Promote Health and Wellness, Not Disease and Illness by Activating the Brain~Body Connection for Healing
“I’m incredibly stressed out, and this Arizona thing has really put me over the top,” complained my patient, just this week, a woman in her mid fifties. “I just can’t seem to let it go. It’s like I’m always on edge,” she lamented. Looking at her intake paperwork, I noted Read More
The power of touch is displayed perhaps no more poignantly than during the first few months of life. Babies who are not hugged and held during these first months will not thrive and grow like their cuddled peers. In fact, a study by Rush University Medical Center in Chicago found Read More
Dr. Levine: When I first started developing my approach to trauma – and this was in the sixties and seventies, so it was way before the definition of trauma as PTSD – I noticed how many different kinds of sometimes even seemingly ordinary events could cause people to develop symptoms Read More
Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy. We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we Read More
One of the things that I am learning firsthand is how our nervous system is in the course of our day. Many of the things that I write about here are ones that I have been introduced to and then I learn about them by living through experiences that become Read More
So often people who have been through so much in life, tend to hide from it and almost act as if nothing happened. More times than I can remember, I’ve basically heard from others “I’m healed and I’m over it!” In the voice and words of the church lady, one Read More
We all have times when we come up against physical situations that challenge us to the core of our being. It may be anything from hip pain, back pain to a rash, headache, allergies or any condition you can name. Sometimes these conditions are debilitating and leave us screaming beside Read More
Sometimes people can remember what seem like the smallest, most insignificant details of their lives – their 8th grade locker combination, a story they heard at a party years ago, or all the lines from their favorite movie. These memories – full of facts, words, and events – are explicit Read More
New discoveries about early memory – and how it affects us. Most of us have been told at one time or another that children aren’t supposed to remember anything that happens to them before – roughly – the age of two. Emotionally painful experiences during infancy will therefore have no Read More
It is so easy it seems to resist things in life. While resistance sounds difficult, it is by far something we do frequently as humans. This may be through our thoughts, our bodies and even in our spiritual growth and overall learning in our lives. We do this without notice Read More