How to Awaken Your Inner Healer
I was half-asleep. It was a few minutes past 5:00 a.m. and the mornings larks were half-asleep, too. The sky was deep indigo. My house was rarely so quiet and [...]
Easing Anxiety in Times of Great Change
This blog is a supplement to a 40-minute interactive lecture I gave to nearly 3,000 live participants, sponsored by Sutter Health / Institute for Health and Healing on October 6, [...]
No Easy Answers (Except Maybe One)
This is the third in a series of articles: Enduring Wisdom in Times of Great Change. In these posts I've shared stories of some of the mentors in my [...]
Two Simple Ways to Release Grief
This is the second in a series of articles: Enduring Wisdom in Times of Great Change. In the spring of 2013, during my decade+ journey with chronic fatigue and vertigo, [...]
Enduring Wisdom in Times of Great Change: the Spaces In-Between
This is the first in a series of articles on timeless wisdom gained on a path of healing. For those who have read Brave New Medicine, you know my decades-long healing [...]
Is it a cold, the flu, or coronavirus?
Yesterday at my standard go-to grocery store in Berkeley, CA, the shelves that stock paper goods and bottled water were spare. The canned beans, soups, and pasta shelves: empty. I’ve [...]
Empower Radio Interview
http://www.empowerradio.net/podcasts/miracleofhealing_061819_cynthiali.mp3
2 Secret Ingredients for Healing
Over the past several years of practicing integrative and functional medicine, I’ve observed two “ingredients” that consistently increase the likelihood of healing in my patients; in some cases, this meant [...]
Intuition: The Lost Art of Medicine (And How To Get It Back)
I used to be a total skeptic when it came to intuition. Having grown up in Texas in an evangelical community, then going through western medicine training, I would say that my [...]
Breaking the Mold: A Doctor’s Illness Changes Her Practice
Published in the Peninsula Press, BY CHRISTINA REN AUGUST 26, 2017 Ten years ago, a young woman came to Dr. Cynthia Li, seeking treatment for fungal overgrowth causing chronic fatigue and digestive [...]