Celebrate National Poetry Month With Medicinal Poetry
Enjoy The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene by Stephanie Mines during National Poetry Month
ENDORSEMENTS
“The Great Physician is good medicine for my spirit, my mental and emotional being and my physical body. The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene will remain on my desk where I can revisit the beautiful, sobering, compassionate, inspiring experiences exquisitely shaped into poetic form. As someone who is keen on the gift of forgiveness, healing, unity and being in conscious action for Mother Earth, people and the planet, Dr. Stephanie Mines gives the reader a reason to continue on this journey, when we feel defeated or tired. If you wish to be a life-giving force at this time of challenges and possibilities, then please read and experience this small book of poetry with big messages. “
– Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahua (Aztec) and Toltec, author of international award-winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern times.
“I absolutely love The Great Physician. This is a wonderful gift. I read it from beginning to end. I went right down a rabbit hole, unable to pull myself away. I am touched by your compassion. I love ‘What can I offer the children of Ukraine?’ I loved the essay on ‘Healing’. Oh, it goes on and on. I will read it again and again.”
~ Donna Eden and David Feinstein, bestselling authors of Energy Medicine and the newly released Tapping: Self-Healing with the Transformative Power of Energy Psychology
“Entering this beautiful book pierces my heart and offers archetypal medicine. The piercing itself feels necessary, as living through a time of so much loss and pain requires armoring, and becoming who we are born to be requires letting our hearts break open, to expand into the truth of our soul’s assignment in this painful yet also mythic time. It is healing in ways that feel both profoundly personal and deeply universal.
“Its poetry speaks to the loss of connection to our indigenous past, the sense of severing from both ancestral trauma and from our roots, and of the need to re-inhabit both to reclaim wholeness. Its poetry traces the pathways toward revolutionary healing, from the voices of women, of ancestors and of the Earth.
“This gifted author takes us into a multi-dimensional realm of healing, and anyone seeking to re-member and integrate all their ways of knowing will find useful, true-to-the bones and real guidance in its words and stories. She offers insights into relating to this roiling time that asks so much of each of us. This time that also offers stepping stones into remembering and celebratory integration of our human wholeness.”
-Nina Simons, author and Co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist, Bioneers
ABOUT THE POETRY COLLECTION
In The Great Physician’s autobiographical poetry and prose, Dr. Mines shares how her personal and professional background shaped her insights into a fusion of trauma recovery and climate activism. In her global activism through her Climate Change & Consciousness nonprofit, Dr. Mines focuses on humanity’s forward moving direction where inner and outer climates meet. In that place of mystery is our connection with the natural world and the living systems waiting to communicate with us, to give us what data cannot record.
Poetry, Dr. Mines says, helps make possible “the spaciousness needed to match our inner experience to the outer catastrophe that is accelerating before our eyes. It helps us to understand.” These poems are inner experiences through which she, and indirectly the reader, find a way to understand planetary experience, personal and generational cause and effect, and hopefully, the courage and energy to change organically—from war, intolerance, fear, ennui.
“The invitation I received from Lisa Reagan of Kindred World to assemble a collection of my poems as a chronicle of these times stopped me in my tracks. It led me to an internal retrospective of my life in which I saw that I was born to be a poet as well as a healing artist” writes Dr. Mines in the introduction to The Great Physician. “My life has been marked by irrevocable losses. This is underscored by the crushing impact of the Anthropocene. The loss that is the most brutal, the most devastating, is the loss of our children’s future. I am speaking of the children of the world, born and unborn, as well as my own children and grandchildren.”
In more than a dozen books that reflect her three decades of research as a neuroscientist and embryologist, Mines has investigated shock and trauma as a survivor, a professional, a clinical researcher, and a healthcare provider. Her work has resulted in her nonprofit, The TARA Approach, which provides practical means for the systemic change she promotes as a Regenerative Health paradigm. Her training and healing modality is used by individuals internationally and by professional counselors and organizations such as addiction clinics, abuse centers, and refugee charities.
As an acclaimed poet, Dr. Mines is the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award for Poetry for her series The Nocturnes. She also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for developing poetry workshops in communities that resulted in several chapbooks of community poetry. She was also a founding member of the Poetry in the Schools Program and taught within it for almost a decade in California and Colorado.
In addition to The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene, Dr. Mines’ books include the acclaimed works—The Secret of Resilience: Healing Personal and Planetary Trauma Through Morphogenesis, (2023) and We Are All in Shock: Energy Healing for Traumatic Times, (2020).
Listen to Stephanie’s Poetry Reading
Stephanie Mines talks with Lisa Reagan of Kindred about the healing experience offered by The Great Physician’s arc from trauma and oppression toward our Original Brilliance.
