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Parts of the Whole Podcast

In this episode of Parts of the Whole, I talk with Brad Borkan, author of When Your Life Depends On It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic, where he recounts some incredible stories that warranted extreme decision making and how what these brave explorers experienced, and the choices they had to make can be viewed in our lives today. These are stories that some people might not know about, and illustrate what can be accomplished by the human spirit, when unknown challenges are presented. And did you know that in the early 1900s, in Antarctica, the only way to communicate was to shout!

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An exploration in storytelling and artistic creativity in treating chronic pain

Mar 14, 2021

Cecil Hershler is a medical doctor based in Vancouver Canada, who specialized in treating chronic pain. But his dilemma was that he hated prescribing opioids to his patients and thus began a journey to find a different way to treat chronic pain by deep listening and storytelling.  As a doctor and creative artist, he developed this methodology through innovative workshops from which he had tremendous success. He is now retired and writes poetry. This is the story of his journey.