We had drunk a finger of wine and now my partner whirled me around the living room of Crosby’s Rest Home to the bouncy beat of Lawrence Welk’s champagne music coming from a tape recorder on the floor. My camera swung from my neck, but
“How many people practice self-care in the United States anyway?” the news re-writeman asked me. He had a copy of my first newsletter introducing the philosophy on self-care and he wanted a solid figure to nail it down for his lead sentence. I was disappointing.
Activated patient? The phrase sounds like something which might explode, as if you had a sleeping bomb that suddenly became unpassive, unlimp and willing to take part in its own health. To some doctors the activated patient program sounds rebellious. It teaches everyday folks everything
Garlic and olive oil and plenty of hugs in the sunshine. They stick in my mind as keys to healing after three days of listening to workshops at the Second New England Healing Arts Fair in May in Greenville, N.H. The workshops covered everything from
Self-care, self-health, self-repair and self-healing books proliferate in the health sections of paperback bookstores. One self-care advocate, a professor of public health at Yale University School of Medicine, said he had counted 600 titles recently. In 1972 he had been unable to find a publisher
