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Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.

The purpose of this blog and the entire website is to provide evidence-based information on how to live a vibrant, meaningful life while living with chronic health challenges or other life challenges. Every Tuesday I post a new, very…

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Video: Can the Mind Cure Cancer?

There are many case studies of patients like Mr. Wright, who cured themselves of cancer and other deadly diseases as a result of a profoundly deep belief in a placebo. The mind is powerful enough to cure us of almost any disease. The problem…

Chronic Illness and the Mind, Practice is Everything, Q&A Ask Dr. B., Self-Efficacy and Self-Mastery

Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.

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Video: Reading the Label Listing Side Effects May Be Bad for Your Health

Placebos are biochemically inert substances that are harmless in and of themselves. Biochemically, there are no side effects from placebos. However, when study participants take a placebo, believing it to be the real drug, they commonly experience…

Chronic Illness and the Mind, In Your Own Hands, Practice is Everything, Q&A Ask Dr. B., Self-Efficacy and Self-Mastery

Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.

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Video: Can the Mind Cure Disease?

“There is no clear dividing line between a person’s philosophy and physiology.” William James made that statement a hundred years before modern biofeedback and fMRI could demonstrate it. In the 1920s, Swiss physician Bruno Bloch proved…

Body Centeredness, Chronic Illness and the Mind, Mindfulness Practice, Practice is Everything, Q&A Ask Dr. B., Self-Efficacy and Self-Mastery

Chronic Illness Q&A with Dr. B.

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Video: Can Thoughts Make Us Sick?

The work I write about and teach has to do with learning how to disengage from being negatively affected by our dysfunctional or troubling thought processes and beliefs. One of my mentors, Professor Erik Peper, coined the following: “The limits…

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