Holistic Healing Articles

Fear Gets in Our Way In our culture we may be told our mothers say this to us to soothe us and take away our fear.  Sometimes we’re lucky enough to have mothers tell us this – mine did, and it helped – but really didn’t work. Fear does get in the way of being …

Know Your Real Source of Abundance and Security The magical word to achieve this switch is very old – its called alchemy.  When we come to understand what is really holding us down and back we are fundamentally challenged to transform it into its opposite – that which lifts us up and thrust us greatly …

We Can Only Solve Problems Through Finding the Real Resources for Resolution As we get older, it seems we become more and more challenged by life’ problems.  The challenges of making it in an unsteady world with longstanding and newly-developing relationship  dysfunction, compounded work requirements, and a sense of not being able to “keep one’s …

Stress Can Be A Killer According to Hans Selye in his ground-breaking book, Stress and Distress, first published in the fifties, when we experience stress, we immediately go into “flight or fight”.  In other words, when we experience stress, we label that as a threat, and our “knee jerk” response is to jump to either …

Can We Simply and Profoundly Offset the Killing Effects of Stress in Our Lives? Many times when I talk with clients who are very stressed and compromised in centering themselves (and for many compelling reasons!) about practicing relaxation and deep breathing exercises, they tell me they have tried it and it is too hard, they …

Making Bad Choices Can Promote Greater Healing and Development – At What Cost? We all make bad choices.  It is true – we can learn from our mistakes – but what do our mistakes cost us? It is also true, spiritually speaking, that we are here to heal and develop.  There is always tremendous opportunity …

Will the Information Age Be the Death of Us? Again and again I hear from clients their number one struggle is to find and keep balance in their lives.  The world, it seems, well conspires against this.  How did we come to feel everything is a matter of life and death? Will the “Information Age” …

Make Yourself a Priority to Stay Centered This Holiday Season Compassionate Tough Therapy is the generic name that came to me as I focused on what to title, nearly three years ago, the technique I created as a unique synthesis of hands-on energy healing to offer clients and health care providers during holistic staff development …

When we are under a lot of stress, we can understandably feel deathly afraid to admit feeling a sense of despair.  It is significant that despair is part of the next-to-the-last stage of grief, right before the final stage of acceptance, which is where complete resolution and healing occur.  When we are in the throes …