Those of you who know my story know the on-again-off-again love affair I have had with medicine (as I wrote about here). Time and time again, I have tried to stray, quit my job, turned my back on the white coat. But again and again, it boils down to one thing. This is my calling, and you can quit your job, but you can’t quit your calling. It beckons like a siren song until you finally surrender to it. So I was deeply moved when I read this passage from Dr. Dick Selzer’s Mortal Lessons: A surgeon does not slip from his mother’s womb with compassion smeared upon him like the drippings of his birth. It is much later that it...

As I finish up my next book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, I've been asking all my bestselling authors to share their secrets to how their books got on the New York Times bestseller list. They all told me the same thing.   "I just let God write it." As it turns out, God has more ins with the people at the New York Times than Oprah. But how does that work? How do you let God write your book for you? It was with this question in my mind that I opened the latest newsletter from the peeps at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Now I adore the people at IONS. They’re my quirky, eccentric,...

My new friend Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine & Miracles, and one of our newest bloggers on Owning Pink, asks his patients four key questions I wanted to share with you. 4 Healing Questions 1. Do you want to live to be 100? According to Bernie, the answer to this question depends on many factors, most notably, whether you feel in control of your life and whether you look forward to the future with hope or with fear. Inherent in the answer to this question is a potent message about your will to live. Of course, none of us want to live an extended life of deteriorated health, but what if we could live to...