What spontaneous remission can teach us about life + leadership

I just finished reading Cured, by Jeffrey Rediger, M.D., a?precious?gift from?Samantha that?provides scientific evidence for our upcoming book,?Beyond Resilience to?Rootsilience.?

Rediger presents a hypothesis on?spontaneous remission, i.e. when someone is given "x months" to live due to a progressive or incurable form of cancer, yet miraculously makes a recovery. These instances of spontaneous remission?leave medical professionals scratching their heads, and as I came to learn from this book,?are scratched off the charts, as these unexpected recoveries?were considered "medically irrelevant".?

Rediger says,?"Medicine today is like a long line of ambulances parked at the bottom of a tall cliff. High above, people walk off the cliff and fall, plummeting to the bottom. The ambulances pick up all the broken bodies and whisk them off to the hospital, where the latest technology and medications will fix them up as best they can. And they do a pretty good job! But the only real way to help people is to have guardrails at the top - methods to support people in developing vital, healthy lives, from the immune system up, so they don’t go over the cliff to begin with."?

Rediger discovered?shared commonalities amongst cases of?spontaneous remission?that give us a more optimistic view of what health and well-being can be. And it highlighted for me how?Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience?can serve as?the guardrails that keep us from going over the cliff in the first place. May we each?take steps toward?a more holistic approach to our health and?well-being, and to?leadership.

EVENTS +?OPPORTUNITIES?

Developing Your?Inner Leader Retreat?| May 13 - 18, 2024, Quinta Minuvida, Azores.?

The work of Dr. Richard Schwartz and the Internal Family Systems (IFS)?model?has inspired me?for the past?few years so I?am honored and thrilled to be co-facilitating a retreat with IFS Certified Therapist and Consultant,?Annie Weiss. We'll be combining IFS self-inquiry practices along with embodiment, time in nature and the powerful volcanic energy of the Azores.?

IFS is about working with our various parts, recognizing that we may?have conflicting parts, i.e. "a part of me is really excited about this opportunity and another part is worried I could fail", or "my inner critic / saboteur / impostor is really hard on me, but deep down I think s/he is just really, really scared".?

IFS enables us to embrace our whole selves, cultivating compassion for our?various parts. Moreover, IFS is?an accessible and profound framework for life.

Annie visited us at Quinta Minuvida in April thanks to a group put together by Far and Wide by Amy (who crafts?incredible, culturally rich and immersive itineraries around the world. Check her out).?

You can apply now for the Inner Leader Retreat and get our?Early Bird discounted?rates (note that?single suites are sold out).??