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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…
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…
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…
BREATHING THROUGH GRIEF
This is my dog Ramona. Yesterday morning she died in my arms. Events leading up to her death are too…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
THE LOW INFORMATION DIET
There is one thing that my most stressed out, negative, and unhappy patients do every day, most of them without…
