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7 Signs of Decline to Watch for With Your Aging Parents
If you plan to see your aging relatives this season, one of the most loving things you can do for them, is to do a thorough check to make sure they are still able to appropriately care for themselves. Why? Because if they are at any risk of developing any type of dementia or other chronic diseases common in the elderly, catching it early is essential to a good prognosis. For example, before getting a formal diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, a patient will often have several years of Mild Cognitive Impairment, which may or may not progress to...
read more5 Essential Tips to Curb Emotional Eating
You know that you aren’t hungry… after all, you’ve eaten your regular meals, but you are craving your favorite snack again. Maybe it’s in the middle of the afternoon, or more commonly late at night. Why do we have these cravings, and what can we do to stop our emotional eating? Have you noticed that we are more prone to giving into these cravings when you are stressed or late at night? Why? Because that is when our willpower is weakest. Willpower is limited, and if we are using it all day to effectively deal with existing stresses,...
read moreDo You Have a Heart Wall?
Are you uncomfortable with others getting too close? Are you struggling to connect with what brings you joy? If so, you may have a heart wall. 1 What is a heart wall? Heart walls are made of trapped emotions that have accumulated around our hearts. Whenever we experience negative emotions, if we haven’t been in a space where we’ve been able to process our emotions in a loving and supportive environment, they get trapped in our bodies. While they can be trapped anywhere in our bodies, they can particularly affect us when they accumulate...
read moreThe Power of Believing You can Improve
People are too willing to give up on me. As a child, I remember a teacher who told me I shouldn’t be in a dance performance that I wanted to participate in. In graduate school, I was encouraged by more than one teacher to drop out. They thought that because I struggled in the classes, that I didn’t have what it takes to get my Ph.D. I’ve been fired from jobs, and people who’s friendships really mattered to me, stopped returning my calls. As painful as these rejections have been, I’ve always strived to learn from them. While my heart has...
read moreHow to Have a Better Relationship
My client Rachel came to me consumed by anger with her ex. She said that he just knew how to get under her skin. She felt like he could reach from the depths of her soul and tear her heart out. She had believed that he was her soul mate. But she couldn’t get over the story that severed their relationship years ago: when she had felt like he had purposely tried to undermine her career. When couples don’t get along When clients come to me because a relationship isn’t working, sometimes they are full of blame. Other times, they feel...
read moreTop 10 Hidden Causes of Anxiety and One Amazing Tip
Have you been struggling with anxiety? In graduate school, I used to have so much worry and stress about getting it all done, that I wouldn’t be able to sit still or concentrate. I’d find myself having to go on epic bike rides just to calm myself down enough to focus. I had generalized anxiety, social anxiety and performance anxiety. And EFT, the Emotion Code and the Body Code made a huge difference! These days I hardly worry at all, and I spend more time focusing on getting things done! My generalized and social anxiety are...
read more9 Hidden Reasons Why We Can’t Focus
Are you struggling to focus? Are you having trouble getting things done? Is it getting in the way of your career or ability to earn money? Are you worried that you might lose clients, or get fired from your job? I used to have the hardest time concentrating on my work! I would do everything I could to tune out external distractions, I’d get exercise and enough sleep, and still my work was slow moving, and I’d need frequent breaks. Because I wasn’t very productive during my work days, I’d try to work longer hours to make up for it. I was...
read moreWhy We Lack Control Over Our Thoughts
My friend Jim Kellner performs “mental magic” to audiences around the country. Technically, he’s a stage hypnotist and a couple of weeks ago, he did a performance where he hypnotized a few people, including a friend of mine, Brian. Here’s just a little taste from the show. (Warning: you might not want to drink anything while watching. It could get messy!) /wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kellner-funny-movie-video.mp4 I talked to Brian a few days afterwards, and asked him how it was, and he said, “it was the weirdest thing, but I...
read moreHow to Deal With Bullies, Trolls and Haters
Last week, I submitted a comment on a blog, and got back the wrath of what I like to call an “angry man-child”. This person insulted me and everything that I said, and it was clear that he was ready to pick a fight. I felt myself getting defensive, and I started to think how I’d retaliate. But I quickly realized that my emotions were getting in the way of me. I decided that I’d try to call him out on his behavior by labeling it, and then I tried to respectfully use reason to argue my point. I had hoped that I would increase his...
read moreDoes Punishment Really Work?
I have always been interested in the question of what inspires people to be their best. Why do some people have a tendency towards violence or addiction or cruelty? Why are there people that only seem to care about themselves? And what makes someone spend their entire life dedicated to serving others? America is a punitive society and has grown increasingly more so in my lifetime. Our prison population has had about a 8.5x increase since 1980! We have the 2nd highest per-capita incarceration rates in the world. Most prisoners are not...
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