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Five Reasons Why Sleep is Imperative
One of the best things we can do for ourselves is get enough sleep. Yet, in the U.S., 50% of adults don’t get enough sleep, and 70% of teenagers are sleep deprived! In America, we value productivity and play so highly, that we tend to dismiss the value of rejuvenation. Some of us think sleep is a waste of time. We might have a youthful optimism about sleep. We often stay up later than we should, and fool ourselves into believing we will be fine, yet the consequences of sleep deprivation can be dire! Most of us are aware of the more...
read moreWhy we Get Too Angry or Emotional
Susan is an artist, but found when preparing for an art fair, that she regularly would go into a panicked state. She found putting up the tent, having everything ready to go, and coordinating with her sister challenging every time. She would regularly find herself sobbing if things did not go as planned, or getting into bitter arguments with her sister over things that were not worth arguing over. Susan is very rational person. She knew that in those moments she wasn’t acting rationally, yet she couldn’t seem to control herself when she...
read moreHow to Forgive the Beasts in Our Life
Jackie was abused as a child by a family member. This “beast” violated her trust and left her afraid and vulnerable for years of her childhood. She was sworn to secrecy and felt helpless to protect herself. His actions were none other than horrific! But if she had held the anger inside of her all her life, it would have eaten away at her and magnified the trauma. It would have trapped emotions around her heart, creating what we call a heart wall. A heart wall would have robbed her ability to love herself and others, and prevented her from...
read moreWhen You Don’t Fit In
For most of my life, I didn’t feel like I fit in. To start, I didn’t look like anyone else. As a Eurasian in the 70’s, I was a pretty rare breed. I don’t remember meeting anyone else who was Eurasian in the US until I got into high school! I also wasn’t good at making friends, and then we moved to Hong Kong, and my parents put my sister and I in a Chinese speaking school. We only spoke English at the time. These early life experiences set me up to feel like an outsider for the rest of my life. For most of my life, I felt rejected,...
read moreHow Childhood Trauma Affects Physical Health
I had a client who had been coughing for months. Her breathing felt tight and restricted, and it was compromising her ability to talk and sing and breathe! We released exposure to cigarette smoke in her life and from her ancestors, and the coughing decreased but persisted. What did we have to release before the coughing stopped? Western medicine has known for a long time that stress increases our risk of a huge range of chronic diseases. Usually the recommendations are to decrease your current sources of stress, like to work less, relax...
read moreThe Consequences of Dehydration
Do you drink enough water? I’ve had many clients who don’t drink enough water. While many of them say that they don’t feel thirsty, most of them do not fully understand the consequences of not drinking enough. But the consequences of both long-term and short-term dehydration can be severe. Why water is so important for us? Our bodies are two-thirds water. Water is vital to cleaning out toxins, pathogens and even negative energy. It keeps our kidneys working to properly clean out our blood. We lose water regularly, through sweat, urine,...
read moreAvoiding a Difficult Conversation?
Is there a conversation that you need to have with someone, but you have been avoiding it? Does the thought of it make you want to run and hide under the covers? Does it make your stomach twist and turn into knots? Rachel spent much of her life avoiding difficult conversations. But then just a few years ago, she was in business with a dear long-time friend that suddenly fell apart. She thought her marriage was going well because she and her husband never argued. But then her marriage ended as well. Through the pain of these losses, she...
read moreNot Reaching Your Dreams? Ask This:
I have a client who kept sabotaging herself. She needed to lose weight. She had high cholesterol, sleep apnea, and shortness of breath that were all largely due to her weight. In addition, she had extraordinary knee pain that was so bad that she could barely walk. She was mostly homebound, and relied mostly on her daughters to help her get to appointments. The doctors had no solutions for her, and would not operate on her knees until she lost weight. She knew what that she needed to healthy vegetables and was working with a nutritionist...
read moreDo Supplements Cause Side Effects?
When I work with clients, if there is an underlying toxin or pathogen (virus, bacteria, fungus, etc) that is contributing to their problem, or if they have a nutrient deficiency, I typically refer them to a remedy that we use with Body Code (See disclaimer). Most clients don’t notice any problems with the supplements, but sometimes they do. Some clients stop taking their remedies due to unwanted side effects. However to heal, giving up on a remedy without knowing the cause of the side effects may be doing more harm than good! Before...
read moreHow the Mind Shapes Your Pain
Do you have a hard time recovering from accidents? Are you in chronic pain? I used to be miserable and in pain with injuries. I remember twisting my ankle playing miniature golf, and I was out of my usual exercise routine and was depressed for weeks. Then a few years ago, I twisted my ankle in a step class and the first thing I did was used EFT (tapped). I didn’t care what people thought and I tapped as I was taken to the emergency room and in the doctor’s office. I tapped on the embarrassment of having fallen, I tapped on how...
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