Best of Phoenix 2020: An Arizona Healer at Home in the Mystic
Every morning, Patricia Federico goes outside and faces the east.
“I visualize myself as a tree, my feet like roots going into the earth,” she says. “Then, I open my palms to the sky and receive the energy of the sun. This makes me vibrationally strong and able to walk in both worlds.”
In one world, she’s a woman and a native Arizonan; in the other, she’s a curandera — although she doesn’t run around saying so.