Depression: What’s Eating You?

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When it comes down to it, eating disorders are not about “food.” However, what you eat can play a key role in improving your mental and spiritual health along with your physical health. Eating disorders are symptoms of depression. Depression can be helped through functional medicine which looks at your body as a whole by [...]

Natural Cures for Seasonal Affective Disorder

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As the dark nights and short days of winter are upon is, it is not uncommon to feel more tired, lower energy, and a desire to stay inside a warm house and cozy up with a good book. For many of us, this is a passing experience that can be cured by a weekend getaway [...]

What is Wrong, Sweetheart?

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“There is no greater agony than the untold story inside of you.” –Maya Angelou A day at temple for the Jewish New Year… beautiful service and prayers. Hugging temple members and friends. Feeling God in the prayers, the rabbi’s words, the cantor’s melodic voice, the songs, the holy connection to all the world there in [...]

The Impact of Integrated Medicine in Primary Care

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I recently attended a symposium conducted by the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. This two day symposium was dedicated to updating physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants as well as a host of integrated medicine practitioners on research and successes of incorporating integrated medicine in primary care. It was very exciting [...]

Tap Your Way To Well-Being With Emotional Freedom Techniques

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In 2003, I attended a workshop on a cutting-edge method called Emotional Freedom Technique. The advertising claimed that this technique could bring immense relief for people suffering from anxiety, phobias, depression, trauma, cravings and addictions, stress and even illnesses. Since then, I have used EFT with hundreds of my psychotherapy clients (both children and adults) [...]

Dealing with Winter Depression

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Debilitating Depression With the winter months come colder weather, shorter days and sometimes depressing thoughts. When it seems like there is so little time in the day, yet still so much to do and worse weather to do it in, it’s hard not to let environmental factors get you down. Yet [...]