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10 Things About Healing Medical Schools Don’t Teach Doctors—But Should
I graduated from medical school in 1995, but it wasn’t until 2009, two years after I had quit my job as an OB/GYN and left the hospital to study mind-body medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, the placebo effect, shamanism, energy healing, and cutting edge trauma...
To Inner Children Everywhere On This First Day of 2020
First and foremost, you are loved and you are valuable. You are never broken or worthless, even when you make the inevitable blunders children are supposed to make while they're learning to be human. Your feelings are valid and you deserve to feel all of them—the...
Sacred Reciprocity: The Indigenous Spiritual Principle of Giving & Receiving
As I referred to in my blog about Sacred Medicine in Thailand, the practice of making offerings as part of any healing journey seems to be a large part of every spiritual tradition. In Thailand, offerings come in two forms. At 6 a.m. every morning, “householders”...
What I Learned In Thailand About Sacred Medicine
After seven years of researching my book Sacred Medicine, I’m spending the month of December in Thailand as the last pilgrimage of my nearly decade long exploration of the intersection of consciousness, science, and healing. I still have more time here, but so far,...
Is “Spontaneous” Healing A Miracle, Magic, Synchronicity, or Self Control?
During my seven year study of spiritual healing in preparation for researching and finally writing my book Sacred Medicine: A Doctor’s Quest To Unravel The Mysteries of Miraculous Healing, I had long pondered the way the hundreds of people I have interviewed talk...
5 Miracles To Open Your Mind & Heart To What’s Possible
We get so encrusted with our mental concepts of what’s possible and what’s not that when the “impossible” happens, we can have all kinds of emotions that range from fear to awe to confusion to bewilderment to gratitude to anger. Most of us don’t like having our...
How Do We Make Cutting Edge Sacred Medicine Healing Accessible To Anyone Who Is Ready?
Some of you are familiar with the public health issue I’ve been wrestling with. In my fourth TEDx talk I spoke about the #1 Public Health Issue Doctors Aren’t Talking About. Addressing loneliness from a public health perspective, I have a vision of healing circles...
Why Bullying Ourselves (& Others) Never Works To Change Behavior
We live in a culture that glorifies bullies, and we seem to think bullying will make us better people. But we are deluded. Bullying never works to make anyone a better person. Let’s look at the reality of this distorted obsession with bullying in the name of making...
A Sacred Medicine Case Study: Let’s Combine The Tools From Our Medicine Bags!
Yesterday, I was talking to a mentoring client on the telephone from my bedroom when I heard a blood-curdling scream out my window. Before I even knew what was happening, I told my client there was an emergency and I needed to hang up the phone and call 911....
What Is Muscle Testing? (The AIT Answer)
Imagine if you had a reliable way to diagnose any statement as “true” or “false?” What if you could accurately test “It’s aligned for me to quit my job.” versus “It’s not aligned for me to quit my job?” and get the answer direct from God, your Inner Pilot Light,...
Sacred Medicine: 21 Things About Healing They Didn’t Teach Me In Medical School
After seven years of research, I'm finally writing my long-awaited book Sacred Medicine, the third book in the trilogy, following up Mind Over Medicine and The Fear Cure. I know a lot of you are kind of waiting on pins and needles for this book, and I feel a little...
The 6 Steps To Healing Yourself 2.0 (What I’ve Learned Since Mind Over Medicine)
When I was talking to Richard Schwartz about how the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model came to be, he said, “It required me to be willing to be wrong dozens of times in the thirty years I’ve spent creating it.” Since I finished writing my book Mind Over Medicine...
My Grand Vision For Healing Soul Tribes
Picture this. In the same way that addicts and those who love them can find 12 step circles almost anywhere in the world to aid in their recovery, imagine that people on a healing journey come together, alongside people who yearn to help others heal, and together,...
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Is A Game-Changer For Medicine, Psychiatry, & The Spiritual Path
In my blog "Why It Doesn’t Help To Demonize Your Ego, Your Mind or Your Protector Parts," I alluded to how much I resonate with Internal Family Systems (IFS), the trauma healing method developed by family therapist Richard Schwartz, PhD. When I was first introduced...
Coming Into Right Relationship With Fear
I’m teaching three Fear Cure workshops this year, first, a one-day workshop at the New York Open Center in March, then a five-day workshop at Kripalu in May, then at 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz in September. These workshops combine content and transformational...
What If We Can’t Permanently Cure Disease Without Addressing Trauma?
According to many sources in the mainstream medical literature, anywhere from 60-90% of illnesses have stress-related emotional underpinnings, which can be translated into one word—trauma. Indigenous healers, shamans, energy healers, and gurus have known this for...