Learning To Heal with Author Ed Cohen

After an emergency surgery that saved his life, Ed Cohen had a spontaneous healing experience that prompted him to ask the question: Why doesn’t medicine know about healing? In this episode Ed explores how Western medicine turned from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” and how this shift has affected both medical practitioners and their patients.Ed Cohen has a Ph.D. in Modern Thought from Stanford, and for the last three decades, has been an award-winning professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Learning To Heal, or What Medicine Doesn’t Know and A Body Worth Defending. In this episode, Ed discusses:His diagnosis with acute Crohn’s disease at the age of 13The surprising origin of the concept of immunityHow having a chronic illness inspired him to understand healingHis spontaneous post-surgery healing experience His desire to understand why medicine doesn’t know about healingThe difference between healing and curingThe concept of diseaseThe history and evolution of medicine How his healing journey changed himThe relationship between desiring to heal and being willing to learnHow we are more than we imagineHow he helps those struggling with chronic illness reframe their difficult circumstancesEd’s website: https://healingcounsel.com/Ed’s books: https://healingcounsel.com/publications/Wendy’s article: The Ultimate BFF: Your Body The Magical Path Shamanic Workbook:Wendy’s website Amazon Find cool totem animal, cosmic, psychedelic t-shirts and wall art, blank notebooks and journals at the Lucid Path Etsy Shop! https://www.etsy.com/shop/LucidPathLucid Cafe episodes by topic: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/lucid-cafe-podcastListen to Lucid Cafe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSseC4eLwkov3lFSZVkYDYATo contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/ ★ Support this podcast ★