Welcome!
RSS Feed
-
Recent Posts
Kay’s Tweets
- More on importance of hope - more than wishful thinking says @TimMitchinson @PatchNaperville naperville.patch.com/groups/tim-mit… #depression 1 day ago
- Loved your interest in 5 health tips @bownesspark @SaltSeasoned @csinmichigan sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/5-tips-fo… #gothealth #forgiveness 1 day ago
- 5 #healthtips - thanks for RTs @CSPressRoom @WilliamEdScott @SCalCS @NorCalCS 4 RTs thechronicle.com.au/news/5-tips-fo… 1 day ago
- Thx @GoldsmithBev @j_d_clague @KeithWommack @3rdchurchdallas @cynthiabarnettp 4 RTs re my piece theaucklander.co.nz/news/5-tips-fo… 1 day ago
- 5 TIPS TO ALL ROUND BETTER HEALTH wp.me/p167JE-Vg 1 day ago
Australian Commentary
International Commentary
- Boston, Church Press Room
- Canada East, Wendy Margolese
- Canada West, Anna Bowness-Park
- Georgia, Stormy Becker Falso
- Massachusetts, Ingrid Peschke
- Michigan, Bob Cummings
- Minnesota, Joel Magnes
- New Zealand, Ann Haydock
- Nth California, Eric Nelson
- Sth California, Don Ingwerson
- Texas, Keith Wommack
- UK, Tony Lobl
- Virginia, Roger Whiteway
- Washington, Bill Scott
Tag Archives: Mary Baker Eddy
What does Anna Karenina have to do with International Women’s Day and women’s health?
I was instantly and totally smitten with Anna Karenina when I first started to read the novel in my mid-teens. Tolstoy’s book set in the 1870s enveloped me in a whole new world, introducing themes of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Health policy, Kay's posts, Mental health, Over-diagnosis/treatment
Tagged Anna Karenina, change agent, Coming of Age on Zoloft, dietary supplements, Dr David Ramirez, International Women's Day, Katherine Sharpe, Mark Butler, Mary Baker Eddy, medication, social determinants of health, Social Inclusion Minister, Spirituality, The Christian Science Monitor, The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum, Tolstpoy, Women's health
Leave a comment
Want the Happiest of New Years? Trust Your Instinct to Care
This article was first published on these APN regional news websites: Toowoomba Chronicle, Bundaberg NewsMail, the Northern Star and Fraser Coast Chronicle. A friend related how an acquaintance was in hospital recently, suffering from a life-threatening illness. Things were looking pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged care, consciousness, Dr Lissa Rankin, God, health predictions, health professionals, healthcare, instinct, Institute of Noetic Sciences, kindness, Mary Baker Eddy, medical practitioners, medicine, New Year, New Year's Resolutions, placebos, TEDx Talk, The Bible, the divine, the good Samaritan
4 Comments
Top of our Christmas Wish-List is Health
Versions of this blog article are published on the national forum, Online Opinion, as Know what’s at the top of our Christmas wish list? Health, and What’s at the top of your Christmas wish-list? on the APN media website. “All I … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged A Current Affair, All I want for Christmas, All I want for Christmas is the gift of good health, asthma, depression, Dr Damien Finiss, Dr Irving Kirsch, drugs, healthcare, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, Mary Baker Eddy, medicine, migraine, Mind over Medicine, osteoarthritis, pain, placebo effect, placebos, reason for the Season, Spirituality, The Placebo Effect: A Conversation with Dr Irving Kirsch
2 Comments
Health: Predetermined? Fate? For sale?
There’s a game where the price for goods that you produce is determined by a god called “Theoi”. Participants have the option of contributing some of their goods to Theoi in the hope of ‘pacifying him’ and becoming more successful. … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care
Tagged Christian Science, eugenics, gambling, genetic testing, genetics, Gilbert Welch, Julian Savulescu, life a lottery, Mary Baker Eddy, over-diagnosis, Over-diagnosis epidemic, over-treatment, placebos, procreation, Professor Paul Fritjers, sacrifice, Spirituality, The Conversation, Theoi, University of Queensland
Leave a comment
Big Brother Enlightens Us
This article was written for and first published by the Queensland Telegraph, Rockhampton on 1 September 2012 as “Big Brother ‘traffics in unreal situations”. Is there anything good to be said about Big Brother? Of course, I’m referring to the … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts, Videos
Tagged #goodsociety, anger, anxiety, Big Brother, Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, compassion, coronary heart disease, Croakey, Dacher Keltner, Dr John Falzon, happiness, humane, humanitarian, humanity, kindness, Laura Kubzansky, Mary Baker Eddy, Melissa Sweet, psycho-physical, reality TV, societal forces, Spirituality, The Bible, YouTube
2 Comments
Loneliness, depression and Olympic fairy-tale endings
This post was first published on ON LINE Opinion - Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. There is nothing like the feeling of standing on the stage or dais clasping your hard-won medal in two hands to the sound of thunderous … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged Archives of Internal Medicine, Ben Herzig, body+soul, Brisbane Times, Christopher Gordon, David Baker, depression, genetics, gold medal winners, happy pills, hopelessness, integrative medicine, Irving Kirsch, loneliness, lonely worker bees, Mary Baker Eddy, mental illness, Olympians, Olympic fairy-tales, Olympics, Paralympians, Paralympics, psychiatry, psychology, screening for loneliness, The Emperor's New Drugs, treatment, You are not alone
2 Comments
Obese Nation or Opportunity for New Health Model?
