Shaman Sickness: How Living Your Purpose Can Heal Chronic Illness

Photograph by Zulmaury Saavedra

Sickness happens when we are out of alignment with purpose, which empowers us to heal ourselves

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I can vividly remember the day I first got ‘sick’. It wasn’t like I hadn’t been sick before with a cold or ear infection. Many kids get that. But this time was different. This time, it didn’t just go away.

I was in the car with my dad heading over to a friend’s house to play. I was eleven and a half years old. When I got out of the car I started