Category: Depression
Foundations of Joy: A 5-Pillar Approach to Depression
Depression is a growing health concern, and chances are that you or someone you know has experienced it. In fact, according to the National Institue o [...]
Getting Ahead of Seasonal Depression: A Holistic Survival Kit for Finding Light in the Dark
Do you get the winter blues that sometimes make you think you’re going crazy? The development of seasonal depression and its accompanying symptoms mak [...]
Just for Today, I Will: The Tradition and Practice of Reiki
Reiki is an energy healing technique conceptualized as a biofield therapy. The name Reiki originates from the Japanese word Rei, or “Universal Life,” [...]
10 Tips for Mental Well-being
While there are many factors that contribute to mental health, the choices we make every day can have the most significant impact. From embracing the [...]
Bad Hair Day on Planet Earth
Barbara Ruzansky is the owner of West Hartford Yoga, a yoga and healing center in Central Connecticut. Although many in the community see her as a suc [...]
Grief and Gratitude – Managing the Stress from Loss
Grief doesn’t come only from death or the dying process. If you’ve ever experienced any profound loss - of a job, home, business or business partner, [...]
Natural Ways to Address the Complexities of Fibromyalgia
Do you suffer from chronic or severe pain throughout your body? Have your traditional physicians concluded that your symptoms are psychosomatic after [...]
The Ups and Downs of Perimenopause: Tips for a Healthier Transition
Anxious, depressed, angry. Bloated, can’t sleep, can’t remember, no period, then full-blown red storm. Anxious, depressed, angry…again! Why don’t more [...]
Massage Therapy: Self-Care or a Luxury?
How do you view massage therapy? Should it be treated as a rare indulgence or luxury or does it offer valuable health benefits? It seems there is a wi [...]
The Benefits of Himalayan Salt Stone Massage
You may have heard of Hot Stone Massage but a novel treatment called Himalayan Salt Stone Massage has become popular in recent years primarily due to [...]
Anxiety and Depression: From Hopeless to Hopeful
There continues to be an ever-growing incidence of anxiety and depression in the United States. One in ten individuals suffer from depression and 2-4% [...]
The Emerging Field of Nutrition and Mental Health
From the time of the ancients until the 17th century everyone recognized the interconnectedness of the mind and body. The idea of viewing the mind an [...]
Natural Ways to Manage Mild-to-Moderate Depression
[M]ore than 30 million Americans take antidepressant drugs...The effectiveness of ... [these] drugs has been the subject
of several reviews. The resu [...]
Got Winter Depression? How Moms Can Find ‘Better’ Feelings this Season
Toward the end of last winter, I found myself crying one day- for what seemed like no apparent reason at all. I felt horrible. Horrible about myself [...]
The Common Cold of Mental Illness
Because of its prevalence in our society, depression is often referred to as the “common cold” of mental illness. It may be common, but depression is [...]
Can Our Lifestyle Affect Our Risk of Depression?
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), 7.6% of Americans aged 12 and up are depressed. This number was much higher for females and those b [...]
Depression is Not a Chemical Imbalance
Depression has become an epidemic in the United States. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), in 2013, 9.2 percent of adults i [...]
Depression is a Wake-Up Call from your Soul
Depression is one of the most common psychopathological disorders of our time. Like many other mental disorders, the most widely used form of therapy [...]
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
It’s that time of year when many of us start making our list of who’s been naughty and nice. Then we wrack our brains as to what to get them for the h [...]
Is It Possible to Find the Joy Again?
Reading or hearing about the side effects of prescription medication for depression is enough to make anyone depressed and anxious! And then [...]
Divorce as a Death and Initiation: A Guide to the Five Stages of Divorce
In 1969, Swiss Psychiatrist, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross created the five stages of grief from her work dealing with terminally ill patients. Her groundbrea [...]
Why You Should Watch Out For Genetic Mutations
Have you ever felt something was off in your body but were told over and over everything is "normal?" This is the case for so many people, who then ca [...]
SOUL RETREIVAL AT WORK – Finding Meaning and Purpose at Work: Part 2
Something is missing at our place of work, something is very wrong….and we know it. Last month we discussed the cost of sleepwalking to work each day [...]
The Genetics and Biochemistry of Depression: A Nutrigenomics Approach Part One
For some, everything about the day is difficult. From getting up in the morning to interacting with friends, family, and colleagues to doing everyday [...]