Love Code - Medicine and Miracles: My Life Among Navajo People with Dr. Erica Elliott
Episode description
Dr Erica Elliott, MD, is a Medical Doctor in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with patients from across the country. She has lived in many different countries while growing up. Her adult life began as a school teacher on the Navajo Reservation in the early 1970s, she later became a Peace Corps volunteer in South America working as a bilingual educator, then went on to become a high-altitude mountain climber in the Andes, Outward Bound Instructor in the Colorado Rockies, and then a medical doctor in New Mexico. She helped found a co-housing community in Santa Fe, called The Commons, where she raised her son. Erica’s life has been a mythic journey of wonderment and life-changing experiences—including two major medical disasters—which ultimately led her to find her life purpose of service to those who are suffering. She is the author of Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert.