In our epidemic of disconnection, we've forgotten that sensitivity is intelligence and symptoms carry wisdom.
I'm Anneke Sips - community psychiatric nurse, trauma therapist, and yoga therapist exploring healing beyond labels through raw conversations about trauma, spirituality, and the wisdom hidden in our most challenging experiences.
The Original Medicines Podcast dives into the medicines that aren't taught in textbooks — the embodied wisdom that emerges from trauma-informed, spiritually-aware recovery. We explore what it means to reclaim our experiences as pathways to deeper understanding about life... and death.
Today I'm thrilled to start the podcast and welcome Darja Tjioe, who broke the Dutch freediving record by descending 84 meters underwater. We met at The Inner Embassy yoga studio in The Hague recently, and I knew she'd bring profound insights about water as medicine, silence as medicine, and breath holding as medicine. From her unique perspective as a freediver, we explore how these practices relate to navigating the Dark Night of the Soul.
Ready to dive deep into the original medicines that heal? Let's go.
This podcast is primarily in English with select episodes in Dutch.