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WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET

In my clinical experience, one of the biggest impediments to pain recovery is MRI, CT, or other imaging “evidence” of…

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DO YOU *REALLY* WANT TO BE WELL?

The remainder of the article will make more sense if you start by watching the video below. Although the video…

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MOVING UP THE EMOTIONAL SCALE

As I wrote here and here, changing the story you tell (both to yourself and others) is an essential step toward overcoming chronic…

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BREATHING THROUGH GRIEF

This is my dog Ramona. Yesterday morning she died in my arms. Events leading up to her death are too…

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WHAT DR. SARNO DIDN’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT ACUPUNCTURE

Do I have to stop acupuncture in order to heal from TMS? If you have read any of Dr. Sarno’s…

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USING THE TAPPING TREE TO UNTANGLE THE EMOTIONAL ROOTS OF YOUR PROBLEM

If there is one thing that I have learned from my own healing journey and the experience of working with thousands of…

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TELL THE STORY YOU WANT TO LIVE

I explained here how reading The Mindbody Prescription and recognizing that my pain was an effort on the part of my unconscious…

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MY STUBBORN RESISTANCE TO A MINDBODY EXPLANATION FOR MY PAIN

I have a confession: before I was willing to consider the mind-body connection, I had to try pretty much EVERYTHING…

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IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THE ISLAND, YOU HAVE TO BURN THE BOATS

The boats are burning… At the end of September my husband Lee sent me a cryptic text message in the…

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THE LOW INFORMATION DIET

There is one thing that my most stressed out, negative, and unhappy patients do every day, most of them without…

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