In a culture in which we have days, weeks, or months dedicated to raising awareness and funds for a variety of diseases and conditions—March, in Canada, for example, is National Kidney Month, National Epilepsy Month, and Help Fight Liver Disease Month—we are conditioned to think of healing in terms of physical or physiological terms. Even with months or weeks devoted to matters of mental health or psychiatric disorders, we are often exposed to perceptions of health and healing that are bound up in medical terms and perspectives which focus on the somatic aspects of our lives and well-being. In such terms, the concepts of suffering and healing are evaluated along a physical continuum based on issues such as etiology, pain or malady, and medical treatments and remedies.