Personal Healing

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Simple pleasures

Look to life's simple pleasures when all you have is a brief moment to relax.
11/04/2012

Simple pleasures

Look to life's simple pleasures when all you have is a brief moment to relax.
11/04/2012

Simple pleasures

Look to life's simple pleasures when all you have is a brief moment to relax.
11/04/2012

Support Is Just a Click Away

Find Support on the Internet
04/25/2012

Strength in Numbers

Getting and Giving support are 'Good Medicine'
04/25/2012

Communication is Good Medicine

Communication is key to strong relationships.
01/28/2011

Relationships, Sex and Initmacy

A difficult topic to talk about
01/20/2011

What is a support group?

Invisilble threads that bind
01/11/2011

Volunteering- Help someone and help yourself.

Volunteering is good for your health
11/15/2010

Healing Power of Relaxation

Learn about the neurobiology of stress and its affect on your body.
09/30/2010

Adapting to Change

How you react to change makes a difference.
09/23/2010

Journaling

Journaling can help you make sense of how you feel.
09/14/2010

Finding Balance in Life

Summary from 2010 first Annual Northwest Wellness Symposium
05/27/2010

Positive Thoughts. Positive Results

Think Positive and Reap the Results!
03/04/2010

Define Your Wellness

Our definition of wellness changes as we change.
02/25/2010

The Power of Support Groups

Support groups are good medicine.
02/24/2010

A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Improve your health with a smile and a laugh.
02/18/2010

Glass Half Full

Think positive. Laugh. Positive thoughts encourage positive moods leading to positive activities.
02/07/2010

Find Your Sugar Pill

'If you believe it, it will happen'. The placebo effect is not all bad. Learn easy strategies to harness you placebo effect.
02/07/2010

The Power of a Sugar Pill

We review the mysteries of the ‘placebo effect’ and how this shapes our understanding of research and treatment effects.
02/07/2010

Silence the Mind with Mindfulness Therapy

Learn how mindfulness helps you find meaning in life and cope with your symptoms.
02/07/2010

Practice Mindfulness.

Try this mindfulness exercise and see how your mind and body affect how you feel.
02/07/2010

Neuroplasticity- MoreThan Just Movement

There are many activities that can enhance neuroplasticity or brain function. It is not too surprising to learn that many of the same activities that improve quality of life also promote Neuroplasticity. In other words, the brain has developed in ways to further help us get the most out of activities that improve our quality living.
12/27/2009

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Personal Healing

Simple pleasures

Simple pleasures

Simple pleasures

Support Is Just a Click Away

Strength in Numbers

Communication is Good Medicine

Relationships, Sex and Initmacy

What is a support group?

Volunteering- Help someone and help yourself.

Simplify for stress

Healing Power of Relaxation

Adapting to Change

Journaling

Finding Balance in Life

Positive Thoughts. Positive Results

Define Your Wellness

The Power of Support Groups

A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Glass Half Full

Find Your Sugar Pill

The Power of a Sugar Pill

Silence the Mind with Mindfulness Therapy

Practice Mindfulness.

Neuroplasticity- MoreThan Just Movement

Massage therapy

Take a Moment- to Relax

Music therapy

Therapeutic Yoga