Binge eating, not eating, heavily sleeping - we do what we can when we are trying to feed challenging emotions. If you are feeling excessive fatigue, hopelessness, or have lost interest or pleasure in your life, you may be experiencing depression. You’re not alone. According to the CDC, 1 in 10 ... Views: 57
What aren’t we allergic to these days? According to a report by ABC news, people can be allergic to water, cell phones, allergy medications, the heat or the cold, chocolate, exercise (Yes, I did say that. The condition is called exercise-induced anaphylaxis), and the laundry list continues. ... Views: 51
Mary’s son died in Afghanistan a few years ago. Not much later she developed a painful ovarian cyst. She did not want to have surgery. When she came into my office, she was skeptical about the possibility of her son’s death and her cyst being related.
Grief like most painful emotions is one ... Views: 180
How would you feel if your doctor told you that you had adult-onset diabetes? What would it mean to you? Jackie said she was numb at first. Mick initially felt sad and angry with himself. He regretted the wake-up calls he’d ignored in the past. He was sure it would change his life for the worse. ... Views: 91
Have you ever felt like you just don’t have enough time? Do you stress about getting where you need to go in the day and keep feeling like you are never going to get done? It's not uncommon for us to feel that way, especially in these times where things seem to be moving faster and ... Views: 68
Last year on Valentines Day, I went with three girlfriends to Santa Rosa dressed to the nines. We were headed to a Professional Singles Society event. Within three feet of walking into the Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, we saw that there were only ten people there, all over the age of sixty, and ... Views: 107
Carla woke up on New Years day not feeling like she was going to have a good day. She didn't want to start the new year feeling badly because it might be an omen of things to come. What if we treated every day as a new year? Today is just another day on the calendar. In fact, for much of the ... Views: 202
For many people approaching middle age, weight gain becomes a very difficult problem. As we get older, it seems to be harder and harder to lose those extra pounds that accumulated last Christmas, and maybe even this Christmas.
There are many reasons that this occurs. As hormone levels shift ... Views: 184
Why You Shouldn’t Get the Flu Shot
Jane had the flu for three weeks. She got it after standing in line outside for six hours to get the flu shot. Modern medicine says that environment doesn’t matter; a virus causes the flu. Chinese medicine says that cold weather, wind, and rain enter the ... Views: 112
Everyone knows that stress is bad, but does anyone really know what to do about it? We come to accept a certain level of stress in our every day lives because we think its just part of how modern life is meant to be. In a certain way, that's true, there are certain things that we live with now ... Views: 96
Memory and Nutrition
Have you walked into a room clear that you had a purpose and then suddenly can’t remember why? Did you put that ring down somewhere and can’t find it now? Are you worried that you’re not going to remember your name next week?
Not all memory issues mean that you’re ... Views: 502
Everyone has a body.
Many people are terrified when their body starts to act up. As life has become more complicated in the last one hundred years, we have gotten further and further away from being in touch with our bodies. We have made doctors the high priests of the temples of our bodies ... Views: 235
Solving the Sleep Dilemma
Have you spent nights tossing and turning without being able to rest? Some people spend every night that way. I’m amazed at how many people tell me that they sleep only one to four hours a night.
When a person doesn’t get enough sleep at night nothing works ... Views: 331