8 Articles

Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Right to Expect?
It is, or so we believed, our natural birthright. Birds did it. Bees did it. We did it. Just like that. In fact, most of the women visiting fertility specialists right now were afraid of getting pregnant and, for years, juggled IUD's, diaphragms, condoms, and pills to protect themselves from what they felt would be inevitable if they didn't cover themselves with creams and impermeable membranes.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Leaving the Wilderness Alive: How to Survive The Worst When All You've Got is You.
Mental survival-regardless of where a person is, whether that's in the extremes of battle or a backpacking expedition-is often a matter of recalling or being made aware of the resources one already has--particularly words. What we think, we become. Literally.

Thursday, November 26, 2009
The Gift of Receiving--A Pre-Season Guide To Staying Stress Free
Every year at around this time, the advertising starts to remind us that the holidays are closing in. For some, that is a delight. To others, it is a cause for panic.

Friday, November 13, 2009

PRIMUN NON NOCERE: First Do No Harm
Primun non nocere. This is still the sacred promise of every medical school graduate across the country as he or she accepts the diploma, the title and the rank of healer in our culture. It is the core of the Hippocratic Oath. However, in a world of unreasonable speed, in which new discoveries and new pharmaceuticals are being produced in measures of seconds, not years, it may be more than doctors can promise us anymore.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Holistic Psychotherapy and Hypnosis: The Myth and The Magic
Hypnosis and holistic psychotherapy is a far more natural and almost "ordinary" process than we think. In fact, there isn't a day that most of us are not in some kind of trance.

Monday, October 19, 2009
Words Are Medicine: Raising a Self-Healing Child
When you use Verbal First Aid with your children, they are learning by your example to use it for themselves. The healing you facilitate in them by the words you use when they are hurt becomes a self-replenishing well of mental, emotional and physical resources they can draw upon for a lifetime.

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Verbal First Aid(tm) for Survival.
What Verbal First Aid(tm) proposes is that words can mean the difference between life and death. Based on the simple notion that the words we say (to ourselves and to one another) do matter, that they affect us both physically and mentally, there are ways to speak that make those words healing, no matter what the situation.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Holistic Psychotherapy and Trauma Treatment
What happens in trauma? Why do memories persist the way they do? What options do people have for successful recovery? This article offers a brief overview.