Psychedelics and drugs like ketamine are all the buzz these days showing promising results for some with symptom reduction for all kinds of mental health disorders. However, is the hype grounded in reality? It begs the question of who is a good fit for these treatments and what makes a doctor qualified to administer such…
This blog post is in reference to my Instagram series, ‘Coping with Chronic Illness’. To see the list of coping skills referenced, please visit my Instagram page. In my recent Instagram post, I listed 4 suggestions on how to cope and manage with chronic illness. These suggestions included: 1) Listening to uplifting and supportive podcasts…
The Devastating Impact of Chronic Illness/Pain If you or someone you know has walked through the valleys of managing chronic illness or pain, you know how life-altering, shattering, and heart-breaking the journey can be. Chronic illness and chronic pain can come in many different forms but they share many similar crushing emotions and experiences. When…
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…
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…