Mindful Medicine

Stress used to be a survival response to danger. 

Our modern pressures have redefined the term. Stress now comes from demands on our resources. The demand versus personal capacity is the issue. We have to manage the proportions so we feel less pressure. Stress is a stimulus for change.

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Consider your stress at three levels:

Tame stress comes from the nervous tension of doing something you can easily tackle. Maybe you get nervous before giving a speech, but you know exactly what you’re doing. You have the resources you need to deal with the stress. It could be reclassified as excitement.

Tolerable stress is more uncomfortable, but you still have the resources to bounce back. It’s not the kind of pressure you want to experience, but you can deal with it. Tolerable stress can provide you with valuable life lessons.

Toxic stress comes from being in the fight or flight response too often, or the body freezes because the stress hormones are overstimulated. Pressures need to be adjusted, because the immune system is suffering.

Find out what is triggering the stressful feelings in you. Learn to appreciate the fact that you have resources. Look for the lesson in each stressful situation. The adjustment to deal with the pressure can be small. Seek what you can control in your life so your action can utilize your stress hormones for benefit.

Listen as Dr. Heidi Hanna joins Dr. Holly Lucille to share how to improve your response to the stresses of life.


Free Stress 360 Assessment is a great tool for you to better understand your unique relationship with stress.

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P. Brendon Lundberg discusses new technology that treats chronic pain.Finding proper treatment for chronic pain sufferers is a challenge. The recent opioid crisis has proven that pharmaceuticals aren’t an option for long-term pain management and there are few therapies that prove successful.  P. Brendon Lundberg, a former chronic pain sufferer, has taken a technology-driven approach to treating chronic pain. While many in the pain management industry treat the tissues surrounding the pain, he understands that pain is a phenomenon of the brain and has started treatment there.  He along with David Farley, MD, a Harvard-MIT trained physician, has developed technology that acts as an artificial nerve, sending signals to the brain to relax. The result is pain relief that lasts several weeks, months, and sometimes, indefinitely.  Listen as P. Brendon Lundberg joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to use this new technology to treat chronic pain.

Finding proper treatment for chronic pain sufferers is a challenge. The recent opioid crisis has proven that pharmaceuticals aren’t an option for long-term pain management and there are few therapies that prove successful. 

P. Brendon Lundberg, a former chronic pain sufferer, has taken a technology-driven approach to treating chronic pain. While many in the pain management industry treat the tissues surrounding the pain, he understands that pain is a phenomenon of the brain and has started treatment there. 

He along with David Farley, MD, a Harvard-MIT trained physician, has developed technology that acts as an artificial nerve, sending signals to the brain to relax. The result is pain relief that lasts several weeks, months, and sometimes, indefinitely. 

Listen as P. Brendon Lundberg joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to use this new technology to treat chronic pain.

Sarah Anne Shockley discusses her unique approach to reframing and treating chronic pain.So often, people living with chronic pain are given two options: treat the pain with pharmaceuticals or put up with the pain.  In 2007, Sarah Anne Shockley suffered a work-related injury that resulted in chronic pain. Trying various therapies and treatments, nothing quieted the pain or allowed her to return to her normal life. Frustrated by what was happening in her body, Sarah looked inside for a solution. The unique approach to healing that she devised works with awareness, active imagination, and shifting our relationship to pain itself. Listen as Sarah Anne Shockley joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to reframe the idea of chronic pain and find peace.

So often, people living with chronic pain are given two options: treat the pain with pharmaceuticals or put up with the pain. 

In 2007, Sarah Anne Shockley suffered a work-related injury that resulted in chronic pain. Trying various therapies and treatments, nothing quieted the pain or allowed her to return to her normal life.

Frustrated by what was happening in her body, Sarah looked inside for a solution. The unique approach to healing that she devised works with awareness, active imagination, and shifting our relationship to pain itself.

Listen as Sarah Anne Shockley joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to reframe the idea of chronic pain and find peace.

Learn how to stop binge eating and make healthy decisions about the food you choose to put in your body.Many Americans struggle with overeating or binge eating, which leads to obesity and a plethora of health problems. Dr. Glenn Livingston, a former food-obsessed binge eater and psychologist, shares his story of breaking the cycle of emotional and binge eating.  He analyzes the emotional causes of binge eating and encourages patients to identify binge eating triggers and the food they reach for when triggered. In his book, Never Binge Again: Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person, he also empowers overeaters to name the voice that prompts them to overeat and pinpoint the lies that voice tells them when cravings kick in.  By making eating decisions in advance, Dr. Livingston claims that you’ll have more willpower to resist cravings and make healthy eating choices.   Listen as Dr. Livingston joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to end the cycle of overeating.

Many Americans struggle with overeating or binge eating, which leads to obesity and a plethora of health problems.

Dr. Glenn Livingston, a former food-obsessed binge eater and psychologist, shares his story of breaking the cycle of emotional and binge eating. 

He analyzes the emotional causes of binge eating and encourages patients to identify binge eating triggers and the food they reach for when triggered. In his book, Never Binge Again: Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person, he also empowers overeaters to name the voice that prompts them to overeat and pinpoint the lies that voice tells them when cravings kick in. 

By making eating decisions in advance, Dr. Livingston claims that you’ll have more willpower to resist cravings and make healthy eating choices.  

Listen as Dr. Livingston joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to end the cycle of overeating.

Stop yo-yo dieting and lose weight permanently with tips from the Setpoint Diet.Whether it’s the keto diet, the paleo diet or Whole30, fad diets inevitably lead to short-term results and yo-yo dieting. The only way to permanently shed weight is to focus on the foods you choose to eat—rather than the amount of food you eat. Jonathan Bailor’s SANE plan is the only program endorsed by top doctors at The Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, and UCLA. It has been proven clinically, through more than 100,000 success stories, to “unclog” your hormones, brain, and digestion. The result is permanent weight loss and diabetes defense. Bailor explains that changing or limiting the number of calories you eat or exerting extra energy during workouts is a pointless endeavor. Rather, he instructs individuals through his book, The Setpoint Diet, to maintain a healthy weight by working with your body’s natural setpoint. Listen as Bailor joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how the diet works and how you can lose weight permanently.

Whether it’s the keto diet, the paleo diet or Whole30, fad diets inevitably lead to short-term results and yo-yo dieting. The only way to permanently shed weight is to focus on the foods you choose to eat—rather than the amount of food you eat.

Jonathan Bailor’s SANE plan is the only program endorsed by top doctors at The Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, and UCLA. It has been proven clinically, through more than 100,000 success stories, to “unclog” your hormones, brain, and digestion. The result is permanent weight loss and diabetes defense.

Bailor explains that changing or limiting the number of calories you eat or exerting extra energy during workouts is a pointless endeavor. Rather, he instructs individuals through his book, The Setpoint Diet, to maintain a healthy weight by working with your body’s natural setpoint.

Listen as Bailor joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how the diet works and how you can lose weight permanently.

So often in our hyper-connected society, we become so immersed in work that we struggle to come up for air.

We’re no longer driven individuals but rather people being drawn by outside factors, and we lose control over our lives. Dr. Bryan E. Robinson, a licensed psychotherapist and Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, equates this lifestyle to driving a car with no gas and no brakes. 

He shares advice for finding a balance between home and work in order to live life on your own terms. By taking time each day to stop, check in with yourself and meditate, you’ll actually become happier and more productive than if you rush through the day with your foot on the gas.

Listen as Dr. Robinson joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss the difference between being driven and being drawn when it comes to work/life balance.