Natural Sleep Aids to Support your Sleep and Mental Health
We have already covered in my previous blog “5 Habits that are Destroying your Sleep”, that there are some things you may be doing that are contributing to your sleep...
Why “Intuitive Eating” Is Not Enough
Published in the June 2021 Edition of Moxie Magazine (formerly Women’s Lifestyle Magazine.) Beginning with Mindfulness The research about the impact of mindfulness on healing a variety of different kinds...
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...
Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should
Published in the March 2020 Edition of the Women’s Lifestyle Magazine. If you are going out of your way to read these words, it is likely that you care not...
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...
The Dangers of Being Small
As published in in The Women’s Lifestyle Magazine of Greater Kalamazoo, September 2019 Edition. I don’t have to tell you that we live in a society where “diet culture” is...
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,...
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...