A sign of intelligence may reveal itself as something much different from mental ability. At times, it is masked behind disorganization, impulsivity, or emotionality. We have measures to evaluate various types of intellect and attribute academic success as a sign of intelligence. While these indicators lend some credence, a deeper look suggests one’s observation provides only a narrow scope of a person’s ability to gain and apply knowledge. A more significant sign of intelligence is our ability to look beyond this, and instead of reducing a person to a perception, point of view, or belief, honor the complexity of each …
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My Secret Sugar Addiction
Sugar addiction, much like other addictions, involves a complex interplay between pleasure-seeking and a desire to be free of inner angst. Sugar often serves as a distraction, a means to self-soothe, and can be unconsciously and compulsively consumed. Eating sugar releases dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for pleasurable reward, and thus reinforces the desire to consume more of it! Frequently eating high-sugar foods amplifies cravings. A secret ‘drug’ of choice for many, its insidiously addictive nature may be disguised, within packaging that has an alluring innocence. Heed caution when entertaining the lollipops of the world, for they are truly sheep in wolf’s …
Practice Gratitude For Wellness: 7 Solid Tips
When you practice gratitude, your life’s energy begins to shift. It will improve your health, enhance your relationships, and increase your abundance. Most people are grateful for what they have and appreciative of the people in their lives. While this is true, the benefits that come from practicing gratitude may become overshadowed by thoughts of lack and a desire to have more. When you begin to intentionally practice gratitude in all ways of being, the transformation set into motion is nothing less than miraculous. So, Let’s Begin! 1. Reframe Annoyances and Practice Gratitude With Intentional Refocusing Check your attitude and …
How to Stay Healthy ~ (18) Simple Habits
Adopting simple daily habits is how to stay healthy! Make your well-being a priority by committing to a few manageable practices. When you listen to what your body has to say and love yourself enough to set boundaries that respect your need to rest and care for your mind, body, and spirit, your life will transform! Recently, I wrote about ancestral healing and how the energy of the past may affect your life. The habits we adopt, usually stem from our upbringing. For me, this means that any recipe that calls for two cloves of garlic gets a minimum of …
When Drugs Don’t Work, Why More Prescriptions?
When drugs don’t work and fail to alleviate symptoms, it makes sense to look deeper at the root cause, and alternative treatments. Why are so many who seek medical guidance instead given more medication? Let me ask you, do you so wholeheartedly trust in prescribers and the science of big pharma that you are agreeable to taking recommended prescriptions despite not having clear evidence of their efficacy? Are you following outdated beliefs and expectations about a medical system that no longer sees you as anything more than a commodity? Package it however they will, the medical establishment is no longer …
Guided Boxing For Therapeutic Cathartic Movement
For hundreds of clients who’ve experienced the therapeutic benefit of cathartic movement through boxing with me, there is no doubt about its transformative effects. Still, I’ve grappled with how to define what it is that I actually do for work. How can I explain that boxing is a healing modality? Over the last several years, Somatic therapy or Somatic release has become the new therapy of choice for those seeking relief from PTSD and stress-related “disorders”. Finally, a shift from outdated ineffectual talk therapies and drug pushing to recognizing the importance of the mind-body connection. Sharing personal experiences, especially those …
Live Authentically and Develop Inner Wealth
To live authentically, recognize the external and internal pressures that beckon you to participate in life artificially. When you reflect on early influences, make the unconscious conscious, and practice pausing before engaging you come more fully into your authentic self. Many influences diminish your ability to participate in life honestly. These micro self-betrayals, detected within the truest part of your being, tell you when you are deviating from your authentic expressions and paths. Making choices that reduce these compromises, helps you to develop inner wealth and live a more authentic life. Challenges Presented by Outside Expectations and Measures By the …
Not So Rare Side Effects of Medication
If experiencing rare side effects of medication could negate any potential benefit, how “rare” would that side effect need to be for you to take it? What if your decisions to take medications are not as informed as you’d like to believe? I’ve spent many years working with people who’ve entrusted medical professionals to steer them in a direction that they’d hoped would help or heal their suffering. Too many of these people are left feeling betrayed by a medical establishment that easily passes off faulty expectations about drug efficacy without giving informed warnings about the potential risks and side …
The Power of Belief – How Healthcare Harms 101
Your mind and body are intricately linked. The power of belief is so strikingly significant to your wellness that it will be the catalyst for healing or the force that feeds cellular discord. Modern healthcare harms by focusing on diagnostic labeling, pathologizing, pill pushing, and fear-driven approaches to prevention and wellness. There are many empowered ways to care for oneself that honor your energetic contribution to your good health. Sadly, greedy industries have steered the vast majority astray. People’s identities have become attached to specific diagnoses, and much of their energy is given away to conversations and attention to topics …
Wonder How to Manifest Something New?
If you’ve been struggling with how to manifest something new and found your attempts to envision a ‘new story’ challenging, try focusing on the feelings you wish to experience. Old storylines connected to your inner wiring block entertaining new feeling states. Here I’ll offer tips for reframing the information you’re getting from your inner world to pinpoint better the feeling states you’d like to experience. New thoughts and ideas are more easily generated after those feelings have been identified. New stories of your desires fulfilled and the feeling states they’ll conjure attract the new realities of your focus. (Where Focus …