In February 2022 after a couple months off due to cold weather, I resumed my usual 10 interval sprints up a hill on my street. I assumed I would just pick up where I left off, but after the 2nd sprint I suddenly felt like I was about to pass…

This quote from paleontologist/priest/mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin arose from his transcendental experiences as a stretcher bearer and chaplain in the trenches during World War I. “Truth has to appear only once, in one single mind, for it to be impossible for anything ever to prevent it from spreading universally…

Someday … Fire: The Mystical Teachings of Teilhard de Chardin Paleontologist/priest/mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s most famous quote is “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the…

I recently retired from my faculty position as a musculoskeletal radiologist at Duke University Medical Center after reading over 60,000 MRI scans of the spine and joints in the past 36 years. Now, as an online coach for clients with pain and inflammatory conditions I find myself having to answer…

One of my coaching clients had been suffering for 6 months with pain behind her scapula radiating up into her neck and down along her rib cage. She was a stressed out single mother who had limited success with muscle relaxants and trigger point injections. As a health care professional…

Have you tried everything and your physical symptoms still will not go away? Your body may be attempting to get a message to your conscious mind that there is an imbalance in your life. Meditation, expressive writing, emotional freedom techniques (EFT), self-hypnosis and dreamwork can all be useful in Healing…

Early Treatment vs Stay at Home Until You Can’t Breathe Flavio Cadeginia, MD, PhD, is an academic endocrinologist in Brazil who took a team of researchers to the State of Amazonas in January 2021 to evaluate the situation in cities where hospitals were overcrowded with the gamma variant wave of…

I was a pole vaulter in college, so my sky diver wife Dagmar didn’t expect me to experience an attack of fear when ziplining for the first time in 2018. The initial zip was only 200 feet long, but it ended on a rickety platform that was 100 feet in…

The executive director of a non-profit sought me out for coaching assistance in dealing with chronic left shoulder pain of more than 3 months duration. She had heard me give a talk where I said that frozen shoulder could be related to repressed anger and thought that might be at…