Can Aromatherapy Help Depression?
For a while, the most difficult part of my morning, without fail, was when I had to brush my daughter’s hair. It is long, and fine, and I don’t know what she does when she sleeps, because no matter how well I comb it at night, there is always a huge knot right at the [...]
Taking the Bad With the Good Makes Us More Whole.
Don’t we all, secretly, really want life to be only good?
Of course, we all know that life is a combination of many emotions, happening simultaneously. At any given moment I can feel happy, annoyed, confused, and a little anxious. The trick is to be able to accept all these feelings at once and stop trying [...]
Ease Depression by Eating Delicious, Satisfying Foods.
Can what we eat help our depression? I believe it can.
Did you know that during the time period of 1983-2008, outpatient treatment of depression increased by 300%? During that period of time, there was a push to get Americans to lower their fat intake in order to gain greater heart health. While we haven’t seen [...]
Acceptance of Our Feelings Helps Depression.
“One day a monk asked the great master, ‘How can we avoid hot and cold?’ He said, ‘Why don’t you go somewhere that is neither hot nor cold?’ The monk asked, ‘Where is a place that is neither hot nor cold?’ The master replied, ‘When it is cold, be completely cold, when it is hot, [...]
