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A Healing Shrine by Joyce Zonana

From October 5, 2023. Joyce posted the blogpost which she titled: Nineteen months and Counting: Experiencing  the Web of Life

On February 28, 2022, I unknowingly drove into a deep snowbank, shortly after finding myself in  a strangely  unfamiliar landscape. Suspecting a TIA, my primary care physician  urged me to go to an emergency room for a possible CAT scan. There, a lesion in my right parietal lobe was quickly discovered.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Joyce ZonanaPosted on August 18, 2024August 15, 2024Categories General, Healing, Herstory, women's journeys, Women's Spirituality, Women's VoicesTags Asklepion, Carol Christ, goddess, healing, herstory, Joyce Zonana, Tobie Nathan, web of life5 Comments on A Healing Shrine by Joyce Zonana

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