Do you have Issues in Your Tissues? Take the short Issues Quiz to find out! 20?s Personalized results give you ideas and insights about how to feel better and steps you can take to learn more.
Denise LaBarre taught Issues Classes at University of Hawaii, Maui Campus. Level 1 - How to Recognize and Heal the Issues in Your Tissues was for your personal use in your own body. Level 2 - How to Handle...
This delicious spin on coffee helps with your morning energy. Bulletproof coffee was a fad a while ago but it's still something to try for an alternative to breakfast, if you are intermittent fasting, or if you just want...
Fibromyalgia is the body’s accumulated response to deep emotional trauma that hasn’t been adequately acknowledged by self and others. The range of symptoms are a call for help from a tender part of a person that doesn’t know how...
Coconut oil is a fabulous high-heat cooking oil and has far more applications for healthy cooking, beauty, and general household use than you may be aware of. Here are many ways to use coconut oil - + recipe for home-made...
Sleep is a hot topic these days and we know how important sleep is for overall health. This article cuts through the sleep hygiene hype and gives practical tips you can start using tonight to sleep better, longer and...
A highly Sensitive, Perceptive, or Intuitive person may be aware of energy, sound, color - just about anything - in a way most others are not. But it's not always easy to be such a person or to love...
Humans and plants have evolved together. We are designed to eat what is grown near us, picked and eaten quickly to get the biggest nutritional benefit. When you compare fresh-picked, locally-grown fruits and vegetables with their picked-unripe, gassed-and-warehoused counterparts...
A yoga practice connects awareness of the breath with specific poses (asanas), whose energetic effects bring harmony and union to the whole being. That includes body, mind, spirit, and emotions. This article will give you tips and awareness for...
Bathing in clean, hot water is one of the great luxuries of being human. A hot bath relaxes your muscles, hydrates your spirit, and if you add epsom salts and/or baking soda, can give your body a great detoxifying...
Our hips are our biggest joints and a critical portal for energy flow throughout the body. They express joy - or the lack of it. Hips are designed to move in all planes, in all directions and one of the...
Self-care can be a juggling act - balancing the demands of loved ones, work, and a household. What do you do when you see no opening for quiet time? Take a deep breath and start small. Each opening creates...
Whether it's a new year or a new day, it's never too late for a new beginning and new beginnings call for a new vision. What’s your fear? What holds you back? This year seems especially powerful for realizing...
Depression and sadness can hit any time but many of us are especially susceptible to it during the winter - and that can be a good thing. Here's how to welcome it for a better holiday season, winter, or any time you're down.
How do you practice self-love? When you're juggling many demands on your time - during the holiday season, or any time - how do you give yourself the care and love you need? Here's how to adjust your perspective so self-care is not always at the bottom of the list.
What if today you were just grateful? Cultivate gratitude by thinking of something you feel grateful for, and then breathe into that feeling to amplify it. It's a practice that only works when you feel it - in your heart,...
Do you Breathe Like You Mean it? If you could improve your breathing without changing your schedule at all, would you do it? This article condenses many concepts from Chapter 1 of Issues in Your Tissues and is a...
How do you find a great bodyworker? And when you find that person, How do you get the most out of the experience? This article answers both questions. What to look for, questions to ask, & tips for optimizing...
You can create a Present Moment Portal for yourself right now. After you read this article, close your eyes and simply listen to all the sounds around you, whatever they are. Appreciate that your magnificent body...
Hanging out in wild, natural wilderness is a fantastic way to bring yourself back into natural harmony. Even a rooftop garden, a cricket you find on the sidewalk, birds, cats, dogs - any little bit of nature, if you...
We all need healthy ways to grieve or commemorate loss. Ceremony helps ease grief and helps us move on. Here are Ideas, questions, and an action list for what to do to commemorate a loved one, celebrate a life,...
Caring for your aging body is easier with a loving attitude toward It. Here's how to flip the script on negative messages about aging, make the most of what your body knows and can do, and celebrate how marvelous...
