My colleague, Dr. Jeannie Doig, and I chatted about how we support our patients who are having trouble sleeping, especially during times of stress, global pandemics, like self-isolation, and quarantine. In this video you’ll learn: the key hormones involved in your daily cycles and how to optimize and regulate them how the big S stress [...]

In times of uncertainty, I find it helpful to come back to the things I know for sure. What do I know to be true? I know my body’s ability to heal is true. I know my heart is true. I know the connection between others is true. Why did I make this meditation? A [...]

I recently closed the chapter of an illuminating (and extremely stressful) situation. It required a lot of time, a lot of energy, and unfortunately some money. Even though it came out of the blue it somehow didn’t surprise me. But I still hadn’t budgeted the time, energy or money for it. I drew on deep emotional [...]

“Health is not something you do for one day, it is something you do every day.” Dr. Tonia Winchester In this podcast you’ll learn: three uber common root causes of stress how stress affects the entire body specifically the gut, nervous and reproductive systems simple strategies to support the affected organs including three easy breezy [...]

Orgasmic Meditation Hello! What a topic title! What is this exactly? Well, Orgasmic Meditation (OM) is typically done with a partner who lightly and slowly touches the upper left part of the woman’s clitoris. There is no intercourse, and this gentle stroking happens for 15 minutes. One quarter hour where two minds and two bodies [...]

Is there really such a thing as being a night owl? I’m a fan of sleeping, both for myself and for my patients. Sometimes I have my own challenges with it – especially when I have been consuming my food allergies. (What? True dat. I wrote about that here.) We all know sleep is important. [...]

I realized that for all the time and energy I have spent teaching how stress can affect the body, I haven’t spent nearly enough time explaining what to do about it. And my favorite remedy for stress (besides orgasmic meditation ;) ) is deep breathing. I’ve touched on deep breathing in a couple articles, but [...]

After fatigue, anxiety is the 2nd most common symptom my patients report to me in my naturopathic practice. Why is this so common lately? We worry about money. About work. We stress over the most minute aspects of our lives. What to make for supper. What to wear. Of course there are larger worries: what [...]

What if instead of saying, “Yes,” your default response was, “No?” In a previous article (3 questions to ask yourself before you say yes to anything) I explained how we often over commit, and say, “Yes,” far too much. In my practice I see the effect of this stress and resentment on people’s health. It’s [...]