When my 59 year old physician father was given three months to live four months after he’d already been cured from an altogether different cancer, I asked myself “If I found out I had only three months to live, would I be living the life I’m living right now?” The...
I’ve spent most of my career exploring answers to the question “What really makes people sick and what really cures disease?” I thought I’d find those answers in medical school, only to discover that what I spent twelve years rigorously studying and eight years...
I once asked my physician mentor Rachel Naomi Remen, author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and the founder of The Healer’s Art (the only education about actual healing taught in medical schools around the world) what it would take to heal our broken health care system....
In my last blog, How Can You Tell If You Or Your Partner Are Projecting?, we discussed the telltale signs of the defense mechanism of “projection,” when someone projects their own feelings onto others or shifts blame from themselves onto someone else. We also...
As human beings, we are often more complex than we realize. Our minds and hearts are intricately woven together, forming the tapestry of our experiences, beliefs, and emotions. In relationships, these threads can sometimes become tangled, leading us to see our...
I’m preparing curriculum right now for a weekend Zoom workshop I’m teaching in September with my partner Jeff Rediger, called Healing Attachment Wounds In Relationship. The workshop is intended to support those who are more securely attached and trying to love...
As I wrote in Navigating The Space Between Stories, many of us are experiencing more change, more quickly, with more uncertainty, than we’re used to. To meet this need for support during times of change, Dr. Jeffrey Rediger and I are hosting a live, in person...
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 best interests at heart, public conversations are flourishing about culty dynamics, narcissism, sociopathy- and how...