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Hosted by Joe Summerfield · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 27 episodes
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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, and practical integration exercises to help you embody the medicine. Use it your way: Let these stories accompany your morning coffee, evening wind-down, or household pottering. These tales make perfect companions for quiet moments. Or engage more deeply: the weekly integration practices form a structured personal development course. Over time, this consistent work can significantly shift your experien
Joe Summerfield hosts Story Medicine, a education show with 27 episodes published.
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore Princess Bari, a narrative shaman song from Korean tradition that is still sung over the dead in Korea today. A king throws away his seventh daughter because she is not the s
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore The Four Dragons from Chinese folk tradition: a story rooted in a relationship between dragons and the rivers of China stretching back at least three thousand years, and carr
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore the story of Chiron from ancient Greek mythology. This is a story about what can be made from the most difficult of beginnings, and what it means to be carried through life b
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore the Hawaiian epic of Pele and Hi'iaka. This is a story about two sisters who embody two of the most powerful forces in human experience: fire and devotion. Pele, the volcano
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is one of the oldest stories ever written, pressed into clay tablets over four thousand years ago, and it still carries medicine that feels just a
Today's episode is released on Nowruz, the Persian New Year. This is an ancient celebration that has marked the arrival of spring across the Persian world for thousands of years. The Shahnameh, from which today's story i
This is a short introduction to Season Two of Story Medicine: a moment to mark the beginning of a new season. It includes reflections on the experience of launching Story Medicine and making Season One; as well as the sh
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore Mwindo from the oral tradition of the Nyanga people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a living epic about the son a father tried to destroy, and what that son beca
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore the myth of Ra and Apep from ancient Egyptian mythology. This is one of the oldest recorded stories in the world, preserved in the Pyramid Texts, the Amduat, and the Book of
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore The Monkey King's Journey from Wu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel Journey to the West, itself drawing on centuries of oral tradition. This is a story about what happens when ex
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore Samudra Manthana, or "The Churning of the Ocean", from Hindu mythology... one of the great cosmological tales found in the ancient Puranas. When the gods lose their power thr
In this episode of Story Medicine we explore "Baba Yaga and the Kind-Hearted Girl," from Russian oral tradition. This is a story about a young girl sent by her stepmother to face certain death in the forest, where Baba Y
In this episode of Story Medicine we explore Sedna, from Inuit tradition. This is a story about a young woman whose comfortable aloofness blocks her own evolution, leading to a devastating descent that forces her to rele
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "Prometheus" from Hesiod's ancient Greek texts: a tale nearly 3000 years old about a Titan who foresaw every consequence of his defiance of the Gods and chose to pay the pric
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "The Morrígan and Cú Chulainn" from Irish mythology's Ulster Cycle. The story is from oral tradition but was first written down as early as the 8th century. It's a tale about
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "Baldur and the Mistletoe" from Norse mythology - a tragedy about how our attempts to control fate often create the very conditions we fear, and what happens when the Warrior
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "Psyche and Eros" from Greco-Roman mythology. This story offers a map of the soul's journey from unconscious to conscious, from mortal to divine. It explores the themes of di
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "The Crane Wife" (Tsuru Nyōbō) from Japanese folklore. This is a tale about the cost of hiding who we really are, and the courage it takes to face truth even when it threaten
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen - a beloved tale about a boy whose heart freezes when splinters from an evil mirror lodge in his eye and heart, and the girl who j
In this episode of Story Medicine, we explore the Haudenosaunee creation story of Sky Woman - a profound teaching about how life emerges not through force or individual power, but through receptivity, community, cooperat
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