Field Notes: Mixed Blessings

by Gena Wilson, MD, MPH Reflecting back on these past 12 months, I realize how quickly everything has changed around us. There has been so much loss and grief in these past 12 months. I have tried my best to stay grounded so I can be present and support my patients,...

Field Notes: When The Healer Heals

by Julie Evans Our truly inspired Executive Administrator of Health Care Is A Human Right (an alternative health care organization of which I am a founding member) sent me an email asking me to write an article for our newsletter on how I have been, and am dealing...

Field Notes: Energy During This Pandemic

by Leslie Snow Energy—how to manage it—is a familiar concept to readers of this newsletter. From my studies of Reiki, martial arts, Vipassana meditation, qi gong, and yoga, I interpret both inner, i.e., personal, and outer events through this paradigm. Fortunately, I...

Field Notes: A Year Unlike Any Other

By Peter Blum, C.I., C.Ht., M.S.C. 2020 – a year unlike any other… a year we will never forget that changed our lives inexorably. As David Byrne and The Talking Heads asked in Once In A Lifetime – “And you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” In...

Field Notes: Hands Heal

by Jesse Scherer LMT I have always known that hands heal. That one human had the power to help another and that moving skin, connective tissue, muscle and bringing blood to an area was a way to keep a body strong to avoid stagnancy and therefore bring vitality and...

Field Notes: Life in the Quarantine

by Wendy Wolosoff-Hayes Here’s the thing….I have been studying and working in the alternative healing communities for easily 20 years, and in fact my whole life has been spent in what could be called “a fringe area.” I am no big fan of what is popular, widespread, or...
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