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Scandinavian welfare states like Norway represent a cultural context in which citizens who become ill are supposed to trustand receive health care within the conventional health care system that is officially subsidized and based on biomedicalknowledge. Despite this officially initiated health practice, unofficial and non-commercial health practices exist in many NorthNorwegian communities, consisting of traditional healers which people actively use or would consider to use when facingillness or crisis. The municipality of Nordreisa in Northern Troms is commonly described as ”where the three tribes meet”- the“tribes” being the indigenous Sami people, the Kven, descendants of Finnish immigrants, and the majority population of theNorwegians - and for this reason the region has historically been considered a cultural melting pot. The eight participants inthis ethnographic study, recruited from an outpatient mental health care clinic in Nordreisa, find themselves positioned as usersof both traditional healing practices and the conventional mental health care offered by the clinic. The aim of this article is toexplore mental ill patients’ reasons for, and experiences from, the use of traditional healing as well as the conventional healthcare system within this cultural context by applying theories of trust and embodiment on important empirical patterns of illnessbehavior. The participants experienced being-and juggling- between the two significantly different medical and culturalsystems. In our perspective, these patients’ use of both systems can be understood as “embodied health practices”, based ondifferent cultural approaches to health, healing and knowledge, and thus, barriers of embodied health care practices and trustmay cause problems in the encounters between mentally ill patients and their treatment providers. The participantsexperienced vulnerability and expressed lack of trust in the conventional mental health care in regards to how their traditionalhealing practices were understood. Furthermore, they feared being diagnosed with more severe mental health disorders withinthe conventional health care system than if they under-communicated their trust in and use of traditional healing. We arguethat the understanding of “embodied trust” introduced in this article may add important new perspectives on complexcontemporary healing contexts and healing practices

Embodied health practices: The use of Traditional Healing and Conventional Medicine in a North Norwegian Community