Whole Medicine Blog
The Inner Cage – How your body can hurt you by trying to protect you.
It’s a scary idea. That we might have a disease process going on with no symptoms or signs to help us know that there’s a threat. This is the concept that drives the importance of routine physical exams and doctors visits. And certainly some of the diseases that...
The Hunt – Luke’s Fatigue and Severe Indigestion.
I love a good Who-Done-It. This attraction to solving mysteries extends beyond my recreational reading. When I was introduced to functional medicine about 10 years ago, my immediate reaction was to ask why they didn't teach that to me in Medical School! The core...
Joy
A year ago I had two grandchildren, Ezra and Liam. Now I have 9! Three more have been born this year and my eldest son married a wonderful woman with 4 children. We had all but one in town for Easter holiday and we spent three glorious days together around good...
10 Important Ways to Change your Diet with Susan DeLaney, ND [Video]
Based on the work of Dr. Weston A. Price. Susan DeLaney, ND thewellnessalliance.com/SusanDeLaney About Susan DeLaney: Dr. Susan DeLaney graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a registered nurse and practiced, for 8 years, in various clinical...
Life After Cancer Treatment with Mark Mead MSc [Video]
Nutritional & botanical strategies for life-long remission maintenance. Mark Mead, MSc SelfHealingOptions.com About Mark Mead MSc: Through his work as a health coach and nutrition educator, he has come to recognize the life-giving importance of obtaining...
The Distance Between Us
As some of you know, I spent many years teaching medical students at the School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. There was an interesting phenomenon I observed over and over again. When the students entered School in their first year they had what I’d call patient-centered...
Healthy Aging: You Are What You Eat with Susan Wyler, MPH, RD, LDN [Video]
Slow symptoms of aging by removing barriers to health. Part of the Whole Medicine Health Forum
Speak to the Fear
[published in Health and Healing in the Triangle, October 2012 issue on Surgery] I’ve been cut. Couple of times, actually. Mostly I remember Kathleen’s presence. She goes in with me. She holds my hand when I talk with the pre-op nurse and the anesthesiologist and she...
Surrender
Popular wisdom holds that those of us with addictions have a problem with will power. We don’t know how to resist urges so we over-indulge in things that make us feel good. Of course everyone wants to feel good. And some people can gamble, have sex, eat, drink, and...
Hawk
Several years ago I was introduced to the shamanic journey as a way to access wisdom that is either outside of ourselves or so deep within that we don’t have access to it from our experiences in “ordinary reality”. A shaman I met several years ago impressed me as...
Sunrise Service
Eat your vegetables. Exercise every day. Say your prayers. Have fun. Be Kind. Don’t eat so much sugar. Remember your friends. Don’t forget to floss. Go to meetings. Oh yes, be grateful. For those of us that have a not-so-nice and-maybe-a-bit-too-big seam of OCD this...
The Roller Coaster
In my last column I mentioned my emerging attraction to the concept of “wellbeing” as a major determinant of overall health. Having declared myself a student of wellbeing, I’m discovering that its recipe is complex. As I work with others to help them chart a course...