With rates of chronic illnesses such as asthma and ADHD on the rise, many children require medications during the school day. But in a time of budget cuts, not all schools have a nurse supervising the prescription cabinet. Knowing how and when your child will be receiving medications is paramount in ensuring safety. (more…)
It is often said the crises in our lives are the most formative and even transformative. The death of my father at the early age of 57, when I was 30, was such a turning point. It sent me on a healing journey that continues to this day — I call it the pilgrimage of a wounded healer. This is how water therapy helped me.
There are many types of bone, muscle, and joint injuries, such as:
A pulled muscle (strain)
An injury to the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and soft tissues (sprain)
A broken bone (fracture)
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“The only thing that is constant is change.”
This ebb and flow, expressed as yin and yang by Chinese sages, is the movement of life itself, constantly creating a state of dynamic balance. In the field of health and wellness, this basic premise is expressed as “the body is always seeking homeostasis.” In other words, the body is self healing.
Meditation is and attribute and in a way a consequence of the Buddhism philosophy. It is a relatively new idea to western culture, but the idea isbeing more and more accepted.
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