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What Helps & What Doesn’t Help When Someone You Love Is Sick, Suffering, Grieving A Loss, or in Physical or Emotional Pain?
What Helps & What Doesn't Help When Someone You Love Is Sick, Suffering, Grieving A Loss, or in Physical or Emotional Pain?Someone I love just found out a loved one is very sick, afraid, and in pain. He knows that it's part of my work to train doctors how to...
A Retired OB/GYN’s Commentary On The Leaked News Of Our Supreme Court Overturning Roe Vs. Wade (& How I Did Abortions Because I Believed I’d Be A Hypocrite If I Didn’t).
When I interviewed for my OB/GYN residency at the prestigious Northwestern University program, which was my first choice, I was told very clearly that Northwestern's OB/GYN department supports a woman's right to choose whether she keeps a pregnancy or not, and that if...
The Difference Between Helpful Hope & Disheartening “Not Good Enough To Deserve A Miracle” Messaging About Healing When All Else Has Failed
In the original draft of my new book Sacred Medicine, the book opened with a legitimate, medically provable radical remission story about a child with a life-threatening illness conventional medicine had given up on. In desperation, the parents of the child,...
Germ Theory AND Terrain Theory
Those of you in the wellness world might have noticed a curious polarization between "germ theory" and "terrain theory" advocates during the pandemic. But as I write in my book Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest To Unravel The Mysteries Of Healing, we can...
Memoir As Medicine: The Healing Power Of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (But Gorgeously Yours) Life Story
Synchrodestiny got hold of me recently. I had just gotten off the phone with Esalen Institute, planning my first post-pandemic 5 day Sacred Medicine workshop at Esalen in May and a month-long Burnout Recovery For Health Care Workers & Therapists in the fall,...
Why Do Innocent People Have To Suffer?
As I watch the horrifying news in Ukraine, as hospitals are bombed and unarmed civilians, some of them children, are killed, I can’t help wondering about the question I asked every healer, guru, spiritual leader, mind-body doctor, and trauma therapist during...