Posts in Our Emotional Life
The Miracle of Convalescence

So convalescence isn’t just a time of essential healing and restoration of our immune resources, it gives us permission to pause our lives and if you will allow it, time to experience the ways in which your body heals and where it may struggle to heal. In this way it can be a vacation, an education and a realization. Or it can be an exasperating, frustrating period of time that keeps us from doing what we need to do. This is what often drives people to ignore convalescence. But one thing to consider is that the lack of complete healing can create a chaotic tendency in the immune system that may actually be the most common reason for the rise in autoimmune disorders.

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Belief Changes Biology

When a patient sits down with me, they tell me all their physical symptoms, recent illnesses and detail the ways in which they just don't feel "right". But what they seem not to mention are the stressors, the emotions, the sleepless nights, the fear, anxiety, worry and anger that can dominate the mind and overwhelm the body. The truth is that belief really does change our biology.

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Can We Escape From the Womb

When patients sit down to tell me about their history, they never mention their parents, as though their personal experience is all that influences their health.  But in fact, our health history begins further back in time then we may even know.  Jung had the right idea when he espoused the collective unconscious.  We truly are the sum total of our ancestry, not just our life experience.

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Are You Depressed? It May Be a Good Thing!

Our society and our medical community suggest anti-depressants for everything from digestive disorders to chronic skin conditions.  Because we believe that what is a reaction to either external or internal forces is actually an aberrant unconnected emotion.  And if you feel better, then you are better.  Next! This is a ludicrous conclusion.

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The Season of Heartbreak

I think everyone has experienced suffering and heartache around the holidays and new year. It is so very difficult to face the daunting prospect of a new year after ending a year of stressful and often tragic events. What is very clear in my practice is that the beginning of the year is a time of heart-related ailments that walk through my door. A-Fib, heart palpitations, paroxysmal tachycardia, congestive heart failure, heart murmurs, heart attack .... all of these seem to appear at the beginning of every new year.

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