Autoimmune Hour On Life Interrupted Radio With Sharon Sayler

(Or Healing is an Inside Job...) Fasten your seat belt for a fascinating romp through the question what does ‘to be healed’ actually mean? and other intriguing life questions.In this episode, we chat with Ed Cohen, author of 'On Learning to Heal, or What Medicine Doesn’t Know.’ His book has been described as “memoir-cum-medical philosophy,” which I think sums it up nicely. A favorite quote from this thought-provoking book is, “Learning to heal does not necessarily require us to know how we heal, but it does require that we desire to heal and that we actively value this possibility.” In our time together, Ed shares with us how he overcame a decades-long autoimmune struggle, starting at thirteen when he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. At that impressionable age, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for was periods of remission. Unfortunately, they never mentioned healing as a possibility. His new book was borne out of his lifetime of seeking answers to heal himself. He shares with us how he has