The Container
A newsletter series by Soul Surgeon MD.
The Container is now published on Substack. We will continue to provide a safe space to responsibly learn and connect about all things life, love, and purpose here. Subscribe below for shorter reflections and new formats from former trauma surgeon turned trauma healer, John Moos, M.D.
Doctor’s Orders: Laugh
Laughter regulates the body, resets the mind, and interrupts the loops that keep us stuck. This week's Pulse is a simple prescription: find something that makes you laugh and commit to it fully.
Weekly Laughter Just Might Save Your Life
People who laugh less than once a month have nearly double the mortality risk of those who laugh weekly. In this Brief, John Moos, MD looks at what the research says about laughter, longevity, and why how freely we laugh may be one of the most overlooked health metrics we have.
Don’t Wait, Laugh!
Laughter is spontaneous, but it is also a practice. In this edition, John Moos, MD shares two simple examples from his own life and offers six ways to create laughter on purpose, because if the moment doesn't come to you, you are allowed to go looking for it.
Laughter May Just Be the Best Medicine
Laughter is not avoidance. It is one of the most grounded, human things we can do, and one of the most underestimated tools in healing. In this Field Notes, John Moos, MD explores why levity is not a retreat from life's weight but a way of bearing it, what the research says about laughter and longevity, and what a single moment in a clinical session revealed about joy, perspective, and the freedom that comes when we stop taking ourselves so seriously.