Intuitive Medicine

How To Hear Your Body Tell You What It Needs

  Every single one of us gets a constant stream of information coming to us from a deep, internally knowing of what is best for us in any moment of time — call it a gut hunch, call it a “felt sense,’ call it your inner truth, call it your intuition… whatever you call it, you can learn how to drop your awareness out of your monkey mind and into a deeper awareness that resides in your body. Our bodies are always speaking to us about what is going on inside of us, and all we need to do is […]

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How To Stick With Your Long Term Health Goals, Even When It Sucks

    I just finished with a wonderful medical conference in which I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Terry Wahls speak. She so impressive, with the amount of medical experience, knowledge and wisdom she possesses… particularly in the field of autoimmune disorders and how diet impacts our body’s health. Visit her website here if you are interested in learning more about that. That’s not what I loved most, however. The part I loved most was when she talked about helping patients get clear on why they even want to do the work of healing in the first place. She

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When You’re Struggling to Listen to Your Intuition… I’ve Got You

    Today I am sharing an interview I recently did for the fabulous Rachel Molendo… she features this interview on her podcast: The Fill Your Cup Podcast. Honestly I do interviews all the time and I rarely share them here, because they usually focus on grounding, which repeats much of the same information that I already share with you here on my blog. But this one is different. In this podcast I share TONS of information that I’ve never shared in an interview before, including exactly why I left conventional medicine, and exactly why I feel intuitive guidance is

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Heart Disease In Women As A Response To Trauma

  Today I have a very interesting new study to share with you, published just this year on March 17, 2021 in JAMA Cardiology. Most studies on heart disease focus on the male population, so this one really caught my eye — specifically focusing on the link between heart disease in women with a history of trauma. Looking at almost 400,000 women, researchers identified women diagnosed with PTSD and matched them to age and cardiovascular risk correlated female controls with no history of PTSD. They then looked at ischemic heart disease outcomes, including new onset coronary artery disease, angina or

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A Free Printable Tool To Give You Inner Clarity When Making Difficult Decisions

    I recently was supporting a participant of one of my online classes with help making a tough medical decision. One of the things I shared with here was this simple tool on how to get clarity around making a decision that feels aligned on all levels of your health — body, mind and soul. I know right now there are quite a lot of health related decisions that we all need to make, and I thought this would be the perfect time to share it again with my blog readers. It’s one the best things I learned from

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You Have The Healing Power Of Breath Inside You Right Now… Here’s 5 Ways To Use It

  In medicine, we know it only takes three deep breaths to significantly support vagal nerve tone, which helps modulate your autonomic nervous system. Meaning your heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and brain all get calmed and centered and soothed… and pain significantly decreases as well. Because we can actively control our body’s air exchange through intentional breathing, there are lots of awesome ways you can play around with using your breath to calm you, invigorate you, increase your focus, decrease your anxiety, decrease your pain, increase your oxygenation, decrease stress and muscle tension, and more. Although unconsciously most

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To Stay Young, Stay Curious (& Dozens Of Other Ways To Protect Your Brain)

    When nothing is sure, Everything is possible. — Margaret Drabble   This is what we are living in right now: nothing is sure. But that also means: everything is possible! Right now is the perfect time to open up to learning new things you never would have had the time or opportunity to learn before. To shed old routines and consider what changes in your lifestyle, what changes to your career, and what changes to your health you might want to make after this pandemic is over, and to start learning new skills to prepare for it. I

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