Category: Mental Health

Lemon Balm

Fresh lemon balm growing in a garden with vibrant green leaves, a fragrant herb traditionally used to support calm, restful sleep, and emotional well-being.

Lemon balm is one of my favorite herbs to grow and use. From helping light sleepers finally get a restful night’s sleep to supporting emotional well-being, soothing cold sores, and comforting sore mouths, this gentle herb has earned a permanent place in my garden and herbal apothecary. Discover why I reach for lemon balm again and again and how I like to use it both fresh and in herbal preparations.

Identity In Illness or Christ?

Is your identity in Christ or in your illness?

Is your Identity in Your Illness? Or in Christ? When Illness Becomes an Identity and How the Limbic System Keeps Us Stuck Chronic illness has a way of slowly reshaping how we see ourselves. “I have these symptoms.” Is how it innocently startsThen it becomes: “I’m dealing with this condition.”And before we realize it, it […]

Practice Gratefulness – Improve Health            

Ways to practice gratitude

As a health and life coach, I have learned the art of being thankful and expressing gratitude. I’ve also seen its effects on my client’s willingness to practice it. I recently started expressing thanks more to my husband and repeating to my friends what I’m thankful about him. Wow, it has changed my attitude towards […]

Lack of Sleep and Stress are a Root Cause of Disease

Stress and disease

In keeping with my topic on sleep as a root cause of many diseases. I like this statement by Casey Means in her address to the RFK Roundtable…. “Five nights of sleep deprivation can cause full-blown pre-diabetes.” Check out this great talk here: https://youtu.be/6wOOhvZISwI?si=Poh6ewO4renzqGz3 Of course, this is reversible… get more sleep!  Lack of sleep affects […]

What do you do for Self-Care?

Self Care

As a health and life coach, I learned that asking clients to do self-care is very important for their “health.” I’ve been struggling to get some of my clients to focus on their own self-care. I recently figured out that maybe that is because I struggle with my own self-care. I was recently introduced to […]

It’s Not in Your Head!

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Have you been told what you are feeling is just in your head? Or were you made to feel like that because you haven’t been listened to? Or have you been told you’re just depressed, and you’re not? Or have you been told to take this medicine and it will solve your problems, only to […]