Medicine Woman

Reclaiming the Soul of Healing

De: Lucy H. Pearce

Narrado por: Lucy H. Pearce

Recipient of a Nautilus Silver Award 2018 and sister book to Burning Woman (Nautilus Silver 2017) and Creatrix (Nautilus Silver 2019).

This audacious questioning of the current medical system’s ability to deal with the modern epidemic of chronic illness, combines a raw personal memoir of sickness and healing, woven through with voices of dozens of other long-term sick women of the world and a feminine cultural critique that digs deep into the roots of patriarchal medicine. Pearce takes us from its ancient Greek roots, through the influences of the Enlightenment and Christianity, the wholesale destruction of the wise woman tradition and Western colonial destruction of native medicines to the current technocratic, capitalist model of medicine.

Medicine Woman asks the uncomfortable questions that our culture refuses to face:

• Why chronic illness, mental health issues, medical prescriptions and costs are rising exponentially.
• Why women are the major sufferers of the modern epidemic of auto-immune conditions.
• Why women are twice as likely to be medicated for depression.
• Why women tend to be taken less seriously by medical professionals.

Voicing a deep yearning for a broader vision of what it means to be human than our current paradigm allows for, calling on an ancient archetype of healing, Medicine Woman, to re-vision how we can navigate sickness and harness its transformational powers in order to heal. Packed with dozens of healing arts exercises and medicine questions to help integrate body and mind in the healing process. Like Burning Woman, this book promises initiation by transmission, reconnecting us directly with the soul of healing.

With a special introduction exclusive to the audiobook placing Medicine Woman in the context of a global pandemic. Please note that a small number of short passages in the original text do not feature in the recording.

©2018 Lucy H. Pearce (P)2021 Lucy H. Pearce

Narration is beautiful!

The actual Material as well as the unfolding of it is perfect! Well sited statistics and compassionate stories to explain the purpose of this book! I’m so thankful to have found I’m not alone! Wonderful! Read it please!!

More please!

Listened to this book after listening to Burning Woman (which I absolutely love) and I cant get enough of Lucy H Pearce.
Very strong, smart, articulate woman with a beautiful narration voice that complements the text.
I wish she would make more audio books out of her library.

Her Passion and Insight

I am grateful to have found a book that speaks to my existence as a woman who has not only been diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, but has also experienced the lack of receptiveness by the medical community into the connection of my cycle, my environment, and my psyche to its ebb and flow of flares and remission.
Thank you, Lucy Pearce, for acknowledging and giving credence to all that you have.

Disappointed

A personal story with many high points giving you hope, to dive back down to a disappointing end.