Jim Massey, ND, HANP We’re all familiar with the adage “Carpe diem,” meaning “Seize the day.” I remember first hearing “Carpe annum” as we approached the New Year’s Day holiday, reminding us to [...]

Education Susan H. Mueller, ND Nourishing Space Within: Essentials of Self-Care In her practice, Allegra Hart, ND encourages gentle, loving, incremental changes in her patients. With her book, [...]

Tolle Totum Lauren (McKinney) Mandych Paul Epstein, ND Before every session, I take a moment to remember my humanity. There is no experience that this man has that I cannot share with him, no [...]

Naturopathic Perspective Jim Massey, ND, HANP We find ourselves living in a most tumultuous time of our human civilization. We face a fork in the road, where we can either move forward and work [...]

Node Smith, ND Neurons in both males and females make estrogen and scientists have shown that when they don’t, their brains have significantly less dense spines and synapses – both [...]

Node Smith, ND A very interesting study recently looked at the continuation of brain activity after the heart has stopped.1 Typically, the time of death is pronounced at the moment the heart [...]

Node Smith, ND The antibiotic age of medicine is certainly beginning to shift. With billboards and public service announcements ushering in an awareness that antibiotics should not be used for [...]

Lineke Heus, ND Tolle Totum Ever since Jon Kabat-Zinn introduced mindfulness into mainstream medicine through his stress reduction program (known as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR), [...]

Jim Massey, ND, DHANP Tolle Totum Connecting Mind, Body, and Spirit Hippocrates once wrote, “The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.” [...]

Craig S. Mehrmann, BSc The term “meditation” encompasses a broad variety of mental-training practices that vary among cultures and traditions, ranging from techniques designed to promote physical [...]