How to Make a Decision
As published in in The Women’s Lifestyle Magazine of Greater Kalamazoo, July 2019 Edition. Life can be hard and hindsight always seems 20/20. So, how should one make a decision,...
Nutrition and Mental Health: The Essential Missing Link
As published in in The Women’s Lifestyle Magazine of Greater Kalamazoo, March 2019 Edition. Did you know?: The “Minnesota Starvation Experiment” in the 1950s found that mental health symptoms (e.g....
Understanding Grief: The Five Stages
[As printed in The Women’s Lifestyle Magazine of Greater Kalamazoo, July 2018 Edition] It would be nice if life was made only of blissful moments. However, we all know that...
How to Quiet the Bully in your Head
[Published in Natural Awakening’s magazine, November 2017 edition.] How often do you find yourself getting caught up in a spiral of negative thinking? “Shame on me!”, “I cannot believe I...
Beating the ‘Winter Blues”
[As printed in The Women’s LifeStyle Magazine of Greater Kalamazoo, August 2017 Edition] An Introduction to the “Winter Blues” I hate to break it to you, but winter is coming....
Should I Take Medication?: The Mental Health Dilemma
[Published in Natural Awakening’s magazine, May 2017 edition.] As a holistic therapist, this is the question I get most often. To me, being holistic means looking at the whole picture...
What is Anxiety?: Making Friends with the “Fear Spiral”
The Wisdom of President Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt famously stated about the political climate in the 1930s that “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”. At the time, he...
Why Won’t My Husband Stop Drinking?!: Explaining Addiction
I recently wrote a blog titled “Addiction Treatment: Why It’s More than Just ‘Will Power’”. The fact that hundreds of people interacted with the material tells me that people are...