How to Care For Yourself When Caring For Others
As a caregiver, you spend most of your time thinking of and acting for others. This makes it hard to shift the focus back onto you. It can even feel…
As a caregiver, you spend most of your time thinking of and acting for others. This makes it hard to shift the focus back onto you. It can even feel…
Journaling is a way of going on a retreat without leaving your home. Documenting your thoughts with a pen and paper is a way to acknowledge past experiences that may…
Americans define health in broad terms; wish doctors would talk to them about more than just physical health Many Americans experience a disconnect between how they personally define health and…
When I think about chronic pain, I think about my patient Margaret and her back pain. She wasn’t sure how it started – maybe she lifted her grandson wrong, or…
If you are looking to address symptoms related to your health concerns, sometimes all you need to do is breathe. Breathwork is a practice and/or therapeutic intervention that involves consciously exerting…
A website to help patients get better healthcare by talking to their doctors about their lives and goals. “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and…
It’s clear that the US healthcare system needs changing. The costs are too high and the results too poor. The system also needs changing because our patients have changed. What…
Journal article about using personalized care plan to improve care for medically complex, high-need patients. “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients use integrative…
The healing process is understood and applied in many traditions and by wise physicians today but has been obscured by modern medicine’s obsession with external agents, such as pills, procedures,…
When I began practice as a young doctor, I thought that the treatments I gave to patients were the primary reason they got well. But after almost 40 years of…