Praise for The Great Physician
Endorsements
"In The Great Physician, Stephanie Mines uses poetry to explore vast and varied landscapes of human emotion and healing. Her voice, divine and wise, scripts beauty onto every page, resonating with the deep, timeless bond of feminine ancestry. Her words are not just read; they are felt, stirring a profound awakening to the powers of feminine healing, far beyond the reach of traditional medical training.
"This book has become more than just a guide; it's a silent, steadfast companion on my ongoing journey into my divine feminine essence. It frees me from the unvoiced, unanswered questions about my destiny as a woman, encouraging me to trust in my intuition and live in alignment with my true self.
"Stephanie Mines' 'The Great Physician' has touched a sacred place within me—one of divine feminine wisdom that once lay dormant, shackled by fear and rage. It is through community with other women, through song, prayer, and somatic movement, that I’ve rediscovered my innate creativity and power. Her work connects all women across time and space, helping us to reclaim our rightful place as healers of the world and of ourselves."
- Dr. Kristy King, MD
MORE ENDORSEMENTS
“The Great Physician is good medicine for my spirit, my mental and emotional being and my physical body. The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene will remain on my desk where I can revisit the beautiful, sobering, compassionate, inspiring experiences exquisitely shaped into poetic form. As someone who is keen on the gift of forgiveness, healing, unity and being in conscious action for Mother Earth, people and the planet, Dr. Stephanie Mines gives the reader a reason to continue on this journey, when we feel defeated or tired. If you wish to be a life-giving force at this time of challenges and possibilities, then please read and experience this small book of poetry with big messages. “
– Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahua (Aztec) and Toltec, author of international award-winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern times.
“I absolutely love The Great Physician. This is a wonderful gift. I read it from beginning to end. I went right down a rabbit hole, unable to pull myself away. I am touched by your compassion. I love 'What can I offer the children of Ukraine?' I loved the essay on 'Healing'. Oh, it goes on and on. I will read it again and again.”
~ Donna Eden and David Feinstein, bestselling authors of Energy Medicine and the newly released Tapping: Self-Healing with the Transformative Power of Energy Psychology
"Entering this beautiful book pierces my heart and offers archetypal medicine. The piercing itself feels necessary, as living through a time of so much loss and pain requires armoring, and becoming who we are born to be requires letting our hearts break open, to expand into the truth of our soul's assignment in this painful yet also mythic time. It is healing in ways that feel both profoundly personal and deeply universal.
"Its poetry speaks to the loss of connection to our indigenous past, the sense of severing from both ancestral trauma and from our roots, and of the need to re-inhabit both to reclaim wholeness. Its poetry traces the pathways toward revolutionary healing, from the voices of women, of ancestors and of the Earth.
"This gifted author takes us into a multi-dimensional realm of healing, and anyone seeking to re-member and integrate all their ways of knowing will find useful, true-to-the bones and real guidance in its words and stories. She offers insights into relating to this roiling time that asks so much of each of us. This time that also offers stepping stones into remembering and celebratory integration of our human wholeness."
-Nina Simons, author and Co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist, Bioneers
"My copy of the book arrived yesterday. Last night, I slowly savored these poems that reverberate with the direct knowing of the truth of her and our circumstances. A new sense of resolve forms in me in common intention for furthering LIFE! This is a beautiful, moving collection by Dr. Stephanie Mines that will inspire with Love for our world."
~ Michele Wilcox (Louisville, Kentucky)
Discover The Great Physician
Contact Stephanie Mines, PhD, for Interviews
(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
Purchase The Great Physician, by Stephanie Mines, PhD, from the publisher for a discounted price.
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
Order The Great Physician directly from the publisher for discounted price of $17.98.
Order your copy of Stephanie Mine's first major collection of poetry, The Great Physician: Medicinal
Read The Introduction To THE GREAT PHYSICIAN
By Stephanie Mines, PhD
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.
