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When You’re Terrified Of Intimacy
I have a soft spot in my heart for people who both crave and fear intimacy. And I especially feel tender towards couples or besties who have...
Getting Out Of The Power Game
We can't read the news these days without reflecting on power and how those who shamelessly abuse power are destroying the world we know. The...
The Difference Between Healing & Curing
Although we have a ways to go, the zeitgeist is catching up to the idea that 85-90% of medical conditions are caused by or exacerbated by...
MIND OVER MEDICINE + INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS: Getting To Know “Parts” Involved With Medical Conditions, Part 2
If you missed Part 1 of this series on the marriage of the Six Steps To Healing Yourself with Internal Family Systems (IFS), you can catch up in...
MIND OVER MEDICINE + INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS: Getting To Know “Parts” Involved With Medical Conditions, Part 1
When I first wrote Mind Over Medicine in 2012, I wasn’t aware of Internal Family Systems (IFS). But for 6 years, I had been writing daily love...
The 5 D’s of Coercive Control: Double Binds, Double Speak, Double Standards, Double Vision & DARVO
With all the autocratic rulers seeking world domination these days, and with more and more awareness of how power hungry narcissists do not have our...
“I’m Sorry I Have To Hurt You In Order To Heal You”
*Photo credit Monique Feil I’ve been lucky to mostly avoid hospitals, at least as a patient. Other than childbirth, I was always on the practitioner...
Healing The Doctor-Patient Relationship, Part 2
In Healing The Doctor-Patient Relationship, I wrote about the traumas that can happen for both patient and doctor, when the doctor-patient...
Healing The Doctor-Patient Relationship Part 1
When I was training to become a physician, the rules of the broken, outdated, patriarchal medical system were made clear to me. They went something...
A Global Apology On Behalf Of Physicians Everywhere
When I was working on my New York Times bestseller Mind Over Medicine, a friend of mine wrote to me right after leaving her doctor’s office. With...
Why Making Art Supports Trauma Healing & Could Save Your Life
I want to talk to you all about something I rarely talk about these days- ART. I want to talk about it because I used to teach encaustic art classes...
Part 7: Six Steps To Healing Yourself – 44 Revelations About Healing They DID NOT Teach Me In Medical School
In this series, I’m reviewing the Cliff Notes of everything I should have learned in medical school, but didn’t- and everything I’ve learned since I...