The Difference Between Unconditional Love, Sex, Intimacy, and Compatibility. When I was teaching a workshop recently, I made a flippant comment to a client. “Intimacy is not the same as unconditional love, nor is it the same as sex or compatibility.” …

*The following is an excerpt from my as yet unpublished next book- The Boundaries Handbook- about Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed boundaries, which will be exclusively released as part of my six-week Heal Your Wounded Boundaries online program. It’s heartbreaking to realize that way too many humans grew up without good…

Tomorrow, I go home. Six weeks ago, I arrived in Boston- uncertain. Tomorrow, I leave Boston- once again uncertain but with far less uncertainty than when I arrived. When I came here, the man I was in love with had fourteen parts on one side of his inner IFS conference…

On December 14, 2012, my friend Scarlett Lewis’s 6-year-old son Jesse was among the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary. …

Someone I love just found out a loved one is very sick, afraid, and in pain. He knows that it’s part of my work to train doctors how to actually serve when others are sick, afraid, and in pain, rather than reflexively fixing, helping, overcaregiving, or controlling someone who is…

When I interviewed for my OB/GYN residency at the prestigious Northwestern University program, which was my first choice, I was told very clearly that Northwestern’s OB/GYN department supports a woman’s right to choose whether she keeps a pregnancy or not, and that if I did not support reproductive rights for…

In the original draft of my new book Sacred Medicine, the book opened with a legitimate, medically provable radical remission story about a child with a life-threatening illness conventional medicine had given up on. In desperation, the parents of the child, who were skeptical physicians, sought out the intervention of…

Those of you in the wellness world might have noticed a curious polarization between “germ theory” and “terrain theory” advocates during the pandemic. But as I write in my book Sacred Medicine: A Doctor’s Quest To Unravel The Mysteries Of Healing, we can resolve this argument once and for all…

Synchrodestiny got hold of me recently. I had just gotten off the phone with Esalen Institute, planning my first post-pandemic 5 day Sacred Medicine workshop at Esalen in May and a month-long Burnout Recovery For Health Care Workers & Therapists in the fall, when my phone rang. It was Nancy…