Story Medicine: Ancient Tales and Their Medicine for Modern Life Ancient fairy tales, myths, and legends contain profound wisdom for modern life. Psychotherapist Joe Summerfield explores traditional stories from cultures worldwide: Greek myths, Grimm's fairy tales, Norse legends, Indigenous tales, African folklore, and more, revealing the medicine encoded within them. Each episode offers three parts: a story told in full, an analysis uncovering symbolic meaning and contemporary relevance, an ...
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S1E2 - The Handless Maiden: Medicine for Transformation Through Loss
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In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "The Handless Maiden" from the Grimm Brothers' collection - a profound tale about loss, agency, and what can grow back through grief. A young woman loses her hands because of her father's bargain with the devil. She walks away from everything familiar, receives silver hands from a king who loves her, bu…
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S1E3 - Anansi and the Box of Stories: Medicine for Trickster Wisdom
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In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "Anansi and the Box of Stories" from the living oral tradition of the Ashanti and Akan peoples of West Africa - a tale about how cleverness and wisdom can achieve what strength and power cannot. Anansi the Spider wants to bring stories to the people of earth, but they belong to Nyame, the Sky God. To ea…
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Welcome to Story Medicine In this introduction, Joe Summerfield shares what Story Medicine is all about: why stories have been such a constant companion throughout human history - and why we're instinctively drawn to them across all cultures and times. Stories are more than entertainment. They're encoded with the cumulative wisdom of all who have c…
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