Oh, yes, there are many gifts of going through the change. I’m not just talking about no longer fussing over periods or worrying about getting pregnant. I’m talking about soul gifts. It’s the challenge of our shifting hormones that becomes the fuel for our...
Most of us make New Years resolutions. Promises to make changes...lose weight, make more money, get organized, be happier. Many of us make the same resolutions every year. And for a couple of months, we are committed. And most of us fail to keep our...
Now more than ever, we are experiencing the growing pains of change. Yet we hang onto the old like a worn out lifeline. It is human nature to fear change, yet change is part of life. What makes us sick oftentimes are old habits, old paradigms, old storylines...
I have been encouraging my patients to literally clean out their closets. When they have felt stuck, reliving old issues over and over again, seemingly making no progress, I encourage them to see this stuckness as a sign. It’s time to clean their dwelling place. Start...
Sometimes it seems like life just happens to you. Yet quantum physics has proven that You happen to Life. What do I mean? Well, everything you think, what you believe, even that which is in your subconscious, affects your world. You’ve seen this happen. When...
Mind-body medicine is becoming mainstream. We know our beliefs affect our health. That’s the placebo effect, right? But did you know that you have the power to heal yourself. Yes! It’s just a matter of knowing the right formula. Healing is an innate power within each...
You may know what you need to do, but do you do it? Really? Have you ever started a diet and you find that you are good for a few days, maybe a week or so, and then you start slipping? In the end, you gain back more weight than you lost? A few years ago, a young woman...
Have you ever smelled cookies baking and are transported back to grandma’s house? Our sense of smell is key to our memories. In the ancient centers of our brain, our lives are encoded by odors. Our sense of smell, more so than any other sense, is linked to the part of...
In the wee hours before the dawn of Memorial Day, I was awakened by a sick dog. I jumped out of bed to remedy the situation. Sitting down in a pose I’ve done a thousand times, I leaned slightly forward to assess the poor pooch and…a searing pain shot through my...
My mother called me her precious daughter until the day she died. My father treats me as if I am a precious gift. My grandparents beheld me with preciousness in their gaze. And I have always felt life is precious. That my relationship with my husband is...
Nina was sent to me for a psycho-spiritual healing. She had advanced stage IV head and neck cancer and there was nothing medicine could do for her. A lovely blond woman in her late forties, Nina sat quietly before me, a cupcake sized tumor protruding from her...
After nine years of working as an employee first at an urgent care then with an ob-gyn, I had a dream…to start my own holistic health care practice. So I left a private practice seeing 27 or more patients a day as an employee to slow down and...
As much as we seek healing including soul growth, it seems like our family drama gets in the way. Or does it? Early in August, I woke up elated from an amazing dream: I was outside with my husband and Mom (always good to see my dead mother) We’re standing outside of a...
Life is stressful. So many pressures on you. From work. Family. Friends. Perhaps you're worried about things beyond your control. No matter what life serves you, it's how you react that creates the rhythm of your existence. After I returned from a business trip in...
Isn’t it interesting when old stuff comes up to be cleansed? I’ve had a lot of patients, friends and loved ones that have been dealing with ancient issues, some personal, some ancestral. When old issues resurface it makes you wonder if you’ll ever be finished with a...
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
Intuitive Integrative Medicine
