Decolonizing Healthcare

About Decolonizing Healthcare

Reimagining Healthcare is a podcast dedicated to challenging the status quo and envisioning a future where health and wellness are accessible to all. Join us as we delve into the latest trends, cultural medicine, groundbreaking research, and inspiring stories from healthcare pioneers. From regenerative farming, community healthcare, technology and its influence, to policy changes and social determinants of health, we'll cover it all. My vision is to create a platform for open dialogue and collaboration, where experts, patients, and policymakers can share their insights and work together to build a healthier world. Whether you're a healthcare professional, a patient, or simply someone passionate about improving the system, this podcast is for you. Let's reimagine healthcare together. dianacantureyna.substack.com (https://dianacantureyna.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

by Diana Cantu-Reyna, RN, BSN

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Aug 2023

Latest episode

16 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

15 of 25 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Systemic Collapse: The Financial and Ethical Case for Culturally Rooted Worker-Owned Healthcare

   In this episode, I read my recent Substack article, Systemic Collapse: The Financial and Ethical Case for Culturally Rooted Worker-Owned Healthcare. (https://dianacantureyna.substack.com/p/systemic-collapse-the-financial-and) Join the Movement * Read the full article: Systemic Collapse: The Financial and Ethical Case for Culturally Rooted Worker-Owned Healthcare (https://dianacantureyna.substack.com/p/systemic-collapse-the-financial-and) * Join the Construction Crew for the Constellation Care Alliance: email cultivatingselfnow@gmail.com * Connect with me! Music in the show by Universal Knowledge (https://www.instagram.com/universalknowledge/) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianacantureyna.substack.com (https://dianacantureyna.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   17 Sept 2025

   Ep. 22 ~ Reimagining Healthcare Funding with Dr. David E. Fraser, Ed. D, MPA

   In this episode of the Reimagining Healthcare Podcast, I sit down for a live interview and discussion with Dr. David E. Fraser, Ed.D, MPA, to explore one of the biggest challenges for health, nonprofit, and community leaders: how to fund and sustain mission-driven initiatives. We talk about the cultural, structural, and operational barriers that organizations face when trying to secure lasting support, and we share strategies for navigating grant writing, leadership gaps, and burnout in values-driven work. This conversation is especially relevant for healthcare professionals, caregivers, nonprofit leaders, graduate students, and community advocates working to create more sustainable systems of care. About Dr. Fraser: Dr. David Fraser is the principal consultant at Fraser Leadership Group and a faculty member in public administration and healthcare leadership at California State University, East Bay. He holds a doctorate in higher education leadership, along with advanced degrees in public administration and organizational leadership. His areas of expertise include organizational change, grant strategy, and public policy, supported by more than 30 years of cross-sector leadership experience in government, higher education, and nonprofit consulting. He is also the author of Grantcraft: The Practitioner’s Guide to Strategic Funding for Public Service, Healthcare, and the Nonprofit Sector. Resources Mentioned in this Episode:📖 Grantcraft: 7 Simple Steps to Finding and Winning Funding (https://fraserleadership.com/grantcraft) by David E. Fraser – Get your copy here! (https://fraserleadership.com/grantcraft)🌐 Learn more at Fraser Leadership Group (https://fraserleadership.com/) This episode is sponsored by Cultivating Self (https://www.cultivatingself.org/) (https://www.cultivatingself.org/)and our Reclaiming Healthcare Fellowship (https://www.cultivatingself.org/reclaiminghealthcarefellowship). (https://www.cultivatingself.org/reclaiminghealthcarefellowship) Cultivating Self is an educational institution providing integrative curriculum that weaves ancestral and modern healing to support clinicians, patient advocates, community healers, and healthcare administrators. Our mission is to not only address burnout and enhance well-being, but also to shift healthcare culture and influence policy change, creating systems that are regenerative, equitable, and connected to both people and the planet. Registration for the Fellowship closes on September 25th, so if you’ve been considering joining, this is the time to step in. Learn more and register here! (https://www.cultivatingself.org/reclaiminghealthcarefellowship) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianacantureyna.substack.com (https://dianacantureyna.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

3. 

