During these challenging times, the strains on our mental, physical, and emotional health weigh heavy. With so many changes, hurdles to jump through, and uncertainty surrounding this academic year, parents, teachers, and students are seeking out effective resources to support them in achieving their goals and focusing on assignments. Unfortunately, conventional interventions are not...
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Natural and Holistic Solutions for Stressful Times and Back to School
Teachers, students, and parents had hoped that the 2021 school year would be easier than 2020. Unfortunately, many of the same challenges have persisted. Furthermore, the strain of unrelenting stress has added fuel to the fire. In my latest article, I review the challenges to learning that continue throughout this current academic year. I...
Video: No Longer Settling for Sick Care- The Naturopathic Approach to Transformation Revealed: Part I
For awhile now, I’ve been stirring the simmering pot on the hot topic of healthcare. My goal has been to spark a flame in you to make you a bit unsettled and disturbed by sick care. After all, for most people, it takes being uncomfortable with mediocrity and complacency to move forward and take...
The Power of Expectations, Mindset, & Healing Therapeutic Partnerships
Previously, I explored how one’s belief can shift health in a positive or negative direction. The expectation that one holds about an intervention being harmful (the nocebo effect) or healing (the placebo effect) changes one’s physiology and impacts health outcomes. Researchers have struggled for years to outcompete the power of the mind in their...
How Your Mind Can Be Medicine: The Power of Placebo
Did you know that what you believe has a powerful influence on your health outcomes? Spiritual masters have been touting throughout the ages how beliefs have the ability to heal. Researchers have observed and controlled for this “placebo effect” in their experiments since evidence-based medicine was initiated. What both spiritualists and scientists have accepted...
How Naturopathic Medicine and Personalized Care Can Become a Global Health Movement
Modern medicine excels in treating acute traumas, managing chronic pathologies, and handling emergency situations. Unfortunately, these same modalities are being used for long-term treatment options. In both the physical and mental health arenas, the results have been dismal. American’s healthcare system is one of the worst among developed countries and the most expensive. Long-term...
Are You Ready for a Change in Healthcare with Naturopathic Medicine?
If you’ve been following my posts on the broken, ineffective, expensive healthcare system that is the prevalent form of disease-management, you are probably realizing that sick care cannot provide you with the solutions you desire to achieve the wellness and resiliency you crave. Furthermore, you might have concluded that America’s undertreated mental health issues...
Mind-Body Holistic Health Transformation with Naturopathic Medicine (Part II)
Is attaining health as simple as managing disease? Are your emotions and moods just a neurochemical imbalance? If you believe that health is more than just the absence of symptoms… then there’s more to the story. Last week, I explained that the American medical system is costing lots of money with a return of...
Are You Happy with Your Sick Care?
Why Naturopathic Medicine is Needed for Optimizing Your Health
If you ever made a visit to the emergency room, you have probably felt gratitude, after the terror, that modern medicine and its diagnostics, technologies, and modalities were accessible during your time of trauma. At the same time, you may be feeling discouraged by the pitfalls in conventional medical care including the high cost...
My Top Essential Oils for Attention, Mood, and Brain Vitality
You don’t have to feel exhausted and in a brain fog all the time. There are natural solutions. Throughout the past few weeks, I’ve been reviewing how mindset, lifestyle, and biological factors impact drive, focus, and mental resiliency. In my previous post, I reviewed six of my favorite herbs as a means to enhance...