About a year into our journey together, having weaned off of two psychiatric meds, Sandra began to struggle with muscle aches. She had learned a tremendous amount about herself in the past year...

Sleep: Every Modern Parent’s Fantasy

I remember the feeling, the sheer desperation coursing through me as I woke up, as mothers do, anticipating her cry from the co-sleeper next to our bed. I...

Tears slipped down my cheeks, each imprinted with wonder. I felt neither sad nor happy. I was in the exhilaration of merging into something grand… sitting squarely in the great...

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Kahlil Gibran

The American Way

Productivity. Certainty. Predictability. Consistency.

These...

"Our Beliefs are our Destiny."

-Mahatma Gandhi

From Brain-Based Medicine to Heart-Based Healing

I’ve always been confident.

Somehow, I feel like I may have been born this way. It...

I used to be an atheist, in fact, I used to be a self-described “belligerent atheist.” I thought that religious dogma was the outgrowth of fear and unresolved parental issues....

Evolutionary mismatch. This is the term that encompasses the root cause of most modern ills. We are living a lifestyle – read diet, stress level, movement and sunlight deficiency, toxic...

This post first appeared on GreenMedInfo.com.

To sleep, perchance to dream. Many of us have a love hate relationship with sleep – making the time for it, honoring it, needing it, losing...

This article first appeared on Mercola.com as The New Psychiatry: Psychoneuroimmunology

What is Postpartum Depression?

It depends who you ask. If you ask me, I’m likely to describe a number of potential contributors that can ultimately be tagged with the impressionist...