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March 11, 2012
Self-Healing Doesn't Mean Ditching Conventional Medicine
I was working at the Owning Pink Center, the integrative medicine practice I founded in Mill Valley, California, when I met Sandrine, who had been diagnosed with endometrial cancer, an often-curable type of cancer of the lining of the uterus. Her doctors moved quickly to get her scheduled for a hysterectomy, which is standard treatment for someone with endometrial cancer. But Sandrine didn't want treatment. It's not that she had a death wish. In fact, she had never been happier in her life, and she was doing everything within her power to cure her cancer, including radically changing her diet, meditating, and engaging in guided visualization. Cancer, she said, was the best thing that ever happened to her.
March 6, 2012
Are You In Service To What I Serve?
When I posted my first blog on OwningPink.com back in April of 2009, I set an intention and wrote it, in magic marker, on my office wall. I wrote "I want Owning Pink to invite people to know that they are loved, safe, and nurtured."
My intention for the site has changed over time, because it quickly became clear to me that Owning Pink wasn't just in service to those in need of healing; it was also in service to those who serve those in need of healing. Owning Pink is a community of healers and visionaries committed to easing the suffering of others - and in doing so, healing ourselves, achieving bliss, watching magic happen, and healing the whole freakin' world.
March 5, 2012
8 Ways To Get The Most From Your Doctor's Visit
You may wish you could spend a whole hour with your doctor, feeling relaxed and unhurried while your doctor lays healing hands on you. You may fantasize about asking all of the questions on your list, getting every question answered, and having time to pick your doctor's brain about the print outs you brought in from the internet search you did so you could be an informed consumer of health care services. You may dream of truly understanding your diagnosis, having time to check in with your intuition about the treatment options your doctor recommends, and feeling confident that you've made the right decision about what's best for the body nobody knows better than you.
March 4, 2012
Why Do Bad Things Happen To Innocent People?
Every day, I get dozens of emails from people responding to the Daily Flame, the daily messages from your Inner Pilot Light that remind you who you are and invite you to tap into your own divine truth.
Some of the emails are worth sharing, like this one, that refers to the post I wrote about how God helps me write these messages.
March 1, 2012
The Secret To Healing From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
I meet some of the most amazing people on Twitter and Facebook, and after posting some of the quotes from my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, many people who have embarked upon self-healing journeys have reached out to tell me their story. I find these stories incredibly inspiring and validating of what I'm writing about. In fact, I'm using some of the stories in the book itself.
February 28, 2012
Help Me Train Doctors
The Human Resources department of a large managed care company wants to hire me to train their doctors how to practice the kind of Pink Medicine I spoke about in my TEDx talk, which I'm also writing about in my upcoming book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself. It's long been a dream of mine that, after leaving the conventional health care system, healing myself, and learning how I believe health care can be practiced, I would one day enter back into the system to teach the doctors, who are like I was six years ago, doing the best they can but failing to optimize their healing superpowers.
February 26, 2012
How To Soldier On Amidst Criticism
When you decide to broadcast your life publicly - on the internet and in books - it comes at a price. While most of the attention I garner is preciously positive, some of it stings like the dickens.
This is relatively new for me. Prior to launching Owning Pink in 2009, I pretty much lived under the radar, and as a model student, well-behaved doctor, and keeper of secrets, I didn't face much criticism. That all changed when I decided to live my life out loud, let my freak flag fly, and broadcast my triumphs and trials on the internet.
February 23, 2012
The #1 Mistake Healers Make
I picked up someone's beat up, discarded novel at the rental house where I stayed on Lake Erie this past summer - Cutting For Stone, by Abraham Verghese. And I started reading one night and instantly got caught up in the story.
In the first few pages, the fictional narrator, a surgeon, says:
February 21, 2012
What's Your Sh*t Pickle?
As part of my blog series about Pink Medicine, I wanted to share with you the story of an exceptional patient, who I'm blessed to have as a friend. This woman has made straight A's in activating her Inner Pilot Light and being her own healer. She's a rock star woman who has earned her honorary white coat like nobody's business. You've met her before in her posts here on Owning Pink and in the interview I did with her. Meet my friend Kris Carr.
February 19, 2012
How To Release Childhood Wounds
I grew up believing that love is conditional. I don't blame my parents for this - and it turns out it wasn't true - but I genuinely thought my parents would only love me if:
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