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Healer, Heal Thyself: Why We Need Trauma Recovery For Doctors, Nurses &...
Because I used to be a doctor and because many of my friends, colleagues, and clients are doctors and therapists, I have my finger on the pulse of what it’s been like to be a front-line Covid doctor...
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2 Playlists To Support Our Burned Out Healers, Our Long Covid & Trauma...
Rise Up, by Lissa Rankin & her daughter Mira Klein, encaustic on wood panel 18 x 18 To say that this has been a hard two years is literally the understatement of the century. Unless you were alive...
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Why You’d Be Wise Not To Trust Every Healer (Or Doctor or Therapist) Who...
*Trigger alert: Emotional, physical, sexual, and financial abuse at the hands of those we entrust to help us heal when we are at our most vulnerable. I used to believe that doctors were heroes, if not...
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What Is And Is Not Love? A Valentine’s Day Wish For All The Lovers, With Or...
What if love, or at least the “love” depicted in love songs and romantic comedies, is not actually love? What if what we typically refer to as love is an intoxicatingly intense boundary-less merging,...
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Let’s Not Polarize Into The Science Camp and the Anti-Science Camp: I Stand...
Sometimes we get sick, and conventional medicine can cure us lickety-split. And thank God for those cures and for the doctors who deliver them. I was once one of those doctors, and it felt so...
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Debunking The Law Of Attraction (Plus A More Empathic Sacred Medicine Healing...
Although there is a grain of truth in the teachings, law of attraction folks put too much emphasis on thinking yourself well without acknowledging that illness is multifactorial, complex, and your...
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I Stand With Ukraine. I’m Also Unsettled By How Much White Lives Seem To...
It guts me- and so many of you- to watch the violence, to see the innocent people suffering, to gaze in horror as a bully abuses his fellow humans, to witness a colonizer invading, feeling entitled to...
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Why Do Innocent People Have To Suffer?
As I watch the horrifying news in Ukraine, as hospitals are bombed and unarmed civilians, some of them children, are killed, I can’t help wondering about the question I asked every healer, guru,...
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Memoir As Medicine: The Healing Power Of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect,...
Synchrodestiny got hold of me recently. I had just gotten off the phone with Esalen Institute, planning my first post-pandemic 5 day Sacred Medicine workshop at Esalen in May and a month-long...
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Why It’s Worth Off-Ramping From Spiritual Bypassing
Spiritual bypassing, a phrase coined by John Welwood and defined as a kind of spiritualized conflict avoidance that demonizes certain natural emotions like anger and can cause us to bypass our need...
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