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Affection From Your Mom When You Were A Baby May Buffer Your Stress As An Adult

Female Health, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

In honor of Mother’s Day this weekend, I want to share with you one of my all time favorite medical studies. It shows how a little TLC from your mom may actually help protect your health, well into adulthood. Published in 2005 in Dialoges in Clinical Neuroscience, researchers found that the how much affection a mommy rat showed to her babies in their first week of life protected them from future stress later on in life — decreasing their stress response and even lowering stress hormone production. Researchers compared two different types of mom rats, separating …

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May 2 2022

Here’s Why I Left Conventional Medicine (I Spill It All In This Interview)

Grounding, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I’m sharing an interview with you that I recently had with Kids Who Explore. started by an amazing mama Adrianna Skori who resides in Alberta, Canada. She created Kids Who Explore as a fabulous resource for parents all over the world who want to incorporate nature into their child’s life. I highly recommend exploring her website! There are lots of upcoming events, both locally and virtually, along with a blog and podcast that are both filled with inspirational ideas and tips to get your kids connecting with nature. The company has the mission of “allowing nature …

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Nov 8 2021

Good Moods Are Contagious In Teens (And Prevents Depression)

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

As I blogged about last week… mood is not just something that colors our day. Our moods actually make a huge difference in our projected lifespan… this is now a medical fact! On the heels of that study, yet another study was published just last month (August 19, 2015 in the Proc Biol Science) revealing that a positive mood among teens is not only “contagious” and spreads among peers… … but is also associated with enhanced recovery from depression and decreased future risk of depression. And even better, the reverse is not true: depressed mood does not appear to …

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Oct 5 2015

My Valentines

Healing Artwork, Positive Parenting, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

Dearest Reader, Happy Valentine’s Day this weekend. My Valentine’s wish for you is that you *know* and *feel* that love surrounds you. In ways both ***Seen*** and ***Unseen*** In ordinary ways and in extraordinary ways. In ways that are obvious and known to us and also in ways that are hidden and unknown… … in ways perhaps we can’t fully realize until our lives are over and we return into ALL THAT WE ARE and can understand from a broader perspective. This Valentine’s Day, I want to share with you a glimpse of my own …

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Feb 9 2015

Happy Holidays (and A Quick Holiday Tradition… Join Me?)

Healthy Mindframe, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

Just popping by today quickly to say happiest of holidays to every single one of you today, to your loved ones, your friends, your family, your soul connections, your acquaintances, your loves. ((((XOXOXOXO)))) Love to you each. I also wanted to invite you to join me in releasing your ties to 2014 as the year draws to a close… …as beautiful and as magical and as life changing and as painful and as heavy and as light and as healing and as freeing and as trivial as important and as boring and as majestic as 2014 might have …

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Dec 22 2014

Giveaway: Children’s Book about Mother Earth

Grounding, Health Videos, Intuitive Medicine, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

This Earth Day, I wanted to give you a sneak peek — into my children’s book on Earthingâ„¢ — and give you a chance to win your very own autographed copy, for FREE! From The Ground Up shows children exactly how Mother Earth supports our well-being in vibrant, full color! And gives parents tons of great ideas on how support their child’s connection to the earth and set them up for a lifetime of health and Well Being. You can see what I mean right now — let me open this book for you and show …

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Apr 22 2013

Why Our Brain Craves FAT!!!

Healthy Weight, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

This is a blog post I wrote last year and it is the perfect time to re-release it as it explains a bit about what brains need to grow and remain flexible and make new connections. Especially in those early childhood years. I really enjoyed writing this post and hope you will find it full of not only solid medical advice but also heart open intuitive advice as well. Here we go: Concerned parents ask me all the time if they should be forcing their children to eat a certain amount of veggies each day, and still other …

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Jun 13 2012

Affection From Your Mom When You Were A Baby May Buffer Your Stress As An Adult

Here’s Why I Left Conventional Medicine (I Spill It All In This Interview)

Good Moods Are Contagious In Teens (And Prevents Depression)

My Valentines

Happy Holidays (and A Quick Holiday Tradition… Join Me?)

Giveaway: Children’s Book about Mother Earth

Why Our Brain Craves FAT!!!

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