Dr. Moshe Daniel Block, HMC, ND The Ladder of Healing Hierarchy There is a kind of a Maslow’s hierarchy in medicine and healing, only it works in an opposite sense. The principle in Maslow’s hierarchy is simple. It states that, if a person is hungry, they will seek food before shelter. If a person has […]
Dr. Katy Nelson, ND Most of us want comfort. No matter one’s situation, from bored silly to fighting for one’s life, the human organism is designed around a core of seeking comfort, happiness, a sense of wellness, like warm sunshine after a night of dark clouds and gloom or surging, uncontrollable surprises. Comfort seeking is
Dr. Steve Rissman, ND @StevenMRissman I’m amazed at what I learn from my second-grade son, who is lurrently studying landforms– plateaus, glaciers, volcanoes, oceans, etc. Specifically I was thinking about mountains. During my cycling class this morning, I had a vision of myself at the tip of the mountain. It’s quiet up there, still, and
Dr. Charley Cropley, N.D. This Thanksgiving, enjoy your freedom and power to be thankful. At 69, I am not one inch closer to satisfying desire or avoiding fear than at age 6. These have only changed form. It’s a loser’s game. Although I appear to be a stable man, fear of pain and poverty and insatiable
Elena Jutai, ND Pesky low back pain is one of the most common reasons to visit a primary care doctor. All too often we reach into the cabinet for our quick fix pain killers. While these may help with pain in the short term, it is important to consider that the root cause of low
Dr. Charley Cropley, N.D. The causes of the violent destruction in Benghazi cannot be found if the investigation is limited to the time and locale of the bombing. Similarly, the Benghazis in your body—flu, IBS, MS, cancer, etc.—are not to be found with shortsighted diagnostics that assume the causes to be recent and local. Naturopathic diagnosis
Dr. Jill Hoffman, ND We as a culture are in full swing of an epidemic of sleeplessness. We don’t sleep enough and we certainly don’t sleep well. A 2013 count shows almost 9 million Americans use prescription sleep aids and the number of prescriptions written continues to be on a steady rise. Add to that
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley As we more thoroughly understand the inseparability of mind-body we will cease to question “if” our thoughts and feelings affect our physical health. We will come to recognize our thoughts and feelings and physical sensations, movements and functions as different expressions of our whole self. Never is any action performed
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley Congratulations on your desire to learn even more about your relationship with food by keeping an advanced eating journal. As you progress with this study your journaling will focus more on you than on food; e.g. your energy level, internal dialogue, moods, friends, and hunger. All of these powerfully effect
Dr. Charley Cropley, ND @CharleyCropley Congratulations on your desire to heal yourself. Keep in mind that you are learning to heal your illness by healing yourself. And to heal yourself requires that you understand yourself. Keeping an eating journal is one way to gain understanding about yourself. We will begin by observing primarily the quality
