This Woman Got Breast Cancer From a Bad Marriage. Here’s a story that illustrates the painful damage just one negative, limiting core belief can do to a person’s life. […]
Obituary For a Cruel and Abusive Mother, Written by Her Adult Daughter
A gut-wrenching obituary about an abusive mother The obituary below, written by the daugher of an abusive mother, has gone viral. The story is gut-wrenching and tragic, but sadly, in my experience treating childhood […]
Why Hoarding and OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) is so Hard to Heal
The Secret and Shameful World of Hoarding With the advent of the Hoarders and Hoarders: Buried Alive shows on A & E and TLC, the previously secret and shameful world […]
Shadow Boxing: How to Spot the Saboteurs and Passive/Aggressives in Your Office and Your Life
Dealing with passive aggressive (PA) people is supremely annoying, frustrating and anxiety producing. They’re bullies and they fight dirty. If you attempt to fight back and stand up for yourself, […]
Left Behind: He Left Me–To Go To War
It’s 1 a.m. and I can’t sleep. My Army reserve husband returned safely from Afghanistan and is back to his old self, but the part of my heart that went […]
Food Sensitivities, Autoimmune Disease and Unhealed Trauma—Is There a Connection?
Studies have shown that chronic stress affects everything from your gums to your heart and can lower your immunity to everything from the common cold to cancer. In the 1930s […]
Why People Don’t Heal
There are many reasons why people don’t heal. Some blocks to healing are emotional or spiritual and can be overcome. Sometimes illnesses have genetic components that resist healing until gene […]
Can Stress From Unhealed Trauma Cause Autoimmune Diseases and Chronic Pain? Science Says YES.
Traditional psychotherapeutic approaches to trauma and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) which focus on cognitive “restructuring” and insights too often supply clients with coping skills for their pain instead of healing. […]
The ACE Study–link between autoimmune diseases, chronic stress and childhood trauma?
According to the landmark ACE Study, Adverse Childhood Experiences, (www.acestudy.org), the connection is unmistakable. In 1992, doctors at Kaiser Hospital in San Diego, CA and the federal Centers for Disease […]
The Many Faces of Panic
When a doctor takes your physical history and notes your symptoms, she’s comparing the symptoms you report against a list of symptoms of various conditions she suspects and looking […]