Kindred World Launches The Great Physician on Earth Day 2024
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(Kindred World Publishing House is proud to announce the release of The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene, the first major collection of poetry by the renowned neuroscientist, healer, and climate activist, Stephanie Mines, PhD. In The Great Physician, Dr. Mines unflinchingly and soulfully moves us beyond transgenerational trauma, war, oppression, and planetary collapse, toward the truth of our birthright: our “Original Brilliance.”
On Earth Day 2024, The Great Physician was launched with a celebratory poetry reading and discussion with the author, Stephanie Mines, PhD. In the recording of the Earth Day Poetry Reading below, you will find the timemarks here.
Beyond Traumatic Repetition: 5:25
The Black Madonna: 11:13
The Texture of Oppression: 17:38
1933: 34:54
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About the Book
The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene
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 tomatch 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, andindirectly the reader, find a way to understand planetary experience, personal and generational cause and effect, and hopefully, the courage and energy to changeorganically-from war, intolerance, fear, ennui.
In her autobiographical poetry and prose, Dr. Mines shares how her personal andprofessional background shaped her insights into a fusion of trauma recovery andclimate activism. In her global activism through her Climate Change & Consciousnessnonprofit, Dr. Mines focuses on humanity's forward moving direction where inner andouter 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 more than a dozen books that reflect her three decades of research as aneuroscientist and embryologist. She has investigated shock and trauma as a survivor, aprofessional, a clinical researcher, and a healthcare provider. Her work has resulted in her nonprofit, The TARA Approach, which provides practical means for the systemicchange she promotes as a Regenerative Health paradigm. Her training and healing modality is used by individuals internationally and by professional counselors andorganizations such as addiction clinics, abuse centers, and refugee charities.
Product Details:
Paperback
7.5 x 9.25 inches
114 pages
ISBN: 978-1-7366517-1-1
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Meet the Author
About Stephanie Mines, PhD
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.
Praise for Stephanie's Work
Endorsements
“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
“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., Author of A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story
“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. Mines evolves the pioneering work of one of her early mentors, Dr. Peter Levine, and provides a needed component in the treatment of trauma.” William Emerson, Ph.D., Author of Shock, A Universal Malady
“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
“This work you are offering is validating the human experience in a way that all of my schooling and all of therapy did not touch.” — Sheila Norquay
“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
“Dr. Stephanie Mines reveals that it is possible for every one of us to heal, and that we can be trauma-preventative moving forward, Her Regenerative Health paradigm demonstrates that we can heal the children of our time, contribute to the healing of our planet, and in the process, ensure the health and well-being of each other and our collective future.” ~ Mary Spalding, MFA, Waldorf Educator
THE GREAT PHYSICIAN
Read the Introduction
The invitation I received from Lisa Reagan of Kindred Media 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. Though I had inhabited the world of the writer fully, whole-heartedly, and with great passion when I lived in San Francisco during the 1970’s and 1980’s, I nevertheless was drawn out of it. Forces I would never have predicted magnetized me into the realms of healing and healthcare and then to climate activism. These pulls seemed to be products of the times that I surely chose to inhabit. Or did they choose me? It is difficult to discern.
Making art is liberating and in the liberation, there is always joy. Yet my poems are drenched with grief. There is no escaping it. It is everywhere, and increasingly so as we seem bent on self-destruction, annihilating species, and violence against children.
I should be accustomed to it. 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.
I speak as a woman who lost her childhood to abuse and violence. I am someone who experiences every day the absence of an anchoring, stable adult to mitigate the horror around her. Aside from the occasional presence of my grandfather who died before I reached adolescence, I was abandoned by the adults in my world. My father returned from war forever broken and my mother could not withstand nor offset his attacks. I cannot separate the abuse of the earth from the abuse and violence inflicted on me and that we increasingly inflict on children and youth. My own formative experiences of not being accompanied, not being honored and respected, not being seen or heard, feels like it bonds me to our living earth.
By failing to protect, regenerate, treasure and honor the natural world as our most precious gift and sanctuary, we have abandoned our children.
What is a poet to do in the face of this aberration? In the aching of my grief, I offer these articulations as a form of action from my heart. As someone who trained to be a therapist, I know that healing often happens through mirroring. If these poems are mirrors for your felt experience and are therefore healing, I will have fulfilled one aspect of my destiny.
