In many healing traditions, medicine was never something taken apart from life. It was carried in stories—told, remembered, and shared in community.

In this threshold conversation, Dr. Martha Libster invites you into a reflective
exploration of story as medicine—not as metaphor, but as a living cultural practice of Self-care, orientation, and meaning.

Drawing on caring science, herbal medicine, historical research, and Indigenous perspectives, this gathering offers a gentle re-orientation to self-care beyond diagnosis, urgency, or self-optimization.

This is not a workshop or training. It is not prescriptive or instructional.

It is an invitation to listen.

Together, we will explore:

* Why story has always mattered in healing traditions
* How modern healthcare lost its relationship to narrative
* What it means to practice self-care as *memory* and *meaning*, not technique
* Why some forms of healing can only be encountered, not taught

This conversation is offered as a threshold encounter—a place to pause, reflect, and consider how care might be held differently in your life and in the world.