After an emergency surgery that saved his life, Ed Cohen had a spontaneous healing experience that prompted him to ask the question: Why doesn’t medicine know about healing? In this episode Ed explores how Western medicine turned from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” and how this shift has affected both medical practitioners and their patients.

Ed Cohen has a Ph.D. in Modern Thought from Stanford, and for the last three decades, has been an award-winning professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Learning To Heal, or What Medicine Doesn’t Know and A Body Worth Defending. 

In this episode, Ed discusses:

• His diagnosis with acute Crohn’s disease at the age of 13
• The surprising origin of the concept of immunity
• How having a chronic illness inspired him to understand healing
• His spontaneous post-surgery healing experience 
• His desire to understand why medicine doesn’t know about healing
• The difference between healing and curing
• The concept of disease
• The history and evolution of medicine 
• How his healing journey changed him
• The relationship between desiring to heal and being willing to learn
• How we are more than we imagine
• How he helps those struggling with chronic illness reframe their difficult circumstances

Ed’s website: https://healingcounsel.com/

Ed’s books: https://healingcounsel.com/publications/

Wendy’s article: The Ultimate BFF: Your Body 

The Magical Path Shamanic Workbook:

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• Amazon 

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