

Enchantedfamillymedicine.substack.com

@marylousingleton on Instagram

@ML_Singleton on Twitter

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit howihealed.substack.com/subscribe