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My new book “My Tropic Of Cancer: Living & Dying With A Dread Disease” will be released on June first. Currently available for presale on Amazon, the book tells the story of my eight year [and counting] journey with this extraordinary disease. In this post I chat with my friend, colleague and fellow cancer travelerContinue Reading: My Tropic of Cancer: Living & Dying With A Dread Disease

Have you ever wondered why we worry so much? And what, if anything, we can do about it? We’re taking up these questions in a class I’m co-teaching this term at Georgetown University’s Integrative Medicine Program. In this post I share some PowerPoint slides from the class that shed light on the neurobiology of worry,Continue Reading: Don’t Worry. Be Happy.

Carl Jung wrote about individuation, the process of taking one’s predispositions and life experiences and integrating them into a mature personality. While something like this happens for each therapist on the road to maturity, there appear to be some common dimensions of this process experienced by us all. My Colleague and friend Matthew May andContinue Reading: From Building Skill To Becoming Human: The Evolution Of A Psychotherapist

I first met Kate Tierney six years ago. Within minutes I realized I was in the presence of an extraordinary human being. At age 6 Kate began experiencing symptoms of an extremely rare disease that would not be accurately diagnosed for anther ten years. Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis [EPGA] is an autoimmune disorder characterized byContinue Reading: Morbidity, Mortality & Magnanimity

If one golden thread runs through spirituality, art and CBT, it might be that one we call “soul.” Each of these disciplines seeks access to the core of our existence, a direct experience of whom we really are. Each informs the others, shedding light on those places that lie in shadow in the other disciplines.Continue Reading: God, Art & CBT