By Bill Manahan, MD and Kathryn Hayward, MD We Have Been Duped: Tobacco A recent conversation between Kathryn and Bill… Kathryn: “My Dad recently told me, ‘I got introduced to smoking during the Korean War (1950-1953). The government always gave us cigarettes in our rations.’” Bill: “The tobacco fiasco was just a few years ago, when I was in…
By Barbara Braver In the spring of 1988 I was offered a new job, a new opportunity, a new adventure. I was with my beloved Jan Pierce, of blessed memory. We were in a rural part of Pennsylvania, as I remember, and went into a junk cum antique shop. I was drawn to a wooden carving of the head of…
By Barbara Braver I am sitting in my comfortable chair with a mug of tea, sorting myself out and moving into my new day. My morning ritual is in a quiet corner of our old house, which has stood on this rocky New England coast for more than three centuries. I am recent to it, having been part of its…
Part 2 Our Summer Solstice Sojourn celebrating Stephanie’s 11th birthday with 11 days of movement and nature Integrative Health combines the best in conventional medicine, food, movement and mind/body/spirit disciplines. In Part 2 of this two-part series, David Read continues to recount how his family shared eleven days of cycling, nature and nurturing relationships with family and friends. To read…
Part 1 Our Summer Solstice Sojourn celebrating Stephanie’s 11th birthday with 11 days of movement and nature Integrative Health combines the best in conventional medicine, food, movement and mind/body/spirit disciplines. In Part 1 of a two-part series, David Read recounts how his family shared eleven days of cycling, nature and nurturing relationships with family and friends. By David C. Read,…
By David C. Read and Tom Courl Boys weekend and vegan/plant based? – No Problem! This past spring, a friend had a milestone birthday and the usual group of seven long-time friends got together to plan something – like we do for all our big birthdays. For Tom’s 60th birthday we rented a log cabin in the Berkshires near the…
By David L. Thomas, Jr. Kathryn and I are away from home for many months of every year. At home we control our diet and thrive on whole-food, plant based meals. And in our community, we have talked about our dietary preferences with friends, family and neighbors, and also thrive based on the accommodations we have reached. Our primary challenges…
By David L. Thomas, Jr., JD and Kathryn Hayward, MD The health food store in the small city of Inca is just a few minutes´ walk from our home on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. Known in the Mallorquín dialect of Catalán as “S’Herboristeria”, and in Spanish as “El Herbolario”, it is the source of many of our grains and…
By David L. Thomas, Jr., JD and Kathryn Hayward, MD Five years ago, on the eve of the Boston Marathon bombing, we went to London so that Kathryn and Kristy King, then a medical student, could showcase a program they had led which provided a five-day immersion in integrative medicine for North American medical students. They were presenting at the…
International Integrators co-founders Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas shared a delightful lunch a few months ago with Barbara Braver and her husband, and the conversation turned to the theme of synchronicity. What does synchronicity mean to you? You think of a person and suddenly receive a phone call from that person. You have overstayed your time at a parking meter…