Reflections on Qigong and Breast Cancer Awareness
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is important as breast cancer is a concern of most every woman (and not a few men), along with her family and loved…
Psychotherapy, Life Force Tao of Medical Qigong, Qigong Wellness Classes
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is important as breast cancer is a concern of most every woman (and not a few men), along with her family and loved…
One of the core teachings of Chinese Medicine is that everything must flow. Blockages will lead to problems. If everything flows and the energy is strong, health follows. If there…
Ever since I began my career in health care, I’ve been pursuing therapies that offered the possibility of going beyond symptom reduction to address the deeper causes of the problem.…
I was recently at a gathering of people who don’t often get to see each other. If a woman walks in and she’s looking particularly good, one of the other…
To continue the theme of spiritual journeys, I had the good fortune to have an insider view of Stonehenge just after dawn recently. This hour-long visit had to be arranged…
I saw a great documentary, Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago, this past weekend (actually saw it for the second time) at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago.…
I’ve spent my career working with people who are dealing with stress. Job stress. Relationship stress. Financial Stress. Stress from trauma and illness. Stress, we now know, is the hidden…
Humpty Dumpty made an appearance in a recent therapy session. I was looking for an analogy that would speak to the dilemma a client was having. The client was caught…
If obesity is an epidemic, an illness, then there must be identifiable causes that we can point to. It’s simply part of our worldview that we live in a precarious…
My thoughts and response to Frank Bruni’s NYTimes Op-Ed piece, Diet Lures and Diet Lies. We are a nation obsessed with food, obsessed with weight loss. Has anyone considered that…