About Extending the Art of Healing Through Anthroposophy
Welcome to Extending the Art of Healing Through Anthroposophy with Dr. Adam Blanning and Laura Scappaticci. This podcast is an invitation to engage with a new perspective on health and your own healing processes, while learning more about the fundamentals of anthroposophical medicine.
In this episode, we ask what happens when medical protocol replaces human connection in medicine and in education. Medical and educational protocols are meant to meet as many people as possible in an average kind of way, but the response can be vastly different. We need to hold a space for listening to our students and our patients, our children and our community members, in order to discover the solutions that align with their values and needs.
Adam discusses a measurement called sense of coherence, which decreases our risk of death by any cause by 15 to 20%. We explore the ways that coherence is eroded or strengthened in teenagers through screens, social media, and societal and family expectations. On a larger level, we ask how we can have a sense of coherence when we see and hear about global suffering and challenges. "What can I do about this today?" is a hard question to answer when the world around us or our inner world feels chaotic.
We move into talking about the body and how the body is not like a car. We can replace parts, but the car doesn't have the capacity to heal itself like the human body does, and we can't mechanize emotional systems or our sense of life.
Near the end of the podcast, Adam discusses a study that indicates that fevers, particularly in children on the autism spectrum, can help bring the individuality forward in a stronger way.
Throughout the past two seasons, we've been asking you to reclaim two minutes a day to restore your wholeness. What have you done in those two minutes? How are you reclaiming them? We'd love to know. Email us at extendingtheartofhealing@gmail.com and share your stories with us.
Find more resources@helpthehealers.org and support this work by making a donation at MedicalSection.goetheanum.ch and follow us on Instagram Medical_Section.
Thank you for listening and for sharing this podcast!
25 Jan 2026
Allergy and Anxiety
This episode focuses on the connection between allergy and anxiety, and the ways in which our inner world relates to these two reactive processes. Adam equates the stimulus in our environment with our digestive system. We can chew and swallow a ton of food, even junk food, but processing it is a whole other matter entirely. It’s the same with the
stimulus in our environment. With that in mind, we explore the role of anti(s), antihistamines and anti-anxiety medications and how
they can help and hinder our healing.
If you work with teens and children, this episode is definitely for you, as we dive into the pressure placed on parents and kids today. When society tells us that the finished product is the starting place, emptiness is sometimes the outcome. If trying, failing, and
growing are where meaning is created, where learning happens, how do we offer our children these types of capacity building
opportunities?
We hope this episode invites you to explore your inner world and the growing trends of allergy and anxiety from a holistic perspective. Email us at mailto:extendingtheartofhealing@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram @medical_section. Find more resources at helpthehealers.org (http://helpthehealers.org/) and support this work by making a donation at medicalsection.goetheanum.ch (https://medicalsection.goetheanum.ch/).
11 Jan 2026
Rhythm Replaces Strength
Dr. Adam Blanning discusses the importance of bodily and planetary rhythms for healing and vitality, emphasizing the need to prioritize natural processes over external interventions in medicine and education in this interview with Laura.
4 Jan 2026
The Antidote to Burnout
Dr. Adam Blanning and Laura Scappaticci examine burnout among parents, teachers, and doctors, providing methods to restore wholeness by addressing time, technology, and self-encounter in this interview.
14 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Summary: Four Steps Towards Wholeness
This episode summarizes four lenses for medical care, connecting them to traditional insights and offering practical suggestions to bring flexibility and expanded capacities to healers.
14 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 8: Being Part of Our Own Healing Process
This episode explores the links between fever, immunity, cancer, and autism, emphasizing trusting your own powers for self-regulation to step into your own healing process.
14 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 7: Threads of Meaning
This episode explores how age and capacity influence illness experiences, emphasizing careful listening to uncover deeper meaning for both patients and providers.
14 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 6: Gesture and Connection
This episode explores the concept of "gesture thinking" as a means to understand body-mind connections, particularly in relation to allergies, anxiety, and the importance of boundaries for resilience.
14 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 5: Building Bridges
This episode explores interconnections and presents research on how warmth bridges different parts of our physiology, inviting listeners to view warmth as a tool for self-awareness.
7 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 4: Nurturing the Full Spectrum of Our Physiology
This episode explores a comprehensive view of human physiology, emphasizing the necessity of alternating cycles between activity and regeneration, and encourages spectrum thinking.
7 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 3: The Physiology of Regeneration
ADAM discusses the importance of rest and rhythm in the physiology of regeneration, exploring their connection to recovery and vitality in this episode.
7 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 2: Overcoming Assumptions—Including the Element of Time to Build Context
This episode explores how questioning assumptions, like average body temperature, provides crucial context and a more complete understanding of health over time.
7 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness Part 1: New Viewpoints on Resiliency with Dr. Adam Blanning
Dr. Adam Blanning explores how medicine utilizes deductive reasoning and data while incorporating time, gesture thinking, and meaning to promote holistic healing in this interview.
7 Dec 2025
Claiming Wholeness: Introduction ~ What is the Claiming Wholeness in Medicine course about?
Dr. Adam Blanning introduces the Claiming Wholeness in Medicine course, exploring how medical providers can integrate diverse assessment levels for patient care and professional well-being, emphasizing expanded thinking for wholeness.
2 Sept 2025
EP05: An Approach to the Therapeutic Way of Thinking
Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about therapeutic thinking, exploring boundaries, the ego's response to substances, and holistic sensory perception.
21 Aug 2025
EP04: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy
Host Adam Bloser and guest Ita Wegman explore Rudolf Steiner's "Fundamentals of Therapy," revealing how challenging experiences build strength and discussing iron's role in courage and mistletoe therapy's immune-boosting effects.
24 Jun 2025
EP03: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy
This episode explores anthroposophic medicine's four levels of being, revealing how it transcends quantitative measures to perceive the individual holistically, similar to the process of becoming a poet.
2 Jun 2025
EP02: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy
Adam Blanning discusses Chapter 3 of Fundamentals of Therapy, expanding perspectives on medicine and healing into the realm of vitality and dynamic functions within the body's healing processes.
13 Apr 2025
EP01: Awakening our Understanding of Illness: 100-years of Fundamentals of Therapy
The book Fundamentals of Therapy by Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman is our guide throughout the next five episodes as we discuss Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7 and 14. We hope you will read along with us! In this episode, Adam and Laura explore Chapter 1, discussing the challenges of standardized, protocol-based medicine in contrast to the gifts that arise through the relationship between the doctor, the patient, and the illness. We delve into the significance of the etheric life force for healing, as well as the anthroposophical concepts of imagination, inspiration, and intuition.
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