ABOUT OUR GUIDES

Lissa trained as an OB/GYN and practiced strictly conventional evidence-based medicine before moral injury and the resulting mental health crisis caused her to quit her job in 2007. Since then, she has spent the rest of her career studying radical remission, trying to understand what really makes people sick and what really helps them achieve optimal health outcomes. She has obsessively researched everything she didn’t learn in her medical training, not just the science-based objective factors of healing but also the hard-to-study subjective aspects of healing, like love, the therapeutic relationship, or the consciousness of the patient and healer. Since retiring from clinical medicine, she has been training physicians and therapists about what she’s learned at the Whole Health Medicine Institute. She has published 7 books, including the New York Times bestseller Mind Over Medicine and its sequel Sacred Medicine. She has also given four TEDx talks and starred in two National Public Television specials, as well as founding the health-equity-focused trauma healing for medical conditions non-profit Heal at Last.

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“Over the course of my career, I’ve collaborated with hundreds of people in the mind-body medicine, traumatology, and spiritual healing world. But my integrity, my passion for anti-racism, my belief in public health, my expertise in trauma, my commitment to a non-bypassing spirituality, and my broken heart forced me to break ties with most of my former collaborators during the pandemic. Jeff, Shiloh, and Jonathan were three of the few I still feel excited to ethically collaborate. Because we’re both doctors with an interest in spirituality, Jeff’s research on “health outliers” and the Olympians of healing and his seminary background overlaps seamlessly with my work. Jeff and I both share a passion for social justice causes, grounded, ethical, evidence-based hope, spirituality without bypassing trauma healing, and compliance with public health guidelines. Much of the same is true for Shiloh and Jonathan, who have been my moral compass throughout the shakedowns of 2020 and beyond. Not one other person in my professional world tracks with my integrity in the realms of healing, spirituality, and social justice like Shiloh does. And nobody nourishes my body and touches my heart quite like Jonathan.”

Jeff has spent the last 26 years as a professor at Harvard Medical School and as medical director of McLean SE and Community Affairs at McLean Hospital in Boston. During a number of years during that time, he was also the Chief of Behavioral Medicine at Good Samaritan Medical Center, also near Boston. During this time, he spent seventeen years gathering medical evidence for the “Olympians” of health: those with medical evidence for remarkable healings. In 2020, just as the pandemic took hold and paralyzed the entire world, his best-selling book, CURED: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life, was released. Jeff felt called to bring our awareness to something almost miraculous that he was able to repeatedly document in those he studied, and that represents a sharp contrast to what he was seeing clinically in both medical and psychiatric hospitals. What are the common denominators in spontaneous remission? To what degree are they applicable to those among the 85-90 percent of those suffering from chronic illnesses and the main killers, including heart disease, lung disease, cancer, diabetes, and auto-immune illness?

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Jeff brings the stories, science, and solutions associated with his journey of inquiry and discovery, as well as his journey into the healing of childhood abuse and his efforts to bring the best of traditional medicine into contact with the frontiers of deep healing, The pathways of healing we will share are aligned with the four pillars discussed in Cured.

“Working with Jonathan, Shiloh, and Lissa while we were making the videos was a profound pleasure and a great way to communicate material of the utmost importance for those who want to heal at the deepest levels.”