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Healing Depression Via Plant Medicines: The Holistic Approach To Wellness

Daniel Hannah
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13 min readApr 30, 2024

Western medicine tends to fall short when dealing with depression, but what if a solution is through traditional medicines that have been demonized within our culture?

After working closely with hundreds of guests at a shamanic healing center, I learned a thing or two about the healing power of plant medicines in the context of tradition and ceremony.

The individuals who sought out ancestral medicines came for different reasons, however, I found there were three main camps:

  1. Curiosity: After reading the many stories tucked away in the deep corners of the web, many individuals simply wanted to see what all the commotion was about.
  2. Spiritual growth: Many individuals on a spiritual path wanted to further explore their consciousness, address certain roadblocks, and attain guidance or wisdom.
  3. Deep healing: The most common reason people sought out these medicines was to heal the emotional issues that they were facing.

The emotional issues people had were a mixed bag, and often they were quite severe.

Some of the people I supported throughout their medicine journeys involved:

  • Substance abuse and addiction
  • Lack of self-love, core shame, etc.
  • Mourning and loss of loved ones
  • PTSD (mostly in veterans)
  • Emotional…

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