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...
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 to...
“Oh, my God, Deb!” On the verge of tears, my young husband is beside himself, “I don’t know how we’re going to afford all the care, the special schools!” Special schools? Our baby is just hours old! I’m back in intensive care, hooked up to a myriad of IVs, being...
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...
A long time ago but not so far away, lived a girl and a boy very much in love. Gino was tall and handsome with rich brown hair and eyes, good strong Italian looks. Elana was elegant with long sable hair, a classic Greek beauty, her once slender figure swollen with...
For my father's 75th birthday, I accompanied him to Vallejo to my three sisters in a weekend of celebration. On Saturday night we played poker. Playing cards with our Nana and Poppop (my mother’s parents) is one of our best memories. My husband and I still play their...
Driving back home on Southern California freeways crowded with tourists taking advantage of the last glorious summer weekend... an ache in my breast, a dark shadow where the sun once shone, an eclipse in my existence... I left my daughter, my sunshine, at the...
Writing my novel helped me heal the Mother Wound... the original separation from the Divine Mother... as my heroine Mary Magdalen awakened to her truth as the Divine Daughter... so did I... and in doing so received the fullness of the Divine Mother. I reconnected to...
My dreams provide clues to my soul growth. How far I’ve come and what needs to be worked on. I interpret my dreams soulfully — what is my first impression, what feeling do I have about the dream, who were the players in my dream and how do they mirror me? Sometimes I...
You are what you eat... literally. You know that protein builds muscle and that carbohydrates are energy foods, but did you know that every chemical you make, every hormone, every neurotransmitter, every cytokine, all come from nutrients derived from the food you eat?...
Everything that lasts takes its own sweet time to ripen and mature. Your current state of health did not happen overnight. Who you are now is a result of years of choices. Lifestyle choices including what you eat, when you sleep, how much activity you get, what toxins...
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
Intuitive Integrative Medicine
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