Naturopathic Physician, Author, Educator and Researcher
Posted in Depression, General, Insights, Menopause, Mind and Emotional, Stress on Oct 30th, 2018
Sexual assault and harassment are not new to women, but the attention, insights, conversations and strategies to address this is much more on everyone’s minds these days. I’ve been wondering how I might be able to discuss this in my blog, and while I imagine I will look for ongoing ways to do this, this […]
Posted in Depression, General, Insights, Mind and Emotional, Prevention, Stress on May 31st, 2018
Here in the Pacific NW, Spring is a big deal…. It’s the revival of hope that the rainy/gray days will be less and less and eventually rare. Not everyone can tolerate these many months from roughly November through May/June… the gray, the wet and the dark can be stifling to the mood. I’m an Oregonian… […]
It’s the beginning of the new calendar year and I can’t help myself but think about the western cultural habit of making resolutions. I was reading a bit about the history of this tradition: ancient Babylonians made promises and restitutions to the gods; Romans offered sacrifices to their deity and made promises for the coming […]
I’m writing from my cozy home in the rural lands outside of Portland heading towards Christmas. It’s the first non-school day of vacation for my 9 y.o. great nephew who sits beside me exploring you tube and his new-found love of Michael Jackson music. With evening “dance offs”, and morning rides to school listening to […]
Posted in General, Insights, Prevention on Sep 2nd, 2017
We’re at the tail end of summer 2017, and a few things are on my mind. The total eclipse has passed, the number of and intensity of Western forest wild fires have been alarming, the number of hot days has been greater, and then there is the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. The eclipse path of […]
Posted in Insights on Apr 27th, 2016
I want to introduce you to a project that I was privileged to be a part of at our last national naturopathic convention. These are video interviews of practitioners who have insightful and potent messages to patients, medical students and practitioners. Friends and colleagues of mine embarked on a project they call “Integrative Wisdom“. If […]
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