Navigating Uncertainty
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower —Rainer Maria Rilke Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Mind/Body
Poetic Medicine: A Path to Creative Wholeness
At the end of 1913 Carl Gustav Jung separated himself from Freud and the psychoanalytic community. Their prior collaboration served both men crucial interests. Freud, a Jewish intellectual in declining Continue Reading →
Your mythopoetic symptom dreaming
In medicine we have many learned words about body symptoms and diseases. We think and speak a lot about them. We have explanations and treatments based on these understandings. We Continue Reading →
Covid-19, 2
Covid-19 is one of many present-day man-made public health crises. It appears, its origin is linked to the growth in world population and the narrowing of spaces between the human Continue Reading →
Covid-19
CThe global human body is sickened by the virus and we need individual and community approaches to process its impact. As it spreads across the world it creates disruption, fear, Continue Reading →
Contaminated Health
Health is contaminated with disease, wellbeing is polluted with sickness. As Antonovsky[i] remarked, we are all chronically ill, constantly adjusting to challenges and threats to our health. We keep moving Continue Reading →
Big Medicine: Transforming Your Relationship with Your Body, Health and Community by Pierre Morin – Available September 1, 2019
Big Medicine is a guide for anyone who is interested and healing, including “patients,” providers, and caregivers who want to uncover the deeper meaning of physical symptoms and build a Continue Reading →
Eulogy in praise of Julia (name changed)
Julia came to me to get help processing her experiences with an advanced smooth muscle cancer. I was privileged to accompany her in her journey that took a transitional turn Continue Reading →
Bell Curve Model of Health and Medicine
In the bell curve model of health illness is an outlier experience separated from the statistical range of health. Inside the bell curve are the normed experiences deemed to align Continue Reading →
Dreaming Body Plays Jazz
I am reading Herbie Hancock’s new biography Possibilities. For the uninitiated, Herbie is one of the most influential Jazz pianists. In his first chapter he recounts a story of his Continue Reading →