Have you ever tasted pasta that was cooked in unsalted water? You find yourself wondering when will it taste good but that moment never comes. This was my life in May 2011—bland pasta. People I trusted had recently thrown me under the bus, which felt like a knife to the chest. I never saw it […]
The statement happy wife – happy life has been tossed around for decades, perhaps centuries or even millennia. I think it’s time for a change. Don’t forget that the earth was once flat until Copernicus and Galileo challenged the theory to expose the truth. OK maybe the comparison falls a little short but you get the […]
When you find yourself in a dark place, you’re likely aware that you’re suffering emotionally but what happens to your body? Unhappiness is not confined to your brain. It cascades throughout your body through a well-known process known as the stress response. In her book Mind over Medicine Dr. Lissa Rankin reports, “When something hurts […]
Have you ever noticed that people just have a way of pissing you off? How and why do they do that to you? Do they have some special power or are they just idiots. Actually neither. They’re just another living organism en route to somewhere. Do you think they wake up thinking I’m gonna […]
We have little to no control over the shit that happens to us and around us. Our only function is to interpret the meaning of these events. How you interpret events is based upon your specific operating system that was implanted in your mind early in your life by your parents and then modified for […]
A patient once told me that he doesn’t believe in a higher power. Although I respected his view, I asked him 2 simple questions for which he remained speechless. Do you remember how you felt when you held your son for the first time? Was he and is he still an act of complete randomness? […]
Although you’re as timeless as all of my creations, it’s time for you to take on a new adventure. I’ve given you a new form known as human and today is the first day of your journey. You were fashioned from my indomitable spirit whose foundation is that of love. You will become a beacon […]
I remember my first day of high school. The place was bustling with action. There were upper class boys with beards and senior girls with curves. Everyone seemed to know what was going on but me. There were cliques forming everywhere and I stood there in awe; overwhelmed as to where I fit in to […]
DO YOU WANT to be happy? Perhaps the most obvious question is; do you want to be happy or miserable? Have you ever met a person that seems to enjoy being miserable? No matter what you say they always seem to see it as a negative. Even when it would be easy to see the […]
It was a spring morning in my office when Joe, a long time patient, arrived with complaints of chest pain. Joe was a middle-aged man that spent over 30 years as a CEO for the Raytheon Corp. He had done very well financially and had socked away more than enough money to travel the world in style. […]
