My Work And Vision
Dr. Stephanie Mines is the author of more than a dozen books that reflect her three decades of research as a neuroscientist and embryologist. She 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.
In her 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.
In 2019, Dr. Mines convened a global conference in Scotland with 400 in-person attendees and an equal number attending via media. In 2023, she opened the first Regenerative Health graduate school program through Ubiquity University. The graduate program integrates Dr. Mines’ trauma recovery and climate activism strategies for individual and planetary healing.
The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene is Dr. Mines’ first major collection of poems. Poetry, she 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.
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).
You can follow Stephanie’s work on her website at www.StephanieMines.com. You can also read her ongoing Crone Speak blog series on her website and on her Substack account at https://substack.com/@stephaniemines.
ENDORSEMENTS
“The generosity of spirit and commitment to healing that Dr. Mines demonstrates in her work is truly inspirational. She has gained our respect and admiration. She has helped us to effectively support the healing process of the thousands of women and children who seek help from us each year.”
– Anne Tapp, Executive Director, Boulder County Safehouse
“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.
“The ideas of the TARA Approach are accessible. The biochemistry is relevant, authoritative, up-to-date, and presented as a fascinating account of nature’s handiwork. The techniques are easily applied and are effective.”
– Donna Eden, Author of Energy Medicine
“I have seen the TARA Approach naturally direct mothers and babies to their inner strength and health. I also use the system myself to sustain enduring the long hours and relentless demands of being a caring obstetrician.”
– Jade McGaff, MD
“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
“Stephanie Mines focuses on giving people simple and effective tools that they can use preventatively in a multitude of potentially traumatic situations.”
– Peter Levine, Ph.D., Founder of Somatic Experiencing, Author of Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma and Trauma Proofing Your Kids
“Dr. Stephanie Mines has dedicated her life to a brilliant exploration of embryology. In that exploration she has found the secret to resilience that is the key to meeting these chaotic and heartbreaking times.” ~ Dr. Clare Willocks, MD, OBGYN, Founder of Bridging the Healthcare Gap
“Stephanie Mines is a unique resource in the healing world and her work is of inestimable value to the planet.”
– Julie Motz, MPH, Author, Hands of Life
“Stephanie powerfully embodies the teachings she is offering. As a healed healer she is a catalyst and nurturing guide. Her work navigating the delicate terrain caused by shock and trauma is grounded in the body, sophisticated in its thinking and delivered in love. My development as a creative woman has been inspired by Stephanie’s caring presence in my life for the past ten years.”
– Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., Author of Youth on Fire
