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 →
Sprouting Leaves
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 →
Malleability of Memory
New research shows that the very act of remembering can change our memories. As we remember an event we re-experience it in the present and create a new memory. When Continue Reading →
Shadow Play
Watching the shadow watching you. It is on the Chinese Garden wall interspersed with the sound of traffic and a person shouting. Eucalyptus trees reminding you of Australia and the bright heat. The shadow 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 →