"Michelle, Thank you so much. What an absolute honor and privilege it has been to be with you... to experience your incredible curious and open nature and the wonderful questions you ask to bring each speaker out." - Dr. Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
After graduating magna cum laude from college, Dr. Joan Borysenko earned her
doctorate in Medical Sciences from the Harvard Medical School, where she completed post-doctoral training in cancer cell biology. After the death of her father from cancer, she then became
very interested in the person with the illness rather than the disease itself,
so she returned to Harvard
Medical School
to study the field of behavioral medicine, working under the tutelage of Dr.
Herbert Benson, M.D., who brought meditation into medicine using relaxation
response.
Dr. Joan then went on to receive a third post-doctoral fellowship in
psycho-neuro-immunology -- the interaction between psychological processes and
the nervous and immune systems of the human body, co-founding a Mind/Body
clinic with Dr. Benson and Dr. Ilan Kutz--> and became a licensed
psychologist and an appointed instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical
School.
Her years of clinical research and experience later culminated into a New
York Times best seller called, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind,
which sold over 400,000 copies.
Since then she has authored or co-authored over a
dozen other books on healing, inner peace, and the spiritual journey, along
with numerous audio programs and guided meditations, including appearances on
Public Television and her latest book called Fried.
Dr. Joan is a Founding Partner of Mind/Body Health
Sciences located in Boulder,
Colorado and the former Director of The
Claritas Institute InterSpiritual Mentor Training Program, and current host of
the Hay House Internet radio show called Your Soul’s Compass.
Joan is a beautiful mother and a wife, residing in the Rocky Mountains out in nature where she feels so connected
to her truth, often working side-by-side with her devoted husband,
Dr. Gordon Dveirin.
Her signature story is known well around the world. . After watching a scary movie at the age of
10 , she began having nightmares that would haunt her night after
night … so much so she began to experience hallucinations which later developed
into two serious mental illnesses: obsessive
compulsive disorder and a psychotic state.
Dr. Joan describes this altered state of reality as both shamanic
and scary -- a spiritual experience that has helped her achieve a deep sense of connectedness to other realms of consciousness.
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