Dealing long term with a chronic illness is exhausting. In addition to the fatigue and debilitating pain that disease itself can bring, those suffering from chronic conditions often have emotional trauma to deal with. Missing out on life, suffering from silent symptoms, seeking endlessly to find answers and solutions, being made to feel that the…
Category: What You Think
Learning the Language of Your Own Mind
Hurt feelings don’t vanish on their own. They don’t heal themselves. Your mind holds on to past hurts, and protects you by blocking you from experiencing them again. However, these same blocks can hold us back from moving forward in our lives. The key to unlocking these blocks is the subconscious mind. Through trace, regression…
Root Cause Healing
What if you could heal yourself, deeply and completely, through the power of your own mind? You can. The subconscious mind is the key to your healing. We all carry memories within us. And it is the job of the subconscious mind to process and catalogue each and every one of them. A memory is…
Comparative Suffering – Guest Writer Jennifer Sofie Gulick May
I am excited to share that I have a guest writer for today’s post. Jennifer Sofie Gulick May is a dear friend of mine and a professional mental health counselor. She has a wonderfully thoughtful, grounded and balanced way of looking at things. Here, she shares insight about seeking self-empathy during difficult times: It’s been…
Hypnotherapy – What Can It Do?
Hypnosis is a method of asking your conscious mind to go take a seat in the corner so that we can have a discussion with the subconscious mind, the part that is in control of our self-limiting beliefs and behaviors. By talking to the subconscious mind, we can uncover and reprogram limiting beliefs (often established…
Going Inwards
As the days progress, and we shelter in place, our thoughts turn inwards. As we put down our phones because we can only handle the barrage of headlines for so long, our thoughts turn inwards. As we lay down at night, finally still in the dark with only our own thoughts speaking to us, we…
Caring for your Immune System
In light of recent news that seems to be flooding our devices and inboxes, I feel called to write about how incredible our immune systems are, how many built-in defenses we have evolved, and what we can do to further support ourselves during times of stress and viral infection. First off, know that you are…
Having a Mental Health Plan
You cannot meditate your way out of a panic attack. It’s literally impossible and to even try exacerbates the fear. It’s hard to open your heart during a deep depressive episode where you cannot even open your eyes to get out of bed. While we live in the age of quick-fixes, of instant gratification, this…
5 Complementary Therapies to Consider in Healing Depression
Depression is a deep psychological and spiritual disturbance that affects many people today. More and more, it seems that we are living lonely, empty and isolated lives. We connect with the swipe of a finger through various forms of media and texting, but there is a hollowness to this “connection”. Often, it can deepen the…
Life Traps and Anxiety
Anxiety is something that I have dealt with a lot in my life. In fact,I have reached a place where I realize that anxiety is a part of who I am, and I have to accept that I was created in this specific way. What I’ve come to understand is that anxiety can actually…
The Wisdom Ranch 