With imbalanced brain chemistry, you may deal with learning disabilities, memory issues, mood disorders, or even psychosis. Fortunately, there are ways to deal with brain chemistry imbalance. 1. Provide your brain with the amino acids and micronutrients necessary to...
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What Causes Chemical Imbalance in the Brain?
If you have a chemical imbalance in the brain, that means that you're not producing adequate amounts of neurotransmitters. You have imbalances between your serotonin and dopamine levels, you're not producing enough GABA, or you're producing too much or too little...
Is the Hypothalamus Affected by Head Injuries?
Head injuries, also known as traumatic brain injuries, have to be severe to affect your hypothalamus. Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) resulting in a bleed in the brain, known as subarachnoid hemorrhage, is particularly dangerous to hypothalamus function. However,...
Is Anxiety a Chemical Imbalance in the Brain?
To answer this question right upfront, yes, anxiety is a chemical imbalance in the brain. There are multiple neurotransmitters that are responsible for creating anxiety. Firstly, Serotonin helps regulate anxiety, happiness, and moods. High levels of serotonin are...
The Physical Effects of Emotional Stress
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.
What’s Your New Year’s Mantra?
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....
How to thrive in 2020
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.
How to Release Your Old Story
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...
Loving Yourself Enough To Let Go
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...
Creating Our Reality is just like making Bread
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...
Do you know the Formula for Healing?
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...
Educate not Medicate | Beginnings
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...
How To Love Yourself More So You Can Take Care Of You
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...
Remembrance through our Sacred Senses
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...
When the healer needs healing…What my sciatica is teaching me
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...
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