15 Journaling Exercises to Help You Heal, Grow, and Thrive
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…
How to Make the Most Out of Your Role as a Caregiver
As a caregiver, you have a unique set of needs and great strengths that help you navigate your journey. Caregivers face a constantly evolving role that changes with the health…
Your Complete Guide to Building the Right Pain Management Team
If you’re like most people, the doctor you see most often is your primary care provider, likely a family physician or internist. And that’s certainly the place to start when…
How to Understand Your Pain and the Critical Way to Find Relief
When you break your leg, undergo surgery, or burn your hand, you experience pain—acute pain. With treatment and time, the pain usually disappears. But chronic pain is different. It hangs…
How Our Government Can Improve Our Healthcare System
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…
The Four Dimensions of Healing Everyone Should Know About
Only about 15 to 20 percent of health-related outcomes are attributable to medical interventions. The rest are related to health behaviors such as diet, physical activity, and smoking status, with…
Healing Tools Series: Managing Behavioral Health Issues in Primary Care: Six Five-Minute Tools
Practical five-minute strategies for family physicians to support patients with depression, anxiety and other behavioral health issues “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients…
Healing Tool Series: Narrative Medicine
A patient-centered, collaborative storytelling process to deliver respectful, empathic, and effective medical care for serious illness “Healing Tools” summaries are a collection of evidence-based resources to help providers and patients…
Conquering Chronic Pain: Self-care plus conventional treatment helps patients relieve or prevent chronic pain
Getting through the workday used to take all of Olivia Seonbuchner’s energy and willpower. For about 19 months, the 25-year-old would go home and get into bed with a heating…
Healing Tool Series: Integrating Self-Management Training to Prevent or Relieve Chronic Pain and Addiction
Online training program and massive open online course (MOOC; free or with a CEU fee) for patients and providers to integrate self-management with evidence-based treatment in transformative chronic pain care…