Eating Mindfully: How to Change your Relationship with Food
Published in the July 2020 Edition of Women’s Lifestyle Magazine. In my work as a holistic psychotherapist*, I am seeing an ever-growing number of people describing that they do not...
Mindfulness: The Essential Skill during a Quarantine
It has been both my professional and personal experience that mindfulness is the single most-powerful tool that helps support someone’s personal growth and resilience. As I describe in a blog...
The Case Against Making a New Year’s Resolution
As published in the January 2020 edition of The Women’s Lifestyle Magazine. It’s that time of year again: the time for New Year’s resolutions. But, before you go making goals...
How to Improve Mental Health – Stop Coping!
[Published in Natural Awakening’s magazine, September 2018 edition.] Yes, you read the title of this article correctly – a therapist just told you to stop coping in order to improve...
An Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness in Kalamazoo Posted July 16, 2018 – “Mindfulness” has become a buzzword over the past several years that makes it similar in popularity to things like “yoga” or “meditation.”...
How to Meditate
[Published in Natural Awakening’s magazine, April 2018 edition.] Last month I wrote “What is Meditation?” about a topic that has become increasingly popular. Hopefully, since the last article you have...
What is Meditation?
[As printed in Natural Awakening’s magazine, March 2018 edition.] What do you think of when you think of “meditation?” If you are anything like me, the image of Rafiki, the...
How to Handle Emotions
[Published in Natural Awakening’s magazine, September 2017 edition.] Emotions are challenges in themselves. When we feel happy, we bask in the glory of how good it feels. Yet, when we...