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A Simple But Truly Effective Way To Immediately Decrease Your Stress

  Today I want to share another way to decrease holiday stress — and it’s so simple there is not a place or situation on earth you can’t use it… 3 deep breaths. Read this article to know why stopping to breathe is the best thing to do when your in-laws drive you crazy or a topic of discussion at the thanksgiving table raises your blood pressure. In medicine, we know it only takes three deep breaths to significantly support vagal nerve tone, which helps modulate your autonomic nervous system. Meaning your heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and brain …

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Release Stuck Emotions To Truly, Deeply Heal

The theme of releasing stuck emotions has come up several times in the past week with my private patients, so I’m going to take that as a gentle nudge to repost this article on my blog. It’s perfect timing, because fall is a natural time to release and shed all that no longer serves you. As the saying goes, you only have to glance at the beautiful changing colors on the fall trees outside right now to see how very beautiful it is to let go. But what if you are feeling stuck? I’ve got you covered. Read on:   …

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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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Decreasing Health Anxiety

One of my missions in life is to help decrease your health anxiety!!!!   Anxiety over health is one of the biggest obstacles in healing. I see it in my patients time and time again — and whenever we can work together to reduce their health anxiety… even just by 1 degree… healing begins. Even in chronic conditions patients have had their entire lives… if they can decrease their health anxiety by one small bit it’s like breathing new life into old conditions and things begin to shift and release.   So I’m going to be doing a series of …

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Fibromyalgia Relief Right NOW

Since so many women in my practice are affected by fibromyalgia, I’m going to blog about it today with a tribute to the energetic dynamic behind this disease… because shoulder tension is something that is personal for me. What can you do energetically to release fibromyalgia flares? Read on:     I carry all of my tension in my neck and shoulders. Painful trigger points, tension headaches, tenderness in my upper back and neck so strong that at times I can’t even wear a bathing suit or a sports bra or a ponytail, or anything pulling on my neck at …

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Chronic tension sucks. 9 ideas to help…

  A great foundation to decrease chronic tension in your body includes: fish oil supplementation to decrease inflammation in your muscles grounding and connecting to the earth to decrease over all inflammation and muscle tension getting extra sleep (10+ hours a night!) and use of melatonin or tryptophan if needed to help this sleep reach deeper, restorative levels yoga and daily stretching acupuncture to increase energy flow through your body and support releasing tension, reducing pain massage to neutralize trigger points   If a weekly massage is not in your budget or can’t fit into your busy lifestyle, you can …

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