It’s not uncommon knowledge that stress can cause an emotional reaction. It doesn’t have to be a physical stressor like an injury or illness. It can be an emotional stressor, like a difficult relationship or work situation, the loss of a job or a loved one, or learned hyper-reactions to everyday stressors that can induce emotional stress.
Most of us make New Year's 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 resolutions....
As an Intuitive Integrative Nurse Practitioner, I do more than help my patients get their hormones in balance. I also do a lot of counseling.
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 that no...
I encourage 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. Therefore, 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 you’re in...
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 for healing. Healing is an innate power...
We all have a story, why we do what we do… “Daddy, please, don't.” My father is stroking my arm. In any other context it would be fine. We are a touchy-feely kind of family. Yet at this moment, I am in labor with my first child, my senses heightened and every little...
You may know what you need to do, but do you do it? Really? Let's talk about what may be getting in the way of taking care of you. When I first began my intuitive integrative family practice, I asked my mother to help me manage it. She was always surprised when my...
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 left...
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 precious. That...
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 neck. I...
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 spend quality time...
Nicholas was not progressing. Still using sign language to communicate at the age of three. So, his mother was concerned. I helped deliver Nicholas. His mother was one of my OB patients who followed me to my Intuitive Integrative Medical practice. She hoped I could...
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
Intuitive Integrative Medicine
