David Hanscom MD

A key to escaping pain is learning how to mute the body's response to threat. All living creatures have a withdrawal response to physical pain. It allowed life to evolve. There is no automatic protective response to mental pain.

Chronic stress breaks down your body and creates illness and disease. Chronic stress causes flight or fight physiology, which creates...

Yet it is at the core of successful human relationships. There are dire consequences in nature for being vulnerable. Yet vulnerability is...