Dr. Maya Novak

Pain is something that way too many people are resigned to live with. Or at best, live with while treating it with not very effective methods like anti-inflammatory drugs. Most information that you can find on osteoarthritis says it can’t be reversed because cartilage cannot regrow and thicken, and the treatment involves taking medication to …

Ep. 31: Eileen Kopsaftis – How to Cope With Pain and Prevent Osteoarthritis Read More »

It takes courage and confidence to trust your intuition when it’s telling you to quit a career you spent years building. And it takes wisdom to know what that inner voice is trying to tell you when it’s time to heal so you can choose the right path. You might have noticed that I love …

Ep. 30: Lissa Rankin, MD – The Importance of Following Your Inner Light to Recovery Read More »

Sometimes, it’s the simple things that are the hardest. And also most effective. For many of us, that split second, when we sustained our injuries, changed everything. But change, even though we many times prefer not to experience it, is not always bad. Sometimes we discover things, get into practices, and start listening to ourselves …

Ep. 29: Koya Webb – The 3 R’s That Will Help You Speed up the Recovery Process Read More »

The saying ‘Let food be thy medicine’ may be old… but it’s also true. One of the most common statements that many doctors say to their patients is “Your diet doesn’t play a role in this,” or “No, you don’t have to change your diet because of your condition.” Nutrition plays a huge role in …

Ep. 28: Brooke Goldner, MD – How to Reverse Inflammation to Enhance Healing Read More »

Fighting pain away may not work, but thinking it away might. We’re always fighting so many things, aren’t we? We fight climate change, we fight diseases, and naturally we fight pain as well. But this is one of the reasons why so many people struggle for so long with it. Because fighting doesn’t work and …

Ep. 27: Bahram Jam, PhD – Paradox Effect: Why Fighting Pain Doesn’t Work Read More »

Your body is always, always observing what’s happening in your mind. You can fool others but you cannot fool yourself or your body. Your mind affects your physical body and your body is always, always observing what’s happening in your mind. And it’s not just visualization that can greatly improve any recovery. At a more …

Ep. 26: Martin Rossman, MD – Guiding the Body to Healing Through Guided Imagery Read More »

Kindness. It’s true that most people are much better at being kind to others than they are at being kind to themselves. Sometimes we think that we’re kind to ourselves, but when things get hard, or we don’t do something right, or we gain a bit of weight, when we stand in front of the …

Ep. 25: Cheri Clampett – Evoking the Mind Towards Healing Read More »

Your mind (conscious and subconscious) controls your actions. What if it controls your healing, too? At any moment during the day, you probably have dozens of subconscious processes that are running as much as 95% of your actions. But what if that goes even deeper than your actions? Your beliefs and your subconscious programming don’t …

Ep. 24: Bruce H. Lipton, PhD – The Biological Effects of Fear on Your Ability to Heal Read More »

Different types of vibration can be healing, but they can also be detrimental to your health. If you saw a device with a note attached that read: “Using this can (among other things) cause irreversible back pain, disc rupture and/or detached retina,” would you use it? Probably not! And you’d make a very wise decision. …

Ep. 23: Clinton T. Rubin, PhD – Improving Bone Growth and Density with Mechanical Stimulation Read More »

There are behavioral patterns that hold people back in their healing process. There were times, many years ago, when I didn’t completely understand why some injured people struggle and others don’t. I was wondering why sometimes the healing process feels like torture and other times as something that is completely doable. I became really curious …

Ep. 22: Dr. Maya Novak – Navigating the Healing Process with 4 Spaces Read More »