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What if the next step in your spiritual life is letting go of what you think you know? Dr. José Stevens shares what a ten-year apprenticeship taught him about shamanism, humility, and learning to listen. I sit down with José, co-founder of The Power Path School of Shamanism, for a conversation about the difference between looking spiritual and living a spiritual practice. His stories bring us back to patience, service, discernment, and a relationship with the living world. IN THIS CONVERSATION • What traditional shamanic practice asks of a student • The lessons that only a long apprenticeship can teach • Nature, solitude, and the discomfort of becoming quiet • How to approach a spiritual teacher with discernment • Why humility belongs beside knowledge An invitation to consider: what might you hear if you stopped filling every silence? Explore José's work: https://thepowerpath.com/shamanic-education/about-the-power-path/jose-luis-stevens-phd/ CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_rM_mjOyhQ Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

Your results are “normal.” You still don't feel like yourself. Dr. Kristi Harter joins me to explore the questions women deserve to have heard about hormones, cycles, and perimenopause. This conversation looks at women's health through a functional and naturopathic lens: the symptoms, patterns, and everyday circumstances that deserve a fuller conversation. We talk about testing in context, the relationship between stress and hormonal health, and finding language for what you are experiencing. IN THIS CONVERSATION • Feeling dismissed when your symptoms don't fit a simple answer • What your cycle can tell you about your changing body • Questions to ask about hormone testing and interpretation • Sleep, stress, nutrition, and gut health in the bigger picture • Becoming an informed participant in your own care If you have been searching for a more thoughtful conversation about perimenopause and women's health, begin here. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyiDT2oGjLshttps://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

Everyone prepares for the baby's arrival. Who prepares you for the woman you are becoming? Birth doula and intuitive healer Lauren Mahana explores pregnancy as an emotional and spiritual passage. Lauren and I move through the seven gates of transformation, inspired by the story of Inanna, and the changes that accompany the journey from maiden to mother. We make room for identity, intuition, sacred space, and the very practical need to be supported. IN THIS CONVERSATION • The seven gates of pregnancy, birth, and becoming • How mythology can offer language for personal change • Creating a meaningful, supportive birthing environment • The family stories and expectations we bring into motherhood • Community, care, and the importance of being held, too For mothers, mothers-to-be, doulas, and anyone curious about the inner life of a major transition. There is more than one birth happening here. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI4G0RfSjyo Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

What changes when you stop approaching yourself as something broken? Hawaiian cultural practitioner Ramsay Taum shares a different starting point: relationship, responsibility, and the practice of making things right. Ramsay joins me to explore Ho'oponopono, mana, and the wisdom passed down through elders. This conversation reaches beyond a familiar four-phrase formula into a living cultural tradition, with attention to language, community, and the way we meet one another. IN THIS CONVERSATION • Ho'oponopono as a practice of restoring relationship • Why Ramsay speaks about people as whole, rather than broken • Mana, intention, and responsibility in Hawaiian tradition • What elders teach through the way they live • Bringing presence and reciprocity into ordinary moments Listen for the shift from asking “What is wrong with me?” to considering what needs attention in your relationships with yourself, others, and the world. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoxwRIHOs9w Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

Some stories stay unspoken for years. What happens when we finally give them our attention? Sarah Jane Smith joins me to explore hypnosis, forgiveness, and her understanding of the higher self. Working in the tradition of Dolores Cannon's Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT), Sarah describes the experiences that drew her to this practice and the meaning her clients find in it. We consider the stories we carry, the language of inner experience, and the questions that emerge when everyday noise becomes quiet. IN THIS CONVERSATION • Sarah's path to QHHT and the influence of Dolores Cannon • How she describes the subconscious and higher self • Forgiveness and the experiences we find difficult to voice • Spiritual interpretations of imagery arising during hypnosis • Approaching your inner life with curiosity and discernment This is a conversation about Sarah's practice and perspective. Experiences described during hypnosis are not verification of past lives or evidence of a medical cure. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8H2fy68yg Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

