Laura Koniver, MD

Laura Koniver, MD, author of The Earth Prescription, received her medical doctorate degree from Jefferson Medical College in 2000 and has been passionately supporting her patients’ natural healing ever since. She is an artist, author, holistic physician, and internationally recognized grounding advocate. Dr. Koniver’s work has been featured in many news and media outlets, she writes a regular health column in the national organic lifestyle magazine, MaryJanesFarm; is featured as an expert protagonist in several motion pictures, including The Grounded, Heal for Free, The Earthing Movie, and Down to Earth; and runs the popular health care blog, www.Intuition-Physician.com, where she reviews medical literature in a holistic and intuitive way. The Earth Prescription is Dr. Koniver's 4th book.

Save Time To Play, Even After Returning To School. It’s Essential For Health At Any Age

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By

Play is not only a relief and a respite from the seriousness that stress, illness and trauma bring to our lives, it is actually therapy.   Play time is therapeutic time, point blank.  Child psychologists use this healing tool often, because play is a child’s way to express and release any inner turmoil or fears that the child doesn’t even consciously know they have.   But it isn’t only therapeutic for children, it’s therapeutic for adults too. In fact, I would argue that engaging in some form of play daily is one of the best things you can do to safeguard your physical health.   From physical […]

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5 Crucial Ways To Support Your Child As They Head Back To School

Positive Parenting / By

      It’s mid-august, and that means back-to-school season, so the next few blog posts are here to help support your transition to that this time brings. There can be a lot of stress associated with back-to-school season.   For some, back-to-school means an increased risk of in person bullying (as well as social media bullying) and scary headlines that include school shootings, piled on top of the normal stressors of navigating growing up and figuring out a career goal and growing from a child’s body into an adult body and all the growing pains in between, as well

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The Ultimate Indoor Grounding Guide: How To Choose An Indoor Grounding Tool, And Why

Grounding / By

  Every year just before fall I always get more and more emails from patients and readers asking how to stay connected to the earth as the outdoors becomes less accessible: kids return to school, the weather gets colder, the days get shorter, and our exposures to the cold and flu start to peak. The latest email I just got asked me: “I’m, confused by all the grounding tools, can you go over them in more detail?  I want to get my entire family into a grounding routine before the kids head back to school.” Yes, absolutely.  Today’s blog post

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Feeling Overwhelmed? 7 Science-Backed Activities That Allow Grounding To Reset Your Mood in Minutes

Grounding, Medical Reports / By

    If you feel run down, tired, sad, anxious, or any other mood that you just want to shake, getting grounded outside for a few minutes — even a few seconds — is the quickest way I know how to do it. Exercise can help, a really good night of sleep can help, even medications (when appropriate) can help, but if need support right this very minute, grounding can shift your mood by supporting brain function — literally in just  seconds — as this study published in 2011,  this study published in 2015, and this important study, published in 2018,

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What Matters More: How Much Time You Spend In Nature Or What You Do When You Are There? I’ll Tell You Right Now

Grounding / By

  As the leading medical authority in the healing field of grounding, you’ve come to the right place to understand more than even your own physician does about the healing practice of grounding!!! If someone has forwarded you this free healing article and you want to get a weekly, holistic healing article directly into your own inbox, sign up for my uplifting, healing newsletter right here:   So today… let’s answer the question of which is a bigger benefit to your physical and mental well being: spending a long time outside or doing a simple activity outside? A recent study

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The 12 Crucial Steps That Ensure Good Sleep: Are You Missing Any?

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By

    Today, I have pulled together a list of 12 things you can do today to improve the quality of your sleep tonight.  All based on the most current medical literature on sleep quality.  Something I am very interested in because I’ve always been a poor sleeper all of my life.  On nights when I am struggling to sleep, I remind myself: You are only ever one night away from a good night of sleep. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve struggled with insomnia or how big your sleep deficit is. Every single night is an opportunity to completely

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Chronic Pain Affects You Or Someone You Love. 5 Ways To Help Alleviate It, Naturally

Electrosensitivity, Medical Reports / By

  I received a recent email from a reader who is dealing with the most common reason that folks seek medical care, and that is to help with chronic pain.  He writes: “I had a failed lumbar fusion 1989 with pain since. No more lumbar surgeries to be done; already had shots, nerve blocks, now I take pain meds and a pain patch.  I do take anti-inflammatory supplements; and my wife & I go walking 1 mile, 4x/week near our home. I’m interested and hope you can inform me of some kind of pain-relieving grounding tools.” I thought I would

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