Have you heard the saying “people resist change?” We do resist, because an element of change is the unknown, which implies a possible lack of control. Any perception of lack of control produces anxiety. That is a recipe for resistance, whether the anxiety is conscious ( job change) or unconscious ( “Dad left when I […]
Can Chronic Stress Make You Sick?
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. This woman “didn’t believe in divorce” and stayed married to a man with a mental disorder who wouldn’t work for 15 years. According to tons […]
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 trauma for the better part of 14 years, it’s not unusual. Abandonment, rejection, abuse, cruelty, shaming, torture and beatings disguised as “discipline” have scarred the lives of millions […]
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 of hoarding has gone public. Hoarding is a particularly chronic and difficult to treat manifestation of OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Conventional psychological approaches including Cognitive […]
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, they’ll play the victim, blame you for upsetting them and turn others against you so that YOU look like the bad guy.
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 with him still aches for those who suffered horrific injuries or who didn’t come home at all. On this Memorial Day, I want to speak […]
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 therapies advance. Emotional blocks to healing can be subconscious or conscious. Here are some examples of blocks to healing that I find frequently during intuitive […]
What’s on Your Hard Drive?
There’s nothing more important that we can do for our present health and future happiness and well being than self-heal the viruses and stealth programs on our internal hard drive. According to the landmark ACE Study, (Adverse Childhood Experiences, www.acestudy.org) there is a strong graded correlation between our personal body/mind storehouse of toxic unhealed childhood […]
Energy Medicine: A Multi-Dimensional Healing Paradigm
There are several missing links in the current paradigm of emotional healing today. Conventional psychotherapy such as cognitive-behavioral therapy is time-consuming, frequently taking months or even years, and is, clients tell me, painful and re-traumatizing. It’s also expensive, and has a hit and miss reputation in terms of changed lives and the long-term release of […]