Promote Health and Wellness by Activating the Brain~Body Connection for Healing
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
Staying In Pain Pain comes and it goes. It is just one component to the grand cycle of life. And when experienced as such, pain can serve as an important teacher. It is when we get stuck in our pain that it becomes detrimental to our well-being and development. If Read More
Just for a moment, imagine being free of attachments. Things come and go, but you are stable and unmoving in the midst of it all. It doesn’t mean you don’t care. In fact, in the lack of clinging, you are free to care deeply. The most intimate state of being Read More
It’s safe to say that self-care is having a moment. More and more, it seems like everyone is espousing the importance of sleep, saying no, and “treating yo’self” as much as possible. As a social worker and coach, I talk all the time about the importance of self-care. Many people Read More
Affirmed by Massive 30-Year Study As you may already know, autoimmunity is a form of immune dysregulation. This occurs as a result of different factors and that includes emotional factors. Your emotional health is directly linked to your immune function, via the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis, which means that you can Read More