The Origins of the Mother of Medicine Movement
An Interview with Julie Gerland and Stephanie Mines
Editor’s Note: This post is a part of the forthcoming Special Issue of Kindred Magazine celebrating the Mother of Medicine for Mother’s Day 2025. Kindred welcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue.
Join the LIVE week-long events for the Mother of Medicine, May 12-16, 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time, by registering here.
Subscribe now to receive this issue, and receive invitations to forthcoming related events here.
The origins of The Mother of Medicine Movement are deeply personal. In this interview, Dr. Stephanie Mines, speaking to the founder of Birthing the New Humanity Julie Gerland, explains how her life led her to this vision.
True awakening is always through self-realization. As Stephanie charts her pathway from a violent up-bringing to the science and wisdom of the prenatal origins of health, she delivers a message for everywoman.
The way that we change the world is through identifying how our own personal stories, including our birth stories, are self-guided instructions for alchemy. Wounded healers are the leaders of true civilization which must be fundamentally compassionate. Mothers and parents are the foremost amongst these wounded healer leaders. In order to truly parent, we must trace our own origins. This is how we steward the future.
About Julie Gerland
Dr. Julie Gerland (Hon. Holistic Medicines) is a life-long pioneer, advocate and professional in the field of Holistic Parenting: Preconception to Birth & Beyond teaching both couples and professionals. During the ten years she represented a non-governmental organisation on prenatal education at the United Nations she launched the Global Prenatal Initiative (GPI) and GPI Youth. Julie works tirelessly to raise awareness and empower mothers and fathers, as well as advocating for their support, to give their very best to their child even before he/she is born. A global citizen, she knows it is possible to birth the new humanity one baby at a time and to create a thriving global family.
About Stephanie Mines
Dr. Stephanie Mines is a psychologist whose unique understanding comes from her academic research as well as her extensive work in the field. Her stories of personal transformation have led many listeners to become deeply committed to the healing journey. Dr. Mines understands shock from every conceivable perspective. She has investigated it as a survivor, a professional, a healthcare provider, and as a trainer of staffs of institutions and agencies. Her blend of Western and Eastern modalities offers the best of both paradigms. She is devoted to ending the lineage of shock and trauma for individuals and the world.
Dr. Mines directs the TARA Approach for the Resolution of Shock and Trauma (www.Tara-Approach.org) and Climate Change & Consciousness (www.cccearth.org). These nonprofit organizations meet the consequences of climate disruption with grassroots empowerment, regenerative healthcare protocols, programs that foster innovative, viable solutions and a groundswell of voices for our living earth.
Dr. Mines also developed Climate Change & Consciousness to facilitate inner transformation for grounded climate action. Climate Change & Consciousness serves an international and intergenerational community of visionary activists.
In addition, Dr. Mines is an award-winning poet. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and in chapbooks. Dr. Mines’ first major collection of poetry in three decades has just been released from Kindred World Media. You can order the book at www.stephaniemines.com.
Dr. Mines’ latest book, The Secret of Resilience: Healing Personal and Planetary Trauma Through Morphogenesis, will be released in 2023 from Inner Traditions/Sacred Planet Books.
“Stephanie Mines, moves through the complex territory of healing with refreshing grace, candor and immense wisdom.”
~ Pat Ogden, Ph.D., Founder of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Author of Trauma and the Body
“The TARA Approach is a masterful design for regeneration and profound healing. In a world of constant debilitating shock, Stephanie Mines offers skillful means to resolve personal and collective wounding in ways that illuminate as well as heal.”
~ Jean Houston, Ph.D.