For the Fun of It: Living in Harmony with Joy

August 13, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

I’ve discovered that embracing fun and joy in life as an ongoing discipline isn't self-indulgent. Rather, it promotes a healthy lifestyle. My healing experience led to greater compassion for myself that allowed me to experience a happier life.

How can holes help us rise?

August 6, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Though I don't know if my conversations were with God, my "higher self," or just a part of my imagination, I did feel information flowing through me from a source beyond my conscious awareness.

Through the Looking Glass: Viewing Stressors' Effects Using Energy Testing

July 30, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Working together with patients to manage and control stress levels and their negative effects can prevent future relapse and make the difference between a successful or failed medication taper.

People Are Lovable Close-Up. Gain Insight.

July 23, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

By getting to know my patients close up, I continue to polish off many sharp judgments and prejudices I gathered from past experiences: like a rock bouncing along and getting smoother along the way.

Obtaining Your Heart's Desire and the Meaning of Cinderella's Glass Slipper

July 16, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Too often we believe that if the circumstances and the person were perfect, true love would occur. But no, true love actually begins when we have the courage to remain authentic to who we truly are.

Understanding the Meaning Behind "Side Effects"

July 9, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

As my I shifted to a more holistic perspective, I began to connect side effects to their biochemical processes, or lack thereof. Because of this approach, my practice attracted patients who couldn't tolerate their medications due to side effects.

What is "Life Energy" and how does it work?

July 2, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

It doesn't matter what you call this energy. What is important is that your mind is dialed to the right channel.

Top Three Ways to Transform Hardships into Advantages

June 25, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Between the hardship and its outcomes lay our choices. What kinds of choices maximize our ability to transform hardships into advantages?

The Slot Canyons of Life

June 18, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

It might surprise us how our thoughts and intentions can immediately shift us from our predicament. Love and peace. Never underestimate the amount of power these energies hold when we need a helping hand.

Parable of the Remodeling Project: Getting to Zen

June 11, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Changes are difficult and challenging, even if it is for the betterment of the person. Our walls form familiar boundaries, and when they get broken down, we feel unsettled and a little confused by the process.

The Epigenetics of Energy Medicine

June 4, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Genes are not like words carved in stone. They are fluid and are influenced by our thoughts, social settings, traumas, and nutritional status.

The Trip: Finding my way back home

May 28, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

The strange flow of love, like water in a river, can be blocked by unspoken hurt and anger. When we can remove that dam, with a sincere apology, love flows once more.

Improving the Standard of Care

May 21, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Let's be clear, I believe there is much more psychiatrists can do to further mental health than just "the standard of care." Is the pharmaceutical industry a tool of psychiatry or is psychiatry a tool of the pharmaceutical industry?

Motherhood: Constant Entertainment

May 14, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Since this update comes just two days after celebrating Mother’s Day, I want to share some reflections on my attitude towards motherhood and a poem I wrote about my daughter, Sara.

The Ultimate Investment: More meaningful than money!

May 7, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

I want to explore what I consider to be the most important investment we can make in our lives. More important than multiplying money. More important than saving up for retirement. More important than paying off your house.

Which is More Powerful: Functional or Energy Medicine?

April 30, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Both functional and energy medicine are equally important tools in healing patients from mental illness, and it is important for the clinician to have the ability to discern how to begin, which to begin with, and how to maximize and integrate these tools for each unique patient's needs.

Perfection's Hiding Place

April 23, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

April is poetry month, which is as good an excuse as any to share a poem I wrote called "Chipped China Cup" and some thoughts I have about it. I love poems because they concentrate truth, bare emotion, and support insight.

Owning Your Life

April 16, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Have you ever thought of life as progressing in the shape of an upward spiral, where we circle back in periodic cycles to encounter old issues from a different, perhaps higher and wiser, perspective?

The Pill Paradox

April 9, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

Why and how do medications create disease? And how can we deal with this phenomenon when it occurs?

Thirty-eight Beads

April 2, 2019 Alice W. Lee, MD

My approach interweaves energy and functional medicine together in one cohesive system to restore health and ultimately, a person's freedom from being a patient. Learn more in this story, “Thirty-eight Beads.”