Do you ever sit and daydream? Imagining living the Happy Life? Making pictures in your mind’s eye about… living with higher self-confidence and self-worth enjoying better health and great sleep having more energy achieving your goals becoming popular and having lots of friends achieving more of what you truly want balancing the different areas of […]
Continue ReadingMuscle cramps!
Recently I was asked about muscle cramps and what it means ~ that awful ‘charley horse’ feeling that occurs in a muscle.When a muscle engages or contracts, it shortens. A spasm is an involuntary contraction of a muscle and you just can’t simply will it to relax! Muscles spasm when the normal balance of potassium […]
Continue ReadingApril 2011 Hypnotherapy
Look into my eyes – You are feeling sleepy! De-bunking the myths and fears of hypnosis The days of misunderstanding hypnosis is over! Yippee! In this modern day and age when disciplines are merging and recognizing each other we are blessed that understanding has replaced the fear of this highly effective complementary therapy. Hypnosis is […]
Continue ReadingHave many ideas-do one!
Tips to begin making priorities I’m just back from a wonderful whirlwind tour of Ottawa, ON; Montreal, PQ, and Vancouver, BC and arrived back to my home office in Seattle, WA to find loads of paperwork to catch-up: emails, phone calls, filing, correspondence course evaluations, Team SCT minutes, RRCO minutes and committee work, etc. Phew! […]
Continue ReadingThis Time Next Year
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Does this sound familiar? We tend to start the New Year setting Resolutions for the year to come, i.e. I will lose 20 lbs, I will go to the gym, I will give up smoking, I will start a new […]
Continue ReadingThe Habit of Happiness
It is a few days into 2009, and already many of us have broken some of our New Year’s Resolutions. Each year, many of us see or feel January as a “new beginning”, a time to make a clean start. So, we decide to go on a diet, go on a cleanse, begin an exercise […]
Continue ReadingA Rose by Any Other Name
Well, I certainly received a lot of feedback from last month’s newsletter, Me First Darling. It seems I’m not alone in feeling this Spring has been a high stress time and some of us needed a reminder to slow down, and even permission to put our own needs first! Along those lines, I have some […]
Continue ReadingAre You Ready to Live the Life You Have Always Wanted?
Happy New Year! It’s that time of year when many of us begin to think about making changes to our diet as we head into the New Year. New Year often begins for many of us by taking a look at our lives and making self-contracts to improve our lifestyles. This can be particularly true […]
Continue ReadingMoving Into Change This Fall
I’m often asked by clients and students alike “how do I make changes happen in my life?” They watch the movies and read the right books. They decide they’d like to lose weight, lead a happier life, find the right relationship, get a new job; and the list goes on and on! They have decided […]
Continue ReadingIntroduction to Using Complementary Therapy as Part of Personalized Health Care
Note: I have used information from an article on Palliative Care, however the information is general for all health issues – so read on. Palliative Care and Complementary Therapy – What? How? Why? Where? (from the Palliative Care Services Resource Guide Eastern Ontario 2000 section on Complementary Therapy written by J. Fairbrass) Along with traditional […]
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