Did you know that when you experience pleasure, your brain and body are bathed in health-enhancing and pain-inhibiting chemicals, including nitric oxide, beta-endorphin, serotonin, and dopamine? This is why YOUR pleasure matters for pain relief and for your overall...
If you feel overwhelmed with concerns and worry about the future, you may wonder how to stop worrying. When you worry, you are spending your present moment projecting yourself into a future you do not want to experience. This not only feels bad and creates stress,...
Anxiety and pain often go hand in hand. Most women with pelvic pain experience anxiety. In fact research has shown that the majority of women who have vulvodynia experienced anxiety prior to vulvar symptoms. Even if you weren’t feeling anxiety before you had pelvic...
One of the most powerful tools for creating and maintaining health is to focus on health. And yet, almost no one does that. When you’re in pain, or worried about getting sick, it’s natural to focus a lot of your time and energy on getting rid of pain or protecting...
If you are like many of my clients right now, you may be experiencing some increased anxiety or worry about the coronavirus and all the change and uncertainty it’s bringing. On top of that you may be dealing with some real-life challenges, like how to implement social...
Sometimes things feel scary, making releasing fear difficult. Whether it’s a diagnosis or a symptom, or updates on the coronavirus, circumstances or events can trigger our nervous system and our mind is off to the races making negative predictions, worrying, and...
