Category: Doctor’s Thoughts

I recently had a conversation with a patient about how hard recovery is– facing challenges, embracing honesty– there’s a whole suite of difficulties involved. And

Turn a world map upside down, and the almost automatic sense of understanding that we have about the globe feels less intuitive. We have to

I recently started seeing a new patient for addiction. This man has been through an incredible amount in his life, and substance abuse has been

When people are first learning to meditate, I often provide a little warning: meditation is just a synonym for paying attention, while it is simple,

We have a tendency to think of things in binary terms—on or off, yes or no, true or false, good or bad. In reality, though,

Think about the people who have moved humanity forward over the past 200 years—the individuals who made a meaningful, lasting contribution to the world. Who

In the 1960s in a small village in France, there was a group of teenage boys who would run around the town together. They would

I often say that we are all instant-gratification pleasure-seeking pain-avoiding monkeys. Our nervous systems have evolved to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. In the

There was once a traveler who came upon a large construction site, filled with stone masons. Everywhere he looked, he saw people laboring away. The

I recently finished a great biography of Benjamin Franklin– he was a remarkable man, with a fantastic optimism in America. He embodied (and was one