Category: Women's Health
10 Tools for Improving Your Mental Health
In a world that often prioritizes productivity and achievement, we tend to overlook a fundamental aspect of our well-being: mental health.
It’s easy [...]
CT’s Top Energy Healers
Energy healers believe your body is instilled with a subtle energy or life force, the flow of which must be balanced for good health. Energy healing a [...]
Natural Remedies for a Great Night’s Sleep
Getting a good night’s sleep has become increasingly elusive for many individuals. With mounting stress, technological distractions, and a sedentary l [...]
Healthcare Should Be a Partnership – Not a Dictatorship
Women’s healthcare can be complex. We have symptoms that feel hormonal or cyclical in nature, but many traditional providers don’t want to test hormon [...]
Free Yourself from “Supermom Syndrome”
I want to personally thank you for being a mom. You’re doing the hardest job in the world, and you are excelling at it - even on days when it feels li [...]
The Real Impact of Menopause on Women’s Brains
Menopause makes women’s brains different from men’s brains. Notice that I did not say that a female brain is different from a male brain—there is no g [...]
CT’s Top Holistic Spa and Massage
Holistic estheticians are guided by a therapeutic model of prevention. They maintain a practice and philosophy to provide services that never alter th [...]
5 Tips for Hormone Balance
Cyclical fluctuations in the levels of the ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone are necessary for producing a regular menstrual cycle. Mild symp [...]
Happy, Healthy, Hormones – And Women!
Have you heard the phrase, “Happy wife, happy life”? This often refers to those who walk on eggshells to appease the woman in their lives. There is no [...]
Why You Should Try Bioidentical Hormones
For decades, synthetic pharmaceuticals prescribed as “hormone replacement” have been among the most widely recommended medications in the United State [...]
Channeling Your Wisdom with IFS
Internal Family Systems (IFS), an evidence-based healing model that serves as a powerful tool for wellness and growth, starts with the view of every h [...]
It’s Time to Reclaim Your Health
I hope the most important lesson we’ve learned from the past few years of uncertainty is the age-old saying, “health is wealth” - a lesson I’ve been h [...]
CT’s Top Nutrition/Functional Medicine Practitioners
Functional medicine is an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach that empowers patients and practitioners to work together to addres [...]
The Real – but Hidden – Dangers of Postpartum Depression
The recent events with the Clancy Family in Duxbury, MA, have deeply impacted me. It has driven me to provide some education on postpartum depression [...]
Improve Your Fertility by Detoxing Your Home
Yes! Removing excess environmental toxic burden to the body that we surround ourselves with day in and day out can improve the natural function of the [...]
Detox Your Skin for Optimal Breast Health
Toxins aren’t easy to see, smell, or feel – but we’re surrounded by them daily. They can be found in our air, foods, cleaning products, and personal-c [...]
How Food Can Help Heal Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Irregular menstrual cycles of longer than 35 days, acne, abnormal body hair growth, hair loss, and weight challenges are just a few of the symptoms th [...]
Momming Is HARD! The 5 “Happy” Hormones to Help Your Mood
As moms, the momming never seems to end. The hours spent doing both visible and invisible tasks throughout our day that often go unrecognized. The tim [...]
What’s the Best Diet for Chronic Illness?
The healthiest diet for those who have chronic illness should be able to pass muster if analyzed for these four factors:
Nutrient density
Alkalin [...]
Unexplained, Unexplored? Or Flat-Out Ignored?
The diagnosis of “unexplained infertility” has never felt right to me, especially when up to 30% of fertility struggles have this diagnosis. There’s a [...]
Combat Menopause Belly the Healthy Way
Are you in midlife and think you may be menopausal? Do you struggle daily with extra belly fat and have no clue where it came from? Do you feel like y [...]
CT’s Top Naturopathic Physicians
Naturopathic medicine is a distinct system of primary health care that emphasizes prevention and the self-healing process through the use of natural t [...]
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 [...]
5 Basic Health Requirements We Don’t Talk About
Healing starts with how you approach health. An obvious statement, right?
Looking at mainstream medicine, however, we can see that healing often gets [...]