This morning while I was writing I heard the familiar sound of geese honking and turned to look out the south-facing window to see hundreds of Canadian geese in route northward. Even on this frosty, but sunny March morning there is something so heart-warming about seeing the certainty of nature repeating itself. The geese have […]
I wrote about stress during my Emotions Series. But there is one component of it that has been on my mind lately. Most disease in the body caused by stress is often deemed as cure-less. And believe me it is, if we disempower the person by saying it is hopeless unless they shut the stress off. The important
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There is one excuse that I find inexcusable and downright irritating. It is a sign of giving up, admitting defeat. “I guess I can’t do that anymore. I’m just too old.” It is my experience after working with a significant range of ages, that only the 40 and 50 year-olds would dare say something so
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I don’t talk a lot about Chinese Herbs in my blog. However in my office herbs, acupuncture and yoga are all equal. They are my three most successful tools. However more often than not people come in for a treatment or consultation and are completely opposed to herbs. This blog post, I hope, will quiet
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It is amazing how many people come in and check off “Fear” under the Emotions category of my health history form and then when I start to ask questions correct themselves and say it is worry. It might be helpful in addressing fear to return to my Worry post or my post on a recent skiing trip, Outside
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We all have our own affinities. When teaching yoga I love to teach about organ systems. There is nothing more exciting than helping someone to release their organ bodies in a yoga pose and see the pose soften and expand. With acupuncture one of my affinities is scar treatments. A scar treatment for those of
I recently learned that lawyers bill their work in 6-minute increments. 1/10 of an hour. That means that they have to log everything that is accomplished in every 6- minute session. What have you accomplished in the last six minutes? The last 12 minutes? The last 18 minutes? Friends of ours recently renovated part of
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I feel moderately obligated to skip ahead and talk about fear with all this snow buzz, but as I’ve spent all week treating spiked levels of stress I must stay true to course. The most dangerous aspect of stress is thinking that it is inevitable. Don’t get me wrong there are going to be times
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Napping is an integral part of my life. Other people could have hobbies that take up as much of their lives as napping does in mine. I’m a public napper and a private napper. I’m a morning napper and an afternoon napper. When I got married two summers ago we built into our wedding day
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The age-old joke about women and their “time of the month” is an unfortunate reality for a lot of women. The most popular emotion that women report to me is irritability and it is usually 5-7 days before they start bleeding. It is a truth of life that our bodies are taxed the days leading
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