I’ve been writing about surviving this pandemic from as soon as we locked down in mid March. I’ve been following the medical research, watching stats, trying to determine the best way to protect ourselves. But this virus has gotten in the back door.As I write this,...
As an Intuitive Integrative Nurse Practitioner, I do more than help my patients get their hormones in balance. When you’re hormones are out of whack, your whole life is out of whack. You can’t think straight. You’re moody. Your body aches. You can’t sleep. You’re...
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 resolutions....
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 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 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...
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...
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
Intuitive Integrative Medicine
