My Heart is Weeping for Mental Health Sufferers
I have had some recent experiences that lead me to this post today. I feel like crying because I know there are so many of you out there who are suffering with depression and/or anxiety. I feel like crying because I know how hopeless and helpless the feeling is. I know how exhausting it is […]
Acute Stress and Constant Stress
I think one of the most widely-used words today is “STRESS.” I have learned a lot about it in recent years. And I have noticed a tremendous difference in me and how I am able to handle challenges. I have come to recognize that I can do something to help my body deal better with […]
Anxiety and Relationship Betrayal
The human body does an amazing job of recording experiences and attaching emotions to them. Some seemingly innocent and “not a big deal” experiences can actually log tremendously debilitating emotions in the body that show up at the most inconvenient times!. So it’s no wonder that an experience like relationship betrayal can trigger anxiety or […]
What is Your Gut Type and Why Does it Matter?
Find out what gut type you have by clicking here and begin the journey to healing from what is causing leaky gut… Why does this really matter for those struggling with depression? Because depression is a symptom, “…a vague surface sign at best that doesn’t tell you anything about its root cause…depression is […]
What is Leaky Gut and Is There a Connection for Me?
I have been learning more and more about the connection between what goes on in the gut and what it happening in the mind. I am currently going through Dr. Axe’s program to continue to support the work I have already done to be healthy in my gut and in my mind. When the systems […]
What Do YOU Believe About Mental Health?
Here is some food for thought from Dr. Kelly Brogan that validates countless personal experiences and those of my clients: “Mental health will always be grounded in whole body health. When you discover the real imbalances underlying all your symptoms–physical and mental–and take steps to address them, you can restore your health without resorting […]
Depression Isn’t Genetic–It’s Epigenetic
Most of us have heard that depression is genetic…and therefore there isn’t much, if anything, that can be done about it. For awhile now, scientists have been discovering epigenetics–which is the study of sections of DNA that tell a person’s genes “when and how strongly to express themselves.” (Kelly Brogan, A Mind of Your […]
Is It A Chemical Imbalance?
You’ve heard it. I’ve heard it. “Depression is a chemical imbalance.” Over the past several years, I’ve read studies and articles that have questioned this. Kelly Brogan, MD, wrote “A Mind of Your Own” (2016) She says: “…not a single study has proven that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in […]
Fight Or Flight With Stress
Stress. It is something that we deal with every single day. In copious amounts. Our bodies are meant to know how to react to stress. We were created that way. The problem is that our world has shifted from “occasional” high-intensity stress–where the body reacted and then calmed down–to bodies that believe they are under […]
Trauma-Induced Depression
I recently found an article that is extremely insightful. Sometimes we believe that trauma is comes from events such as the death of a loved one, a car accident, getting seriously hurt, etc… In fact, trauma can be anything that sends our nervous system into survival mode. During a traumatic event, the nervous system […]
