Hailed by Dr. Andrew Weil as a book "that must be brought to all who seek true health," Coyote Medicine is an engaging and essential testament to the power of alternative healing and recovery methods that lie beyond the confines of Western medicine.

Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine isn't about eschewing Western medicine when it's effective, but about finding other answers when medicine fails: for chronic sufferers, patients not responding to...

Distills the basic principles used by Native American healers to create miracles.

- Explores the power of miracles in both traditional Native American healing and modern scientific medicine.

- Cites numerous cases in which people whose conditions were deemed hopeless were miraculously healed.

- Enables readers to start their own healing journey through the exploration of purpose, meaning, and acceptance.

- By the author of Coyote Medicine.

Native American healers expect miracles and prepare in all possible ways for them to occur. In modern medicine, miraculous...

An in-depth look at the therapeutic and transformative powers of storytelling in Native American and other cultures

- Explores how to create a healing state of mind using stories

- Includes healing stories from Native American traditions and other cultures from around the world

- By the author of the bestselling Coyote Medicine

Stories are powerful sources of meaning that shape and transform our lives. We tell stories to track our process of personal and spiritual growth and to honor and respect the journeys we have made. Through stories we are provided with experiences...

Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient's own story in the healing process

- Shows how conventional medicine tends to ignore the account of the patient

- Presents case histories where disease is addressed and healed through the narrative process

- Proposes a reinvention of medicine to include the indigenous healing methods that for thousands of years have drawn their effectiveness from telling and listening

Modern medicine, with its high-tech and managed-care approach, has eliminated much of what constitutes the art of healing: those elements of doctoring that go...

Psychiatry that recognizes the essential role of community in creating a new story of mental health

- Provides a critique of conventional psychiatry and a look at what mental health care could be

- Includes stories used in the author's healing practice that draw from traditional cultures around the world

Conventional psychiatry is not working. The pharmaceutical industry promises it has cures for everything that ails us, yet a recent study on antidepressants showed there is no difference of success in prescribed pharmaceuticals from placebos when all FDA-reported trials are...

Consulting plant spirits for spiritual and psychological guidance and healing

- Reveals how, by communing with the deva or spirit of a plant, we can call forth its medicine without even needing to ingest it

- Includes wisdom from the devas of 13 herbs, such as rosemary, datura, and uva ursi

- Empowers readers with the tools to develop their own inner resources for healing in relationship with the plant devas around them

Each plant has a story to share with us, a healing story to guide us in trying times, a spirit medicine for the New Earth that is presently unfolding. Herbs...

A guide to retelling your personal, family, and cultural stories to transform your life, your relationships, and the world

- Applies the latest neuroscience research on memory, brain mapping, and brain plasticity to the field of narrative therapy

- Details mind-mapping and narrative therapy techniques that use story to change behavior patterns in ourselves, our relationships, and our communities

- Explores how narrative therapy can help replace dysfunctional cultural stories with ones that build healthier relationships with each other and the planet

We are born into a world of...