Make medicine all about healing rather than maximizing profit. Remove the artificial divide between the drugs and surgery type of medicine and “alternative” medicine. Allow physicians and patients access to what safely works. For example, my work as an Integrative Therapist is so powerful, I offer a warranty program. Imagine if everyone one with anxiety, [Read more…]
A few years ago, I was exposed to Picture Tapping Techniques during ongoing continuing education in my field. I was profoundly impressed by this marriage of EFT Tapping and Art Therapy and continued on to enrol in all available training and advanced courses. PTT doesn’t replace EFT. It’s just one more resource in my tool [Read more…]
Empathy. The common assumption is the more we have, the better a person we are. As with so many things in life, an “element of truth” is a very different thing than ‘the whole truth”. Being an Integrative Therapist I too often get to see the painful results of this unexamined belief. There’s a common [Read more…]
We’ve heard about all the studies showing how important vit D is, with vit D from the sun being the most beneficial form. What few know is that getting enough vit D from the sun is not a given; even with lots of exposure. Why? Watch your shadow. Vitamin D is only produced in the [Read more…]
The Center For Disease Controls (CDC) states that ninety percent of all disease has its roots in stress. This technique and the posts to follow offer simple tools anyone can do to help calm the sympathetic or “fight, flight or freeze” nervous system. Having this part of the central nervous activated full on, can be [Read more…]
When stressed, blood flow begins to be diverted from the logical, planning, prefrontal cortex part of the brain. It’s sent instead to survival mode areas. Now we feel further loss of ability to deal with life at that moment and stress ramps up even higher. This is excellent when in real danger of physical attack [Read more…]
Researchers recently discovered a simple cooking method to turn white rice into a health food; at least for beneficial gut bacteria or probiotics. There’s been huge interest and a flood of studies on the effects of the gut biome on human health over the past decade. The gut biome is all the trillions of bacteria, [Read more…]
Note: See the helpful hint at the end of this article. Self-sabotage. The art of subconsciously preventing ourselves from reaching the dreams and goals we think we desire. This takes many forms coming from a variety of root causes. One of the most insidious and frustrating is what Dr. Lewis Engel Ph.D and Tom Ferguson [Read more…]
A recent Canadian study confirms that changing partners doesn’t change the dynamics of new relationships. We feel different because we’re comparing impression of the new relationship to those from the end of the previous. This largely explains why subsequent relationships/marriages have significantly lower success rates on average than the 1st round. But there is hope. [Read more…]
Recently, an interesting genetic study of anorexics compared to non-anorexics was completed by Dr Cynthia Bulik and a team of researchers from around the world. Published in the journal Nature Genetics, they looked at the genetic differences between almost 17,000 anorexic people compared with 55,000 without anorexia with populations drawn from 17 countries. The study [Read more…]