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How To Find Your Calling
This post is for those of you who are still seeking your purpose. Before I give you some practical tips, let me start by saying that finding your...
Introducing Lissa’s Next TEDx Video- Is Medicine Killing You?
Is medicine saving us- or killing us? Are doctors helping you- or harming you? Are you improving your health by taking prescription drugs- or are...
What To Do When You Can’t Decide
We usually refer to “finding your calling” as getting in touch with your life purpose. But you may be called to do any number of things that may...
Lissa’s Heal Yourself- Mind Over Medicine Debuts On National Public Television Today!
As a doctor, I always thought that, to be healthy, you simply had to eat well, exercise, get enough sleep, take your vitamins, and follow doctor’s...
How To Have Both Intimacy & Space In A Relationship
In the wake of the renegotiation of my sacred contract with a friend, I had an epiphany. In my close relationships, I have two opposing desires:...
Your Doctor Has PTSD
While I was in Fargo, North Dakota delivering my third TEDx talk (you can watch my other two here and here, I facilitated a community conversation...
How To Renegotiate A Sacred Contract
Lately, I’ve been bumbling my way through a relationship with a friend. She’s a little skittish, so I hold back and don’t always say what I think...
1 1 Ways To Be A Proactive Patient
As I wrote about here, too many patients hand the power of their health over to physicians who they believe will fix them, and then if the doctor...
Can You Make Peace With Loss?
As I wrote about in Part 1 of my blog series about M. Scott Peck’s book The Road Less Traveled, Are You Disciplined?, Dr. Peck teaches that the...
Have You Learned Helplessness As A Patient?
When my literary agent Michele read the first draft of my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, she said,...
How Leaning Into Joy Can Save Your Life
Recently, I was blessed to be able to spend an hour on the phone with my shero and mentor Brené Brown, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller...
10 Myths About Self-Healing Debunked
Positive psychology and New Age ideas about health and healing have flooded the internet and bookstore shelves in recent years. But as a...