It is apparent that we are being called back to the healing power of nature and getting in touch with natural ways that we have ignored for so long. Today’s guest is a powerful testament to how we can be healed by connecting with the Earth.

In this episode of Alison Answers Mission Awake podcast, Alison sits down with Dean Hall, a two-time cancer survivor, and extreme endurance athlete who believes in the healing power of nature. Dean shares his inspiring story of how he overcame cancer while swimming the entire length of the Willamette River.

Dean Hall is a licensed therapist, Certified Radical Remission Health Coach, and has over 30 years and 50,000 hours of face-to-face experience in the mental health field. Dean has the life experience to stand behind his techniques and advice. Dean firmly believes that reconnecting ourselves to nature has the power to change our lives for the better. Dean’s mission in life is to lead and inspire others to discover the healing powers of nature for themselves.

Join Alison as she talks with Dean about his journey of self-discovery and finding purpose through meditation and prayer. Dean shares his inspiring decision to swim the length of Oregon’s longest river despite his leukemia diagnosis. Dean talks about the blue mind and how water can help heal trauma and the benefits of cold water immersion. Dean also shares his theory on the connection between emotional repression and physical illness and the importance of processing emotions in a healthy way.

Key highlights:

• Why Dean decided to swim the Willamette River
• Dean’s experience with grief after losing his wife to a brain tumor
• Dean’s leukemia and lymphoma diagnoses and how his health declined until he took back control
• How finding his journal from when he was 11 years old reignited Dean's fire for life 
• How cold water therapy changed Dean’s life
• What Dean would say to cancer patients
• Dean’s experience swimming the Willamette River and later learning that his leukemia was cured
• The connection between our emotional system and digestive system
• How Dean processes his emotions each day
• Why it is important to properly process emotions and not shove them down

Connect with Dean Hall:

Website: thewildcureway.com

Instagram: @deanhallofficial

Get Dean’s book: The Wild Cure: From Death to Life on Oregon’s Longest River

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