If you are a long time reader of my blog, or a long term patient, or both, you probably already know that I have taken the month of August off three summers in a row. Last summer however was different. A pandemic. Forced time off in the spring. Restriction to travel. The mental block I […]
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Have you ever wondered if the crazy thoughts you have in your head are the same thoughts that other people have as well? What I have noticed is that we are more alike than we are different. We all have similar struggles. They just manifest in different areas of our lives. For some people it
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Back in the fall I wrote about taking care not only of your physical health, but your mental and emotional health as well. I also shared a few strategies that work for me. Today I want to dig a little deeper into some of those strategies and maybe even share a few more. If we
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I truly believe that out of uncomfortable and difficult situations or challenges, come some of the most innovative solutions. Maybe after reading this post you will agree with me, even if just a little. At the beginning of this pandemic I felt like I was doing really well at managing the stress of it all.
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Awareness is growing about the importance of our mental health and how it affects our overall health and ability to function in our daily lives. Many of us experience anxiety and depression even though we may not have a clinical diagnosis. And even if we have a clinical diagnosis the standard treatment of care, a
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Last week I talked about the importance addressing both the body and the soul if your goal is to be healthy. You have to do both. It is only when I started doing both that I feel like I am getting younger every year instead of older. I’m also getting lots of compliments on how
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It’s one thing to eat properly. It’s another thing to exercise regularly. And yet it’s something entirely different to deal with what is going on in your heart. In the popular Netflix documentary “Heal” they interviewed patients who went through what were considered “radical remissions” of cancer. Patients who were not expected to survive, but
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