We have written about the relevance of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris' work a number of times on Rumur. She's the San Francisco-based doctor who realized that a good deal of the time, she was treating the symptoms of stress in her high poverty patients. When she began to practice with an understanding that her patients' stress was a causative factor...
My Friend Tim is another person that both inspires and supports me. Like Letha, he toils away at his work, without doing enough to let people know what he's doing. I'm gonna have to kick out some videos for his old songs; I played in his band for a few years and there were some hits there. ...
Last summer we had an intern named Ana. She is the new york born niece of a good friend from Chapel Hill. When she first came by our office we were just starting a project for Newyork.com in which we were going to profile interesting and creative New Yorkers. Ana is a film student at NYU and she had made...
**** I have updated this several times. I kind of dashed it off originally, and wanted to expand it. **** For many people the idea that their emotions are causative in terms of their pain or illness is unfathomable. However to me it's crystal clear that this is the case. This is not to say that all pain is emotional pain. ...
update**** Letha passed away this evening Sept 24, at 9:05. I wrote this piece in July. I just sat down to write something about what an amazing person Letha is, and realized I'd already done it. **** There was a fundraiser planned for Letha in November in NY. I'm assuming it will now be a memorial, but should still be...
Declaring war on anything; a country, a concept, or a person, is a bad idea. This is not to say that we should not defend ourselves when attacked, but declaring war is a mistake. I have been thinking about this concept of war in regards to the 2011 decision by the Institute of medicine to declare pain a disease...
This is my Master Cleanse Journal. Master Cleanse is a 10 day fast in which you cut out all food but drink 60 oz of lemonade each day. The lemonade is ¾ cup of fresh organic lemon juice, ¾ of a cup of grade b organic syrup, a half teaspoon of cayenne pepper and 60 oz of water. You are...
This morning, on the way to day camp, my daughter asked how many words there are in the world. I replied that there are millions of words and they're all in dictionaries. I offered to sit down with her and go through one. She asked why there are so many words and I explained that words help us get more specific...
One of the key elements of Dr. John E. Sarno’s work is an understanding of the basic context of Dr. Sigmund Freud’s work. In an early interview that we did with Dr. Sarno he pointed out that in the 19th century mental illness was seen as a disease of the brain. It was only when Freud came along, and postulated...