Dr. Christine Farag is a psychiatry resident at the Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois and represents a very important union between the power of Western medicine and the wisdom, practices, and interventions of Eastern philosophy and traditions... after receiving her medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, she spent a year and a half working in Tibet, where she trained in Chinese medicine and served as the physician for a Tibetan monastery.

While the formal skills she received during that period in Tibet were invaluable, much of the richness she brought back from that time were the insights she gained in her daily life living with and treating the very heartful, spiritual people of Tibet. Now, Dr. Farag has a YouTube channel where she leads meditation and mindfulness practices to support mental health in a way that makes the practice of mindfulness and meditation accessible to all. 

In this conversation, we explore the ways in which both Western and Eastern wisdom frame her view as a doctor in terms of the best way to heal body and mind in times of crisis. We cover topics like mindfulness, resilience, happiness, the power of movement and the outdoors, and the toll of the COVID crisis on our overall mental health. Importantly, Dr. Christine shows us how we can benefit from both cutting edge medical science, and also apply the ancient inner sciences of meditation and mindfulness to be more complete, holistically healthy humans.

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