I would never have anticipated that anyone would ask me to help them heal their sexual problems. But in the process of helping these patients, I discovered that energy medicine has an amazing ability to help resolve serious issues.
Read moreHealing the Spiritual Self
Because healing at the spiritual level can be so powerful, I try to spend extra time teaching struggling patients about its benefits. This is especially important for those who cannot benefit from supplements or medications.
Read moreFor the Fun of It: Living in Harmony with Joy
I’ve discovered that embracing fun and joy in life as an ongoing discipline isn't self-indulgent. Rather, it promotes a healthy lifestyle. My healing experience led to greater compassion for myself that allowed me to experience a happier life.
Read moreHow can holes help us rise?
Though I don't know if my conversations were with God, my "higher self," or just a part of my imagination, I did feel information flowing through me from a source beyond my conscious awareness.
Read moreThrough the Looking Glass: Viewing Stressors' Effects Using Energy Testing
Working together with patients to manage and control stress levels and their negative effects can prevent future relapse and make the difference between a successful or failed medication taper.
Read morePeople Are Lovable Close-Up. Gain Insight.
By getting to know my patients close up, I continue to polish off many sharp judgments and prejudices I gathered from past experiences: like a rock bouncing along and getting smoother along the way.
Read moreObtaining Your Heart's Desire and the Meaning of Cinderella's Glass Slipper
Too often we believe that if the circumstances and the person were perfect, true love would occur. But no, true love actually begins when we have the courage to remain authentic to who we truly are.
Read moreUnderstanding the Meaning Behind "Side Effects"
As my I shifted to a more holistic perspective, I began to connect side effects to their biochemical processes, or lack thereof. Because of this approach, my practice attracted patients who couldn't tolerate their medications due to side effects.
Read moreWhat is "Life Energy" and how does it work?
It doesn't matter what you call this energy. What is important is that your mind is dialed to the right channel.
Read moreTop Three Ways to Transform Hardships into Advantages
Between the hardship and its outcomes lay our choices. What kinds of choices maximize our ability to transform hardships into advantages?
Read moreThe Slot Canyons of Life
It might surprise us how our thoughts and intentions can immediately shift us from our predicament. Love and peace. Never underestimate the amount of power these energies hold when we need a helping hand.
Read moreParable 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreImproving 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?
Read moreMotherhood: 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreWhich 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.
Read morePerfection'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.
Read moreOwning 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?
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