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by Christy | Mar 26, 2016 | Anxiety, Guest blog
[read original article here] My social media has been riddled with many recent research reports on the topic of happiness. Not just the state of happiness, how to achieve it and keep it, but also the impact of happiness on our minds and our bodies. Happiness is...
by Christy | Jan 30, 2015 | Animals, Anxiety, Tao of Zen
I discovered Alan W. Watts a couple years ago purely by chance. He helped me access contentment in my daily life through his translation of Eastern philosophies, in particular Zen Buddhism. Here are some of my favourite Alan W. Watts quotes with pictures from my 2013...
by Christy | Sep 1, 2014 | Anxiety
More and more I am seeing articles and research coming out about the importance of mindfulness and what contentment is, or rather, how it’s felt in the present moment. It’s possible that the digital age is making it easier to feel disconnected and anxious...
by Christy | May 7, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression, Studies
Read about the staggering figures for prescriptions of SSRI antidepressants in recent years in this article. ‘The problem is that many of these drugs simply do not work as people suppose. The main effect of antidepressants is not the reduction of depressive...
by Christy | Apr 28, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression, Homeopathic remedies, Studies
Study just published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology Effects of Gelsemium sempervirens L. on pathway-focused gene expression profiling in neuronal cells. RESULTS: Exposure to the Gelsemium sempervirens 2c dilution, containing a nanomolar concentration of active...
by Christy | Mar 15, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression
A great presentation about ‘power posing’ as a way to lower cortisol levels and increase confidence. Some promising research has come out and no drugs necessary! 🙂 Amy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School, where she studies how...
by Christy | Feb 20, 2014 | Anxiety
Anxiety is something I see a lot in my practice. I am curious to know why it seems like there are more and more people I meet who are ‘anxious’. Things have definitely changed a lot in our world in the past ten years (remember before Facebook? remember...
by Christy | Feb 18, 2014 | Anxiety
“It’s perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it’s perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.” -Alain de Botton
by Christy | Feb 4, 2014 | Anxiety, Articles
Read this great article about cultivating mindfulness at work. When you do, watch the anxiety and stress slide away from your day. ‘Meditation is an act of sanity.’ Jon Kabat-Zinn, the first physician to bring mindfulness to the mainstream. Watch his...
by Christy | Jan 14, 2014 | Anxiety, Depression
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.” In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the...
by Christy | Nov 22, 2013 | Anxiety, Articles, Depression
For so long we were told to stay out of the sun because of the risk of skin cancer. However, that is how we get most of our vitamin D, a vital ingredient in many important physiological processes in our body. In the Pacific Northwest this is especially true. We just...
by Christy | Mar 7, 2013 | Anxiety, Homeopathic remedies, Zettl Homeopathy
One of the biggest and most important parts of my job is education. Homeopathy can seem confusing to the beginner and I want to de-mystify it so everyone can use it in their daily life. Why you may ask? Because homeopathic medicines (a.k.a. remedies) are safe (even...
by Christy | Jun 22, 2012 | Anxiety, Homeopathic remedies, Zettl Homeopathy
Last week I talked about ARNICA which is the number one remedy for shock, trauma, and injuries. This week’s remedy, Aconite, is good to have on hand if you are afraid of flying, or enclosed spaces. The key symptom for Aconite is an agonizing fear of death out of...
by Christy | Mar 17, 2011 | Anxiety, Articles, Studies
Research in Japan has demonstrated that being in green spaces improves a person’s immune system… Read more about this study: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/52937/
