Welcome to the official website for The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing

This web site contains information about Beth B. DuPree, M.D., F.A.C.S., her book, her personal recommendations for spiritual growth and guidance, and much, much more! As each of us are on a journey and the only constant in life is change, this web site will continue to evolve as we grow. We welcome you to the journey!

"Life's destinations are subject to changes, stay present in the moment and remember that it is truly all about the journey."
-Beth B. DuPree, M.D.

"Although I may be powerless to cure every patient I encounter, I do however possess the power to help each individual release fear and find healing."
-Beth B. DuPree, M.D.

TESTIMONIALS

"I recommend this book for healthcare professionals, physicians, and medical students to help find their way to healing themselves and their patients."
-Bernie Siegel, M.D.
Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles


"The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing, resonated deeply with me and reflected my own healing journey back to me. Dr. DuPree is that wondrous combination - a true healer with excellent Western training and surgical skills. Her book illuminates the path all must take to become happy and whole."
-Christiane Northup, M.D.
Author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom


"In The Healing Consciousness, you meet the perfect healer: loving mom, sister, spouse, friend and skilled surgeon who is aware of her angelic and divine connections. Written in a style true to her personality (warm, passionate, wise, authentic and loving), Beth DuPree's intimate and powerful story of her stunning spiritual transformation empowers you, while touching your heart and soul. A must-read for all patients as well as healers."
-Susan Apollon
Author of Touched by the Extraordinary

BOOK REVIEWS

Brian L. Weiss, M.D.

Miami, Florida
January, 2008

Sometime during the mid-1980's when I was the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, I awakened about six in the morning from a dream where I was giving a lecture, in this instance to a vast audience of psychiatrists. Upon awakening I wrote down the dream and later included it in my first book, Many Lives, Many Masters.

“In the rush toward the medicalization of psychiatry, it is important that we do not abandon the traditional, albeit sometimes vague, teachings of our profession. We are the ones who still talk to our patients, patiently and with compassion. We still take the time to do this. We promote the conceptual understanding of illness, healing with understanding and the induced discovery of self-knowledge, rather than just with laser beams. We still use hope to heal.

“In this day and age, other branches of medicine are finding these traditional approaches to healing much too inefficient, time-consuming, and unsubstantiated. They prefer technology to talk, computer-generated blood chemistries to the personal physician-patient chemistry, which heals the patient and provides satisfaction to the doctor. Idealistic, ethical, personally gratifying approaches to medicine lose ground to economic, efficient, insulating, ans satisfaction-destroying approaches. As a result, our colleagues feel increasingly isolated and depressed. The patients feel rushed and empty, uncared for.

“We should avoid being seduced by high technology. Rather, we should be the role models for our colleagues. We should demonstrate how patience, understanding, and compassion help both patient and physician. Taking more time to talk, to teach, to awaken hope and the expectation of recovery – these half-forgotten qualities of the physician as healer – these we must always use ourselves and be an example to our fellow physicians.

“High technology is wonderful in research and to promote the understanding of human illness and disease. It can be an invaluable clinical tool, but it can never replace those inherently personal characteristics and methods of the true physician....”

Decades later, in eastern Pennsylvania, a surgeon embodies and manifests my decades-old dream of what the ideal physician should be. Dr. Beth DuPree has mastered modern surgical knowledge and techniques. She is a highly skilled and dedicated surgeon. She has also mastered the art of healing the whole patient, of understanding the mind-body-spirit connection in order to heal the root of the illness as well as its physical manifestations. She uses the scalpel and she uses her heart, wielding both with a skill and a power so rarely found in physicians today.

I admire Beth’s courage. As a fellow physician, I know the strength she needed to make the profound changes in her clinical practice and in her life is considerable. Yet she conquered the obstacles and achieved her dream. Again, how rare.

This book, The Healing Consciousness, A Doctor’s Journey to Healing, is a joy. I particularly love the case histories because they illustrate and illuminate the beauty of Beth’s heart and the power of her compassion to forever change the lives of her patients and their families. Every doctor Beth touches, whether in person or through her book, will be enriched. Every patient will have more understanding and more hope.

THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
JAMES A. COX

Editor-in-Chief

SMALL PRESS BOOK WATCH:
July 2006

As a board-certified surgeon who specializes in diseases of the breast, Dr. Beth DuPree has found through her many years of professional practice and personal experience that blending holistic therapies with state-of-the-art, leading-edge, medical technologies leads to better outcomes than any sole reliance on one to the exclusion of the other. This open-minded attitude and impeccable professionalism shows throughout the pages of The Healing Consciousness: A Doctor's Journey to Healing, an inspired and inspiring collection of Dr. DuPree's illustrative examples and commentaries drawn from her own life, as well as the lives of her patients and friends. A dedicated physician who embraces the wisdom of both Eastern and Western approaches to medicine, as well as "mind/body" reciprocal influences, Dr. DuPree shares "life lessons learned" from her professional observations and personal experiences. Informed and informative, The Healing Consciousness is comprised of twenty-five "reader friendly" chapters (each one dedicated to the underlying message and universal theme of hope, change, and an aspiration to acquire a better balance in our lives, regardless of our circumstances or condition) and features a summary of six basic principles, plus a listed bibliography. Dr. DuPree emphasizes a necessary connection between ourselves and what is required to precipitate, participate, and propagate a spiritual enlightenment that will not only enhance our own physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, but also the well-being of those with whom we associate, whether they are family, friends, associates, or strangers. An articulate presentation in a particularly engaging narrative style that is especially accessible to non-specialist general readers, The Healing Consciousness is enthusiastically recommended reading for those with an interest in alternative medicine, the healing arts, holistic health, personal spiritual development, emotional self-improvement, and adaptive strategies to dealing with stress, illness, and the inevitable hardships that all of us will encounter from time to time. No personal improvement reading list or community library self-help reference collections should fail to include Dr. Beth DuPree's The Healing Consciousness.

Diana Vincent Jewelers Designers & Platinumsmiths Supports Breast Cancer Hospital in Bensalem, PA

10/16/2007 (Washington Crossing, PA)Bucks County international award winning jewelry designer Diana Vincent has designed and contributed a special Brooch in sterling silver for the 150 member staff of the new Comprehensive Breast Care Institute at DSI of Bucks County. She also created a single 18 K yellow gold, diamond and pink tourmaline version of the Brooch for “Designs for Healing: A Fashion Show Event” held September 29th at the Institute. This event is to benefit The Healing Consciousness Foundation, an organization whose purpose is to support the emotional, physical and spiritual healing of women and men afflicted with breast cancer.

Diana Vincent was also privileged to provide all of the jewelry used at the fashion show.
Per Diana, “This Brooch was designed to represent love, healing and comfort with an East meets West theme that captures the mission of the Institute.”
Diana further says, “The movement of a bamboo branch whispers the image of a heart, the universal symbol of love. I designed a labyrinth style opening at the base of the heart. The purpose is to lead your eye to focus on a dangling stone - rose quartz in the silver version - that represents healing and love. This pink stone was placed directly in the “heart’s center” dangling there to keep your focus. The design of this Brooch is such that no matter where your eye may want to roam you are drawn back to focus within the heart’s center.”

For additional information:

The sterling silver brooch can be purchased for $150.00. 100% of the entire proceeds will be donated back to the Healing Consciousness Foundation.

Diana Vincent Jewelers, Designers, and Platinumsmiths

1099 General Greene Road & Route 532
Washington Crossing, PA
P.O. Box 352
215-493-0969
Store hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Visit Diana Vincent on the Web at www.dianavincent.com.


The Healing Consciousness Foundation, a non-profit organization established by Beth Baughman DuPree, M.D., provides financial assistance so patients may access services such as: psychological therapy, nutritional counseling, weight management, exercise training, meditation, holistic services, and post-operative items (lymphedema sleeves, breast prosthesis, wigs and post-surgical undergarments). Funds raised by the HCF will be distributed to patients associated with the Comprehensive Breast Care Institute at DSI of Bucks County. Visit the HCF at www.hcfbucks.org. Contact: Jamie Campagna at jcampagna@dsi-corp.com or call 215-633-3466.