It’s that time of year when traveling is a part of most families’ holiday experience. Whether it’s by plane, train, or automobile, staying healthy while traveling can bring its share of challenges. Early last month I flew out to Arizona for some additional craniosacral training and while I was enjoying one of my favorite past times of
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We live in a society that has been taught to think that healing comes in a small pill. All we need is to find the right pill or the right combination of pills and we’ll get better. However, “heal” is of Germaic origin (heilen), meaning to make whole. If we look at the old English
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A large part of having and maintaining a healthy life is change. Change can be drastic, big and even scary. If you’re farther off course from that healthy lifestyle you desire, the necessary impending changes can be paralyzing, sometimes to the point where you take no action. If we only focus on the end goal and
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Think birth control pills are 100% safe and side effect free? Think again
Homeopathy (ho-me-op-a-thy) is an individualized system of medicine that I use frequently with patients due to its efficacy, low-cost, and lack of drug interactions or side effects. Even though this medicine has been around long before penicillin, and was actually quite popular among doctors in the early 1900s, it is so different from our current
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The body is an amazingly complex system, governed by a network of chemical highways. The best part about this system is that we don’t ever have to consciously think or be aware of it in order to live. For example, doing a “detox” or “cleanse” has become quite popular but many of us do not realize that our
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I recently saw an article on my Facebook feed from a popular online publication about a company offering women time off during their periods. I thought how wonderfully progressive an idea this is, to let women, if they need to, take time off for what can sometimes be a horrible time of the month. It’s hard
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Last month we held an open house to celebrate Serenity’s one year anniversary (which was technically September) and honor naturopathic medicine week. There was great food, great people, and great live music (check out the videos on our YouTube channel). This event gave me a much-needed opportunity to reflect on this past year, so pardon the brief
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