In The Doctor's Chair Dr. Mark Rowe

Find more episodes and helpful content on www.drmarkrowe.com (https://drmarkrowe.com/?ad=pc).Firstly there’s no real way to prepare for grief. It’s part and parcel of life. While to love and be loved beings great joy and meaning to life, it also equates with loss. Kahlil Gibran, the Persian writer, put it well when he wrote that the depth of your loss is a mirror image to the depth of your love. In his words, ‘you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.’

Grief is a ubiquitous experience that befalls everyone during life. To live and to love as a human being has its polar opposite of death, loss and suffering. Sometimes this loss can lead in time to a sense of posttraumatic growth with a renewed of purpose and meaning.Find more episodes and helpful content on www.drmarkrowe.com (https://drmarkrowe.com/?ad=pc).

Just like Groundhog Day, each day that we wake up our brains are hardwired for fear, for anxiety, and for survival. Gratitude as a practice is a powerful way to attune your thinking and way of being in the direction of a more positive mindset.Find more episodes and helpful content on www.drmarkrowe.com (https://drmarkrowe.com/?ad=pc).

Find more episodes and helpful content on www.drmarkrowe.com (https://drmarkrowe.com/?ad=pc).Recently I interviewed Professor Ciaran O’Boyle, a pioneering leader the area of psychology, leadership and positive health. As Professor of Psychology at the RCSI he is the Founding Director of the RCSI Centre for Positive Health Sciences (formerly the Centre for Positive Psychology and Health).

Find more episodes and helpful content on www.drmarkrowe.com (https://drmarkrowe.com/?ad=pc).Alana James is an artist, author, and academic whose artwork expresses the love of the intricacies of life as a human being. She obtained her degree in Fine Arts from the University of Colorado in 1971 and exhibited her art in galleries and competitive shows in the US during the 80s.

Find more episodes and helpful content on www.drmarkrowe.com (https://drmarkrowe.com/?ad=pc).As a family doctor for over three decades, I have met many patients who materially may have very little, but actually have so much. I have also seen people who are materially very wealthy, but are very miserable.