Early Entry Pathway: Perhaps the Opposite Direction We Should be Taking

by NDNR | Dec 23, 2024 | 2024, December, Editorial / Opinion, Naturopathic Perspective

Node Smith, ND What follows are ideas, questions, and food for thought. While they certainly stem from my own personal opinion, what is offered is part of a conversation that each and every student, faculty member, school administrator, and the profession as a whole...

Mind-Body Medicine for Empaths: A Case Study of Hives

by NDNR | Dec 17, 2024 | 2024, Anxiety/Depression/Mental Health, December, Mind/Body, Naturopathic Perspective, NDNR Issues

Nikita Patel Empaths differ from empathetic individuals. People with empathy show compassion for those suffering without taking on that suffering themselves. Then there are empaths, who not only feel the pain of others but internalize it as their own. Empaths possess...

Tapping into Your Patient’s Biofield to Optimize Healing

by NDNR | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024, December, Mind/Body, Nature Cure, Naturopathic Perspective, NDNR Issues

Johanna Ryan Intro to the Biofield The biofield plays an important role in the workings of the body and its ability to heal itself. But what exactly is it? Working definitions include1: A network of homeostatic mechanisms made up of fields of energy and information...

Resourcing Positive Emotional States Through Embodied Memory

by NDNR | Dec 12, 2024 | 2024, Anxiety/Depression/Mental Health, December, Mind/Body, Naturopathic Perspective

Erin Westaway, ND What can we do for a client/patient when mindfulness fails to produce tangible results? Much has been written on the power of mindfulness to improve wellbeing, and decrease anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed. Many attribute this power to a...

The Invitation of Illness

by NDNR | Dec 6, 2024 | 2024, Autoimmune/Allergy Medicine, December, Mind/Body, Naturopathic Perspective, NDNR Issues

By Erin Hayford, ND, SEP “Incurable…really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by ‘outer’ methods and that we must go within to effect the healing.”—Louise L. Hay1 I was 21 years old when I was diagnosed with an incurable illness. According to my...

We are Nature: Healing People, Healing the Planet

by NDNR | Dec 4, 2024 | 2024, Anxiety/Depression/Mental Health, December, Environmental Medicine, Mind/Body, Naturopathic Perspective, Policy, World

Leslie Solomonian Introduction We are in a crisis of collective psychological distress, with myriad consequences for the physical body. We are also in a planetary health crisis. The two are interlinked, and part of the larger global polycrisis.1 The discipline of...