Intuitive Medicine

How To Use Your Intuition To Make Health Decisions

Today I have a video for you… one that will help you figure out how to tune into your intuition to make deeply satisfying, deeply healing health decisions.   When you make a health decision rooted in your own intuition, everything unfolds more effortlessly because your health care decisions are aligned with your soul energy… there is a synergy already present that creates healing.   When you make a health decision based on doubt, second-guessing, over-thinking and/or other people’s well-intentioned advice… you may not be making the choice that will re-align you with your health the fastest. Want to know …

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Winter Skin Salvation!

Winter can be a tough time for anybody’s skin… painfully dry hands and cracked heels galore (ouch!)   Dry heated air that dehydrates and cracks vulnerable skin inside combine with whipping cold winds that chaff skin outside… …no fun especially if you suffer from chronic skin conditions such as psoriasis, eczema or other forms of dermatitis.   Today I have a blog post for you that is full of wonderful things you can do to support tender dry winter skin and support skin health in general. You know that I love skin care (at one point I even considered going …

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Winter Checklist: 6 Ways To Feel Your Best All Winter Long

  Once again, it’s time to post a winter checklist of all the things I have pulled together over the years to keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. With Winter Solstice last weekend and Christmas, Kwanzaa and Winter Holidays this week… this is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our best and slow down and care for our inner spark while the world sleeps on around us. It’s okay to take these winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure …

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The Healing Process of Grief

2013 was a huge year of transition for me. And, to be frank, it was a year of loss. But also a year of growth. A year of survival and a year of strength.   I’ve learned a lot first hand about loss, grief and healing… and I can contrast it quite vividly to what I *learned* about grief and healing during my medical training.   I still remember being in medical school and learning all about the classic model of the grief process, set forth by the amazing and brave Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: DABDA (I’m sure many of my readers, …

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The Healthiest Ways To Release Any Stuck Emotions

Last week I talked about how the energy flow through your living space makes a big impact on how you feel living there, and I gave a few super easy ways to increase the fresh energy flow through the room.   Likewise, the energy flow through your physical body determines how it feels to live in your body.   When the energy is flowing through your body, you are releasing the old and welcoming in the new and healing happens effortlessly. In fact, that is what happens when the energy flows through your body: it gives rise to emotions… emotions …

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The Single Most Important Factor For Good Health…

Guess what I am doing right now? I’m moving!   The kids and I are busy busy busy busy BUSY this week, unpacking boxes and moving into a new space to live… so I need to pause my blog temporarily while we get settled in!     But before I step out for a short period of time, I wanted to share this post with you today. In keeping with last week’s post of staying healthy during times of stress, I am reposting this article I wrote, all about the single most important factor in long-term health.   Do you …

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7 Ways To Improve Your Health Even During Times Of Stress

  I received a wonderful question from a reader recently. She asked me: “How do you remain hopeful even during times of immense stress?”   This is such a good question and one that I thought about for many days.   Here is the list I came up with of real-life strategies that I use personally and that I find work well for others during times of crisis and stress.   To remain hopeful really seems to be the key during any type of adversary in life, whether that be a personal tragedy, a health crisis or a series of …

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