This post was first published on ON LINE Opinion, Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate, as Connect the dots out of an obesity epidemic to ‘picture of health’. My childhood friend was getting quite plump, had trouble running and … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged anorexia, bulimia, Christian Science, consciousness and wellbeing, Dana Godman, Dr Harold Koenig, eating disorders, health, Mark Bittman, Mary Baker Eddy, new health model, Obese Nation, obesity, placebos, Shannon McKeown, Spirituality, spirituality and health research, weight loss starts from the inside out
Leave a comment
Are you mesmerised by the hungry wolf on the web?
This blog post was first published on Online Opinion. One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged Mary Baker Eddy, placebos, health, Mark Twain, Two Wolves, social media, Internet use, porn, sexualisation, Insight, Generation XXX - is online access to porn harming kids?, online traffic, Dr Google, DIY health, Dr Herbert Bensen, Marc Siegel, nocebos, Dr Craig Hassad, Australian Family Physician, spiritual approach to healthcare
Leave a comment
What’s Your Spiritual History?
When signing up with a new doctor or dentist we’re usually asked to give our medical history, but no-one asks about our spiritual history. An oversight perhaps? Times are a-changing …… explains my guest blogger today. Bob Clark is media … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care
Tagged Bob Clark, Christian Science, GWish, health, Informed Patient: Bringing Spirituality to Medicine, Laura Landro, Mary Baker Eddy, medical history, medical system, Science and Health, spiritual assessment, spiritual history, University of Maryland Medical Centre, Wall Street Journal Health Blog, wellness
Leave a comment
Feeding “the Hungry Heart” with Health and Happiness
My guest post by Tony Lobl, British and Irish media/legislative representative for Christian Science, was first published on Huffington Post UK. Eight thousand Swiss people can’t be wrong. Some might wish they had been, though, according to a study in a science … Continue reading
What’s normal? Health or illness?
In Australia, the issue of over-diagnosis is increasingly effecting both patient care and funding, as a piece on OnlineOpinion, Medicalising the Human by Peta Cox, proposed recently. Here’s a guest post today, first published on Huffington Post UK, by Tony … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care
Tagged Mary Baker Eddy, Spirituality, Tony Lobl, mental health, Huffington Post, Medicalising the human, Peta Cox, OnlineOpinion, mental disorders, American Psychiatric Association, Peter Kinderman, Karin Humphreys, British Medical Journal, medicalisation, Gilbert Welch, agree to disagree, health is normal, grief, change of mind, Medicalisation of normality, normalisation of health
Leave a comment
Understanding miracles may impel healthcare innovation
Wasn’t it great to hear about Kath Evans’ recovery from lung cancer on Australian Story this week on the ABC? The fact that she attributes her extraordinary healing to intervention by the then Blessed Mary MacKillop impels me to question, … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Science, Health care, Kay's posts
Tagged Australian Story, cancer healed, consciousness, conventional wisdom?, divine Mind, health, healthcare, innovation, Kath Evans, Mary Baker Eddy, Mary MacKillop, mind/body connection, Mind/health connection, nocebo effect, placebo effect, Saint Mary MacKillop, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Leave a comment
Bringing Spirituality to Medicine
What will treating ‘the whole person’ mean for hospitals, nurses, doctors, chaplains and patients? My colleague, Don Ingwerson, media spokesperson for Christian Science in Southern California shares some interesting developments in the United States via his guest post today. Two … Continue reading
Posted in Health care
Tagged GWish, health, Health Care Chaplaincy, John Templeton Foundation, Linda Lee, Mary Baker Eddy, Prayer, Spirituality
Leave a comment
Belief and Its Effect on Our Health
This article by Russ Gerber first appeared on Huffington Post. Penny Sarchet doesn’t think of herself as a detective, but she’s been acting like one. She recently received a prize for her science essay on the nocebo effect, one of the … Continue reading
