Fierce Compassion Takes A Stand To Protect What You Hold Sacred
After reading all of your comments all week, just so I can try to make sense of what's happening here in this community, I feel like I need to make a few distinctions about my understanding about some core spiritual teachings around compassion. First, I'm...
We All Deserve To Breathe Freely
I can't stop pondering why so many of the challenges we're facing as a culture right now revolve around the breath. COVID is a disease that threatens our breathing. West Coast wildfires right now and recent horrific fires in Australia and the Amazon are making it...
We Need To Feel To Heal
As I’m trapped in my house because the air quality where I live in the Bay Area is incompatible with life, as I’m sheltered in place for six months and gave up all summer travel because I want to be a responsible community member and don’t want to hurt anyone who...
How to Make Wise Decisions During Uncertain Times
This is a time of hard choices in uncertain times. Should you go to the hospital if you get short of breath, or should you ride it out at home? Should you let your kid endure the potential damage of remote learning, or should you let your child go to in-person...
Germ Theory + Terrain Theory = Saving Lives
I hear a lot of people these days talking about "germ theory" and "terrain theory" in light of the pandemic. In short, germ theory focuses on infectious agents—bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites—and assumes that if you're exposed to these infectious agents, you're...
How To Self-Administer Placebo Effects
Someone asked me today about my thoughts about the mystery of the placebo effect, which I wrote about at length in Mind Over Medicine and which scientists do not understand but have theories about. I thought some of you might be interested in what I wrote. In the...
The BRAND NEW REVISED Mind Over Medicine Is Born Today
When I decided to rewrite 2/3 of my classic bestseller Mind Over Medicine a year ago so I could update much of the science, add new tools for healing and transformation, and entirely modify the Six Steps To Healing Yourself based on my deeper understanding of how...
Social Isolation Brings Up Trauma For Healing
Lots of people are having a rough time right now, and it’s no wonder. There is a strong link between social isolation and trauma, and when so much radical change is upon us, it’s natural that our “stuff” will bubble up. When we do not have the routines of daily...
Coronavirus Prevention With The Whole Health Green Juice Cleanse
In the face of a pandemic, we need more than just Outer Shield methods of prevention, such as lockdown, social distancing, and masks. Now more than ever, the importance of bolstering your Inner Shield so your body can be resilient in the face of this virus should...
Don’t Say “But I’m Not Racist”
I have a part that wants to keep my mouth shut about racism, because it's one of those land mines. There's so much white fragility and justifiable black rage, and I seem to trigger so many people when I bring it up, so my conflict-avoidant part just wants to smooth...
The Medicine Of Connection During The Social Isolation Of COVID-19
The link between community, connection, and optimal health and longevity is well established scientifically, as is the causal relationship between loneliness, social isolation, and disease risk. In normal times, the solution might be obvious. Join a group! Attend a...
Bolster Your Inner Shield To Develop COVID-19 Resilience (Plus 2 Possible COVID Cures)
In "Prepare For Reopening," I described why you’re not a helpless victim of a potential viral attack but an empowered patient who can be very proactive about preparing your body, mind, heart, and soul for the risks of reopening, whenever that happens in your...
You Need More Than Mental Intelligence To Get Through A Pandemic: A Primer For Using Your Four Whole Health Intelligences
Now that we have bought ourselves a few months of time with a global quarantine, individual states and countries will be making decisions about loosening the Outer Shield imposed upon us by our governments and public health officials. As lockdown restrictions...
Prepare For Reopening: Be Proactive About Cultivating Body, Mind, Heart, Spirit Resilience In Times Of Crisis
Since the pandemic of Covid-19 blasted across the globe and caused us to radically change how we’re living, doctors, epidemiologists, public health officials, and the mainstream media have been focused exclusively on creating an outer shield against this infectious...
The Viral Wake Up Call: An IFS Perspective By Dick Schwartz
The Viral Wake Up Call: An IFS Perspective By Dick Schwartz Very rarely do I post guest blogs on this blog, but my mentor and founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Richard Schwartz, PhD just wrote this post about IFS in the times of a pandemic, and my...
17 Things We Don’t Know—And Shouldn’t Pretend To Know—About COVID-19
A few days ago on Facebook, I made a casual comment questioning part of the dominant narrative (that the anti-viral remdesivir is indeed worthy of Dr. Fauci’s optimism and a lightning speed rush to FDA approval.) A physician and medical director challenged...