When Your Body Makes the Rules: Living with a Chronic Condition
Six in 10. For older adults, more than eight in 10. That’s how many Americans live with a chronic disease or health condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control…
How to Stimulate Healing with Fasting and Whole Systems Science
While periodic starvation may sound harsh and not healing, studies show the exact opposite—when carefully done. Extensive research on large populations, as well as in controlled studies with animals and…
How to Improve Your Well-Being In the New Year
Personal wholeness is the feeling of well-being that occurs when your body, mind, and spirit are in harmony and balance. Whether you are suffering from depression or recovering from a…
Healing Tool Series: Beyond Conventional Cancer Therapies
“Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients use integrative health approaches to improve health and wellbeing. The tool below is for patients with cancer…
My Wife Susan’s Response to Cancer
As we’ve discussed over the last several weeks, the journey from cancer diagnosis to a place of healing can be long and difficult. Jenny Leyh’s experience—which was shot a couple…
COVID-19: An Opportunity for True Health Care Transformation
The COVID-19 bomb just blew apart America’s healthcare system. It has poked holes in all our weaknesses and laid to waste many who work in health care, both on the…
How Your Physical Presence Can Impact Others’ Healing
It has been scientifically proven that our physical and emotional presence influences the healing of other human beings—it’s a phenomenon that is as fascinating as it is beautiful. The following…
The Science of Love and Loss: How Loneliness Impacts Us
As we’ve seen in our recent COVID-19 survey, and in our latest collection of blog posts, isolation and loneliness can have a real, negative effect on our health—impacting our body,…
Resources to Support a Healthy Immune System Right Now
Coronavirus. COVID-19. Social distancing, flattening the curve, sheltering in place. This spring has brought, not just new life, but new words and a new way of being. Dealing with the…
A Parent’s Guide to a Tantrum-Free Home
I was just a few days into working from home with my two-year-old in the house and the meltdown was pretty epic. Embarrassingly, the meltdown was all mine and not…