(A continuing series of blogs on “The Last Best Cure”; one woman’s attempt to find joy and improve her health while battling an autoimmune disorder.) “The good news is that we are not our thoughts.” – Clifford Saron, PhD, Center for Mind and...
Stress management skills, cortisol awakening response, and post-exertional malaise in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Daniel L. Hall a,∗, Emily G. Lattie a, Michael H. Antonia, Mary Ann Fletcherb, Sara Czajac, Dolores Perdomoc, Nancy G. Klimasb. Psychoneuroendocrinology...
(As we’ve seen in past blogs and as we’ll see with Donna in the Last Best Cure blog series, mindfulness practices – such as the gratitude practices Sue writes about below, if engaged in regularly – can bring benefits both to the quality of life...
“I think I have a meditation disability” Donna Jackson Nakazawa Donna’s going to start her year of using mind/body techniques and acupuncture to return joy to her life (and hopefully improve her health) with an 8-week mindfulness-based-stress-reduction (MBSR) course....
(This is Pt. II in a series of blogs that explore Donna Jackson Nakazawa’s story of her search for health and wellness in “The Last Best Cure”. Check out Pt. I here.) “What you really need to translate for people for whom Western medicine has done...
“It may seem an unlikely thing to wake up one day feeling joyful and alive, despite so much pain, fear and fatigue. But with determination and dedication, I know it can happen. It happened to me.” A Book Series This begins a chapter-by-chapter exploration...