Welcome to episode 255 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and I'm happy to have you back here again with us this week.

This is a time when all of us are thinking a lot about healing and well-being.

We have a lot of questions about wellness, and today's guest is uniquely qualified to talk about that.

Dr. Jeffrey Rediger is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and today's guest is uniquely qualified to talk about that. Dr. Jeffrey Rediger is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and is medical director of McLean Hospital Southeast

Adult Psychiatric Programs. He's a board-certified psychiatrist with a master's in divinity

from Princeton Theological Seminary, and in 2015, he walked onto a TEDx stage and proposed a revolutionary

idea to an audience of doctors. He challenged them to join him in creating a new kind of medicine

built on hope and possibility rather than focusing on sickness and disease. His new book,

Cured, The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing, provides a fascinating

look into healing and how changing our beliefs about ourselves can change our outcomes.

Let's hear what he has to say.

Jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us today on Live Happy Now.

I'm glad to be here.

Well, we really wanted to talk to you because you have written a fascinating book, and it

looks at how people with illnesses that were allegedly incurable were somehow spontaneously healed.

And I found this book so fascinating.

It's really difficult to put it down.

And I wanted to know how you got started on this research to begin with. In 2002, an

oncology nurse at Mass General in Boston came to me and said that she had just been diagnosed

of pancreatic cancer and she wanted my help talking to her son about this. And so then she called me

from a healing center saying that she was seeing some amazing recoveries,

...