Exploring the Path of the Healer with Dr. Stephanie Michael Stewart

Sean Lawlor

Stephanie Stewart has taken quite a journey to arrive where she now is, and there’s no doubt her journey will continue. She grew up traveling and exploring, and from a young age, she received clear messages that she was destined to be a healer. In the context of the Western medical system, however, becoming a healer was not as straightforward or clear-cut as that path can be in other cultures, at least in the ways Stephanie felt called. Nevertheless, she went to medical school to become a psychiatrist, the profession she saw as most closely related to the spiritual forms of healing that spoke to her. Yet, as is often the case for those walking such an uncertain path, that destination proved to be only a new beginning, and Stephanie has continued exploring diverse and ambitious forms of healing in a Western context, an exploration that has led her now to work professionally with psychedelic medicines... continue reading.