Do You Need to Create Better Boundaries?
Do you have difficulty creating boundaries with others, poor self-esteem or feel powerless? If you answered yes to the above your third chakra, the solar plexus may be compromised. You see each chakra corresponds to specific organs, regions of the body, mental,...
Boost Your Immune System Naturally
Do you wish you could hibernate like a bear to avoid the inevitable cold or flu that comes with winter? Do you dread your children starting or returning to school because they come home with colds and spread it to the entire family? Do you travel to different...
Gratitude Affects Your Health and Well-Being
Many of us take a few moments around Thanksgiving to reflect on things we are grateful for but are you aware experiencing gratitude regularly has positive effects on your physical health and emotional well-being? Research studies have discovered some personality...
Energetic Tips for Dealing with Difficult People
We all come across difficult people in our lives. It may be a relative at a family gathering, a coworker, a stranger in a store or even a friend. There are various types of difficult personas
Pain is your body sending you a message – are you listening or ignoring it?
Pain is a form of communication Our body, mind and spirit are constantly sending us messages. Unfortunately, many of us don’t hear the messages it sends or we ignore them.
Do you have good or bad stress?
Are you aware some stress is good for you? That’s right it can be a motivator and help us to stay focused. For example, having a deadline to have a contract written, school paper completed, or blog written and published keeps one on track and moving forward. Then...
Enhance your Healing Touch Sessions with Essential Oils
Healing Touch therapy by itself is powerful and so is aromatherapy however when you combine them in a session the results are amplified and amazing! There are many ways you can incorporate essential oils into a healing touch session. One method is to use oils on...
Essential Oils Help Alleviate Painful Sprains, Muscle Spasms and Soreness
Whether you’re a weekend sports warrior, become overzealous while exercising or overdo it in the garden or while cleaning your home your muscles can take a beating. They also can talk back to you with pain and inflammation! It can happen at any time, your walking or...
Ancient Energy in Hawaii
Have you ever noticed that once you become aware of something you tend to start noticing it? For example, if you decide you want to purchase a yellow VW car you suddenly start noticing those cars everywhere you go. Once I became aware of energy fields I started to...
Integrative Therapies Help Those going through Chemo/Radiation Therapy
I have worked with cancer patients for many years and I have come to know this: The chemo and radiation therapies can have major side effects that adversely and dramatically impact their quality of life. Most clients are scared, stressed and suffer from side effects...
Shift from Stress to Calm in just 5 minutes!
Do you ever find it difficult to focus or feel overwhelmed by your to-do list? What if in 5 minutes you could feel more relaxed, regain focus and sleep better at night? I will share with you how a 5-minute meditation can start that process. When you combine it with...
8 Natural Tips to Help Prevent Colds and Flu
Do you regularly get sick during fall and winter? When I was younger with 2 small children I would get several colds every fall and winter. After I learned about holistic therapies and taking better care of myself I rarely have a cold and have not had the flu in over...
Healing Touch Helps to Resolve Emotional Issues
Unresolved emotions can result in physical pain, poor self-confidence and self-image, adversely affect relationships and contribute to health issues. Healing touch is a gentle, effective therapy that can help you release buried emotions and resolve other...
Integrative Medicine is a Win-Win for Patients and Facility
Integrated medicine is the way health care should be. Addressing a person’s whole self – body, mind and spirit – leads to faster healing, better outcomes, less pain, fear and anxiety and cost savings for the facility. However every facility interprets what an...
5 Tips to support your respiratory system when air quality is poor
California’s wildfires have and continue to wreak havoc with the air quality. Many people are experiencing unhealthy or very unhealthy air quality. Many know the basics such as keeping your doors and windows closed unless you are in extreme heat without an air...
Are You In Tune With Nature?
Nature has a natural rhythm of growth and conservation, do you? Winter is a time when most plants go dormant; it is a rest period that is crucial to their survival in order to regrow each year. Longer nights, cooler temperatures tell plants and animals to shelter...
Seashells Change with Time and so Do We
I love walking on the beach and looking for seashells. When I was younger I always looked for the perfect shell, the one with no holes in it and fully intact. Now I really admire those that are imperfect, part of the shell has been washed away by the pounding surf or an animal has found its way in to feast on what was inside. These imperfect shells tell a story of time, challenges, persistent beauty and give it more character. I feel they are more beautiful than a perfect whole shell!
Numerous Benefits of Marjoram Essential Oil
Origanum majorana (sweet marjoram) is one of my favorite oils and several hospitals also use it because it is addresses several issues that frequently occur together. For example it can alleviate physical pain and help you relax and sleep better.
Do you think holistic therapies improve your patient care?
Medications alone don’t always relieve pain or anxiety in patients. Complementary or holistic therapies improve outcomes by helping to alleviate pain, decrease stress, anxiety and more! The patient’s feel “cared for” when someone gives them undivided attention even if it is just for 5 minutes.
Bring Peace and Relaxation to the Terminally Ill
There is a wonderful healing touch technique that assists people dealing with a terminal illness in many ways. First it helps to ease fear and anxiety producing a sense of peace, calm and relaxation. If they are restless, agitated or experiencing pain it helps to relax the physical body as well. When they are ready to leave the physical world it allows them to do so peacefully. I have taught healing touch to hospice personnel (chaplains, RNs and volunteers) and they feel it is a great adjunct to the services they offer patients. I have instructed family members and caregivers in this technique which helps them feel like they are “doing something to help” the person.
When a Habit Changes from Beneficial to Detrimental
We all have habits, some are beneficial and others are not. Sometimes a habit that once served you well becomes troublesome and you would like to change it. Below is my story of when a habit changed from beneficial to detrimental and what I did about it.
Growing up TV was a source of comfort and companionship because both of my parents worked full time and my siblings were much older. It kept me company when no one else was home, it lulled me to sleep at times when I was feeling scared, it entertained me when no one else was around.