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September 10, 2012
The Worst Kind Of Betrayal
I was reading my shero Brené Brown’s new book Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead when I reached page 51 and my heart stopped in an “OMG, how did she read my mind, and how did she know exactly how to give language to something that’s been hurting for years?” sorta way.
August 29, 2012
How To Wildly Succeed In Your Life’s Work
Tama Kieves was a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer doing what Harvard-trained corporate lawyers are “supposed” to do, when she realized her soul wanted to write books and poetry and help people find what their souls longed to do. Her first book This Time I Dance, is one of my absolute faves, and I love it so much I was almost nervous to read her latest book Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding In Your Life’s Work, which launches today.
August 14, 2012
Is Medicine A Fundamentalist Religion?
For the first 36 years of my life, I was raised in a fundamentalist religion, where I was indoctrinated by zealots, frequently abused by the leaders of my religion, and oppressed when I expressed dissenting beliefs.
My religion was medicine, and I’ve now learned that much of what I was taught was patently untrue.
July 24, 2012
The Relationship Between Writing, Art & Money
As author Richard Ford said in this article about money and the writer, “It mattered a great deal more that my novel would be read than that somebody paid me."
When you’re a writer, sentiments like this seems so romantic. You do it for the love. You do it for the passion. You do it because you’re writing about something that matters and you want to shout it from the rooftops so everyone can hear.
July 10, 2012
How To Keep Your Heart Open When You Lose A Pet - Part 2
Ariel, a 2 pound fluffy white bichon frise tied in a pink bow, was my 21st birthday present from my parents. I giggled with her when she humped the stuffed pig my best friend had given me in college (who knew spayed female dogs still have such libido?) She decided that pig was her bitch, and I begrudgingly relinquished it to her.
June 26, 2012
How NOT To Pick Up A Woman
My 11 year old nephew Zay got stood up by a 21 year old guy who was supposed to take him out on a jet ski on the lake at my mother’s house, where I was visiting with my daughter. Zay was so heartbroken, I offered to go down to the dock, do my yoga practice, and let him kayak around the cove (which he’s not allowed to do without adult supervision.)
June 25, 2012
June 12, 2012
I’m Sprouting Wings & Giving Owning Pink Hers
When I first started blogging in April 2009, it was just little ol’ me and a dream.
From the beginning, I imagined OwningPink.com as a community, not a solo blog.
June 10, 2012
Mind Over Medicine: The Awesome Power Of The Mind To Heal The Body
I just finished my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself (Hay House, 2013), but I’m still researching the topic that has fascinated me for the past four years. I just started reading Consciousness & Healing: Integral Approaches To Mind-Body Medicine, by my friend and IONS president Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Amorok.
June 7, 2012
What Heals Most? The Pill Or The Practitioner?
In response to my blog post Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, Mind/Body Medicine expert Dr. Susan Bernstein wrote a comment that bears highlighting. In a rousing conversation in the comments, we were debating whether doctors should be actively prescribing placebos when patients suffer from conditions for which we have inadequate treatment.
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