The last three newsletters were about a kind of false alarm — the body bracing for a loss that isn’t actually coming, treating an ordinary disagreement as if it were the end of a relationship. Most of the time, that’s exactly what it is: a false alarm, worth talking your nervous system down from. […]
Your Body Is Talking Before You Say a Word In the last newsletter, I gave you a piece of advice for hard conversations: say the bond out loud before you say the disagreement. Tell the person plainly that this isn’t going to change how you feel about them, before you tell them the thing they might […]
If you’ve come into my treatment room and talked with me about what’s been stressing you out lately, there’s a good chance it wasn’t about money, or work deadlines, or traffic. It was about a person. A spouse who won’t see it your way. A sibling who voted differently than you. A friend whose beliefs […]
Standing tall is something most of my patients want to be able to do. It is kind of like wanting to be able to tie your own shoes and dress yourself in the morning. It is not a major life goal, but something we figure we should be able to do without thinking about it. […]
It has been a busy couple of weeks. After returning from my little expedition to Japan to attend my son Mason’s graduation from Temple University, I wanted to focus on ways to better address the many facets of preventative healthcare available through natural means. We have such a huge number of things we can do […]
Welcome to the mid-October issue of Fair Oaks News. Fall is definitely here. I walked into the office on September 22nd and noticed the fig tree had dropped a pile of leaves over the night, right on schedule. As most of you know I cut back office hours by closing on Wednesdays […]