The Miracle of Convalescence
So convalescence isn’t just a time of essential healing and restoration of our immune resources, it gives us permission to pause our lives and if you will allow it, time to experience the ways in which your body heals and where it may struggle to heal. In this way it can be a vacation, an education and a realization. Or it can be an exasperating, frustrating period of time that keeps us from doing what we need to do. This is what often drives people to ignore convalescence. But one thing to consider is that the lack of complete healing can create a chaotic tendency in the immune system that may actually be the most common reason for the rise in autoimmune disorders.
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It Takes A Village
Holistic means essentially in contemplation of the whole. So when I'm putting together a plan for someone to address their symptoms, conditions or diseases, I have to consider their emotional health, their physical health, their nutritional health, their lifestyle, their stress level, what has happened to them in their life, and myriad other little things many of which have become rather intuitive over the 30 years I've done this. In other words, natural healing takes a village...
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Can We Escape From the Womb
When patients sit down to tell me about their history, they never mention their parents, as though their personal experience is all that influences their health. But in fact, our health history begins further back in time then we may even know. Jung had the right idea when he espoused the collective unconscious. We truly are the sum total of our ancestry, not just our life experience.
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The Essence of Immunity ... An Essential Understanding
We are sick more often and for longer periods of time. Many of us live with chronic illness. We use our immune system every day, not just to ward off bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, but also to eliminate dead cells, worn-out body tissue and toxins that we are exposed to every day of our lives.
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Choosing Our Time to Go
How different would our lives be if we chose to take time, long before we reach the end of our days?
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A Comparison of Your Medical Choices
Just about everything in our lives has limits and health care is no exception. So it’s important to match your views and beliefs about your health with your health care choices. The sad thing is that many people do not realize or believe that they have health choices. To help you with your choices, let me lay out the good, the bad and the ugly about health care options.
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Creating Joy in Our Daily Lives
Our lives tend to be overrun with required things and living on a schedule, having to integrate others’ needs into our daily lives can take a hidden toll on our sense of self. Loss of our relationship with ourselves and our own needs is the driving force behind stress and its devastating effect on our health and our emotional life.
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Eating the RDA Way
How many people believe that the Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamins and minerals is the best guide to human health? Please raise your hand…
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Why is Rest a Four Letter Word?
The concept of rest is to provide the body with additional energy needed for numerous fabulous things that need to happen when we are not active such as restoring hormone levels, shuttling nutrition from blood to tissue, detoxifying cells, repairing injured areas, building new tissue. The lack of rest is one of the most common things I see.
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Will You Insure or Ensure?
Now you may think that to insure something is the same as to ensure something, but if you take the time to drag out the big, huge dictionary and blow off the dust, you'll see that they are not. And this is an important factor when it comes to your health.
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