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Let Me Help You Move Through (& Release) Difficult Emotions

Healing Artwork, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

A few years ago I became a Death Doula. You would think as a physician we would be taught in detail about the death and dying process in medical school, but we weren’t. Not at all. We were taught how to pronounce someone dead, how to perform advanced life support to try to stave off death, how to sign a death certificate… but never about the intricacies of it: what the body feels and experiences as the soul prepares to leave it what the dying process looks like what order the organ systems shut down in and how […]

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Aug 8 2022

7 Quick Ways The Earth Can Reset Your Mood Whenever You Need It

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe / By Laura Koniver, MD

A few weeks ago I shared these tips in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, so today I wanted to share them here with my readers too! If you feel run down, tired, discouraged, sad, anxious, or any other mood that you just want to shake, getting grounded outside for a few minutes is probably 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 —

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Jul 25 2022

Eat This Today To Decrease Your Feelings Of Depression Tomorrow

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

My two favorite vices are: coffee and chocolate. Coffee gets me through my mornings and chocolate gets me through my evenings! I’ve blogged quite a bit about how coffee gets a bad wrap, since it actually does have some health benefits (I have all of these free health articles waiting for you, just click the links below to read them): Higher Coffee Intake, Lower Mortality Rate Coffee Protective Against MS Coffee Decreases Your Risk of Diabetes Caffeine â€” Best Study Aid Ever? Latest Study Reveals Heart Protective Properties of Caffeine Coffee to Prevent Dementia AND Reduce Skin Cancer? Yep…

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Sep 23 2019

Sleep Increases Your Recovery From Depression

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new medical study shows what we can all intuitively feel — — that when we are in a depression, we truly need deep, restorative sleep to recover. It’s okay to sleep more when feeling depressed — in fact, a recent study released in June 2017 showed that patients who were medically treated for depression but did not sleep well were three times less likely to actually recover from depression. And sleeping 7 hours or more nightly actually tripled the rates of full remission in depression. Here’s more: The Study: (presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of

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Aug 21 2017

ADHD Raises Suicide Risk More Than Depression Does

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new study (published Sept 19, 2016 in Pediatrics) found that children who die by suicide are more likely to have been diagnosed with ADHD than with depression. The Study: A national database tracked violent deaths from 2003 to 2012 in 17 different states During the study period, there were 693 early childhood suicides The results: Children aged 5 to 11 years old who died by suicide were more likely to have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD than with depression. Almost 60% of suicide victims were diagnosed with ADHD, compared to only 33% having been diagnosed with depression.

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Feb 6 2017

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

If you take antidepressants, new research shows that a stressful lifestyle has the power to completely remove any healing benefit you may have had from taking that Rx medication. Environment can completely impact whether or not antidepressant therapy works or not. Behavioral, lifestyle, and environmental stressors absolutely MUST be addressed… and today’s medical report is proof that a medication alone is just not enough to help. Interestingly, people with high levels of job stress are statistically the MOST likely to reach for a drug to help treat depression… yet are also most likely to find that drug therapy

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Oct 3 2016

Inflammation Depresses Mood (Here’s How To Reverse It)

Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Increased inflammation in the body worsens symptoms of clinical depression, says a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry on November 18, 2015. Higher levels of blood markers of inflammation were found to be directly correlated with a variety of depressive symptoms, including sleep difficulty, decreased energy levels, decreased motivation and increased or decreased appetite. The details: Researchers looked at data on C-reactive protein levels (a blood marker of whole body inflammation) in over 15,000 patients. Higher levels of inflammation were directly correlated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, and the correlation was dose dependent… meaning the higher

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Feb 22 2016

Let Me Help You Move Through (& Release) Difficult Emotions

7 Quick Ways The Earth Can Reset Your Mood Whenever You Need It

Eat This Today To Decrease Your Feelings Of Depression Tomorrow

Sleep Increases Your Recovery From Depression

ADHD Raises Suicide Risk More Than Depression Does

Is Stress Is Making Your Antidepressant Ineffective?

Inflammation Depresses Mood (Here’s How To Reverse It)

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