One of the theoretical benefits of living in a small community is the relative absence of social boundaries that force people into disparate groups based around material evidence of wealth. […]
Any talk of heart disease – the world’s leading killer – is synonymous with bad genes, bad diet and bad luck. If you’ve already been diagnosed with heart disease, chances are you’ve […]
Francis Xavier reportedly once said, “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” According to many scientists, this outcome is the result of neural hard […]
What makes for a healthy and resource-rich community? And what makes the individual resourceful and healthy? The answer to both questions, I aim to convince, is you do. Of course the […]
Here’s a disturbing fact: persons aged 15 to 39 years old have worse cancer survival than any other age group [1, 2]. Here’s another: whereas cancer survival in general has […]
Adverse experiences such as abuse, bereavement, bullying, perceived failure, trauma and illness can leave an indelible imprint on our human psyche that strikes at the core of who we are. Being […]
Having cancer affects many different aspects of well being, both positive and negative. Now, evidence suggests that cancer survivors who use complementary and integrative medicine are more likely to have positive […]
Disease is not a disorder of the mind or of the body. It is neither useful nor meaningful to separate disease into discrete categories of mental or physical suffering. Rather, disease is […]
We have severed mind and body from story and disease. In Western culture, this severance is several centuries underway and the cost to individual and community health is enormous. Dr. […]
A MindBody approach recognizes that our disease – in any of its myriad shapes and forms – is NOT a random aberration of the body or mind, an entity separate […]
