It’s been an enormous month for me. I was inducted into the Association of Transformational Leadership and that led to a slew of potential business opportunities that came rushing in. One guy wants to help me train physicians in the Whole Health approach to...
The first time I was chatting on the phone with Martha Beck, we were talking about my business and Martha said, “Ah, I see. You’re one of us.” “One of what?” I asked. “A stealth agent for God,” she answered. “People think you’re a doctor. But your physician’s white...
I had no idea why I signed up for the workshop with Sera Beak, author of The Red Book, other than the fact that I’d had dinner with her, along with sisters Leslie and Kris Carr a year and a half ago. The minute I met her, I knew Sera would become one of my...
I recently met with a group of doctors who gather at Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen’s house monthly to discuss a variety of topics and seek meaning in medicine and in the human experience. The topic of the month was “Safety,” our quest for it, our desire for it and, as we...
Colorado teen Jarell Brooks just wanted to see a movie about superheroes. He didn’t realize, as he entered the fated theater in Aurora to see the latest Batman movie, that he was about to become one. The 19 year old was ready to high-tail it outa dodge when the...
For almost four years, I’ve been guided by my friend and spiritual counselor Tricia Barrett, who I first met when she was running the green juice detox cleanse at the integrative medicine practice where I worked. With a boatload of life experience, hard earned...
You feel it when you’re skiing down that mountain at lightning speed while listening to your favorite song on your iPod. You feel it when you’re walking through the park with the object of your affection and every flower and tree is splashed with Technicolor,...
I was cleaning out my storage unit and came across the book of poems I wrote as a young girl - the book a publisher wanted to publish back when I was 15. (I politely declined - these were my private poems and not meant for public viewing.) This poem, which I wrote...