The Elixir of Illness
As individuals, we make health a priority and marginalize sickness. Informed by cultural values of youth, fitness and health, we make disease our enemy. We declare war against sickness and Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Dreambody
Deconstructing Health and Illness
Health and illness are categories or concepts that appear to be self-explanatory and given. We all know when we are healthy and when we are sick. We have a common Continue Reading →
Sickness as an Untold Story
Despite much scientific progress, health and sickness remain poorly understood. We know a lot about what causes disease and what prevents us from falling sick; nevertheless, we know little about Continue Reading →
The Anatomy of Health and Sickness
From the Introduction of my upcoming book: My great grandfather Fritz Morin and my grandfather Jean Morin were the clinical directors of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Leysin, in the Swiss Continue Reading →
Open Forum Transcript
This is the transcript of a forum I facilitated with Isabelle Soule, nursing professor at the Oregon Health Science University nursing school. The names of the forum participants have been Continue Reading →
Book Preview
Excerpt from my upcoming book: Health-in-Sickness & Sickness-in-Health We all have a calling, something the world is asking us to be or do. To be needed, to feel connected and Continue Reading →
Far From the Tree
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen, “Anthem” The wound is the Continue Reading →
Translational Ideas from Neuroscience, Religions and Processwork
In the last two days I came down with a cold and lay in bed listening to some podcast from Krista Tippets radio show On Being from American Public Radio. Continue Reading →
Health as a Process
Believing in Change as Healing and that Healing is Change. Health is not a state, but a process which is guided by a norm or standard which when threatened stimulates Continue Reading →
The End of Health and Normality
A man is told by his doctor: “I’m the doctor and you’re the patient. I’m the healthy one and you’re the sick one.” This man was shocked by his doctor’s Continue Reading →