Bonnie | September 3, 2010
Generally when people think of care for their health, they are thinking in terms of curing care. They want something that will cure the cold, the flu, the arthritis, the fibromyalgia or the cancer. Sometimes there is no real care available. Diabetics, for instance, have no cure. Type I diabetics are reliant on insulin for [...]
Bonnie | August 23, 2010
Over at Heal Your Life there is a lovely post about listening to your body’s symptoms to check in with yourself. Is your body happy?
Bonnie | August 6, 2010
Often people think that if there is a psycho somatic component to their illness it means it’s not really in their body. In other words, if they have an emotional issue around which their body symptoms exist, somehow this means the pain isn’t really in their body. It really is in the body. The pain [...]
Bonnie | June 30, 2010
The Redefining Diet Blog had a great post on diet. Do we change our eating habits for the outcome or because of how we feel while we eat? Consider why you need to change your diet. This blog focuses on weight loss, but what about those other dietary changes that are supposed to boost your [...]
Bonnie | June 28, 2010
Years and years ago, I worked at a veterinary clinic. We took in the idea that cats died of renal failure in stride. A cat with signs of renal failure could often live for years, or not. It was part of life. In the last few years I hear people talking about their cats in [...]
Bonnie | June 22, 2010
Lately I’ve had a number of patients that I have recommended come in more often than once a week. In many cases these people do not feel they can. I had one woman nearly in tears because she wanted to be able to do anything to help herself but couldn’t afford that. I remind these [...]
Bonnie | June 16, 2010
I read a book the other day talking about our “soul’s purpose”. While the book itself had little of any particular interest, there was one point the author did make that I think was worth sharing. He talked about souls who were sick in this life, suggesting that it was a way of learning to [...]
Bonnie | June 14, 2010
I’ve written before about how afraid of germs we are. I have also written that perhaps this isn’t a good thing. Here is another one of those are articles that support this idea. This one also suggests that some of our allergies about the preoccupation we have with disinfecting everything. n our efforts to wipe [...]
Bonnie | June 4, 2010
I found this article on obesity as a protection against metabolic syndrome rather than a cause. The article states, “obesity is the body’s way of storing lipids where they belong, in fat tissue, in an effort to protect our other organs from lipids’ toxic effects.” I find it fascinating when someone asks a question and [...]
Bonnie | May 21, 2010
While I had some issues with the overall book Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason, the author, Caroline Myss does have some great quotes and things to think about. Very often, Myss points out, we think that we have done something to be ill. We look for the “lesson” hoping that by getting [...]
