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. Likewise, medical treatments that do not diagnose and heal the cause but instead rely on symptom suppressing medications and treatments that do not also address […]
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 Control began a collaborative and still on-going study that would eventually involve over 17,000 people in the Wellness Program at Kaiser and offer solid evidence […]
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 for a match that fits your specific symptom profile. When she gets a hit, she might follow up with tests to confirm the diagnosis. Or, […]
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 […]
Two Cases of Chronic Back Pain: Grief and Heartache Held in the Back
When I first started my practice, it seemed like a first year internship. Most people had what appeared on the surface to be simple issues: back pain, phobias, anger, grief, etc. I had yet to learn that most emotional issues, especially those that have somatosized (taken root) into the body, are more like icebergs where […]
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 […]
A One-Session Wonder: EFT heals combat trauma in Sgt. Joshua.
Transcript of a successful EFT session with an Iraq Veteran after 3 tours in Iraq Tapping Points Key: EB: eyebrow OE: outside of eye UE: under eye UN: under nose