Over the years, as a practicing physician, I have dealt with the effects of illness, death, dying, and the aging process through my patients. However, in those times, I have been the person supporting and providing care, encouragement, and condolence to those I have cared for. However, recently, I have had to deal with...

If you've ever been to the doctor for a full physical, you know that when you are sitting on the exam table, and the doctor pulls out that little metal hammer with the rubber mallet what's about to happen. The doctor taps your knee, and inevitably the knee reflexively jumps. It's called the knee jerk reflex... this is an involun...

Understanding How You are Indoctrinated in Life If you've ever been to the doctor for a full physical, you know that when you are sitting on the exam table, and the doctor pulls out that little metal hammer with the rubber mallet what's about to happen. The doctor taps your knee, and inevitably the knee reflexively jum...

As a physician, I was hard-wired for hard work, and sometimes that comes at the cost of my well-being…physical and mental. I, especially as a mom, have been known to ignore the little voices and the heart tugs and sacrifice quality time for productivity. However, when I realized that if I dropped dead today, the world would keep turning, it really ...

How we interpret things impacts our communication. Every person's interpretations vary in some ways and we must acknowledge that things are not always as we perceive them. Today's discussion is going to deal with our perception and how it affects our being.The unconscious mind processes and filters informationOur unconsciou...

Can you think of some moments in your life when you were able to remember things as clearly as it was yesterday? It is in the ways that our unconscious mind processes memory that where we will be focusing on in this episode.The unconscious mind represses unresolved negative emotions.It is the actual repression of the conten...

Last week many of us lost that American icon. Well not all of us knew him personally, many of us had followed him for the majority of his career. when we learned that Stephen "tWitch" Boss had died by suicide, the reactions were vast from shock to hurt to even anger. People who have had personal experiences of suicidal thoughts ...

Communication is the foundation of all relationships. While we often talk about watching our words, what we don't often talk about as much is watching our listening. Listening not only has an enormous impact on how we perceive things, but also it drives our responses and reactions (check out my podcast episode 134 "Listenin...

There's a well-known saying, "pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional". However, some people thrive in pain. And some people are very attached to their problems. And when presented with potential solutions to their problem, they argue every reason why the solution is invalid. We call that being "committed to their sufferin...

Transformation really happens on the unconscious level. People act the way they do because people learn how to be a certain way on an unconscious level. There can be no change if we don't begin to get at this at the UNCONSCIOUS level when the consciousness has NOT SHIFTED. What Does it Take to Make a Transformation? #1 Being Ope...