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Food As Medicine coming to Miami
Nutrition is a powerful tool for community wellness. Attend Food As Medicine to learn the skills you'll need to help change your community!
My Everyday Foods
Dear Friends, Each year at our Food As Medicine conference—it’s coming up November 19-22nd in Miami, is fabulous, and you can find out more here…
Bright Ideas: Buckwheat for Breakfast
Are you in the market for a delicious, nutrient-packed breakfast suggestion? Here's one: cream of buckwheat.
Fresh Fine Dining: The Mitsitam Cafe
True to its name, the cafe is a celebration of fresh foods, offering an array of traditional and contemporary dishes at serving stations named Northern…
Culinary Adventure: Black Beans & Rice, Dominican Style
This is the smell of the Dominican Republic, friends, said Rosenny. When the whole thing gets together, it's going to be something out of this…
Meet Our Faculty: Rebecca Katz & The Cancer Fighting Kitchen
Our Food As Medicine Executive Chef and core faculty member Rebecca Katz, MS, has just come out with her second book dedicated to helping cancer…
Stress and the Economy: My Washington Post Article
My piece, "Some Simple Steps for the Stressed-Out: Psychiatrist Offers Simple Steps for Coping with Uncertainty," on dealing with stress from the economic downturn, appeared…
Welcome!
The Saturday morning scene at the New Morning Farm farm market at Sheridan School, Washington, DC. Most of the food is organically grown
…Obama: Addressing the Healing Crisis
Dear President Obama, I hope you read this before your speech on health care reform tonight.
Woodstock Wisdom
Looking back this week on Woodstock, forty years later...I realized I had actually learned a lot in those three days and that the lessons might…
Alternative medicine
The mind-body medicine is a sort of training course which wants to empower your potential strength of imagination and your emotions so that they can…
The Wrong Story on Karadzic
"Radovan Karadzic’s New Age Adventure" is wittily conceived, skillfully reported and cleverly photographed--and a shameful waste of journalistic talent and enormously valuable and influential print…
Finding Freedom Under Siege
I wanted to share with you some testimonials from health and mental health professionals who participated in our most recent professional training in Gaza (March…
When Depression is Treated as a Disease
What is absent from Merkin’s account, and, most sadly, from her experience, is an effort to address the fundamental biological, psychological and social processes that…
CancerGuides Training in DC in June
CancerGuides II is absolutely appropriate and accessible for cancer survivors and their families, not only for professionals.
Lecture at Urban Zen Focus on Nutrition: Nutrition in Hospitals
Malnutrition among patients has been identified in numerous studies and hospital food is frequently cited as insufficiently nourishing. This presentation will address what can be…
Progress in Gaza
More news from Gaza City, as our training of much-needed mental health professionals continues
Healing in Israel
Over the last 7 years, while shells fell in and around Sderot, perhaps 60 percent of the kids used the “Havens of Calm” room. During…
Going to Israel and Gaza
We plan to spend a few days working in Israel with our team of CMBM-trained professionals there, then (hopefully) make our way into Gaza to…
The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First by Mark Hyman, MD Review by James S. Gordon, MD
Mark suggests that the most effective and, indeed, scientific way to address the epidemic of psychiatric disorders (affecting 1.1 billion people worldwide) is not with…
PTSD on Wall Street and Main Street
"You don't have to go to Gaza to treat posttraumatic stress disorder," my friend said. "Just come to New York."
Landmark CMBM Randomized Controlled Trial Treating PTSD in Children Published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
The study, “Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Post-War Kosovar Adolescents Using Mind-Body Skills Groups: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” which was published today online in…
Let’s Talk about Depression
It always seemed strange to me that anyone would describe depression as a disease...Depression, it seems to me, is a way of feeling and a…
Introduction/Welcome
I’m going to be using the blog to give you an absolutely up to date understanding and experience of the comprehensive approach I describe in…
Unstuck: Deconstructing Antidepressants
You might want to think of Unstuck as a kind of basic text – a Life 101. It clearly and simply presents my approach to…
