Do you have Issues in Your Tissues? Take the 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.
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...
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...
Massage (bodywork) feels good and meets our basic need for touch. Beyond that, it increases circulation and offers a host of other physical benefits. But, you might ask, with all the options out there, how do I find a...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Touch is a powerful human catalyst. Everyone has unexpressed emotion and a spa treatment or massage can provide the opportunity to release it. Many practitioners aren't trained to handle emotions release in a treatment session so here are tips...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....