" For most of human history, we knew the plants. Not as abstractions in a textbook or products on a shelf, but as neighbors, as presences, as beings with whom we shared the world. "
Dr. Stephanie believes plants are teachers, not merely ingredients -- and that all healing begins in relationship. Over twenty-five years of clinical practice and doctoral research in integrative health have only deepened her understanding of living conversation between body, plant, and earth.
As Executive Director of the New England School of Bioenergetic Medicine, Dr. Stephanie trains practitioners in an approach that honors both traditional wisdom and rigorous science. She writes from her Vermont Farm, where her best teachers grow just outside the door.
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This book is organized as a journey - an alchemical passage. You will begin with the foundations: the relationship with plants, the language of energetics, the primal skills of preparation.
About
Dr. Stephanie Shelburne
Author Dr. Stephanie Shelburne is a visionary thought-leader for individual and global coherence, and a practitioner of Mind-Body Medicine, Holistic Nutrition, and Somatic Psychology. Her work bridges the mythic and the Monday morning - weaving scientific rigor with embodied wisdom to help people access the intelligence that lives in their bones.
Through her Sacred Metabolism framework, she guides women beyond their "fix it" paradigm into a deeper honoring of the body's sophisticated wisdom. She lives on a farm in Vermont, surrounded by the plants and animals who continue to be her greatest teachers.
