Chapter One – The Back Story A year ago I joined a women’s dream circle. There are 6 of us, all healers. We meet once a month to witness and process each others’ dreams. We call it “process” and not “analyze” because our approach allows us as the collective dreamer to integrate the experience of [...]

I had an important breakthrough a couple months ago. I busted through a belief system that I’ve been carrying around for 8 years. At least. A belief system is a conscious (or more commonly unconscious) story that the nervous system and every body cell “knows” to be true, which creates various behaviors, responses, reactions, and [...]

I see sick people. (Not like the little boy in the Sixth Sense who sees dead people – not like that at all.) What I mean is that in my naturopathic practice I see people who have physical, mental, and emotional symptoms. These could include: low energy, digestive distress or discomfort or dysfunction, poor sleep, [...]

This is a pep talk inspired by an interesting and recent experience. A couple weeks ago, I corralled myself with hundreds of my ND colleagues so we could all keep our pharmacology prescribing licenses up to date. The location of the class was in a building in the middle of a city block. There were [...]

I’m always looking for lessons in my daily experiences. For example, I’ve learned a couple things from public washrooms. Below is a personal encounter I had with an interesting fellow. I’m not sure I’ve fully learned what this story has to teach me. Recently I was waiting for a bus. A homeless man pulling a [...]

This past weekend I attended a personal development seminar as a part of the “Life Sciences” arm under the Brain-Based Transformational Coaching umbrella. I’m an ever-learner; this workshop was a nice and welcomed change to the technical courses I’ve been taking lately. As much as the course was for me on my own personal path, [...]

John Mayer thinks your body is a wonderland. And I don’t disagree. Sexy or not, our bodies are amazingly fascinating! That’s part of why I love my work. But I also think of the body as a bucket. Less glamorous I know, but an extremely functional analogy. Run with me here. Lets say the body [...]

How To Declutter – One Day at a Time I mentioned in my article last week that I’m re-framing how I view the new year. In fact my exact words were, “I’m changing how I approach new years’ resolutions. Instead of creating statements and lists of what I resolve to do, I’m going for feelings [...]

A Lesson from my Puppy The other morning I was sitting in our kitchen doing something important like Facebooking. My dog, Achilles, had the audacity to put on her whiny pants. So I put her outside. Tied to a tree. Ahhh… problem solved. Back to cat videos. A few minutes later I looked out the [...]