   26 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 21 ~ Nature-Based Therapy with Dr. Nora Dennis, MD, MSPH, DFAPA

   In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Nora Dennis, psychiatrist, addiction specialist, yogi, mother, and founder of Jubilee Healing Farm (https://www.jubileehealingfarm.org/) in North Carolina. Together we dive into the shortcomings and pitfalls of modern mental health care, where the focus on medication and crisis management often leaves out deeper issues: our crisis of values, culture, and collective disconnection from nature. Dr. Nora shares the powerful work happening through Jubilee’s Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP (https://jubilee.clinic/other-services/intensive-outpatient-program/)) (https://jubilee.clinic/other-services/intensive-outpatient-program/), a model that brings people back into relationship with land, community, and themselves. We explore how this approach not only benefits individuals and staff but also helps lift the burden from hospitals and overstretched providers by creating healing spaces outside of the medical-industrial complex. And there’s so much more richness in this conversation, from the challenges faced by providers like Dr. Nora, who are committed to the art of healing and building new models of care, to the ways our current systems are structured to protect the corporate healthcare industry rather than the communities they claim to serve. This conversation goes beyond mental health, it’s about reclaiming our roots and birthright to thrive, restoring balance, and remembering that wellness is deeply tied to the world around us. Resources & Links * Connect with Dr. Nora & Jubilee Healing Farm:Jubilee Healing Farm (https://www.jubileehealingfarm.org) Jubilee Clinic (https://jubilee.clinic/) * The Work That Reconnects (https://workthatreconnects.org/) - Joanna Macy * Wild Mind: A Field Guide to the Human Psyche (https://www.animas.org/books/wild-mind-a-field-guide-to-the-human-psyche/) - Bill Plotkin * Cultivating Self: Reclaiming Healthcare Fellowship (https://www.cultivatingself.org/reclaiminghealthcarefellowship) Dr. Nora’s Bio: Dr. Nora Dennis is the founder and CEO of Jubilee Healing Farm in North Carolina. She weaves together psychiatry with practices that honor the whole person, integrating psychopharmacology, somatic work, psychotherapy, nutrition, mindfulness, and connection to nature. Since 2014, she has served on the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine, where she continues as an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Her clinical work spans psychotherapy, medication management, and brain stimulation for treatment-resistant illness. Nora’s philosophy is simple but powerful: medication can be a bridge when used thoughtfully, starting low, moving slow, and always in conversation with the patient, so that people have the capacity to engage more deeply in therapy and wellness practices. Her path to medicine began long before medical school, as a yoga teacher and lifelong student of the mind-body connection. She has completed training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and follows the growing field of psychedelic science with keen interest. Outside of her professional life, Nora is a mother of three, and she finds joy in hiking, yoga, playing guitar, crafting, and reading. Education * Residency, Psychiatry, Duke University Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Chief Resident, Resident of the Year. * MD, Duke University School of Medicine. Nanaline H. Duke Scholar, Dean’s Award Recipient. * MSPH, Maternal and Child Health, UNC School of Public Health * BA with Highest Honors, Anthropology and Environmental Studies, UNC Chapel Hill. Morehead Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, Morris K. Udall Scholar. * Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianacantureyna.substack.com (https://dianacantureyna.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

Inside a recent episode

Systemic Collapse: The Financial and Ethical Case for Culturally Rooted Worker-Owned Healthcare

Published 16 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The opportunity is to intentionally shift resources toward restorative health practices via comprehensive policy coverage. Food is medicine states like California, Oregon, Massachusetts and North Carolina are using waivers to fund medically tailored meals and produce prescriptions for Medicaid. Proving that food is recognized as a powerful medicine against chronic disease. Nature is medicine. Physicians increasingly prescribe time in nature. Programs like the 80 plus local park prescription programs show how policy can integrate environmental health. Integrative and cultural therapies. We must ensure a full coverage for licensed integrative practices like acupuncture, chiropractic care and naturopathy which prioritize root cause and lifestyle. […]

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• Marysia Miernowska
• Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya
• Janet Bakalian
• Azadeh Khatibi
• Harpinder Kaur Mann

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Engagement

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