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by Anneke Sips

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I'm Anneke Sips - trauma therapist and yoga therapist exploring usual and unusual medicines for mental health. The Original Medicines Podcast explores healing beyond labels through raw, unfiltered conversations about trauma, grounded spirituality, consciousness and the wisdom hidden in our most challenging experiences. Each episode dives into the Original Medicines that aren't taught in textbooks — the embodied wisdom that emerges from trauma-informed, spiritually-aware recovery. Through stories, mystical experiences, and dialogue, we explore post-traumatic growth, embodiment practices, nervous system regulation, and how pain and crisis can serve as guides to wholeness. There is profound wisdom in symptoms, and we reclaim our experiences as pathways to understanding our true nature. This podcast is made for care professionals who see beyond protocols, and curious souls ready to explore mental health beyond conventional limits. Your underground knowledge exchange. For all who care.

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April 22, 2026

Desperately Brave & Wisdom of Psychosis | with Simon van den Berg

Desperately Brave — Series 2, Episode 2Simon van den Berg is a Dutch-German musician, singer, violin maker and Waldorf teacher who went through a psychotic episode at 23 — not from drugs or crisis, but from years of deep meditation, ancestral grief, and the courage to follow a calling nobody around him understood.He came out the other side a musician. Studying in Vienna since 2018 under the guidance of his teacher there. Working toward a peace project that aims to resolve the collective hurt binding Germans, Austrians, Israelis, Jews and Palestinians. And featured as one of six protagonists in Luuk Bouwman's documentary The Desert of the Real (Dutch cinemas August 14, 2026).In this conversation we go deep on initiation, incarnation, and the wisdom that only reveals itself in the dark.What you'll take away:<ul><li>Psychosis as a hero's journey — descent, isolation and return</li><li>How ancestral trauma can live in the body and ask to be finished</li><li>Why the right teacher changes everything</li><li>What wholeness actually looks like — not as endpoint, but as practice</li><li>How music, meditation and surrender can be original medicines</li></ul> 🎧 Subscribe to Original Medicines on <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://open.spotify.com/show/5SvoeLBF" target="_blank">Spotify</a>📚 Wisdom of Psychosis | <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://annekesips.com/book/" target="_blank">The Book</a>🎬 The Desert of the Real — Luuk Bouman's documentary🌿 Join Substack for deeper connection📷 Follow on <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://instagram.com/annekesips" target="_blank">instagram.com/annekesips</a> Chapters »»»01:30 | The opening question — what is your original medicine?03:00 | Childhood and early dissociations08:00 | Rudolf Steiner and the language of inner life16:00 | Vienna — studying and the weight of tradition27:00 | Plum Village and silence as medicine36:00 | The psychosis — what broke and what it was trying to say43:00 | Mahler's Resurrection — music as the first witness57:00 | The dark night as initiation73:00 | Collective psychosis — when the world breaks too81:00 | The Desert of the Real — Luuk Bouman's documentary94:00 | Integration — what wholeness actually looks like

January 4, 2026

When Psychosis Becomes Medicine | Christopher Grant on Art & Trauma Healing

Christopher Grant, artist and filmmaker from Pabineau First Nation, shares his profound journey living with schizophrenia. In this conversation, we explore how indigenous wisdom, connection to nature, and creative expression became his path to healing — challenging everything we think we know about psychosis and mental health. This isn't a typical mental health story. It's about trauma, spirituality, art as medicine, and the courage to exist authentically in a world that pathologizes what it doesn't understand. »»» Listen for »»» • How trauma and schizophrenia intersected in Christopher's life • Why art became his healing tool and voice • Indigenous teachings on nature, respect, and consciousness • The role of spirituality in navigating psychosis • Why "psychosis" might not be what we think it is • Hope for a more compassionate future of mental health care — 🎧 Subscribe to Original Medicines Spotify: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5SvoeLBFIy0ZUcDNumugJ2" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/5SvoeLBFIy0ZUcDNumugJ2</a> 📚 Read more & explore the book <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://substack.com/@annekesips" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@annekesips</a> 🌿 Join the Care Circle — monthly membership for deeper connection <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://annekesips.com/the-care-circle/" target="_blank">https://annekesips.com/the-care-circle/</a> 📷 Follow on Instagram <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/annekesips/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/annekesips/</a> »»» Chapters »»» 00:00 Introduction to the Original Medicines Podcast 02:13 Christopher Grant: A Journey Through Mental Health 07:01 The Early Signs of Schizophrenia 11:45 Navigating University Life with Schizophrenia 16:14 The Impact of Trauma on Mental Health 21:19 The Intersection of Indigenous Wisdom and Mental Health 25:17 The Struggle with Identity and Reality 30:05 Finding Healing Through Art and Expression 30:32 Diagnosis and the Journey to Self-Discovery 37:00 Facing Trauma and the Role of Introspection 46:29 The Connection to Nature and Spirituality 01:01:25 Embracing Spirituality and Self-Compassion 01:03:10 Connecting Children to Nature and Consciousness 01:08:31 The Shift in Perception of Nature 01:14:32 Art as a Reflection of the Subconscious 01:21:34 Understanding Psychosis and Connection 01:26:28 Impact of the reaction of misunderstanding others 01:30:17 Navigating Personal Experiences and Societal Perceptions

September 27, 2025

Motherly Love as Medicine: Healing from Deep Trauma with Anneke Lucas | (Dutch Episode)

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.<ul><li>Learn more about <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="annekelucas.com" target="_blank">Anneke Lucas's work</a></li><li>🎧 Subscribe to Original Medicines on Spotify: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://open.spotify.com/show/5SvoeLBF" target="_blank">open.spotify.com/show/5SvoeLBF</a><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5SvoeLBFIy0ZUcDNumugJ2" target="_blank">...</a></li><li>📚 Wisdom of Psychosis | The Book: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://annekesips.com/book" target="_blank">annekesips.com/book</a></li><li>🌿 Subscribe to Substack for deeper connection: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://substack.com/@annekesips" target="_blank">substack.com/@annekesips</a></li><li>📷 Follow on Instagram: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://instagram.com/annekesips" target="_blank">instagram.com/annekesips</a></li></ul>

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What is Original Medicines?: I'm Anneke Sips - trauma therapist and yoga therapist exploring usual and unusual medicines for mental health. The Original Medicines Podcast explores healing beyond labels through raw, unfiltered conversations about trauma, grounded spirituality, consciousness and the wisdom hidden in our most challenging experiences.

Each episode dives into the Original Medicines that aren't taught in textbooks — the embodied wisdom that emerges from trauma-informed, spiritually-aware recovery.

Through stories, mystical experiences, and dialogue, we explore post-traumatic growth, embodiment practices, nervous system regulation, and how pain and crisis can serve as guides to wholeness.

There is profound wisdom in symptoms, and we reclaim our experiences as pathways to understanding our true nature.

This podcast is made for care professionals who see beyond protocols, and curious souls ready to explore mental health beyond conventional limits. Your underground knowledge exchange.

For all who care.
How often does this podcast release new episodes?: This podcast updates daily.
Where can I listen to this podcast?: This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
Does this podcast accept guests?: Information about guest appearances is not available.

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