It is sad to me how very little women actually understand about their bodies, and men, quite often, know even less. This creates...

My beginnings in private practice were from having first been a Nurse-Midwife and if you're at all familiar with midwifery, you may know...

More recently I had a client share she had crazy amounts of #flushing and a rash after taking a new supplement and immediately after...

Yoga is a eight-limbed life practice of self-care, and only one of those arms focuses on the physical movement most of us know as yoga,...

Everyone has an idea they are selling about achieving optimal health, and I am convinced that for most everyone, it is more a collection...

New recommendations by the American Academy of Dermatology were released in February, just two months ago, regarding the conventional...

It's interesting to me how often clients will have these sort of annoying little ticks, annoying to them of course - not me, and they...

My youngest daughter is seven. She's in first grade and very gentle-spirited. She likes to follow the rules and make other people happy;...

Ten years ago now, I completed my doctoral work surrounding one of the most controversial topics in #homebirth: neonatal outcomes....

Baby #fussiness, to some degree, is super common and even normal. Babies have limited ability to communicate, and even regulate, so...

It's true; I say this about about every age, but I really, really love caring for the #adolescent client. I think it's because they are...

My first ten years as a lactation consultant in the hospital, my biggest challenges were obtaining an optimal latch in a baby much too...

Often I share that my practice is a blend of what we understand in today's science (as I am a full-fledge nerd in every way and...

As most of you know, my career started as a nurse in the Obstetrical Intensive Care Unit, and then I worked for a smidge in the Neonatal...

Maybe you've heard of non-alcoholic liver disease (#NAFLD) or non-alcoholic steatorrhea hepatitis #NASH? Either way, liver disease...

Healthcare is changing. Clinicians struggle more and more to offer all they know they should to improve health within the five-or-six...

Yesterday I wrote a bit about maternal and child outcomes being pretty catastrophic here in the United States which I relate to the...

Maternal mortality is a marker of national health and well-being. While far too many have the perception that our country offers...

One of the things I truly love about family practice is all that I get to learn from my clients. I can't think of a lot more awful than a...

It's not too uncommon to see a man present to the clinic with pain in their scrotum, and it always causes a bit of embarrassment, and of...