Your Affect-Regulation Tool Box Several weeks ago I had the good fortune to hear Elie Wiesel speak. Here’s a man who would have every right to be inconsolably bitter and pessimistic. Yet instead, his experience in the Holocaust has only made him stronger… His message, How to Rebuild a Moral Society, inspires us to build a place where there is freedom, respect, repentance, and reconciliation for all people…a place where the most vulnerable are brought into the circle of human rights. When he said, “Our humanity is defined by our relationships to one another,” I knew that what we do,…

A recent article in Newsweek “How we narrowly avoided a depression” (Robert J Samuelson – Newsweek 10/12) just caught my attention. Its business commentary but in a way, it relates so directly to our work. Samuelson drew distinctions between 1929 and 2007-09, and talked about The Depression as one of serious economic downturn and paralyzing fear. He adds that “a devastating loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms . . . normal anxieties are converted into abnormal fears that trigger panic”. He’s talking about society but he might just as well be talking about human nature….

For the past 5 years, Inflammation has been an up-front focus… and even in this teleseminar series, a front-burner topic simply because of inflammation’s increasingly common and threatening presence. So Dr. Shealy has argued that inflammation is the root of all disease. We’ll devote the whole hour on this important topic. So be sure you’re signed up. Meanwhile, go to the comments and tell us what you think.

What exactly happens when the food we eat hits the stomach and begins the break-down process? Just how does the body get the nutrients it needs? “…two-thirds of the adult population had some kind of digestive incident within a three month span.” In truth, digestion should work like clockwork. We should never have to give it a thought. But in a quick survey conducted by the CDC, two-thirds of the adult population had some kind of digestive incident within a three month span. Practitioners hear complaints of digestive unrest (to put it delicately) all the time. Maybe it strikes as…