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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Greg Wrenn, "Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis" (Regalo Press, 2024)
Description: A dazzling, evidence-based account of one man’s quest to heal from complex PTSD by turning to endangered coral reefs and psychedelic plants after traditional therapies failed—and his awakening to the need for us to heal the planet as well. Professor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, “The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological.” What he’s never told them is how he’s lived out those correspondences to heal from childhood abuse at the hands of his mother. Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis (Regalo Press, 2024) is a deeply researched account of Gre...