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In our quest to find a more balanced day-to-day life, an excellent tool for wellness is to remember how lucky you already are! To cultivate an attitude of gratitude, we have to take time from our busy day and remember to give thanks for all the blessings we already have in our lives. Gratitude keepsRead more

Well, it’s time. As we are about to embark on the 21-22 school year, it’s being met with a combination of enthusiasm, concern, and trepidation. Almost every parent can acknowledge feeling some stress over back-to school decisions.  Across the country, school districts are requiring parents to work out schedules using a mixture of on-site classes,Read more

While science has made tremendous advancements in our lifetime, many people still have difficulty finding diagnoses for strange pains in the body. So often, when talking with clients, they complain that they don’t feel heard by their primary care or chronic pain physician when struggling to find answers for their discomfort.  They’ve usually heard thingsRead more

It has been months since a pandemic lockdown started. At the beginning of the pandemic school-age children and adult/college age students with ADHD noticed benefits (self-guided pace, movement breaks) and drawbacks (no one-on-one interaction, heavy reliance on self-motivation) of virtual learning. The common hurdle for all students, regardless of whether ADHD is a concern, isRead more

Everyone knows change is hard. Since March 2020 most can say that they have experienced more change over the last 5 months than most of us experience over several years. School continues to change for kids. Work from home—if one is still employed—has been a major change for adults. Daily routines and interactions with family,Read more

Stress can be immobilizing, and it can negatively affect many aspects of our lives. When faced with challenges such as stress at school or family issues, and especially the uncertainty of COVID-19, we tend to fall back on reliable crutches,such as: food, alcohol, procrastination, avoidance, overreacting, arguing and/or even nail-biting—even though we know they’ll likelyRead more

For as long as there has been civilization, humans have needed healers – for injury, for sickness, and for emotional distress. Even ancient health and wellness experts noted the psychological effects of emotional distress and its effect on the body when treating their patients, prescribing calming teas and the company of loved ones as commonlyRead more

Most of us know that about 90% of New Year’s resolutions never actually get resolved. And it’s clear why: We all have habits that we fall back on; that’s why they’re habits. But there’s no reason why you can’t keep some resolutions to point you in the direction of what you want your life, body,Read more

It’s the holidays, and we’ve all known that special holiday hunger; you go to visit friends at a gathering and somehow leave the party having consumed more than half of a week’s worth of calories, and all of it was so delicious. Most of those calories consumed came from social eating, the dangerous snacking whileRead more

Consider this; well-educated, slender, and attractive, Sara seems to have it all. She is an MD, has an interesting career, and good friends. From an outsider’s perspective, she almost seems perfect. So everything’s great, right? Not exactly. Sara also has epilepsy. And while she loves her job, she feels anxious about business finances. She oftenRead more