Welcome to the Blog

I hope the posts and videos on this blog stimulate you to think differently about your health. I'm sharing from the perspective of my training as a homeopath and my experience practicing meditation and somatic healing for over twenty years.

There are hundreds of posts, some from as far back as 2012. I invite you to search for whatever interests you and contact me if you have questions about anything I've written.

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8/20/19 8/20/19

Tips for Managing a Flare-up or Regression

Even though we know that healing isn’t linear and we’re bound to have regressions, nobody likes it when it happens! It’s pretty easy to freak out and catastrophize.

8/2/19 8/2/19

Blogging is on pause.

Life throws curves and challenges that requires us to be flexible. Right now I'm responding to a cancer curve ball by supporting a close friend.

7/22/19 7/22/19

How Do You Reconcile These two Mantras?

If you’ve been on the healing path for a while, you will undoubtedly have encountered the apparent dichotomy of evolving verses accepting. How do you know when to question and heal your ways verses accepting yourself as you are?

7/17/19 7/17/19

People Often Confuse Their Wounds With Their Nature

As a highly sensitive person, I’ve been in countless situations where I wished I were less permeable and more resilient.

7/11/19 7/11/19

Contracted Living vs. Empowered Living

When my daughter was 18 months I looked in the mirror one morning and said to myself, “You need help”.

7/9/19 7/9/19

Victim Mode vs. Empowered Living

Everybody has bad days when their personal triggers come up. Healthy living doesn’t mean never falling apart.

7/8/19 7/8/19

Health-Inhibiting Beliefs

How we think about what's happening in our minds or bodies has a huge impact on how we heal.

6/28/19 6/28/19

When people don’t heal we look for physical reasons without giving adequate consideration to the life load they are carrying.

Life load is a huge factor in every long-term health issue. We become acclimatized to the load we are carrying and often lose sight of how taxing it is on our mind/body.

6/20/19 6/20/19

Energetic imprints from our ancestors influence our well-being

When it comes to our personal health, our focus is often what’s going on in our body in the present. Health practitioners take into consideration genetics and the diseases that run in our families, but something that’s not often given attention is how our ancestral load plays a role in our current health landscape.

6/14/19 6/14/19

How does your past trauma inhibit your health today?

Trauma that we experienced in childhood can continue to consume part of our vital life energy today.

6/10/19 6/10/19

When life stress is intense focus on increasing your resilience

There are many ways to improve your resilience ranging from eating right, exercising regularly, keeping good sleep habits, meditating etc.

6/7/19 6/7/19

Ways to Use Presence to Curb Additions

One of the ways of dealing with addictive behaviours, not just drug addictions but every kind of addiction, is through presence rather than through will power.

6/5/19 6/5/19

Your chronic pain may be more dynamic than you realize

If you suffer from long-term chronic pain, it may seem constant, unchanging and unmoving.

Alyssa Cohen 5/27/19 Alyssa Cohen 5/27/19

Video: Are You Sure you Need to Fight Against Your Disease?

5/21/19 5/21/19

When good holistic care fails to heal, we need to look at the patient’s susceptibility and inner resourcing.

When someone has a stable base and what ails them is primarily related to bad living, they’ll easily feel better when you clean up the diet and add some targeted supplements.

Alyssa Cohen 5/20/19 Alyssa Cohen 5/20/19