No matter how many years I have practiced a spiritual discipline, there are times that levels of fear still come up. Some external circumstance will trigger it and bam, there i go off and running again. Will say it doesn't happen often anymore, but when it does it feels so intense. Writing this really is helping me a lot. Should have done some journaling and it would have lost its grip on me a lot sooner. Oh well! Just happy it is releasing now.

I am on the nightshift again this week once again! It seems that sometime I just cannot get my biological clock to adjust to the time change and I fall back into the routine of sleeping in the afternoon and staying up all night!  I worked the "swing shift" for too many years and I just seem to perk up around 6pm when the sun goes down! I know that  there have been many studies done about those of us who work nights on a regular basis and that we suffer from stress far more than ... Read More

How Important is Communication?


I am reminded everyday how important communication between people really is.  If you cannot communicate your needs then they will never be fulfilled.  A great many of my clients are complaining that they feel isolated from their partners, that nothing they say matters in their relationship and that their children do not even hear them when they speak. 

All too often as counselors we hear clients tell us that "he/she does not he ... Read More

Going Banana's

We are always looking for healthy alternatives to the medications that Doctors want you to rely on and the article that follows will help you to see the Banana in an entire different light!

A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression "going bananas" is from the effects of bananas on the brain. Read on:

Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!!

Bananas contain three natural sugars - s ... Read More

Is there a "Bad Moon Rising"?

       
I have had a lot of calls this week asking me about the influence of the full moon and the eclipses that have occurred recently.  I am not an astrologer but I do know that the myths that surround the full moon are some of the most enduring myths in popular culture.  The word "lunacy" has its roots in the Latin word  "Luna" for moon.

Most of us grew up believing that the full moon - whi ... Read More