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Gravitational Insecurity in Children: Sensory Processing Dysfunction
When my youngest was very little, she would scream when she rode in the car seat. We had her evaluated by occupational therapy, as most...

Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 16, 20246 min read
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Teens & Suicide: Let's Make Safe Space to Talk About It
Suicide rates are increasing across all populations. I talk about this regularly with clients, and in each and every class I teach...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 5, 202412 min read
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Cannabis Use
Cannabis, also called #marijuana, is the third most commonly used psychoactive substance worldwide, after alcohol and tobacco (Gorelick,...

Dr. Penny Lane
Sep 2, 202311 min read
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Learning to Check In with Self
Much of my work, it seems, is helping people tune into themselves. We are so busy, so overwhelmed, living in fight-or-flight, that we...

Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 6, 202310 min read
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Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
When I was in my post-graduate training, I met a mother who had brought in her two children and a small stack of papers, having spent...

Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 1, 202310 min read
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Heart Health & Trauma
Yep, I am touching on this one again, because although I've written about heart health and integrative medicine, even shared some about...

Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 3, 20237 min read
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Many may be aware that obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears, even obsessions, that lead...

Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 23, 20238 min read
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Autism Spectrum Disorder
Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 5, 202310 min read
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Dissociative Disorder: a Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress
We now know that those who suffer posttraumatic stress disorder don't have to be soldiers who endured war trauma. The event itself isn't...

Dr. Penny Lane
Sep 1, 20227 min read
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Alcohol Damages the Brain
It is often said that one glass of red wine a day is good for you, and this may be true for your heart because of the antioxidants...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 20, 20227 min read
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Although nursing school was more than twenty years ago now... woah, no, almost thirty years ago, I can't say that I remember learning...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 8, 20229 min read
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Lyme Disease
The most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States and one of the more commonly overlooked causes of ongoing symptoms...

Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 27, 202217 min read
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Histamine Intolerance
The first time I diagnosed #histamine intolerance was probably about ten years ago and admittedly, it was a blatant case. She had been...

Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 27, 20225 min read
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Creating a Sanctuary for Yourself
Does your space fill you with joy? Does it balance your energy - not too stimulating but enough energy to be productive? Does it inspire...

Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 16, 20229 min read
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Alcoholism: Understanding the Underlying Cause
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...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 15, 20217 min read
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Bleeding at the Roots
Functional medicine claims digging into the roots as the heart of the specialty, and I would argue this is true too of #wellness, in that...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 16, 20217 min read
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Bach Flower Remedies for Women
by Judy Ramsell Howard Bach Remedies are growing in popularity as more healthcare consumers not only seek more natural approaches to...

Dr. Penny Lane
May 17, 20213 min read
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How to Relax
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...

Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 26, 20219 min read
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Menopause Updates
As a functional medicine practitioner, the #menopause transition is viewed by me as a physiologic state, much like pregnancy and puberty,...

Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 30, 202017 min read
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Postpartum Depression: Move Beyond Medications
One of the more devastating outcomes of pregnancy complications occurs as a result of postpartum #depression. Approximately 6.5 to 12.9...

Dr. Penny Lane
Dec 28, 20207 min read
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