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Why You May Be Irrationally Freaked Out About Coronavirus (& How To Relax)
When it comes to this coronavirus outbreak, let's talk about fear, powerlessness, control, and trauma, just so we can understand the psychology of how we assess risk and how we respond emotionally to risk. Rationally, we can educate our minds to understand that the...
CORONAVIRUS: What is Self-Quarantine & How To Recover Fully If You Get It
In the US, we now have 220 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across 19 states, with 12 deaths, the latest one in California in Placer County. The person who died, who had underlying health problems so was more vulnerable, had been one of the 2500 people on the Grand...
Practical Tips For Coronavirus Protection From A Virologist
It's getting hard to keep up with how to report the spread of this virus, since different sources are reporting different numbers, but it seems that we have about 95,000 cases globally and 3300 deaths. Many of the new cases that are spreading to other...
CORONAVIRUS: What’s New & An IFS Practice To Calm Scared Parts
Hey folks, I wanted to update you on what we know about the Coronavirus outbreak, mostly because I hope everyone will relax. My housemate went to Costco in Northern California this week, and people were using their arms to sweep drugs and canned goods into...
CORONAVIRUS: How It Compares To The Flu, Pregnancy & A California Update
Yesterday, I posted What You Need To Know About Coronavirus & 15 Tips For Staying Safe, and since then, my message boxes have been flooded with questions! So please, read the original blog if you haven’t already, then make sure you’re on my newsletter list...
What You Need To Know About Coronavirus & 15 Tips For Staying Safe
Whenever news media starts declaring states of emergency and uttering words like “pandemic,” people understandably start to panic. Keep in mind that the news media’s job is to keep you informed about global events, but it’s also their job to get your attention and...
Get CURED: Change Your Diet, Reduce Inflammation & Heal Your Identity
For those of you following along in this blog series, we’ve been exploring, one “CURED Tip” at a time, the interventions employed by people who experienced “spontaneous healing” as reported by Harvard doctor, researcher, and new Whole Health Medicine Institute...
Spontaneous Remission: Heal Trauma & Believe Cure Is Possible
For those of you following along in this blog series, we've been exploring, one "CURED Tip" at a time, the interventions employed by people who experienced "spontaneous healing" as reported by Harvard doctor, researcher, and new Whole Health Medicine Institute...
Spontaneous Healing: Can Healers Or Sacred Sites Cure Diseases?
In the Whole Health Medicine Institute program that I founded, which is enrolling for the Class of 2020 now (learn more and enroll here), we teach doctors and others who are interested how to help patients optimize their likelihood of becoming what Harvard doctor...
Dose Your Nervous System With Hormones That Heal
In my last blog, I gave you the backstory of how I came to meet Harvard doctor and researcher Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv, who just published CURED: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing, finally sharing the results of his 13 years of research into...
Harvard Doctor Untangles The Mysteries of Spontaneous Healing
The mysterious phenomena the medical community calls “spontaneous remission” has long puzzled scientists and doctors because of the very inexplicable nature of how patients with “incurable” diseases wind up cured. A similarly bewildering phenomena, the placebo...
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...