This is Anneke, and welcome to The Original Medicines Podcast — where healing professionals and wisdom keepers share the medicines that aren't found in any textbook. For thousands of years, healing wisdom was passed down through stories, through touch, through presence — mouth to ear, heart to heart.
In these times of collective transformation, we're returning to that ancient way of sharing knowledge that can't always be spoken in professional settings.
Today's conversation is in Dutch, and it's one of the most powerful medicine stories I've ever witnessed. I'm joined by Charlotte Apeldoorn, who shares her extraordinary journey from surviving a satanic cult in her youth to navigating multiple traumas within the mental health system itself.
After countless diagnoses, medications, and ECT treatments, Charlotte found her way to freedom — not through the system, but by breaking free from it entirely.
This is a story of resilience, sensitivity, and the original medicine of radical self-liberation.
Charlotte's journey touches the deepest questions of how we heal trauma when the very systems meant to help us become sources of additional harm. Her story is both heartbreaking and deeply inspiring — a testament to the medicine that lives within us when everything else falls away.
This conversation explores radical self-liberation as medicine — how breaking free from systems that harm us becomes its own healing practice, and what it means to trust our own inner knowing when everything else fails us.
This episode is in Dutch.
A quick note about the audio quality: we experienced some technical difficulties with the microphone during recording, which our sound engineer has corrected using AI technology. You may hear small audio inconsistencies, but the connection and intention of this conversation was too profound not to share. Sometimes the most important medicines come through imperfect channels.