For as long as they have roamed the earth, human beings have practiced medicine, in one form or another. They have struggled to overcome illness, and have sought to maintain health and wellness. Not only health as it refers to the physical, but mental, emotional, and spiritual health as well. This endless pursuit of wellbeing cross-culturally led to the creation of various medicinal techniques, practices, and traditions across the world and throughout the ages. Seemingly unanimously within each human culture, certain individuals who possess an aptitude for medicine are bestowed with the responsibility of caring for the health and wellbeing of the other people in their community. People have turned to these “healers” to mend their wounds, treat their ailments, and to restore balance to spiritual disharmony. Although in western culture the role of a healer is typically assumed by those who have gone through rigorous formal training and schooling, and is traditionally a male dominated field, in many traditions, those regarded with the most esteem among healers are female, who have little to no formal education. There are the medicine women of Native American tribes, who believe that the role of a healer is given to someone by The White Buffalo before birth, and that health means to be in Hózhó, or at one with world around you, and to walk in peace, beauty, and harmony with it. There are the Curanderas of the Hispanic cultures, who believe that one becomes a healer because they are chosen by God, and that sickness is an internal imbalance between good and evil. Compared to how one becomes a doctor in western culture and how illness is viewed, there are many differences. But amidst all of these traditions and approaches to medicine and healing, I have observed one thing to be universally true to all: The ability to heal and be healed requires an inherent faith in the healing practice, both from the patient and practitioner, regardless of which cultural healing paradigm one chooses to rely on. In the Navajo tradition, a person is chosen to be a healer before they are even born by the White Buffalo, a sacred messenger of the Creator, and their training begins in the womb. There is a ceremony known as Blessingway, which is “held by a medicine person praying over (a) pregnant mother and () the unborn child. The parents () request it. The Blessingway is a Ph.D in (the Navajo) culture” (Perrone et al. 33). However, not all medicine people must pass through the Blessingway ceremony to become healers themselves, and not all those who do pass through Blessingway are trained after birth. “Many parents of medicine people are themselves medicine bearers, but a child that does not have the necessary characteristics will not be trained. If, however, a child is born into a nonmedicine family and demonstrates attributes indicating promise, the child can be trained by others. There are a thousand roads to medicine” (33). The unborn child’s training begins with the mother who “talks medicine” to the child in the womb. The mother will tell stories of nature and will touch and walk with the plants and the spirits. Then, after the child is finally born, the parents may request a second Blessingway ceremony within 30 days of birth. “Th