Ways To Manage Stress And Anxiety Yesterday, I found myself experiencing stress. It wasn’t the type of stress that stuck out to me in a manner that was loud and visible. I noticed the stress around my shoulders and upper back. It ached and bothered me throughout the day. At first, I thought it was…
Ways Caregivers Can Manage Stress The role of a caregiver is one that comes with a mixture of beautiful and challenging experiences. There are days that you feel everything is in order and connected to the role. There are other days that you feel stressed and ready to put the towel down. Signs of…
Our body speaks to us through pain, such as when we put our hands on a hot stove the pain tells us to remove them very quickly to avoid getting burned. Or maybe we push ourselves physically way too much on a hike or a workout and the next day are limping with knee pain…
More and more people seem to be burdened with some sort of mental illness or condition. The medical industry, where much of the psychotherapy is conducted, seems hooked on palliative ‘solutions’ such as medication and curtailed programs of manualized ‘sausage-machine’-style psychotherapy which assume that every patient is the average patient. There’s no time to actually…
A description of my interest and experience with pain and related stigma I think what catalyzed my interest in pain was, of course, my own experience. I was hospitalized for severe abdominal pain, and at the time, I remember the pain was so severe that literally nothing else mattered to me. The problem was, nobody…
Life can be stressful, and we all want to suffer less. There is so much information out there, so where do we start? When I was in the Navy, it was 2002 to 2007, I was a Navy Corpsman, aka “Doc” and worked with the Marines. Basically, that is a Medic/EMT ( we did…
Hey! Are you sitting in a safe and comfortable place? Ready to meditate and give your immune system a BOOST? This guided meditation is about 13 minutes long and I’d encourage you to listen to it daily for a reinforced sense of health and vitality, a clam mind, an a compassionate heart. Take care of…
Overview Pain is an essential stimulus to signal the brain when something is not right. Sensing pain is a universal experience that all of us go through, except for a small subset of patients who suffer from an extremely rare condition known as congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP). Unfortunately, pain can become a chronic condition,…
An extremely common issue I’m faced with in the treatment setting is depression, coupled with chronic pain. In my field, we reference these individuals as the co-morbid, meaning there are two or more illnesses occurring within an individual at the same time. This is important to note because often times, treating the issues simultaneously yields…