Monthly Archive
Luck Won't Make Your Marriage a Success: Four Benefits of Pre-Marital Counseling
We seem to prepare for everything in our life - jobs, exams, etc. Why then don't we prepare for a successful marriage? Maybe it's because of the fairy tales that have brainwashed us into thinking that we'll all live happily ever after? In reality, it doesn't work that...
A Gift of Peace for Children with Two Homes
As a parent, your job is to love, nurture, protect and prepare your children to live a happy, healthy and successful life. Unfortunately, when divorce occurs, children often feel trapped in the middle and can get hurt. The good news is there are many things you can do...
Menopause: Problem or Challenge?
Ever notice that the way we frame an issue in our mind has a huge impact on how we feel about it? For most women, menopause brings about a series of changes in our health and our emotional state, and not all those changes are welcome. For instance, who among us enjoys...
Mothers Shouldn't Try For Perfection – Perfection creates an impossible ideal
"I grew up hearing the story of my mother riding on the train from Brooklyn to Long Island. She was pregnant with me while holding my sister on her lap, who, for the entire train ride wouldn't stop screeching. When we were teenagers, my mother told my sister and me...
Are You Possessed?
I was talking with a loved one who rode out Hurricane Ike on Galveston Island on the gulf coast of Texas. The Island took a big hit with a 14-foot storm surge, 120mph winds and torrential rain. As will happen in the aftermath of a storm of this magnitude, a...
Sunshine Wraps
It is estimated that as many as one child in 80 is allergic to peanuts. For kids with a peanut allergy, sunflower butter is an excellent substitute for peanut butter. You can find sunflower butter at many natural foods stores. When selecting a brand, make sure to read...
Super Foods for Super Health
If you are looking for that "magic bullet" to make you healthier, I would strongly recommend adding at least one of the following 4 Super Foods to your diet on a consistent basis. These foods are loaded with vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, antioxidants, fiber and...
Moving Free® with Mirabai – Can You Be Fit and Fat?
You don't have to be thin to be fit. A number of the people I work with in my practice are both fat and fit. They work out and don't always lose weight but they are reaping the health benefits that regular moderate exercise can bring to everyone. According to Dr....
Mothers Shouldn't Try For Perfection – Perfection creates an impossible ideal
"I grew up hearing the story of my mother riding on the train from Brooklyn to Long Island. She was pregnant with me while holding my sister on her lap, who, for the entire train ride wouldn't stop screeching. When we were teenagers, my mother told my sister and me...
Mothers Shouldn't Try For Perfection – Perfection creates an impossible ideal
"I grew up hearing the story of my mother riding on the train from Brooklyn to Long Island. She was pregnant with me while holding my sister on her lap, who, for the entire train ride wouldn't stop screeching. When we were teenagers, my mother told my sister and me...
Are You Possessed?
I was talking with a loved one who rode out Hurricane Ike on Galveston Island on the gulf coast of Texas. The Island took a big hit with a 14-foot storm surge, 120mph winds and torrential rain. As will happen in the aftermath of a storm of this magnitude, a...
Sunshine Wraps
It is estimated that as many as one child in 80 is allergic to peanuts. For kids with a peanut allergy, sunflower butter is an excellent substitute for peanut butter. You can find sunflower butter at many natural foods stores. When selecting a brand, make sure to read...
Super Foods for Super Health
If you are looking for that "magic bullet" to make you healthier, I would strongly recommend adding at least one of the following 4 Super Foods to your diet on a consistent basis. These foods are loaded with vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, antioxidants, fiber and...
Moving Free® with Mirabai – Can You Be Fit and Fat?
You don't have to be thin to be fit. A number of the people I work with in my practice are both fat and fit. They work out and don't always lose weight but they are reaping the health benefits that regular moderate exercise can bring to everyone. According to Dr....
Don’t Eat the Marshmallow
In the late 1960s, Stanford University conducted the renowned "marshmallow test" that tested delayed gratification in children (watch this video with Joachim de Posada on the study at http://www.ted.com/talks/joachim de posada says don't eat the marshmallow yet.html)....
