The Healing Way's mission is to share resources, insights, and strategies for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing.

The Healing Way is about hope.

There is always opportunity for healing.

The disease experience opens a window into the soul. Illness is an invitation to look deeply into self, cultivate new levels of knowledge, and understanding about what it is to be alive.

Anyone can engage healing. Healing is possible without a cancer diagnosis, or other malady. Healing is available to each and every one of us.

What is Healing?

Curing only addresses the disease.

Healing transforms the whole person, including the heart, mind, spirit, and soul.

Healing goes beyond medical treatments.

Healing requires a state of mind, and being, with openness for transformation and a commitment to self-inquiry.

Healing involves engaging depths of the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of self.

Healing sometimes necessitates major life changes.

Healing demands thinking and feeling outside one’s box.

Healing is awakening hidden vitality through freeing buried aspects of self.

Healing is embracing one’s innate wholeness.

Healing is a deep connection to one’s self, and all of life.

Healing is seeing life as a spiritual journey.

What is the Gap between Medicine and Healing?

Modern medicine in the United States, and some other parts of the world, focuses on developing innovative technologies, high tech molecular targets, and state of the art treatment centers. Too often, mainstream medicine neglects the experience of the person with disease. The health care system needs to place equal emphasis on the mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of people with illness, as well as the physical needs beyond the specific diagnosis.

Patients are people that need assistance in developing a construct for their experiences around sickness. Loved ones of patients also require support. Illness often creates a new normal for everyone involved, and more compassionate care is needed to support the process of understanding and self-integrating changes.

About Me

In March 1998, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. In my world turned upside down, I began a healing journey. I have connected with places internally and externally that would not have been possible without the disease. My life, instead of being ordinary, has become extraordinary. My catalyst into healing has been my health challenge.

There are several articles on my website that describe my medical history. The following provides a brief summary. I had brain surgery at the National Institutes of Health in April 1998, and no further conventional treatments were recommended. In February 2004, I was told I had a brain tumor recurrence and the tumor started growing back in 2000. (Yes, I know that does not make sense, but that is what happened. Although I had regular MRI scans, I experienced "poor doctor-patient communication.") After consulting with several cancer hospitals in the United States, the consensus was that despite the low-grade brain tumor, the known risks of conventional treatments did not exceed the potential benefits for me.

I knew too much not to do anything. After using a variety of alternative therapies for two years, I then pursued treatments in Europe. After therapies in Germany during 2006, in the spring of 2007 I began receiving biological medicine at the Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland. In November 2007, I switched protocols once again to a regimen with Nicholas Gonzalez, MD in New York City.

Both my personal and professional experiences have inspired me to write blogs about healing. I began crafting blogs in June 2006 through Blogs from Germany available here. Blogs from Germany offers an intimate portrait of my healing journey in Germany and beyond while receiving treatments for the brain tumor recurrence.

I do not claim to have any answers, and I fully honor that each person’s healing journey is distinctly unique. We all need to find our own way. And, we can sometimes help one another navigate the path.

Although I convey aspects of my healing path in The Healing Way blogs, the content goes far beyond my personal journey.

Thank you for your interest in The Healing Way.

Jeannine Walston