Transforming Medicine Through Resilience & Holistic Healing with Dr. Eva Selhub’s on The Healers Café with Manon Bolliger
In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks to Dr. Eva Selhub: A Journey of Healing and Transformation – From Harvard Medical School to Holistic Resiliency, Exploring the Power of Mind-Body Medicine, Personal Growth, and Empowering Patients Through Curiosity, Compassion, and Innovative Approaches to Health and Well-being.
Highlights from today’s episode include:
A transformative conversation with Dr. Eva Selhub, exploring her journey from traditional medicine to holistic healing, revealing how resilience, curiosity, and empowerment can reshape our approach to health and personal growth.
Dr. Selhub’s emphasis on empowering patients and clients rather than keeping them in a victim mindset
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Manon Bolliger
we can definitely explore questions so that that they’re thinking what other choices might be available to them, and it may position the work with fascia and with Bowen in a very positive light

ABOUT DR. EVA SELHUB:
Dr. Eva Selhub is an internationally recognized resiliency expert & thought leader, physician, author, executive coach, keynote speaker, and spiritual advisor. With almost three decades of experience, she previously held roles as an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and as a Clinical Associate at the prestigious Benson Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also served as Medical Director for six years. Dr. Selhub also served as an adjunct scientist of neuroscience at Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, one of six human nutrition research centers supported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dr. Selhub now collaborates with clients and organizations, leveraging her expertise to redefine leadership and wellbeing paradigms.
Dr. Selhub possesses a unique talent for distilling complex scientific and spiritual concepts into practical, accessible knowledge. Her transformative energy, intuitive guidance, scientific expertise, and practical mindset inspire profound change and growth in her clients and audiences worldwide. She is the author of six books, including: Burnout for Dummies, Resilience for Dummies, Your Health Destiny, The Stress Management Handbook, The Love Response. Additionally, she co-authored: Your Brain on Nature and has been featured in esteemed publications like The New York Times, authored multiple scientific publications, and has been showcased on national and international media platforms.
Core purpose/passion: I want to bring hope to humanity of the infinite possibilities that are available to us to heal and live a full and rich life. That magic can be normal.
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ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT
As a recently De-Registered board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver.
My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books: ‘What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask: The Mindful Patient-Doctor Relationship’ and ‘A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress’. I also teach BowenFirst™ Therapy through Bowen College and hold transformational workshops to achieve these goals.
So, when I share with you that LISTENING to Your body is a game changer in the healing process, I am speaking from expertise and direct experience”.
Mission: A Healer in Every Household!
For more great information to go to her weekly blog: http://bowencollege.com/blog.
For tips on health & healing go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/tips
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TRANSCRIPT
Introduction 00:00
Welcome to the Healers Café. The number one show for medical practitioners and holistic healers, to have heart to heart conversations about their day to day lives, while sharing their expertise for improving your health and wellness.
Manon Bolliger 00:17
Welcome to the Healers Cafe, and today I have with me Dr Eva Selhub. She’s an internationally recognized resiliency expert, thought leader, physician, author, executive coach, keynote speaker and spiritual advisor. Now with almost three decades of experience, she previously held roles as an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and as a clinical associate at the prestigious Benson Henry Institute for mind body medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also served as a medical director for six years. Now, there’s a lot more to say, but I’m going to just say that you’re also the author of six books, burnout for Dummies, resilience for Dummies, your health destiny, the Stress Management Handbook, the love response. And I’m just going to stop right there. There’s plenty that is very capturing. So welcome, first of all, to to this conversation. Thank you for having me. So I guess my very first question is, what led you down this path? Because it’s not just the path of becoming a physician. You you’ve expanded that, then you’ve gone into mind body medicine, which, you know, I’m assuming when you start it wasn’t overly popular
Dr Eva Selhub 01:49
at it all was 1996 97
Manon Bolliger 01:54
Okay, that’s what I’m so why don’t you tell us a little bit the journey and the and the why?
Dr Eva Selhub 02:02
It’s just, it’s such a wonderful question. Because, you know, as we get older, we think more about this, right of, like, the legacy, you know, closer to 60 than I am to 50. So it’s that period of life where I’m looking back and thinking about, like, how did I get here? And, you know, what is the legacy that I want to leave? And, yeah, I, you know, when I was younger, being a doctor was all there was, you know, my dad was a scientist, and my mom was an audiologist, and they were just in the hospital setting, and that’s what I was going to do. But I also was, as a young child, also interested in more metaphysical things. I loved ISIS, you know, the show ISIS, where she was able to telepathically move things, and, you know, use her hands to make and you know, energy would would shift things out. That was just always my that and the superheroes. But So really, what led me down the like moving away from regular medicine, was my own suffering. So I My personality is one where it’s sort of like, you know, let’s get it done and let’s make a diagnosis and move on. Not really the touchy feely type, you know, of like sitting with people for long times. And which is why, for me, working in ICUs and in the ER was kind of my personality type and was planning on doing. And in 1996 we had a lot of HIV in our hospital, and I ended up being exposed to it with a needle stick puncture. And that changed the course of my life. In 1996 I just had to go on medication to prevent conversion, and got very sick and was extremely distressed, and started really kind of rethinking my life, and what are you doing? Is this what you want to do? And I don’t know, and what if I don’t live and nobody’s going to love me? And was just a tremendous amount of distress for a long time, when my blood counts came back, okay? I did not, I did not convert to HIV. I sort of said, Okay, well, I’ve got sort of a second chance. And what is it that I want to do? Well, I don’t really know, but I guess I’ll do primary care until I figure it out that was kind of like the background, sort of a backup and I ended up doing when I got out of residency in 1997 but because I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I knew 96 was actually, you know, but I talked to an astrologist like, oh, that’s just Saturn Return. You’re out. You’re gonna have another one next year. I was like, great when I turned 58 so, but yeah, I’m really looking forward to that one. And, but, yeah, it was a succession of events that just brought me to my knees. It was a needle stick. And then my dog died, then my grandfather died, then my apartment burned down. A woman was harassing me. I had to take her to court, you know, where I had then my father had a heart attack, all within a five month period. Wow, so and again, with the personality type of. Someone who’s driven and is a doer and a helper and a caretaker, and I burnt out. I burnt out. So when I finished my residency, I knew that I needed help, and so I knew I needed to learn something new, and I knew that I needed help. So I was going to be doing primary care for Harvard hospital. And they had two programs, the Mind Body Medical Institute and the Osher Institute, which did like alternative medicine, like acupuncture. And I just literally flipped a coin, medical institute where I was volunteering so I could learn, but also, and then a year into that, they asked me to be the medical director so and asked me to start giving lectures on stress and stress physiology. So I literally learned on the job and applying Mind Body approaches medic, you know, relaxation, meditation, nutrition, exercise, spirituality, so support the facets of mind body medicine. And started, you know, doing that with my patients. Started seeing better outcomes, and all the while working on myself. And five years into doing primary care, I hated it, you know, for many reasons. One, it just, again, wasn’t part of my personality type. I loved my patients, don’t get me wrong, but I didn’t like the way the system was changing to what it is today. I didn’t like being held to having to show up every day at the same exact time. And you know that just the routine of it wasn’t for me, but I really didn’t like the way the model was changing to what it is today. And I know the day I have to see my patients as numbers is the day I have to leave. So I quit my primary care job while I was a medical director, and that’s when I started studying with healers, and again, I was suffering. I was burnt out. I want to learn more. And then whatever I learned, went with my patients. I opened up a practice where I merged eastern and western medicine together to ..
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