Original Medicines

Desperately Brave — Series 2, Episode 2 Simon 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 guid...

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, spirituali...

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,...

What if the most powerful medicine for healing deep trauma 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, t...

What happens when the very systems designed to heal us become sources of deeper trauma? 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 t...

The Original Medicines Podcast explores healing beyond labels through raw conversations about trauma, spirituality, and the wisdom hidden in our most challenging experiences. I'm Anneke Sips, and this podcast is primarily in English with select episodes in Dutch. Emma B from GrowFree and I share a similar path — we both facilitate dialogue and practices that bring together lived and professional e...

The Original Medicines Podcast explores healing beyond labels through raw conversations about trauma, spirituality, and the wisdom hidden in our most challenging experiences. I'm Anneke Sips, and this podcast is primarily in English with select episodes in Dutch. Dr. Simone Ardesch is both a dear friend and colleague — a passionate physician specializing in integrative medicine with a focus on min...

The Original Medicines Podcast explores healing beyond labels through raw conversations about trauma, spirituality, and the wisdom hidden in our most challenging experiences. I'm Anneke Sips, and this podcast is primarily in English with select episodes in Dutch. Victoria Hyndman is my guest today. We first met in Amsterdam's yoga scene, but where we truly connect is in the deeper layers of yoga p...

In our epidemic of disconnection, we've forgotten that sensitivity is intelligence and symptoms carry wisdom. I'm Anneke Sips - community psychiatric nurse, trauma therapist, and yoga therapist exploring healing beyond labels through raw conversations about trauma, spirituality, and the wisdom hidden in our most challenging experiences. The Original Medicines Podcast dives into the medicines that...