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Connecting With Others Protects Your Own Heart’s Health… Here’s How

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

We all intuitively can feel that connecting with others boosts our health, right? How much better do you feel after a warm hug from a friend, the comforting squeeze of a partner’s hand, or the joy of laughing around a dinner table with your children. Sharing space with a loved one for even one minute is enough to completely turn a bad day into a good one. Medical studies have shown that increasing your connection to others not only improves your health, it actually increases your longevity. I feel this has something to do with the fact […]

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Feb 13 2023

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Gaining weight (or losing weight) unintentionally is a common response to chronic or acute stress. And stress weight is different from other forms of weight gain — it typically centers in the abdominal area and is the most stubborn type of weight to release. In fact, a poll conducted by the American Psychological Association found that most of us have experienced a significant weight change thanks to the stress of the pandemic. The poll revealed that 60% of Americans report undesired weight changes as a result of this stress. But I’m here to help. You can definitely reset your

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Dec 5 2022

How Grounding Quickly Reverses The Effect Trauma Has On Our Health

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

Living with stress can have serious long term implications on our health. But it doesn’t have to. It’s natural for our bodies to go through times of trauma and stress and then rebound to full health. There are lots of things you can do to mitigate stress and trauma and prevent them from leaving lasting imprints on your body that ultimately deteriorates your health. Which is important, because if we don’t release the traumas and stressors that we experience, our cells, organs, tissues and physical body as a whole literally changes. This is the study of epigenetics — and I’ve

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Aug 15 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

Childhood Trauma Is Scary, Here Are 3 Things That Can Help Your Child Be Resilient

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is so much hurting our children. Bullying and isolation and social media pressure 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 as getting adequate nutrition and adequate sleep and it’s just all so stressful. So today I wanted to offer something positive that we can do to protect the physical and mental well being of our children for the rest of

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May 31 2022

Valentine’s Day Special Edition: Heart Health From Every Angle… Mind, Body & Soul

Female Health, Healing Artwork, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Our minds and our hearts are inextricably intertwined. Mostly we can feel this on an emotional level — we can literally feel the people we love making our hearts feel warm and protected and expand in our chest. And sadly even people we are hurt by or scared of, we can feel that too — our hearts can feel colder or constricted or pound with fear in our chests. Some of you are also aware that electrically — the brain and the heart each have an electrical field and that these electrical fields overlap. This gives our brain’s electrical

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Feb 14 2022

What Is Stress Sensitization? It’s The Reason This Pandemic Is Traumatizing Us All

Medical Reports, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

If you’ve had a history of trauma, or a history of greater stressors in your life before the coronavirus circled the globe (and honestly who hasn’t? Any serious illness or injury, the death of a loved one, a divorce, recent unemployment, increasing financial struggles, legal troubles, etc… we all have them) then medical studies have actually shown that this pandemic actually is harder on you. So if you feel like you are struggling to deal with the stressors that this global pandemic has caused, there is good reason. It’s not you. It’s your trauma. We’ve known for a

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Feb 7 2022

Connecting With Others Protects Your Own Heart’s Health… Here’s How

Stress Weight Gain Is Different Than Other Forms Of Weight Gain, Here’s Why

How Grounding Quickly Reverses The Effect Trauma Has On Our Health

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

Childhood Trauma Is Scary, Here Are 3 Things That Can Help Your Child Be Resilient

Valentine’s Day Special Edition: Heart Health From Every Angle… Mind, Body & Soul

What Is Stress Sensitization? It’s The Reason This Pandemic Is Traumatizing Us All

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