Five Common Mistakes During Medication Withdrawal
Information and expertise to help patients safely taper off their psychotropic medications are extremely difficult to find, not only for patients, but also for psychiatrists.
Read More →Meeting Life With Poise
Rather than just remembering to “do to others as you would have them do to you,” remember to also “do for yourself what you would do for others.” Life will have its ups and downs, so take care of yourself and remember to love yourself and treasure your light.
Read More →Simple Guidelines for a Holistic Approach
From a holistic perspective, who/what heals the patient? Is it the doctor, the supplements, or the diet? Though all these aspects matter, I believe that healing comes from the body’s own wisdom and innate ability to return back to its natural healthy state.
Read More →Learning From Our Mistakes
Looking back on our past and shaking our heads over all the stupid mistakes we had made is just reason to pat ourselves on the back and congratulate ourselves on our continued evolution and development.
Read More →The Top Three Attributes for a Quality Life
I want to highlight the top three qualities in people that I have admired, tried to emulate, and believe to be essential for a quality life, starting with the most difficult quality to embody of them all.
Read More →“Evidence-based Medicine” Energy Medicine Style
Using evidence helps patients to connect the invisible world of thoughts to their concrete effects. As hard as it is to accept, “evidence-based medicine” doesn’t always have to come from a lab, or within the pages of a journal.
Read More →A Reliable Source of Resilience
What has kept me strong, hopeful, and calm even when tomatoes were being thrown at me? What has helped me to stay on course when I wanted to walk away? No, it’s not ice cream.
Read More →Pearls From the Practice
My holistic psychiatry practice is constantly progressing and changing because I am always learning new and helpful ways to improve mental health. I share a story about K. M. and what I learned over the past few weeks about the connection between anxiety and mitochondrial health.
Read More →A Holistic and Integrative Approach to Weight Loss
Ultimately, I believe that slimming down is just a side effect of health and well-being. For myself, it has reflected my growing capacity to care for myself in a consistent, wholesome manner.
Read More →If life gives you chives…
As sweat rolled down my back and mosquitos sucked my blood, I thought of all the well-intentioned things my father had done or not done, said or not said that were like these chives–planted years ago, hard to get rid of, and generalizing into various corners of my life if left unattended.
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