Welcome to How I Healed

The How I Healed podcast is a creation of Jocelyn Macdonald and Mary Lou Singleton. We are practitioners of the healing arts and both of us have been patients in the mainstream medical system who were told (and once believed) we had chronic conditions that required a lifetime of medication management.

Through processes of hard work, serendipity and what some would call God and others would call magic, we both found healing and no longer identify with our former diagnoses.

After many years of friendship centered around our mutual love of the healing journey, we decided to start the How I Healed podcast. By sharing stories of people who have healed from chronic conditions, we hope to inspire others not only to heal themselves but to hold faith in others’ ability to heal.

Mary Lou is a family nurse practitioner, herbalist and apprentice trained homebirth midwife. She has been caring for the health of New Mexican families for over 25 years. Mary Lou believes all health care modalities, from allopathic medicine to energy work and everything in between, have healing potential, that healing is always an individual journey to be supported by community, and that when it comes to healing effectiveness is the measure of the truth.

Jocelyn is an artist and storyteller. She is enlivened by the infinite potential of humans to heal, and helps others to walk this path through her art and music. Her healing practice focuses on making and finding meaning out of the crises and major choice points of our lives. She offers one-on-one support through coaching, archetypal astrology and tarot. She specializes in assisting with psychedelic integration and pharmaceutical cessation.

We believe that true healing comes from finding meaning in our past and current life experiences, releasing identification with sickness, and taking full responsibility for our own wellbeing. Every human being is living a unique and epic story. In our stories we can find the roots of our dis-ease and the seeds of our healing. The stories shared on the How I Healed podcast exemplify how no two lives/healing journeys are the same but also highlight the common threads of the human condition.

While we are deeply critical of the mainstream medical system, which offers a lifetime of pharmaceutical disease management rather than true healing for most health conditions, we understand there is a place for allopathic medicine and we hold no judgment toward anyone working in that system or relying on that form of medical care. Wherever you are in your life story, we hope the stories shared on the How I Healed podcast will be good medicine for you and your community!