Her ceremonial, writing and medicine work is grounded in:
Scientific and medical literacy across neuroscience, medical anthropology, nutritional and botanical medicine
Ethnographic attentiveness and cultural advocacy
Trauma-informed practice and somatic awareness
Spiritual discernment rooted in ethical relationship rather than appropriation
Andrea J Lett
Drea is an author, writer and spiritual teacher.
Trained in natural medicine modalities, medical anthropology and immersed in the health and wellness field for over two decades, Drea brings a rare combination of academic grounding and lived, embodied experience. Her background spans neuroscience, nutrition, trauma-informed somatic psychology, and Chinese medicine, alongside field-based ethnographic work in women’s health and community-centered care. She has studied herbal medicine, trained as a labor and delivery doula, yoga practitioner, and Zen Shiatsu bodyworker.
As an award-winning travel writer with more than a decade of experience as a professional writer, Drea has helped doctors, therapists, and health practitioners translate complex bodies of knowledge into clear, cohesive and structured articles, manuscripts and website content. She is a traditionally published co-author of a book on Kriya breathwork meditation with Dr. Lowenstein.
Her work is shaped not only by formal study but by long-term apprenticeship and ceremony with traditional medicine carriers from Lakota, Mexica, Quechua, Hawaiian, Chinese, West African, and Indian traditions. These teachings are held with humility and expressed through her own lived synthesis rather than as representation of any single lineage.
A mother of two children born at home in two different countries, recovery from illness and domestic violence has deepened her commitment to women’s sovereignty, agency, and embodied self-trust.
She lives and works between worlds; field and page, story and ceremony, medicine and mystic to help women and mothers.
Narrative Medicine Connection Writing Projects
Kriya Breath
Manuscript development, co-writing, marketing and publication strategy.
Mujeres Aliadas
Current ethnography-aligned narrative architecture project.
Womb Wisdom
Ongoing collection of birth stories from mothers with tales to tell.
PlayWrite Inc
Communications, internal/external content strategy, brand storytelling.
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