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Adrenaline: Friend or Foe (or Both)?

Adrenaline is our culprit for many of the physical symptoms you’re experiencing, including flares of IBS, hot flashes, and nausea. Adrenaline helps us get away from scary events but raises blood pressure, shuts down our

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Anxiety

Do you know how to recharge?

Happy September everyone! You have survived the first week back to the “regular” schedule. The fall is upon us. I’ve been recharging myself this past summer, and as @katenorthrup would call it, using my Egg

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Body-Mind Medicine

Paying attention to the niggle

Do you ever have a feeling about something to find out you are right? But you have no evidence (immediately) to prove it? This week, my funny feeling was about something not being right. Two

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anger, self-loathing, shame
Body-Mind Medicine

How to stop being an angry ‘ogre’

You’re not an ogre, but you do get frustrated and the feelings overwhelm you. If only there was something you could do to stop feeling angry, right? An intervention? A padded room so you can

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The physical toll of empathy: Part 1

Since I was about 8, I knew I was a deeply feeling person. Watching movies like horror movies (yes, I had the unfortunate experience of watching a horror movie at 8) and sad movies I’d think about

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