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Cura Medicina

Welcome to Cura Medicina, the podcast where we journey together towards self-improvement, personal growth, and embracing our best selves. Our mantra is that YOU are the medicine.

Podcast · By Derek Dodds · American English · Official site

Indexed episodes, last 90 days
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Sep 16, 2026
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    Reverence Over Ambition: Bwiti Teachings, Plant Medicine, and Conscious Integration (opens the original)

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    The advice most people get about psychedelics is backward: more ceremony, more intensity, more visions. James makes the case for the opposite - more preparation, more discipline, and more reverence. If you want deeper, safer, and more lasting results from medicine work, this conversation will change how you approach it. Derek opens with high praise for James's book, calling it one of the best he has read in the space, and from there the conversation goes straight into the real foundations of med

  2. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    Gift Me Soul: Bridging Business, Medicine, and Healing with Elisabeth Noel Jones (opens the original)

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    In this episode of Cura Medicina , host Derek sits down with Elisabeth, founder of the Beacon, NY wellness space Gift Me Soul, to explore her profound journey of transformation. Elisabeth shares how facing major life shifts—including a divorce and navigating her mother’s late-stage Alzheimer’s diagnosis—led her from a high-speed corporate retail career in Manhattan to plant medicine. She opens up about her initial plant medicine journeys, in which she reconnected with her ancestors to heal inter

  3. Episode · Aug 19, 2026

    The Intelligence of Teacher Tree Dietas with Jordan Mockingbird: Awakening the Bioweb of Earth (opens the original)

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    In this episode of Cura Medicina , host Derek sits down with teacher, artist, and medicine practitioner Jordan Mockingbird to explore the deep wisdom, spiritual discipline, and healing potential of traditional master tree diets. Jordan shares his personal journey of transformation—from a high-stakes art career in Beijing overshadowed by severe substance abuse to a life of profound self-healing, animistic connection, and initiation alongside indigenous elders and wilderness master plants. Togethe

  4. Episode · Aug 6, 2026

    Navigating Psychedelic Integration, Lineage, and Grounded Healing with Erin Atkinson (opens the original)

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    In this episode of Cura Medicina , Derek sits down with Erin Atkinson , a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, and psychedelic integration specialist. Together, they explore what it truly means to integrate expanded states of consciousness into daily life—moving beyond the "hyper-individualized" approach to self-optimization and grounding healing into mind, body, spirit, community, and nature. Erin shares her personal evolution from clinical psychology into earth-based wisdom, plant medic

  5. Episode · Jul 23, 2026

    The Medicine of Connection: Unlocking the Heart Space with Cacao (opens the original)

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    In this episode of Cur a Medicina , host Derek Dodds sits down with Neil Ryan Dumra—founder, cacao advocate, and creator of a heart-centered community hub and cacao lounge in Austin, Texas. Neil shares his personal healing journey, from overcoming physical trauma and severe caffeine sensitivity to discovering the grounding, heart-opening power of ceremonial cacao. Key Highlights & Takeaways & Mentions – The Physics & Spirit of Heart Opening: Neil explains how cacao physically, chemically, and se

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