In today’s tough economic times, many people are facing very difficult life situations. There is mounting uncertainty in the air because so many people have already lost their jobs and their homes. It’s not easy to stay cool, calm and collected when you don’t know what to expect tomorrow.

You may feel that staying lighthearted is impossible in today’s world. But after working as a psychotherapist for 30 years, I have found seven simple tools that have proven themselves again and again for coming through the darkness to a more lighthearted way of living. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve all been hearing about ‘Going Green’ to stop polluting our oceans, rivers and wildlife.  We’ve learned that ‘Going Green’ is crucial if we want to save the beauty of the world we live in for future generations. Like you, I’m absolutely in favor of saving the world for our children and grandchildren! Along with that, I also believe it’s important to also ‘Go Green’ with our Mental Health in order to avoid putting unhealthy toxins into our precious physical bodies.

I’d love to tell you about a new book I’m writing that can help you ‘Go Green’ with your Mental Health. It’s called Happy Healing, from Stress, Anxiety, Depression and Abuse Issues to Joy, Inner Peace and Light-Heartedness.

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What is Emotional Healing?

Emotional Healing is a natural healing process for stress, anxiety, depression, or abuse issues that anyone can learn. It involves learning to identify, express and release your feelings, so that you naturally come back to love and peace inside yourself. It usually begins with getting in touch with tears or anger that you’ve been holding back and often it ends with laughing and having fun.

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For many years traditional medicine has believed that our genetics are the primary cause of our physical health. In the 1990s, however, scientific research found that our emotions play at least an equal or possibly even a greater role in determining whether we will be faced with illnesses like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, obesity, alcoholism, fractures or chronic pain.

Research Studies Show
Your Emotions Affect Your Health

One of the best research studies available involving the effect of emotions on physical health is the ACE study, which was conducted by the Federal Centers for Disease Control, where researchers studied people who had an “adverse childhood experience” before the age of 18. “Adverse childhood experiences” included recurrent physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; growing up in a dysfunctional family where someone was clinically depressed, alcoholic, mentally ill or suicidal; or in a situation where the parents were separated, divorced, or taken away from the child in some way.

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Intimacy isn’t just sexuality! True intimacy begins with deep emotional connection and then blossoms out into friendship or intimate sexuality, depending on whom you’re connecting with. It can be just as satisfying to connect deeply with a dear friend
as it is to connect with an intimate partner,when you’re both sharing your true self with each other.

The word intimacy can be broken down into four parts “in to me see.” That means in order to have true intimacy; you have to allow someone to see who you really are. Sharing your real feelings with someone in a non-threatening way is often a good way to establish a deep emotional connection with them.