The Challenges to Learning Continue in 2021 Along with the normal jitters and transitions, 2020 brought many new challenges and stressors. Although parents, teachers, and students had hoped that things would be back to “normal” a year later, this has not happened. Compiled on top of the usual summer learning loss, there are [...]
After exploring how America’s healthcare system is broken, ineffective, and expensive, you have likely come to the realization that sick care can’t provide lasting solutions for the wellness and vitality you crave. You probably also have come to the conclusion that mind-body medicine is more than a balancing act of brain biochemistry and that [...]
A Sick Care Model for Promoting Health is Doomed to Fail (Excerpted from my article published on Natural Path) Are you happy with your current healthcare? If you have ever had the misfortune of needing to go the ER (Emergency Room) or Urgent Care, you were probably incredibly grateful for the ability to [...]
The Dangers of Diet Culture Messages The abrupt disruption of life as we knew it in March 2020 has adversely impacted our work, travel, finances, mental health, and social lives. On the positive side, it has steered many to pay more attention to their health and prioritize self-care; however, it has also led [...]
As a naturopathic doctor, I believe in treating the whole person, not just their symptoms. With each therapeutic encounter, I am assessing how various aspects of someone’s life impacts their wellness. This means at every consult my clients and I discuss how their stress, lifestyle, relationships, environment, beliefs, sleep, and spirituality are effecting their [...]
During these trying times, I have been advocating for nourishing our minds and bodies to enhance resiliency. With the current turbulence in the world, I have been especially concerned for people’s emotional health. Oftentimes, the mind-body connection is overlooked, yet the two are intimately linked. One of my favorite tools for holistic, physical, and [...]
As a naturopathic doctor who honors biochemical individuality and practices personalized medicine, including dietary recommendations, I recently provided an article series on healthism. I felt I needed to speak up regarding my concern that medicine, especially “holistic” experts, were placing way too much emphasis on food and exercise and paying way too little attention [...]
“Tis the Season of the Stressed-Out Holiday Brain In my recent post on my Healing, Health, and Wellness blog, I reviewed the statistics on how the holiday season can cause “festive stress.” This can hamper tidings and good cheer in December and bring a preliminary damper to the gratitude of November. These unwelcome repercussions [...]
Listen to this blog in 4 minutes here. In this blog, I want to share with you some of my recently published articles in Natural Path. In the latest two-part series, I discuss the problems associated with masking symptoms at the expense of uncovering the cause of an illness. In [...]
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