Promote Health and Wellness by Activating the Brain~Body Connection for Healing
Prescription drug overdoses have become alarmingly common in the U.S., with opioid painkillers, such as Vicodin and Oxycontin, among the drugs most frequently making headlines. 2:57 minutes New research shows another class of drugs — benzodiazepines or “benzos” — is rising in the ranks of overdose deaths, however. Prescriptions for Read More
Social Anxiety Disorder Linked to High Serotonin Levels Throwing Treatment with SSRIs into Serious Question Depression and other mental health problems are at epidemic levels judging by the number of antidepressants prescribed each year. According to CDC data, one in 20 Americans over the age of 12 report some form Read More
Definition Somatization disorder is a psychiatric condition marked by multiple medically unexplained physical, or somatic, symptoms. In order to qualify for the diagnosis of somatization disorder, somatic complaints must be serious enough to interfere significantly with a person’s ability to perform important activities, such as work, school or family and Read More
Transforming illness into a self-healing journey, the next paradigm shift in medicine. When we are sick and in pain, we try to return to health as quickly as possible. It is a natural response to seek treatments to ‘fix’ or get rid of pain and symptoms so we can return Read More
Did you know that current scientific research is that degenerative disc and spine changes are not the real source of pain? That is, most people have one or more disc protrusion, herniation and degeneration of the spine without pain! Recent discoveries show that the disc is loaded with sensory fibers Read More
What’s the Real Diagnosis? “Traumatic events of the earliest years of infancy and childhood are not lost but, like a child’s footprints in wet cement, are often preserved life-long. Time does not heal the wounds that occur in those earliest years; time conceals them. They are not lost; they are Read More
Why Most People Don’t Have Optimum Health What are the Top 5 reasons we shortchange our health? There are lots of posts about everything you should be doing…. But do you know why it can be so hard to succeed with your health goals? Here are the TOP 5 reasons Read More
According to the Center for Disease Control, 80% of visits to the doctor are believed to be stress-related. Yet what is “stress” if not fear, anxiety, and worry dressed up in more socially acceptable clothing? While we tend to view worry, anxiety, and fear as signs of weakness, most of Read More
I have been in some kind of therapy or other since I was 18. It has, at times, been a rough and very rocky road to say the least. I worked with my last therapist for ten years, and he was wonderful. I reached a point where I was very Read More
It is said that people enter our lives for a reason. Whether to teach or inspire, for good or for bad, easy or difficult, to stay or to go; we learn valuable lessons from those we meet along our life’s path. Seldom does someone enter our life to heal and Read More