Harness the Power of Music to Heal Now
The power of music is a universally accepted truth. But it's a power we might overlook when considering music's ability to heal. Sure, our society puts a premium on music…
How to Use Food as a Tool to Be Well and Stay Well
Establishing healthy behaviors is key to being well and staying well. And few behaviors affect us more than our relationships to food and its creation. As social animals, the rituals…
Optimal Healing Environments
Each person has inherent healing capacity. Through small changes in your daily life, you can increase your body’s ability to heal. You also may foster that same healing capacity in…
Safe and Effective Ways to Feel Better
Cancer is a complex illness that sets off multiple reactions and changes in the mind, body, and spirit. While the initial diagnosis requires conventional methods of treatment such as chemotherapy,…
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Affordable Health Care is Not Out of Reach
This article concludes the Five P series—protect, promote, permit, partner and payment—which serves as a guideline for patients seeking to find an integrative physician or health team. To this point,…
Guided Imagery Pocket Guide
The pocket guide on guided imagery describes the evidence behind this mind-body practice and how to access it.
Your Healing Journey
A a personal resource for understanding the role of Optimal Healing Environments in your personal and professional quest for health and well-being. With it, you’ll learn how to optimize your healing power.
How to Improve Your Fertility and Banish Painful Periods
In all the rollicking changes a woman experiences in her twenties and thirties, one thing remains constant: her reproductive cycle. Every month triggers a cascade of hormones designed to ready…
Women and Pain: Taking Control and Finding Relief
There’s a gender gap when it comes to pain. Women have more frequent, longer lasting, and severe pain than men. For instance, one national survey found that while about 16 percent of white men and 8 percent of black men reported severe pain, those numbers jumped to about 22 percent for white women and 11 percent for black women, respectively.