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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read 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?
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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.
Read More →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?
Read More →The Pill Paradox

Why and how do medications create disease? And how can we deal with this phenomenon when it occurs?
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