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December 15, 2011
The Healing Round Table
If you're a patient who has incorporated complementary and alternative medicine into your health care regimen, you may have bumped up against some resistance on both sides of the healing fence. Your doctor may think your homeopath is a total quack selling snake oil, and your homeopath may think your doctor is a big thug, thwacking his pharmaceutical hammer at anything that moves.
December 13, 2011
Abstinence For The Holidays
Spiked egg nog, mulled wine, and New Years champagne are nearly as ingrained in our holiday psyches as Christmas trees, menorahs, and Santa Claus.
But why? Why do so many of us overindulge in booze year after year, knowing that by January, we'll be feeling puffy, bloated, and toxic?
December 11, 2011
How Do You Find Love?
It's not that hard to find like. Or lust. Or friendship.
But love - true, epic, lasting love, the kind of love that leads you to celebrate 50 year anniversaries - is a whole other story.
As someone with two divorces under my belt, you may be reluctant to take love advice from me, and I wouldn't blame you! But I'm nine years into my current marriage, and things are better than ever, so maybe I've learned a thing or two. Take it with a grain of salt, but in case something I've learned resonates with you and helps you find the kind of lasting love I've finally found, I wanted to share it with you.
December 7, 2011
TEDxFiDiWomen: Speaking Your Truth Is Good For Your Health
I recently got up on the blue backlit stage to deliver my first TEDx talk at TEDxFiDiWomen in San Francisco, and as I stood there in the spotlight, I felt the gravity of what I was about to do.
Looking out over that sea of people who were anticipating what I was about to say, I felt the butterflies in my belly, but they didn’t keep me from leading off my TEDx talk with a bold statement - “Caring for your body is the LEAST important part of your health.”
TED: Speaking Your Truth Is Good For Your Health
I recently got up on the blue backlit stage to deliver my first TED talk at TEDxFiDiWomen in San Francisco, and as I stood there in the spotlight, I felt the gravity of what I was about to do.
Looking out over that sea of people who were anticipating what I was about to say, I felt the butterflies in my belly, but they didn’t keep me from leading off my TED talk with a bold statement - “Caring for your body is the LEAST important part of your health.”
December 5, 2011
Give Gifts Without Spending A Penny
I'm not a shopper. It's just not my thing. So when I heard that Black Friday sales were starting at midnight the night of Thanksgiving this year, I wanted to puke. Like puh-lease retailers. Can I at least digest my turkey before you start cramming STUFF I DON'T NEED down my throat?
December 4, 2011
Why Ask "So, What Do You Do?"
The 15 minutes of fame garnered by my blog, my books, and my social media success lead strangers to reach out and ask to meet me from time to time. Lately, I've been saying no because I've been in my book-writing cave, pounding away on my next book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself.
December 1, 2011
Practicing Love, With A Little Medicine On The Side
As I wrote about here, I believe medicine is a spiritual practice because practicing medicine is all about being vessels for Divine love, so we can facilitate the process of self-healing for our patients.
But nobody ever taught me this in medical school. I learned it by merely being human.
Because of my ability to be both human and a doctor, I have always practiced love, with a little medicine on the side.
November 29, 2011
Scientific Proof We Can Heal Ourselves
There's a lot of "woo woo" talk out there in the land of metaphysics, the law of attraction, and mind/body medicine about our capacity for self-healing. As an open-minded physician, I've always been fascinated by this concept. But as a skeptical scientist at heart, I've always had this little voice in the back of my head that says, "Bullshit. Prove it."
November 27, 2011
Do Working Moms Raise Healthier Kids?
If you're a working mother like me, you may have noticed a few raised eyebrows from time to time. I was only five weeks postpartum when I had to go back to my work as an OB/GYN physician, and you'd have thought I had murdered my infant the way some women looked at me. ("How dare she? How selfish of her. But just wait - that child will be totally messed up one day.")
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