Mitigating Persistent Lyme disease – the NATURE way

It might seem antithetical to suggest ecopsychological nature-based remedies for a disease that is notoriously associated with a fear of nature. Paradox aside, an ecopsychologically-informed nature-based worldview has much to offer the persistently ill, medically marginalized Lyme disease patient. Human physiology is, after all, the refined product of having co-evolved with nature (Williams, 2017).

With the right conditions an organism that is part of nature can heal itself (Harper, et al., 2019). Therapies that correct maladaptive relationships with the environment may offer such conditions and allow a more complete, more sustainable, and lasting healing both for the patient and the much-maligned environment (Anderson, et al., 2019).

Ecopsychological philosophy, both ecotherapeutic and transpersonal, uncovers what conventional medicine has not: A pathway back to vibrant health for all patients, Lyme sufferers in particular, through reunification of the human nervous system to its evolutionary partner, Nature.