Parable of the Remodeling Project: Getting to Zen
Changes are difficult and challenging, even if it is for the betterment of the person. Our walls form familiar boundaries, and when they get broken down, we feel unsettled and a little confused by the process.
The Epigenetics of Energy Medicine
Genes are not like words carved in stone. They are fluid and are influenced by our thoughts, social settings, traumas, and nutritional status.
The Trip: Finding my way back home
The strange flow of love, like water in a river, can be blocked by unspoken hurt and anger. When we can remove that dam, with a sincere apology, love flows once more.
Improving the Standard of Care
Let’s be clear, I believe there is much more psychiatrists can do to further mental health than just “the standard of care.” Is the pharmaceutical industry a tool of psychiatry or is psychiatry a tool of the pharmaceutical industry?
Motherhood: Constant Entertainment
Since this update comes just two days after celebrating Mother’s Day, I want to share some reflections on my attitude towards motherhood and a poem I wrote about my daughter, Sara.
The Ultimate Investment: More meaningful than money!
I want to explore what I consider to be the most important investment we can make in our lives. More important than multiplying money. More important than saving up for retirement. More important than paying off your house.
Which is More Powerful: Functional or Energy Medicine?
Both functional and energy medicine are equally important tools in healing patients from mental illness, and it is important for the clinician to have the ability to discern how to begin, which to begin with, and how to maximize and integrate these tools for each unique patient’s needs.
Perfection’s Hiding Place
April is poetry month, which is as good an excuse as any to share a poem I wrote called “Chipped China Cup” and some thoughts I have about it. I love poems because they concentrate truth, bare emotion, and support insight.
Owning Your Life
Have you ever thought of life as progressing in the shape of an upward spiral, where we circle back in periodic cycles to encounter old issues from a different, perhaps higher and wiser, perspective?
The Pill Paradox
Why and how do medications create disease? And how can we deal with this phenomenon when it occurs?