Your Key to Healing

I can still hear my mother’s words echoing in my mind – “Always do your best.”  Words most likely spoken with the intent of calming my concerns about my ability to do well in school, sports, music, art etc. Maybe all Mom meant was that my best was good enough, no matter what – a […]

Now that the holiday hoopla has settled down and the resolution frenzy has subsided, it’s time to pause and realize that while we were focusing on what we want to accomplish, change or create in 2018; we may have unknowingly ignored a critical component.  Our plans to strengthen our health, boost our financial security, cultivate […]

This time of year is challenging for many as we often strive to live up to unrealistic expectations for ourselves and others. If you experience a return or increase in physical discomfort, check in with your inner wisdom. Are you neglecting your health by automatically jumping through hoops that don’t serve you? Last year while […]

 Flashback to Thanksgiving, 2011:  One year after back surgery I was visiting Southern California and went to Santa Monica Pier.  The sun, the sand, the water…..people with carefree smiles and laughter out and about enjoying themselves on a lovely fall afternoon…. and there I was… trapped…. in agony.  I felt like my body was breaking. […]

I wrote this post on the first anniversary of my mother’s death and would like to share this version with you on the fourth anniversary.  It is a story about surrender and how our deepest truth is revealed in the unspoken language of our bodies…. It is never too late to experience deep, restorative healing […]

  The disturbing events of the last several months have created a wave of gripping visual images that float in and out of my conscious awareness: Me, at the age of 11, marching for civil rights and singing “We Shall Overcome.”  Me, as a college student, when the slogan “Make Love Not War” saturated our […]

One of the most powerful keys to healing from chronic pain, anxiety, or loss is allowing, honoring and accepting our full range of emotions.  We live in a society that relies on intellect at the expense of feelings. The dark or commonly called “negative” emotions of sadness, fear, grief, and despair are not honored or […]

 John E. Sarno, M.D.    June 23, 1923 – June 22, 2017 In late 2011 I felt totally lost and discouraged.  It was one year after back surgery, and my agonizing pain and sciatica were raging out of control.  My neurosurgeon prescribed physical therapy for pain of “unknown origin.” After all, the surgery had corrected […]

Back in the 80″s, AT&T urged people to REACH OUT & TOUCH SOMEONE with their telephone service. Fast forward almost forty years and technology, including smartphones and social media, has turned human connections upside down.  The very devices that developed to instantly connect us often become sources of disconnect and isolation!  In The Hidden Risk Factor […]

This is a version of my post from a couple of years ago.  It highlights an important but often overlooked truth.  Our health is strongly tied to our evolutionary need for connection to others. Part 1 highlights the now famous Roseto Effect.  Part 2 will reveal how social isolation has grown over the decades seriously […]