Find out what's been happening at Beautiful Minds Wellness. Read the BMW July 2018 Newsletter HERE “The workshop was excellent. 2 thumbs up!” “The class gave me so much to think about and ways to have hope for the future.” “This information was fascinating. Really liked the research &
The Healing Food Highway By Risë Rafferty, RDN Carl had the typical cardio metabolic syndrome profile: diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and elevated cholesterol and triglycerides. He approached me after a week into the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) that I was leading at the Adventist Health Medical Center. “I am not going to
Interconnected: Not All In Your Head By Risë Rafferty, RDN Suffering from pain, debility, loss of quality of life, destruction and/or malfunction of bodily processes and tissue characterizes disease. Medical science has devoted itself to the study of disease and in so doing has specialized in categorizing the human body so that
How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal By Kelly Brogan, MD, ABIHM (originally published on madinamerica.com) We have been conditioned to look upon the tender topic of suicide with horror. Perhaps because it represents a failure of our varied systems of control. Perhaps because we are, collectively, far from being at peace
Fathers Mental Health Matters This information originally published at fathersmentalhealth.com Healthy Fathers Lead to Healthy Families Are you an Expectant Father, New Father or have you been fathering for years? Fatherhood brings about new experiences, fun and joy, it can also be a stressful experience at times when we are tired, not
The Lie of Success and Suicide By Jennifer Schwirzer | Reposted with permission from JenniferJill.org In conversation with a young adult I’ll call Sophie, we talked about the suicide of a friend of hers I’ll call Tommy. “He was the life of the party!” Sophie said, “He lit up the room. Everyone felt
10 Tips for Achieving Peak Mental Performance Dr. Neil Nedley, MD Strategy #1: Sleep Matters Get 7 to 8 hours of regular nightly sleep, with at least 1 hour before midnight (2 or 3 hours are better) if at all possible. Make it a habit to go to sleep and arise at
G-Bombs: Foods that Destroy Disease I've used this acronym many times to share a 1 min. synopsis of the best disease fighting foods we should be eating on a daily basis. Discover what G-BOMBS are and why you should eat them everyday in this informative and practical article by plant-food expert Dr.
The mind CAN change the brain! By Dr. Caroline Leaf Thirty years ago, I set out to answer a question that was considered at the time to be ridiculous: “can the mind change the brain?" Back in the eighties many scientists believed that a damaged brain could not change. Healthcare and therapy professionals
Increasing Antidepressant Dose Is Not Effective By Zenobia Morrill A team of researchers in Germany investigated the common clinical practice of increasing the antidepressant dose when patients do not respond to the initial treatment. The results of their systematic review of the literature, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry,found no support
