When Martha Beck and I spent the day together recently, I wound up getting an impromptu coaching session while sitting in the lobby of the hotel after a full day of filming a documentary that features us both. Since I’m the luckiest woman on the planet to benefit...
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 about health care with Dr. Susan Mathison, founder of Catalyst Medical Center, who is also one of the doctors in my...
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 Daring Greatly. We had so much giddy fun on our teleclass about the intersection of vulnerability and health, how shame...
Before bed last night, I was reading my new friend Momastery blogger Glennon Doyle Melton’s wonderful New York Times bestselling memoir Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts On Life Unarmed. What really resonated with me is a chapter called “The Golden Coin,” about how...
As Phase 1 of my Mind Over Medicine book tour winds down, I’m starting to think in the direction of my next book, The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage As Medicine For The Body, Mind & Soul, which Hay House will be publishing. I spent most of this past winter...
As I headed to Albany, New York last week to film a 90 minute public television special, as well as 6 hours of additional DVD content that would be included as part of the PBS fundraising pledge package, I knew I was walking into a situation that was completely out...
I was scheduled to speak in Munster, Indiana at 7 pm in front of 300 cancer patients, their support people, and their health care providers. Mapquest said it would only take 48 minutes to drive from the North Shore of Chicago, but knowing Chicago traffic, I left at...
In Mind Over Medicine, in my latest TEDx talk and in many blog posts like this one, I talk about how the body is equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that can be flipped on or off with thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that originate in the mind. This is...