We are announcing the launch of a new Facebook community as an international directory of resources and free or low-cost treatment for veterans and traumatized civilians who want to heal […]
Yoga is Not Against the Law in Encinitas, CA Judge Rules
One ultra-conservative Christian couple here in San Diego tried to use the legal system to force their narrow beliefs on an entire community and school system. That’s what extremist Muslims […]
Why Change is Hard: Keeping New Year’s Resolutions
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]