Whether you are a yoga instructor or have practiced yoga for some time, you have witnessed both tears and laughter as people move and stretch through the postures. Here's how to help yourself and others breathe into emotions that...
If you wrestle with inflammation, turmeric could become your most delicious friend. The healing power of turmeric is big news, and rightly so because it cooking with it is an easy, healthy way to reduce inflammation and improve your...
Whether it’s holding space for growing, healing, or dying, the gesture and dynamics are the same: open arms, invitation, non-judgment, safe boundaries, and Love. Discussion of how to hold healing space well and what happens when it isn't done...
For years we've been hearing about the benefits of meditation, but how do build a practice in the midst of a busy life? And how do you quiet your busy mind? This article explains meditation in a new way...
Why is magnesium so important? This essential mineral is necessary for 300+ enzyme systems that operate a healthy body and helps with sleep, bowel motility and a host of other bodily functions. Here's why you want to learn what...
As adults, many of us have gotten too serious and stopped playing. If you need an invitation to play, laugh, tell jokes, and get silly - this is it! Links to scholarly articles, a TED talk on play, and...
Continues discussion of the Future of Healing Conference held in 2015, hosted by Marc David. Many of the topics covered are still not "in the marketplace" and it's interesting to see from the future what predictions were accurate. Above...
The future of healing will revolve around gut health, human connection, a conscious turn inward to slow down and listen to the body. It also includes a conscious respect for and partnership with the intelligence of natural processes. This...
Building healthy habits takes time and getting help from some who can help hold you accountable is a great way to reinforce a new behavior. You may have to tell your Inner Critic to "chill" . It takes energy...
You are born to love and be loved! Even if your parent(s) didn't show you the love, support, and understanding you needed, you can give those to yourself now. Love is your birthright and sometimes you come to love most...
How do you get to a positive attitude about your body if you're not already there? Here's a body appreciation exercise to help you wherever you've bought into any messages that you aren't beautiful enough or your body isn't...
A woman's issues with her husband traces back to issues with her father. This story illustrates how we often choose partners who reflect dynamics with our parents and gives insights about how to understand and heal from old wounds.
Grieving a mother is often rough. I want to share a hug with everyone whose mother has died in the past year, everyone whose mother will die this coming year, and everyone who feels like a motherless child. (You...
I rested my hands on his shoulders to listen more closely. I felt crystalline tears stuck in the muscles. This strong man hadn't cried since he was 16, when his parents divorced. Of course he had unexpressed sadness, anger...
As you watch the video, feel your heart open and reach toward this sincere, open little being as she connects with her mother's emotions. This is what unarmored looks like. Babies open our hearts and remind us how to...
If you are not aware of the power of essential oils, let me explain why they deserve your attention and could become a valuable healing resource for you. Plants have myriad ways to heal and protect themselves and often...
When using a coffee enema, the caffeine from the coffee is preferentially absorbed into this system and goes directly to the liver where it becomes a very strong detoxicant. It cleans your liver, your colon, and resets a number...
The rhythms of our thoughts and feelings reflect the rhythms of life. Go large and think about the cosmos, come in and think about lunch. Breathe in, breathe out. Letting go is as important as building in the big...
7 Tips for conscious eating. Here are some practices to start building now for those times when your emotions get the best of you and your eating spirals out of your conscious control. The trick is to do these...
Too much time in your head and breathing minimally throws you off balance and escalates into stress, tension, and worse: dis-ease. The beautiful thing is that the remedy is easy, portable, and free. Here's a playful and effective breathing...
Your body has many cooperative systems to keep the whole working smoothly if you just let them lead. You have to unplug from the external cues from advertising and tune in to your internal guidance system. The awareness from this article will help you do that.
Whether you have cancer, are watching a loved-one going through life-threatening disease, or simply care about our health, this approach to diet and healing is worth a look. You may not need the entire protocol but the commitment to...
