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Reduce Your Overwhelm In 3 Breaths, Right Now With Me

  Meditation is a wonderful healing tool you can reach for any time, anywhere — making it the perfect practice to cultivate when you are practicing social distancing and stuck at home, under very stressful conditions, during this pandemic.   But the truth is, 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 […]

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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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Trauma Changes The Health Of Your Body, But It’s Reversible

A recent study shows what we can already *feel*… …that trauma in childhood affects our physical health as an adult.   Our cells, organs, tissues, physical body holds on to the effects of emotional trauma and this energetic tension literally changes how our body is able to function. I’ve written previous blog posts highlighting this, how our body’s health is an expression of our emotional well being, in articles such as:   Trauma Increases Headache Risk 4-Fold Childhood Trauma Increases Risk Of Self Harm. Here’s Help 2 New Treatments For PTSD You Can Use Right Now To Feel Immediatley Better.

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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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Childhood Trauma Affects Your Adult Health. But It Doesn’t Have To.

A new study shows what we can already *feel*… …that trauma in childhood affects our physical health as an adult.   Our cells, organs, tissues, physical body holds on to the effects of emotional trauma and this energetic tension literally changes how our body is able to function. I’ve written previous blog posts highlighting this, how our body’s health is an expression of our emotional well being, in articles such as:   Trauma Increases Headache Risk 4-Fold 2 New Treatments For PTSD You Can Use Right Now To Feel Immediatley Better. A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair Resolving

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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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The Healing Process of Grief

Grief after experiencing a sudden loss 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.   In my healing work as a physician, I’ve found that real life experiences of trauma and grief don’t look like what I learned grief is “supposed” to look like from my training in medical school. I still remember learning all about the classic model of the grief process, set forth

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