Facing Anger is the tipping point in healing You can’t move forward while you are holding onto the past. You must learn to feel safe despite ongoing adversity. Don’t let your mind or your life bully you. During my 13-year journey out of chronic mental and physical pain, I had … Read More
Overview Under stress, your thinking brain doesn’t function well, and performance suffers. In the operating room, it is critical to be connected to every aspect of the case. In surgery, safely making one move at a time, allows a consistent outcome. Skillifully navigating adversity from a safe place, yields a … Read More
Objectives Connecting with your sense of play is one of the most powerful ways of shifting your physiology from threat to safety. Play circuits are also simply more pleasant. Everyone has some level of play in their life, although for some, it is quite limited. The interactions created while at … Read More
Abraham Maslow Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was a brilliant professor of psychology. He founded a branch of psychology known as “Humanistic Psychology,” which focuses more on psychological virtues or excellences rather than on psychological disorders. Maslow is best known for his conceptualization of “man’s hierarchy of needs.” This hierarchy is … Read More
Humanity Won’t Survive Without Engaging its Thinking Brain No Action in a Reaction The Human Survival Paradox Consider a time long ago when survival required outrunning predators or gathering enough food to last through the day. For our early ancestors, every rustle in the grass could signal a threat, and … Read More
Objectives The root cause of suicide is feeling trapped and mental and physical pain are problematic.significant reasons to feel this way. Since mental and physical pain share similar brain circuits, they both create a lot of misery. Modern medicine largely assumes illnesses and symptoms are caused by identifiable structural problems. … Read More
My migraine headaches began on the Fourth of July when I was five years old. By age fifty, I had over fifteen physical and mental symptoms from being in a state of sustained threat physiology. They became extreme and intolerable. I completely lost hope of ever regaining any semblance of … Read More
Our medical and political system has failed. Employers have abused workers as long as there have been employers and workers. The intent of worker’s comp’s no-fault system was to both provide excellent medical care as well as improve worker safety. Although workplace safety has dramatically improved since the early 1900’s, … Read More
“The Journey of 1000 Moons” by Ernesto Sanchez If you count the moon cycles you will experience in your lifetime, by the time you reach 81 years of age, you will have experienced one thousand. As we live these years, how often do we stop and think about the presence of … Read More
Our lower brains are taking the human species down KEY POINTS Why do humans often not practice what they preach or believe?. Abstract thinking and judgment don’t function during chaos. We cannot solve humanity’s problems without clear and creative thinking. Learning the skills to regulate our physiology is critical to … Read More