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Dr. Robert MD Rutledge. The Healing Circle
Before the Beginning
SECTION I. Friday Evening • Empowering the Body
Chapter 1. My Healing Journey
Chapter 2. Setting an Intention to Heal
Chapter 3. What is Healing?
Chapter 4. Opening Circle
Chapter 5. Andrew: Opening the Door to a New Life
Chapter 6. Complete Cancer Care: Part I - Getting the Best Possible Medical Care
Chapter 7. Marie: Riding the Wind and Waves
Chapter 8. Complete Cancer Care: Part II- Empowering the Body
Chapter 9. Karen: Accepting and Aspiring
SECTION II. Saturday Morning • Settling the Mind
Chapter 10. The Power of Mindfulness
Chapter 11. Bonnie: Learning to Paddle My Own Kayak
Chapter 12. The Raisin Eating Meditation
Chapter 13
Chapter 14. Cathy: Learning to Listen to Myself
Chapter 15. Why Meditate?
Chapter 16. Kathy: Miracles Can Happen
Chapter 17. How to Meditate
Chapter 18. My Meditation Practice
Chapter 19. Talking about Stress
Chapter 20. Practicing the Relaxation Response in the Chaos of Life
Chapter 21. Pam: Just Being Me
SECTION III. Saturday afternoon • Reframing Distressing Thoughts
Chapter 22 “Tell Me About the Place You Come From”
Chapter 23. Reframing “I can’t do it”
Chapter 24. Geoff: Trading in his Hockey Stick for a Walking Stick
Chapter 25. Reframing for the Cancer Hero
Chapter 26. Reframing Distressing Thoughts with Kindness and Insight
Chapter 27. Jackie: Working Towards Forgiving Myself
Chapter 28. Reframing “You’re supposed to stay positive”
Chapter 29. Karen: All for the Children
Chapter 30. Harry and Ann: Living the Tension with Wisdom and Love
SECTION IV. Sunday • Reclaiming our Wholeness
Chapter 31. The Bowl of Loving Kindness Meditation
Chapter 32. Peter: Letting Anger Come
Chapter 33. Embracing Emotions with Kindness and Awareness
Chapter 34. Jackie: From a Closed Hand to an Open Hand
Chapter 35. When Fear is the Teacher
Chapter 36. Christine: Heal My Soul or Die Trying
Chapter 37. The Story of My Grandmother
Chapter 38. Circles Within Circles: Spirituality and Wholeness
Chapter 39. International Julie Day
Chapter 40 “Julie, meet Randy”
Chapter 41. Closing Circle
Chapter 42. Continuing the Journey
Afterword. My Journey to Healing and Cancer: Timothy Walker
Acknowledgements
Suggested Reading
Agenda of a “Skills For Healing” Weekend Retreat
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“Awaken Heart” was the title of the poster placed just outside the room where physicians review medical charts and dictate letters at our cancer centre. I stopped between seeing patients, curious to absorb these words set in a background of a powder-blue sky. As I read further, my mind seemed to expand and a feeling of calm, mixed with excitement and possibility, came over me. The poster was an advertisement for a stress reduction course offered by Dr. Timothy Walker, a local psychotherapist. Somehow I knew my life was about to change.
At that time, in 1998, I lived in two worlds. Early in my career, as a busy oncologist with a young family, working and teaching at a University hospital, I spent most of my time taking care of people who often shook with fear during their first appointment with me. Through really listening to them, and providing clear information and a treatment plan, I did my best to be a competent and compassionate physician. At medical rounds, in front of my colleagues, I was viewed as a promising physician-scientist.
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Andrew felt overwhelmed by multiple stressors in his life including sorting out all the issues in his house, the fear of the unknown, his anger, dealing with death, and making medical decisions when given conflicting information. Andrew reflects back on this dark period and says, “Sure I was fine. I slept like a baby…I’d wake up every few hours and cry.” He can laugh now, but he acknowledges that it took time to heal from a profound grief.
For months Andrew felt like he was being tossed in waves of emotional turbulence, but at the same time had an overwhelming sense that something much bigger than himself was buoying him up. He was working to be both proactive and willing to surrender, to re-learn how to trust in the journey and to accept his struggles.
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