This week I've stumbled across a number of new studies on the benefits of #meditation and I am even more excited about where we are going...

Did you make a New Year's resolution to lose weight or get fit? Is this your second, third, or fourth time trying to lose weight? Maybe...

The past few weeks, I've been studying a little bit about our energy bodies. We have them; MRIs measure them as do EEGs. We just avoid...

Self-help books are often incredibly light reads, maybe too light for me honestly, as they are so, sort of, surface level that they don't...

Today's #WellnessWednesday was lovely. Great company. Wonderful conversation. Such an incredible joy. We talked about rhythm and routine....

Every thread of my being avoids being labeled or pegged into a narrow hole or routine. My interests are wide and continually they evolve....

I am guilty. I often make myself the martyr. I don't necessarily do this to people please, but because I feel like it is the only right...

My first yoga class was at the local YMCA. I went with my kids and they giggled through most of the class. The other students talked...

This might be a term you see too often and now tune out entirely or maybe the thought of it is completely beyond your grasp. It's true;...

It's no secret that my weight has fluctuated through the years - primarily the years I was previously in clinical practice as a...

Most of us study mythology at some point in our younger years, but when predominantly raised in a Christian community, we are presented...

For the past three years, I have been providing primary care and functional medicine consults within my home office (see pictures below)...

Midwifery is very relationship-based. It prioritizes mutual decision making so much so that the American College of Nurse-Midwives has...

From ancient times we have understood that breath is vital to life. Root languages often utilize the same word for breath as they do for spirit, life force, even God. While normal, unconscious breathing is controlled by the autonomic nervous system, the breath is readily accessible to conscious control and can therefore provide a link between our conscious mind and our anatomy, physiology, deeper emotional states, and our deepest spiritual potential. It is this unique quality

Since ancient times, yoga has been continuously adapted to suit the needs of individuals from different times, cultures, and traditions....

My mother was an alcoholic by definition. She certainly drank more than four #beers a week, but I don't think I ever identified as having...

No joke, this may be the toughest task. The last pose in #yoga is savasana or the corpse pose and it is easily the hardest for most...

As a midwife, often I hear my colleagues share that #cravings are associated with some sort of deficiency. For example, a craving for...

Although maybe a bit cliche, I do think Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is one of my favorite novels. I read most all of it a few...

Continuing in my study of brahmacarya, a yogic principle that focuses on moderation, I found a new perspective on this principle this...