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 →
Author Archives: Pierre Morin
HEALTH IN SICKNESS SICKNESS IN HEALTH – Book Launch – February 8th 2014
By Pierre Morin This book is about valuing health and sickness. It is about seeing sickness-in-health and health-in sickness. It is about discovering our diversity, which includes processes that go beyond Continue Reading →
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 →
Two Quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke
If you trust in Nature, in what is simple in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have 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 →
Health-in-Sickness avoided with Kratom
C.G. Jung says: “In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.” One main Continue Reading →