Healing Stories

Dr. A.J. Cianflocco, MD is the retired team physician for the Cleveland Cavaliers and former director of sports medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.  He is a gentle physician whose life focused on history.  His healing story represents the importance of presence, rest and communication. Dr. AJ discusses the importance of listening as a central element to building trust as a leader, a physician and a professional athlete.  

What did we learned from a human sharing his or her healing story?  Today we celebrate close to 5,000 downloads of the healing stories podcast.  We explore the essential thread of these stories over all these years. Appropriately we launch on Memorial Day that honors so many women and men whose courage heals the world.  

Jodi Cohen is a bestselling author, award-wining journalist, nutritional therapist and mother.  Her #1 best selling book, Healing with Essential Oils, engages the elements of the body and the brain.  She shares her healing story through the beauty of the senses.  

Keira Poulsen's new book Rise up and Awaken explores the gift of telling the truth of our stories.  In this healing stories podcast, Keira speaks about the trauma of sexual abuse and the pain that this transforms into power.  Keira invites the listener to be themselves. 

Dr. Paul Dieppe teaches us through his four months as a hostage in Kuwait.  He moves forward in the healing journey by "reframing" this trauma.  As a rheumatologist and professor at Exeter University his research on health and wellbeing is studied throughout the world. 

Ed Peck, PhD. offers a way to engage the pandemic with a method of reconciliation, wholeness and imagination.  He draws on the work of higher education to place those on the margins in the center to listen to their experience and story.  Essentially this means we live from a place of awareness as reconcilers.  Dr. Peck submits a listening approach to engage the reality of our lives which pines for an integrated story.  We reverence the life of our mentor Fr. Howard Gray, SJ who always saw people as loved.  This episode shows a way to bridge higher education with a health system.

Dr. Michelle Goetz's healing story invokes a well worn mantra - "life happens." We hear how her experience as a physician encountering life and death offers us a way to cope with daily ups and downs. Her tips and calm wise words are food for the journey. As a mom, a spouse and a doctor she invites us to find creative ways to stay resilient at work and home

As a former police officer in the US Navy, Wayne understands the importance of building methods of safety.  His traumas in childhood taught the importance of boundaries and a sense of letting go.  Wayne describes the methods to heal from family mental illness and helpful tips from training with the Navy Seals.  A father of faith and life long learner, we hear tips on the listening practice in matters of race.