Your emotional life belongs in the conversation about your body. Dr. Catherine Clinton joins me to explore the connections among emotions, immunity, and the rhythms of the natural world. Catherine shares the experience of illness that changed the questions she asked as a naturopathic doctor. We discuss psychoneuroimmunology, her interest in quantum biology, and why she returns to simple practices such as noticing morning light and cultivating gratitude. IN THIS CONVERSATION • The relationship between psychological experience, the nervous system, and immunity • The personal story behind Catherine's approach • Quantum biology and the broader questions it inspires for her • Morning light, evening darkness, and daily rhythms • Gratitude and connection as practices in ordinary life An expansive conversation for anyone interested in the mind-body relationship. We explore both research and Catherine's interpretations, leaving room for questions that remain open. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSNJ3AyGjfA Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

A promise in the forests of Belize became a life's work. Dr. Rosita Arvigo shares the story of thirteen years learning from Maya healer Don Eligio Panti—and the responsibility that came with that knowledge. I speak with Rosita about plants, prayer, spiritual bathing, and the relationship between a healer and a community. Her account is rich with the details that rarely fit into a wellness trend: years of observation, daily work, gratitude, and a commitment to care for the people around her. IN THIS CONVERSATION • The promise at the heart of Rosita's apprenticeship • Thirteen years of learning alongside Don Eligio Panti • Medicinal plants and the knowledge carried through living traditions • Prayer and spiritual bathing in her work • Preserving knowledge through service and relationship For the plant lover, the curious listener, and anyone who has wondered what it means to learn from a place over a lifetime. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX67ogteuDQhttps://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

We learn that water is solid, liquid, or gas. Gerald Pollack asks us to look again. In this conversation, he explains the observations behind his fourth-phase model and the questions that keep him investigating. I sit down with Pollack to explore exclusion-zone (EZ) water, charge separation, and experiments involving light. We follow the path from a surprising laboratory observation to a much larger idea about water and living systems. IN THIS CONVERSATION • What Pollack means by exclusion-zone water • How his team studied water near certain surfaces • Why he compares separated electrical charges to a battery • The role of infrared light in his experiments • Scientific disagreement and the value of revisiting familiar assumptions Bring your curiosity. This episode presents Pollack's research and proposed model; its wider implications for human health remain questions, rather than a demonstrated treatment or a reason to buy a water product. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w_ZUwj9zUshttps://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

What if trying to meditate perfectly is the very thing getting in your way? Dr. Alex Feng offers a Taoist perspective on stillness, presence, and the relief of no longer turning inner life into another achievement. I join Alex for a conversation about Taoism and traditional Chinese medicine, shaped by his upbringing, teachers, and everyday encounters. His stories invite us to experience a philosophy through the way we sit, listen, and respond to another person. IN THIS CONVERSATION • Meditation as a state of being, rather than a performance • Quiet sitting without forcing the mind into silence • The relationship between Taoist philosophy and Chinese medicine • Why spiritual practice need not become a search for status • A simple act of kindness that reveals a larger teaching If your mind feels busy and your practice has become one more thing to get right, spend some time with this conversation. There is room here to soften. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r45bQ7NLB5g Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

What belongs in the story of an illness? Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt joins me to discuss his Five Levels of Healing—a framework that makes room for physical symptoms, emotional life, family experience, and spirituality. We explore how he arrived at this approach and the questions that have shaped his work with complex, persistent symptoms. The conversation asks what a practitioner might hear when there is time to listen to more of a person's life. IN THIS CONVERSATION • The physical, energetic, mental, transpersonal, and spiritual levels in his framework • Family history as a conversation about relationships and experience • His explanation of Autonomic Response Testing • The place of environmental questions in his approach • Respecting an individual's own spiritual life This episode presents Klinghardt's clinical philosophy. His frameworks and testing methods should not be taken as established explanations for the cause of an illness or substitutes for appropriate assessment. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9blsjy7Dzghttps://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

