(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, November 5, 2013) Last Thursday at the Cancer Center, became a seminar for me on suffering. Three patients with cancer were distressed, not by their cancer or their therapy, but by their children’s poor health. There was essentially nothing I could offer. Suffering is not medically treatable. It is pain that
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, October 6, 2013) One of the statements of the sixties and seventies that I use practically everyday is, the name of Gerald Jampolski’s book, “Love is Letting Go of Fear”. The other day on seeing a patient I used that phrase for the umpteenth time and thought to myself, “What is fear.
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, September 20, 2013) Self-observation demands a split in consciousness between one’s bodily sensations and what the senses are focused on outside of the body, be it a person, thing or one’s surroundings. This state is the evolving present moment. Our senses connect the observer to what is being observed as one and
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, September 3, 2013) I work at a Cancer Center as a psychosocial oncologist. My reason for being at the Center is to empower patients to participate, along with their oncologist, in the healing process. The key to self-empowerment is to let go of the mind’s fear and live in the present. This understanding
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, August 19, 2013) Over a number of years I have had clients who demonstrate the curse of being told in childhood, how special they are. Special comes with the shadow: anxiety, pressure to succeed, perfectionism, isolation and failure to meet expectations; and in time can lead to illness. “The gifted” may either burnout
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, August 8, 2013) A wish is a specific desire for something in the near or distant future. When I was no more then nine years old ; my sister, Claire, a budding, fifteen year old actress, told me and acted out the story of the, ” The Monkeys Paw “. In the story,
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, July 27, 2013) Maria Bowen, Carl Roger’s leading psychotherapist in Person Centered Therapy, taught me the most simple method for analyzing dreams. Maria died far too soon but changed my life by bringing dreams into reality and making the waking state into a dream. 1) Give the dream or an unusual experience of
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, July 18, 2013) Ever think about where our eyes are located? Without a mirror or some other reflective device, we would never know what we look like. The eyes are perfectly located to see what is in front of us. If they were located over our heart, belly button, top of our feet
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, July 10, 2013) As an Ob/GYN, I had an epiphany; I realized that the newborn is love made visible. What happens to that love? A guru once told me at birth, “we are all similar to a silver spoons thrown in the ocean, and if we are lucky before we die, we find
(Original Post from Dr. Brenner’s personal Blog, July 5, 2013) The first question in May 15 blog: In the first ten years of your life, what did you appreciate most about your parents or primary caregivers? Please, do not use the word love. What words or word feels most like love to you? Brief summary: What you appreciated revealed: your values, how