This weekend is Mother's Day and I'm spending it with my mother. Now it may be the fact that it gives my mother lots of time to think, or it may be the grey Maine rain, but she is haunted by the fear of Alzheimer's Disease or dementia.
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I loved the movie Highlander. Not just because I love Sean Connery when his brogue is broader than the Corrieshalloch Gorge. But because demonstrates one of the most basic concepts in life, literature and the pursuit of happiness… absorbing the energy of things around us.
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Now we have all known commitmentphobes. Usually men, usually the great-looking men with flashing smiles who smell great and say all the right things. But we are all commitmentphobes of one sort or another.
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Many years ago I had the most wonderful old salty client. His name was Tom and he was a grizzly old Irish guy from Southie. He used to swear that a drop of the creature (a bit of imbibing) was the cure for every ill.
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Each of us has developed a routine. We eat the same things, do the same things, use the same things. This includes taking pharmaceutical drugs, herbs, supplements, cannabis, patches, etc. What we need to look at is that there is a distinct difference between finding a problem and providing therapy and treatment to resolve the problem and simply feeding the body's normal, daily function. Feeding is a daily need, while treatment is not.
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Recently I had a difficult experience with a client. It took me a while to realize that all her protests were attempts to drown out her inner voice. She had blocked her ability to heal.
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One of the things I tell every patient I see is that whatever you intuitively feel are the health concerns with your body, are true.
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What I realize is that whenever I drink alcohol now, even half a glass of wine, I will get a headache and/or hot flashes which is a pain in the ass when I am trying to focus on an intensive seminar that I paid an ungodly amount of money to attend, and all I can do is think about rolling around on a glacier in Iceland - which I recently did, but not because of hot flashes. Here’s what that really means…
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Traditionally, people who have lived in a particular climate and environment for centuries, have really streamlined the best diet for a healthy life. This can really pose problems if someone has a specific diet that they wish to follow, but are traveling to or moving to a place that has a starkly different approach to eating.
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