What if the most powerful medicine for healing complex trauma including DID isn't found in therapy rooms or treatment centers, but in learning to mother yourself?
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 I'm joined by Anneke Lucas — author, speaker, and founder of the Unconditional Model. Drawing from her thirty-year healing journey, she gives a powerful voice to survivors of child trafficking and ritual abuse. Her story takes us through a secret global network of abuse, where power, rituals, and psychological programming dominated her early life.
But through all this darkness, one force runs like a golden thread through her recovery: the healing power of motherly love. Not just the love from mother to child, but the development of the inner mother — a loving, nurturing, yet boundary-setting force within ourselves.
Anneke shows us how innocence can be reclaimed, how compassion and healthy boundaries together form the foundation for healing, and how motherly love — in its purest, unconditional form — can be the most powerful medicine on the path to recovery.
This conversation explores motherly love as medicine — how unconditional nurturing combined with fierce protection creates the container for healing even the deepest trauma, and what it means to become your own loving mother.
This episode is in Dutch.
Content warning: This episode contains heavy themes around trauma and abuse. Please listen with care.