Didi Pershouse is a healer living and practicing in a cozy small community in rural Vermont, surrounded by the natural world and its eloquent teachings. She uses acupuncture, herbs, the aromas from the kitchen in her home/office, the community at large, the biodiverse landscape around her - and perhaps most importantly her warm listening ear - as her trove of therapeutic modalities.
Reading The Ecology of Care is like sitting in Didi's living room having a chat and a cup of tea. Her friendly, articulate and flowing writing style invites you into her panoramic overview of our health dilemmas, personal and planetary. She addresses painful subjects gently and compassionately and offers long-forgotten alternatives that are as old as the human race. She takes on the daunting task of connecting all the pieces in our fractured modern puzzle to emerge with an ecology of health that connects our frontal lobes to our gut microbes to the air we breathe, the food we eat and the places we walk. Then she travels the dots to global warming, soils, and regenerating our life-support systems. Everything is truly, literally, connected to everything else. Our health is no different.
As she says about hunter-gatherer healing, "It's not the list of plants that one needs, nor even the list of illnesses that each plant treats - it's the living, ongoing relationships between the practitioner, the herbs, the patient, and the landscape that form a whole system of indigenous health care." Didi has woven a story of how we can re-connect to our ancient ways of health, including the health of Mother Earth.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have the good fortune of knowing Didi personally as a colleague in restoring ecosystems, and as a trained naturopathic physician I deeply appreciate her essential community healing perspective that is so often missing in the offices of medical "professionals" - including alternative practitioners who would like to do better but don't quite know how. The Ecology of Care is a thoughtful and heartfelt roadmap for our perilous times.
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