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Are you living, or simply surviving? Why spiritual health matters more than you think.
What if health is about much more than your body and mind? When we think about health, most of us think about our physical bodies. We think about nutrition, exercise, sleep, and the absence of disease. We tend to measure our health by how well our bodies function and whether we are experiencing any physical symptoms. Fortunately, our understanding of health has gradually expanded. More people now recognise that our emotional and psychological wellbeing also plays an important

Dr Vanessa Milagro Leon-Sulca
Oct 235 min read


My Journey With Rheumatoid Arthritis
I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis when I was only 19 years old. If you are reading this because you have this condition or another chronic condition, what I share below may interest you. I was told it was an incurable autoimmune condition that I would have for the rest of my life. At that time, I didn't know there could be another way. I didn't know that years later I would recover my health, or that my illness would completely transform my understanding of what it me

Dr Vanessa Milagro Leon-Sulca
Oct 34 min read


How Ayahuasca helped me study medicine
I don't think I would have been able to study medicine if it wasn't for Ayahuasca. This is a very bold statement to make but it's absolutely true. I was 31 when I started medical school. It was my third career, and by then I had already spent years trying to recover my health and learning to live differently. For most of my life, I knew how to push. I knew how to work hard, achieve, compete and put myself under enormous pressure. What I didn't know was how to stop. How to

Dr Vanessa Milagro Leon-Sulca
Oct 33 min read
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