In our series, Medical News: What Can You Believe?, Dr. Kathryn Hayward and Dr. Bill Manahan explore the whirlwind of news reports that tell us to do things for our health. Many reports point people in the direction of taking medications, which raises red flags like economic incentives and medication side effects. Some people wonder, “What can I do to…
In our series, “Medical News: What Can You Believe?”, Dr. Kathryn Hayward and Dr. Bill Manahan explore the whirlwind of news reports that tell us to do things for our health. Many reports point people in the direction of taking medications, which raises red flags like economic incentives and medication side effects. Some people wonder, “What can I do to…
By Kathryn Hayward and David L. Thomas, Jr. From the beginning, Teresa wholeheartedly embraced an integrative approach to cancer. During her first surgery 4 ½ years ago, we joined her husband Andoni, daughter Ainhoa and sister Marisa at Teresa’s hospital bedside, offering jin shin jyutsu and smuggling in miso soup and other healthful foods. During her recovery, we lived in…
The Reaction to Action series invites us to take an honest look at judgment, and mitigating it through Generous and Reflective Listening. When we judge another, we separate from that person. When we judge ourselves, we separate from ourselves. Judgment creates power imbalances, which fuel sexism, racism and so many of the world’s ills. Our personal health and the health…
“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” At the Bay Path University commencement in May, 2017, Dr. Carol Leary, President, quoted these words as she conferred an honorary doctoral degree on Kathryn Hayward, MD of International Integrators and introduced her as the commencement speaker. Dr. Leary was referring to the perspective of holism that Kathryn…
By John Coppelman I would like to say that I recognized the unique opportunity embodied in the Living Whole immersion retreat in Ávila, Spain and that I signed up on my own, but that would be “fake news”. I signed up because my wife, Nancy, was determined to go and invited me to join her. Despite my well-established phobia for…
By Kathryn Hayward, MD Throughout the world today, many people are feeling that events beyond our control are unfolding in a disorienting way. We feel personally affected by the increasing polarization in our societies and in our politics which threaten a significant change to our way of life, to the rights we have come to take for granted, to our…
By David C. Read, MBA, MPH January is the month for New Year’s resolutions and making plans for summer. If you are resolving to improve your health and decrease your level of stress, you may be considering traveling to Avila, Spain for the next Living Whole immersion retreat from June 18-23, 2017. The self-care and wellness experiences at the retreat…
By David L. Thomas, Jr. and Kathryn Hayward, MD A group of long-time friends, including International Integrators blogger Tom Courl, have celebrated their birthdays together each April for many years. Last year one factor had changed. Tom had gone vegan, eating a whole food, plant-based diet with no oil or nuts. You may remember why based on his blog posts…
By David L. Thomas, Jr. and Kathryn Hayward, MD This past Friday night we attended the annual gala to support RANA, a Mallorcan non-profit organization that works to prevent childhood sexual abuse and treat adult survivors. RANA is now over 10 years old and this year won the coveted Ramón Llull award for humanitarian work in the Balearic Islands (Mallorca,…