There are experiences we remember in words—and experiences we struggle to speak about. Dr. Katherine Willow joins me for a conversation about emotional history, feeling safe, and bringing compassion into discussions of illness. Katherine describes the personal events that shaped her work and her interest in German New Medicine. I ask about the stories people bring to care, the importance of support, and how we can remain curious without making someone responsible for being unwell. IN THIS CONVERSATION • The personal history behind Katherine's perspective • Why safety and trust matter when discussing difficult experiences • Her interpretation of German New Medicine • Emotional support and knowing when specialist help is needed • Meeting illness with compassion, rather than blame For reflection: what would it feel like to have your whole story heard? German New Medicine's claims about emotional conflicts causing diseases are not established medical explanations. This interview is an exploration of a guest's perspective, not a basis for diagnosing or treating illness. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiBH4pg9UO4https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

What changes when we look at the body as an ecosystem? Dr. Nasha Winters shares how her own experience of cancer shaped her questions about metabolism, daily life, and the person behind a diagnosis. I speak with Nasha about her terrain-based perspective and the interconnected influences she considers in her work. We explore her “Terrain Ten” framework and the personal story behind her interest in a broader conversation about health. IN THIS CONVERSATION • Nasha's account of her own cancer experience • What she means by the body's terrain • Metabolism and her view of the body as an ecosystem • The ten areas in her personal framework for considering health • The questions a diagnosis can bring into focus For anyone interested in integrative perspectives and the human experience of cancer. This is a discussion of Nasha's story and approach, not evidence that a particular intervention caused recovery. For cancer-related decisions, seek additional care from an appropriate cancer specialist. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8OzH6TuBa8 Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

A diagnosis can change your life in a moment. How do you find your voice inside the uncertainty? Justine Laidlaw shares her personal experience of colon cancer, the support she sought, and the questions that changed her priorities. In this conversation, I meet Justine through her own account of a deeply challenging chapter. We talk about fear, self-trust, emotional and spiritual life, and the experience of making decisions when the future feels unknown. IN THIS CONVERSATION • The diagnosis and decisions Justine remembers • Finding a sense of agency during uncertainty • Relationships, emotional support, and changing priorities • Her personal interest in holistic and integrative approaches • Finding meaning and a new direction There is a person behind every diagnosis. This episode makes space for one woman's story, and for the questions it may open in your own life. A personal recovery account cannot show which intervention caused an outcome or predict anyone else's. Cancer is not a failure of attitude or intuition. Seek additional care from an appropriate cancer specialist for your own decisions. CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx7R0osNzG0 Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.

You have a name, a history, and a mind that rarely stops talking. Who are you beneath all of that? Stephen Knapp joins me to explore Vedic teachings on the soul, purpose, and the deeper meaning of yoga. After decades studying India's spiritual texts, Stephen brings a philosophical perspective to questions that become personal in difficult seasons: why are we here, how do we understand suffering, and where do we look for a more lasting sense of happiness? IN THIS CONVERSATION • Identity beyond the body and the changing mind • Dharma and the question of purpose • Yoga as a spiritual path beyond physical postures • Mantra, chanting, and contemplative practice • Vedic perspectives on suffering and inner happiness You don't need a background in Vedic philosophy to listen. Bring the questions you have been carrying, and allow this conversation to offer another way of considering them. Explore Stephen's work: https://www.stephen-knapp.com/ CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY Start with Foundations, my free physician-guided audio course on the essentials of health: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/the-foundations/ Explore my clinic, private-care information, and gatherings at Medicine From the Earth: https://medicinefromtheearth.com/ Read Medicine Wild—botanicals, science, ancient knowledge, and a life closer to nature: https://www.medicinewild.com/ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/untold-medicine/id1728368857 Subscribe to Untold Medicine with Dr. Michele Burklund for thoughtful conversations with physicians, researchers, traditional practitioners, and spiritual teachers. If this conversation stays with you, share it with someone who might appreciate it. For education and reflection. For personal symptoms or health decisions, seek additional care and appropriate specialists. Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PHWaClECFs Want to watch the video version of the interview? Click here.