Comfort Talk® Blog Insights

Breathing for Succeeding

You may not have thought about how to put a free commodity to best use: your breath.

The French Dip

We had just arrived in Lansing, Michigan prior to a Comfort talk® Training at Sparrow Medical Center Mid-Michigan MRI. The menu at the hotel listed “French Dip.”

Recycling Your Leaves

Here at Comfort Talk headquarters we’re making sure to mow our leaves, creating less trash and useful fuel for your compost bin.

Radiology – The Specialty With an Inferiority Complex?

Radiology – the specialty that has a hard time to promote itself. Could it suffer from an inferiority complex? Or from being out of (patient) touch?

The Caregiver Designation

A new buzzword seems to be popping up by which hospitals describe their staff: “Care givers.” Years ago I heard Cleveland clinic representatives during an “Empathy Summit” proudly proclaim that this is now a byword they affix onto all their personnel’s clothing to show how they care.

Touching Can Be Touchy

As healthcare professional you may be surprised to find out that even well-intended touching on the job can be quite “touchy” and cause negative reactions in patients.

Learning Even When One Doesn’t Want to

Preparing for a banquet speech I will give on 9 October 2016 at the Annual meeting of the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis prompted me to review our training experience in advanced communication skill and hypnoidal language for healthcare professionals (Comfort Talk®).

Bike Lanes

My first sight when stepping foot in the Netherlands during a recent Comfort Talk training visit: People are slim, fit and seem to peddle as a nation.