by admin | Jan 29, 2010 | chronic illness, empowerment, healing, healing hearts, inspiration, patient healing, Pets, tools for healing, wellbeing
Bambie, Kitzeleh, Kelly, Sheba, Ruth, Cleo, Maggie, Laila, Tzipi, Sarti, Houdini, Thea. What do these names have in common? These are the names of my pets, past and present. Can you tell which one was the dog, the cat, the goldfish, the rat, the hermit crab, or the...
by admin | Jan 16, 2010 | chronic illness, empowerment, healing, health, the pusher, tools for healing
Every day I wake up with different amounts of energy. The range varies, and often reflects my activity level in prior days. For many years I functioned in a deficit range, despite illness and exhaustion. I thought it was normal to push myself beyond capacity. I’d done...
by admin | Dec 29, 2009 | chronic illness, chronic illness and doctors, doctors, empowerment, healing, health, inspiration, Mind-Body Medicine, patient empowerment, patient healing, patient/doctor interactions, tools for healing, wellbeing, writing, writing for health
About three times a year, I conduct a “Mind-Body Health Writing” workshop series. We meet in a bookstore in San Francisco, California. I find it interesting that, with one exception, only women have chosen to attend. I’m not sure why. But I always believe that the...
by admin | Dec 10, 2009 | chronic illness, empowerment, healing, health, inner critic, Mind-Body Medicine, the pusher, voice dialogue
My mother always used to tell me: “The cemeteries are filled with indispensable people.” She’d tell me this when I took myself too seriously, when I thought I needed do everything (perfectly, of course) by myself. I thought she meant that the cemeteries were filled...
by admin | Nov 30, 2009 | chronic illness, empowerment, healing, inspiration, patient empowerment, patient healing, wellbeing
I love Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen’s teachings in her book Kitchen Table Wisdom. Here is one of them: “The life in us is diminished by judgment far more frequently than by disease.” Do you worry about what other people are thinking when you tell them you are living with...
by admin | Nov 21, 2009 | chronic illness, chronic illness and doctors, doctors, empowerment, finding the best doctor, healing, health, patient empowerment, patient healing, patient/doctor interactions
When I give talks to groups of people dealing with chronic illness, I suggest to the audience that some doctors might be a better “fit” for some people than for others. This way I don’t offend anyone. But most understand through experience that some doctors are,...
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