Designing a Healing Environment by Removing Stress Barriers
Depressed, or anxious? Adapt your environment to soothe and heal rather than overwhelm and stress you with this free downloadable guide.
Optimal Healing Environments
Each person has inherent healing capacity. Through small changes in your daily life, you can increase your body’s ability to heal. You also may foster that same healing capacity in…
Suffering and Healing
Welcome to the latest essay in our "On Healing" series, where Dr. Wayne Jonas explores whole person care and the deeper dimensions of healing. Maria sat across from me, her…
Healing the Healer: How to Conquer Burnout through Self-Care
When Wayne B. Jonas, MD, started practicing medicine in 1981, he was the only physician responsible for two entire battalions and their families – about 4,000 people. He learned quickly…
Listening: The Door to Healing
As we near the end of March, I think about Match Day, when fourth-year medical graduates all over the country find out where they will spend the next several years…
The Ritual of Healing
“I am back,” said Rhonda, with an energy and enthusiasm that couldn’t be faked. And she was back. Back at her volunteer job in the hospital giving out books, games,…
Time for a Relationship Check-up: 4 Steps to Fostering Healing Relationships
Healing relationships cultivate emotional and spiritual well-being, creating a powerful way to maintain wellness or recovery. They are typically formed between family members, friends, or other individuals with whom you…
Creating a Healing Space at Home with These 5 Steps
Healing spaces minimize stress, make you feel good, bring your family and friends together and can help improve your health and wellbeing. During a winter when we all will be…
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…
Cancer-Fighting Foods for More Energy and Better Healing
When you have cancer, what you eat may not seem important. Cancer treatments and their side effects, and just having cancer, can change the way you eat and how your…