Between the hardship and its outcomes lay our choices. What kinds of choices maximize our ability to transform hardships into advantages?
Read moreThe Slot Canyons of Life
It might surprise us how our thoughts and intentions can immediately shift us from our predicament. Love and peace. Never underestimate the amount of power these energies hold when we need a helping hand.
Read moreParable of the Remodeling Project: Getting to Zen
Changes are difficult and challenging, even if it is for the betterment of the person. Our walls form familiar boundaries, and when they get broken down, we feel unsettled and a little confused by the process.
Read moreThe Epigenetics of Energy Medicine
Genes are not like words carved in stone. They are fluid and are influenced by our thoughts, social settings, traumas, and nutritional status.
Read moreThe Trip: Finding my way back home
The strange flow of love, like water in a river, can be blocked by unspoken hurt and anger. When we can remove that dam, with a sincere apology, love flows once more.
Read moreImproving the Standard of Care
Let's be clear, I believe there is much more psychiatrists can do to further mental health than just "the standard of care." Is the pharmaceutical industry a tool of psychiatry or is psychiatry a tool of the pharmaceutical industry?
Read moreMotherhood: Constant Entertainment
Since this update comes just two days after celebrating Mother’s Day, I want to share some reflections on my attitude towards motherhood and a poem I wrote about my daughter, Sara.
Read moreThe Ultimate Investment: More meaningful than money!
I want to explore what I consider to be the most important investment we can make in our lives. More important than multiplying money. More important than saving up for retirement. More important than paying off your house.
Read moreWhich is More Powerful: Functional or Energy Medicine?
Both functional and energy medicine are equally important tools in healing patients from mental illness, and it is important for the clinician to have the ability to discern how to begin, which to begin with, and how to maximize and integrate these tools for each unique patient's needs.
Read morePerfection's Hiding Place
April is poetry month, which is as good an excuse as any to share a poem I wrote called "Chipped China Cup" and some thoughts I have about it. I love poems because they concentrate truth, bare emotion, and support insight.
Read moreOwning Your Life
Have you ever thought of life as progressing in the shape of an upward spiral, where we circle back in periodic cycles to encounter old issues from a different, perhaps higher and wiser, perspective?
Read moreThe Pill Paradox
Why and how do medications create disease? And how can we deal with this phenomenon when it occurs?
Read moreThirty-eight Beads
My approach interweaves energy and functional medicine together in one cohesive system to restore health and ultimately, a person's freedom from being a patient. Learn more in this story, “Thirty-eight Beads.”
Read moreHardy Helpers: Herbals and Homeopathy
Get to know some of my favorite supplement brands and herbals/homeopathics so that you can consider adding them to your toolbox.
Read moreThe Bare Bone Basics
Holistic healthcare's price tag can be difficult to afford for a lot of people. The question that comes up at times in my practice is: "What are the basic must-haves that I need to help me move in the right direction?"
Read moreFrom Understanding to Compassion
In order to be a holistic psychiatrist, I had to walk in my patients' shoes. I needed the power, insight, and determination that only compassion could provide.
Read moreMy Own Journey Towards a Healthier Life
I share my personal journey towards a healthier life: where I came from and where I am today.
Read moreTreating Underlying Causes of Mental Illness
How genetics, nutrition, stressors, toxicity, infection, and medication/withdrawal contribute to understanding how to treat the underlying causes for mental illness.
Read moreOn Patients' Spiritual and Paranormal Experiences
How can we provide safety, receptivity, and understanding to folks with profound spiritual and/or paranormal experiences?
Read moreThe Many Faces and Phases of Love
Sharing some personal stories about love for Valentine's Day.
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