Ebook: Swimming with elephants: my unexpected pilgrimage from physician to healer

Angry bears. Spirit of the bear ; Hitched and launched ; Realization and refusal ; Lightening the load ; The unraveling begins ; Breathing lessons ; Sick leave ; Feeding the bears ; Needle in a haystack ; Radical sabbatical ; Slam-dunk diagnosis -- Heeding the call. Throwing bones ; Ecstatic encounters ; Doin' the mamba ; Alice arrives ; Hugging horses ; The healing stones ; Family healing ; Everything is alive ; Soul retrieval ; Sunglasses and brass knuckles ; Emergency sabbatical ; India calling ; Laid by the universe ; Saint Teresa ; Into the shadows ; Hellbent on honey -- India. Agra ; Mela-mobile ; Light karmic rinse ; Troubled ; Kumbh mela redux ; The river ; The grove and the jungle ; Temples in the rain -- Return home. The way back ; Mollie ; Back to the river ; Into the woods, then home.;After two decades in the study and practice of medicine, Sarah Seidelmann took a three month sabbatical to search for a way to feel good again. Having witnessed human suffering early in her career and within her own family, she longed for a way to address more than just the physical needs of her patients and to live in a lighter, more conscious way. Swimming with elephants tells the eccentric, sometimes poignant, and occasionally hilarious experience of a working mother undergoing a bewildering vocational shift from physician to shamanic healer. During that tumultuous period of answering her call, Sarah met an elephant who would become an important spirit companion on her journey, had bones thrown for her by a shaman in South Africa, and travelled to India for an ancient Hindu pilgrimage, where she received the blessing she had been longing for. Ultimately, she discovered an entirely different way of healing, one that she had always aspired to, and that enabled her to help those who are suffering.