We don't always talk about it- but it is important to know how to boost your mental wellbeing. We all get "down" sometimes, but If your mental health isn’t 100%, you must take action to improve it now. The first thing to remember is that you’re never alone; many...
Quiet your mind and take refuge from the worries and emotional disturbances of the world We begin to use mindfulness for some practical healing and move to the topic of anger. The experience of anger is often felt physically as a tightness in the body, usually in the...
Steps to Help Us Stay Sane A little more than two weeks ago we all felt safe! (More or less). Suddenly, and seemingly, out of nowhere, “unseen forces” e.g., COVID, has threatened not only our physical health but also our economic foundation. Almost from one day to the...
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. ~Albert Einstein How to Survive the Holidays with Peace Surviving the holidays with inner peace can be managed with reasonable expectations. Expectations can...
Updated Nov. 20, 2024 Meditation works as a powerful tool to balance the emotional brain and improve our optimal health. It helps us learn to be present in our day-to-day lives. I learned about meditation over 40 years ago. It has changed my life from the first day...
If you are still not feeling better after doing all the right things, then maybe your health status is notbecause you missed the latest and greatest treatment, or have not taken enough supplements, but just maybe….Your Body/Mind is trying to tell you something – and you don’t know how to listen.
Updated Nov. 20, 2024 The Power of Changing Your Mind First, a Short Story When I was in medical school in Vienna, Austria, our professors told us that the brain stops growing after 24 years of age. Whatever you have by then- that was what you would have for the rest...
Calming the Emotional Brain and Overcoming Trauma & Illness Wouldn’t you like to be able to calm your emotional brain? This workshop will explain WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT FUTURE ILLNESS and how YOU CAN INFLUENCE THE HEALING PROCESS by understanding and correctly...
Chronic Illness and the Hidden Costs of Childhood Stress Note- This event has ended. Read the summary: It is now firmly established that any illness is a systemic, multi-factorial process. What does this mean? We know now that illness requires a “perfect storm” of many factors in order to manifest a disease process. Some of […]
How Prolonged Stress and Inner Conflicts Contribute to the Illness Process As part of the Integrative Cancer approach at NIHA, we look for any inner conflict and any prolonged stress a person may have because we know it may result in profound changes in the physical...
As we launch into a new year, we have quite a year ahead, both spiritually speaking, and the world at large. Those of us who live in America seem to feel divided over our current politics. The world is watching, with perhaps a similar divide, but what really matters?...
In this season of celebration in religious traditions, we hear ancient and sacred stories, each of which shares powerful lessons. As we hear these powerful stories, I invite us to reflect on the messages we are weaving through the stories of our lives. Diwali, the...
How to Make Friends and Keep Them Safe interpersonal connection and social interaction is the essence of any therapeutic and medical communication. More importantly, it is also the essence of all human interaction! Your business deals, your marriage, your social life,...
Culturally, we celebrate Thanksgiving a variety of ways, but the common themes remain the same: larger than usual family gatherings, our favorite foods, celebrating home and harvest, relaxing with favorite sports or shopping or other ways to de-stress, and...
As the seasons are changing, a lot of people are getting worried about its effects on their mood. Seasonal Affect Disorder (SAD) is real, as well as dysthymia (essentially, mild depression) and moderate to severe depression.The goal of this article is to help you gain understanding and get a nutritional jump start on your mental […]
Why Some Emotions Can Make You Sick and Others Can Make You Healthy Learn how to utilize powerful mind/body tools to be a Master of your Emotions. EMOTIONS 101 Emotions, our internal feelings, arise at the boundary between body and mind. They are here to be felt (as...
How DO I reduce the stress in my life? This is a popular question and can be approached from many directions. I believe the approach must be developed by you and your integrative medicine practitioner as a collaborative effort. Too often, treatment is based on a...
updated Aug. 31, 2025 A How-To for Creating More Balance in Your Life Living a more balanced life may look different for everyone because balance is in the eye of the beholder. The integrative medicine approach to health and wellness coaching that I practice and...
Listening to the Language of the Body as a Path to Healing "Recent rapid advances in the brain sciences and dramatically expanded understanding of the physiology of our emotions have led to a renewed interest in the various modalities of energy work and...
African Wisdom on Healing - Life Lessons East African wisdom on healing comes from the intrinsic link between life, community and healing. For the last 6 years I’ve lived in various countries throughout East Africa and learned a lot about the connections that...
Whether you are an engaged couple, married couple, or partners who have been committed to one another for a long time, there is often more that you can do to enhance your relationship. Would you like your marriage to become just as perfect as your wedding, or even...
Unresolved conflict from ancestors may prevent us from achieving a full life, contribute to illness or slow down our healing. It is well-understood now in some progressive scientific circles that everything that happens to us, and our reactions to whatever happens to...
One of the first considerations and one of the most important elements of true and long-lasting healing is healing the heart. Our heart is our body’s ‘power center’ in terms of attempting any kind of healing. At any given time, as much as 95% of the ‘communication’...
Almost daily, a patient will tell me a list of complaints with anxiety being included 90 percent of the time. Often, it is dismissed by the patient and his or her former doctors as a personality trait, a problem that has been with the patient for so long they have...
Tapping therapy, or Emotional Freedom Technique (ETF) is a form of acupressure using the same meridians as acupuncture. Tapping is simply tapping with the fingers on specific acupressure points to input energy and verbally explore issues. The tapping technique is...
Stress and Health Close to 80% of people with chronic illness have experienced a stressful incident or ongoing stress in their life. Stressful situations include life altering incidents or transitions such as loss of a job, death of a family member, traumatic...
We all need techniques and healthy ways to manage stress that we can incorporate into our daily lives. With the holidays approaching our list of “things to do” gets longer and longer. But at the same time, the lines at the stores are longer. The traffic is heavier....
Why Can't I Heal? Have you read every book you can get your hands on, tried every new therapy that has come your way and still feel no further ahead in achieving your healing goals? What if I told you that your body has the answer! What if I told you that there...
Recently, my husband and I hosted a wonderful engagement party at our home for our son and his girlfriend who will be married in the fall. My house was filled with out of town family who stayed for the weekend. My normal routine and eating habits were put on hold from...
In a recent study published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, it was found that low levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), the major omega-3 fatty acid concentrated in the brain, may increase suicide risk. A retrospective case-control study of 1600 United...
The integrative medicine approach to depression, anxiety or mood disorders focuses on getting to the root cause by addressing all the types of chronic stress to bring the mind/body back to health. Stress is defined as any mental or bodily tension resulting from...