When we read about staying well or healing, we read a lot about relaxation, visualization, and imagery. Book stores and catalogs are full of books and tapes on these topics. The holistic or whole body approach to health always stresses these disciplines.   Question: How can these possibly help my health?  Answer: Our bodies are… Continue Reading

The Issues and Fears of Illness: Part of being alive is accepting that things are changing all the time. Being fully alive requires responding flexibly and creatively to the changes. Life’s struggles usually come from reacting rigidly and trying to keep things exactly the same. Some of the changes are given a name — “illness” or “disease.” When long-standing or chronic, we are faced with one of the greatest challenges … Continue Reading

In the fall issue of the newsletter, we addressed depression in Cushing’s syndrome (CS). The focus was on subtypes of depression, how different subtypes might be expressed symptomatically, how they might be biochemically different, and what treatment may be effective for depression in CS. This column will focus on our research findings on the course… Continue Reading