Welcome to Game and Going Deeper, a podcast series by the Gammon's Brotherhood where we talk about personal development, mental health, and sexuality. I am your host, Matt Lancidl. I am an intuitive life and spiritual coach and counselor. I specialize in teaching people how to heal shame and trauma and embody their authentic self so they can enjoy more meaningful connections in their lives. My area of expertise are working with highly sensitive people, empaths, and gay men to develop a stronger sense of self-worth. Today's topic is the science of healing and we are joined by Ed Cohen. Welcome.

Hey, welcome. Thank you.

Yeah, good to have you here. I'm looking forward to unpacking this topic with you today. I want to just formally introduce you. So Ed is the author of On Learning to Heal or What Medicine Doesn't Know as well as a body worth defending, immunity, biopolitics, and the apotheosis of the modern body. I got it. He is professor of women's gender and sexuality studies at Rutgers University and hosts a therapeutic practice for people interested in healing often with chronic and life-threatening ailments. And you have a PhD from Stanford in modern thought. I thought that was really cool. So I wanted to add that in here. Right up my alley, I love new thought, modern thought thinking. So yeah, this is exciting. I'm really happy to have you on here today. So what we're going to be unpacking, Ed's going to share a bit about his story and how he got into, you know, essentially the healing field and working in the space of healing and teaching. And so we're going to be looking at what we need to learn about healing. So what is, why is this important? Talking about curing versus healing, how our culture places so much emphasis on the external elements of healing and negating that we as human beings have the ability to heal as an innate state of our being. Healing systems.