Are you addicted to sugar? It's a hard habit to break, but it's possible with these steps over time. Make gradual changes that you can sustain and build on. Support yourself by having healthy food available, prepared ahead of time. Emotional eating may be part of the problem.
When we face change, it helps to know what a positive outcome looks like. Positive evolution includes aging well, embracing diversity, and building sustainable agriculture. That means we need role models for aging well and good parenting.
Notes from the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Denise attended for several years and this was her report in 2015.
Tuning in to natural rhythms brings us back to our very human essence. Are we near an equinox? a solstice? Tonight, look up to see what phase the moon is in. Life and death come in cycles and the...
Our culture doesn’t want to look at death. We act as if it’s something we can avoid if we don’t think about it… But that leaves us completely unprepared, scared, and impoverished when death inevitably comes knocking. Talking about...
What do you do when you know you've behaved badly in a relationship and you want to repair the damage? Taking sister relationships as an example, we explore when things go wrong and how to find forgiveness, apologize and...
Life exists in rhythms and patterns: breathe in - breath out, expand-contract. These rhythmic movements ARE life. As you understand this interconnectedness and practice conscious breathing, your health and awareness expand. Her are tips...
Without our conscious knowledge and without any fanfare, the healing made possible by coordinated structure and movement is everywhere. Here's an exploration of structure in nature with special emphasis on structured water.
Learning about structured water is part of the larger tapestry of understanding and awareness about health and How things work in Nature. Water naturally resets or structures through the hydrological cycle - that humans have disrupted and are learning...
Eating healthy fats is critical for good health. Above all, you want to steer away from hydrogenated oils. The hydrogenation process mixes water with the oil so it won't spoil. This is great for shelf life, but terrible for...
The best health advice – whether dietary or long-term medical - probably comes from one’s body, itself. Modern medical lab tests give you a snapshot of a specific moment in your body’s life - which changes constantly. Your body...
If your parents made you finish everything on your plate or you've been dieting much of your life, you learned to eat to external cues. The pattern ends as we unhook from the external cues and tune in to...
Our social reliance on sugar in the form of alcohol, processed food, soda, and quick, cheap carbs isn’t healthy. It’s normal only because it has become the norm. The social cost of eating better is worth it. As you...
Not only is it possible, it's better to cut out sugar during this season of eating. I gathered with loved-ones, ate plenty, felt fabulous afterward AND lost weight. Here's the story.
Whatever the cause when you awaken, the important thing is not to let your thoughts take off into worrying about it. That pulls energy up into your head and out of your body - where you need it most...
In our fast-paced lives, it's normal to feel overloaded or overwhelmed. With all the things you do and think in a day, where's the room to reset and recover? This is a reminder, permission, and tips to take care...
Your Smile can make someone's day. Don't forget the power a smile has to change your mood or someone else's. When love shines through your smile, it is a gift. Be more generous with this free, easy way to...
This emotional release guide for professionals in a spa or clinical gives practical tips and awareness for how to handle tears, anger, or other emotions that come up in hands-on sessions. Spontaneous emotions are natural but can disrupt your...
We all have unwanted emotions leftover from past trauma. We shut away those "monsters" and they accumulate in our "emotional closet" until we shed light on them with love and understanding. There are healthier ways to deal with them....
How can you eat consciously when you're upset, angry, sad, or lonely? Because we have to eat to live, it can be tricky keeping our needs and our desires in balance. Eating patterns can get tangled up with our emotional needs. Tips to handle emotional eating habits.
Aloha is a feeling, an understanding, and attitude of love and connectedness. Breath is the vehicle. You can bring this Hawaiian awareness of breath as vehicle of love, health and connectedness into your body any time. Read and find...
Survivor’s guilt can hit anyone, in many situations. It can also be an empathic response in those who simply see the graphic media images and hear the cries of people posting their distress. Here are some thoughts and tips...