The Story Apothecary

By: Nana Tomova
  • Summary

  • The Story Apothecary is a podcast filled with medicinal and healing stories. Nana Tomova, a Storyteller and a Mental Health Pharmacist dispenses stories for sadness and anxiety, and shares tales for loss, happiness and love. Here you will find her prescriptions of stories for the body, mind, heart and soul, and for the Earth. Come into the Story Apothecary as we enter the healing world of stories together.
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Episodes
  • 47. The Hedgehog and his Bride
    Aug 7 2024
    • Story Prescription: A story for relationships, with significant others and also with ourselves. It takes many transformations, a life-death-life cycle to make a relationship work. It is also a story about overcoming difficult experiences, and the journey it takes to do this. A story full of courage.
    • A Baltic story from Lithuania, where a hardworking hedgehog wishes to marry none other than the King's daughter. How will he succeed? What does his future bride think of this? And how does an unequal marriage such as this one work? For lovers of the story East of the Sun and West of the Moon.


    • If you enjoy this podcast, and wish to find another story, head over to https://www.nanatomova.com/story-prescriptions to listen to a story for the ailment you are looking for.


    • If you wish to contribute you can 'buy me a coffee' as a one-off way of supporting me if you enjoy listening.
    • Music: Thank you to In Feathers for the beautiful music.
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    43 mins
  • 46. The Blue Baba of the Marsh
    Jul 5 2024

    Story Prescription: A story about the greed and the dangers of prioritising gold over the real treasure of the land.

    A sweet story from the Ural Mountains about a young man who gets given a sieve and three feathers by his grandmother and the advice about where to find real treasure.

    To support my work financially can 'buy me a coffee' as a one-off way of supporting me if you enjoy listening.

    Music: Thank you to In Feathers for the beautiful music.

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    42 mins
  • 45. Nature's Ways
    May 18 2024

    Story Prescription: A story about freedom. A story about overcoming fear, asking the right questions and speaking your longing aloud.


    A story from Armenia, where a controlling king locks his daughter away so that she may never leave his side.

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    To support my work financially you can '⁠buy me a coffee' ⁠ if you enjoy listening.

    Music: Thank you to ⁠In Feathers ⁠for the beautiful music.


    For more Story Medicine, following this link to my website where each prescription is linked to a story of this podcast.

    https://www.nanatomova.com/story-prescriptions

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    35 mins

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