Do you remember the old cartoons that depicted an angel and a devil on each of your shoulders? Well it turns out that we have a Sage and the Saboteur in our brains. The Saboteur is a ‘voice’ or thoughts and feelings that was adaptive in our early development and when we were being chased by [...]…
Overwhelm is a HOT topic. We all feel overwhelmed at some time in our lives. Our To-Do lists are stuffed to the gills, and we walk around in a To-Do list haze so overwhelmed that we are so busy listening to the tape playing in our heads of what we need To-Do instead of capturing [...]…
by Debra Beaulieu The importance of strong physician-patient communication has been well documented, as have the challenges. But a new tool, called narrative medicine, may offer a way for physicians to better connect to their patients by changing the way they listen to their stories. “What patients complain about the most is, ‘My doctor doesn’t [...]…