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Healthy Workplaces

The American Psychological Association has recently announced its 2010 Healthy Workplaces.  These are places that are committed to effective wellness initiatives for their employees.  Some of them are investing a great deal of money in these programs but it appears that it’s paying off.

APA’s five top award-winners reported an average turnover rate of just 9 [...]

Finding the Humanity in Psychiatry

Here’s a great article written by a psychiatrist who is taking a new look at his methods.  I am meeting and reading about more and more psychiatrists who are returning to the idea of longer sessions and getting people out of diagnostic boxes.  Great news for everyone!

Yoga Saves Lives!

A friend recently sent me the email below and I begged her to let me reprint it here.

I was happily decking my halls on Wednesday…  Lights on tree.  Check.  Garland on banister.  Check.  Ribbons on garland…better go get those.  And that’s when I go down…slithering down the stairs toward my foyer in full hurdle [...]

Hypnosis to Stop Smoking

This summer (July 2010), Milwaukee will be going smoke-free.  I am excited to hear it.  More people are trying to stop smoking and they are using this switch as a deadline for a change in their own life. 

A recent study showed that hypnosis is as effective as standard therapy for people who want to stop [...]

Count Your Blessings

When I was younger I spent a week every summer at church camp with a friend of mine.  We attended many church services and heard many sermons in those weeks but I remember one in particular.  The minister was discussing the habit most people have of using prayer strictly for asking for things.  He suggested that [...]

Family Dinner

As fall progresses, we continue to harvest wonderful autumn vegetables and my thoughts have turned to holiday meals and gathering with family.

Growing up my family always ate dinner together.  We even took turns cooking for each other so my mom wouldn’t have to cook every night.  By 11 I had my own night to plan [...]

The Power of Play

I heard a great interview on Speaking of Faith on NPR a few weeks ago.  Stuart Brown, MD is the founder and director of the National Institute for Play.  This organization is devoted to research and initiatives which promote play as a therapeutic and necessary part of life for both adults and children. 

Dr. Brown asserted [...]

Book Reports: Food Matters/Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

There is a series of commercials on TV these days where one person asks another person a question and they just keep spouting out random information that is loosely related to the words the other person just said.  It’s a nice demonstration of the information overload that we experience in our modern world. 

As Uncle Ben [...]

Yoga Breathing

One of the best things about being related to a bunch of news junkies is that my family is always sending me great articles related to my areas of interest. My sister-in-law just sent me a great article about the benefits of breathing in yoga.

Anyone who has attended my workshops has received training in breathing [...]

29 Healthiest Foods

I seem to have food on the brain these days.  Maybe nursing a small human being has encouraged me to think even more about what I put into my body. 

I found this website and wanted to share it.  I really like how it breaks down the health benefits of each food.  I was also glad [...]