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The Good News About Trauma Recovery

Is there good news with trauma? Actually, yes.     The largest meta-analysis to date on trauma recovery (looking at data from over 11,000 relevant medical studies) suggests that the best long term recovery after trauma is simply talking about it, no medication required.   Published in JAMA Psychiatry on June 12, 2019, reasearchers looked at direct comparisons between talk therapy (psychotherapy) and drug therapy (pharmacological treatments) in patients with PTSD. They found that in the long term, talk therapy helped more, being slightly superior to drug therapy both immediately following treatment and in long term follow up. The studies …

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No Time To Meditate? 3 Ways To Reap All The Benefits In 1 Minute Flat

  I just can’t get the hang of a meditation practice. But luckily, I really don’t have to.   New research shows that simply by taking a few deep breaths, you can shift your body and brain chemistry enough to lower stress levels and increase focus and productivity. In the 15 minute video below, I share with you 3 easy ways to remember to take a few deep breaths throughout your day… come on and do it with me! Click now and let’s breathe together:       (newsletter subscribers can watch the video by clicking here)     As …

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Going From Surviving To Thriving After Cancer

  One year ago today I almost died. My appendix acutely ruptured and I went into shock. I was rushed into surgery and my surgeon said I was about 2 hours away from things being very dicey with survival. Thank God, truly, for advancements in modern medicine such that they could save my life that day.   That said, what modern medicine has not quite figured out as well, is how to maintain or boost wellness. Or how to recover wellness after a major medical crisis. After surgery I had one follow up appointment where they made sure I was …

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How Grounding Supports Your Muscles, Joints And Bones

      Over the next five weeks, I’m going to be running a series of detailed videos and helpful information on exactly how grounding supports our body — …from cardiovascular support to metabolic support to hormone support and more.   I’ve noticed there just isn’t a lot of concrete information disseminated on exactly how grounding works. So I decided to change that. Starting today. Over the next month and a half I’m giving away all of the information that I taught in my Earth Rx online health class… for free! The first topic in the course is all about …

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The Healing Process Of Grief

Grief after experiencing a sudden loss or unexpected change in circumstance can knock your feet right out from under you.   Whether from the death of a loved one, a trauma, a job loss or divorce, severe illness, surgery, or any other unexpected change, it can be hard to endure… …both emotionally and physically exhausting. But it can also make room for growth. For survival, for strength, and ultimately, for a new you to emerge. Even if you are forced to become a new version of you that you never even wanted to be… …the process of grief is actually …

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Sleep Increases Your Recovery From Depression

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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The Quickest Way To Heal Is To Surrender, Here’s How

Surrendering is safe.   Working intuitively with patients all over the globe, I’ve learned a lot about loss, grief and healing. I can say for a fact that what heals people in real life contrasts quite vividly to what I *learned* about grief and healing in med school. I still remember being in medical school and learning all about the classic model of the grief process, set forth by the amazing and brave Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:   D A B D A (I’m sure many of my readers, who are also healers, are familiar with this acronym:) meaning: D — denial …

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