How Naturopathy Improves Your Mental Health and How You Can Make the Most of It

Guest post by Kristen Wells; Image Credit: Unsplash When you think of mental health, specifically its treatment, do you immediately think of psychotropic medication? You’re not alone. Medication is the most prevalent approach for treating mental health disorders, but that doesn’t mean that we’re getting better from it. In fact, [...]

By |2021-11-05T09:19:26-07:00November 5th, 2021|Categories: Articles, Mental Health|0 Comments

Wisdom in A Time of Chaos

Image by Dariusz Sankowski from Pixabay  The news has been pretty upsetting lately, hasn’t it? No matter what you believe on all the highly politically charged issues that have come up over the last weeks and months, emotionally, we’re all responding the same way: with anxiety, fear, anger, and hopelessness. It doesn’t have [...]

By |2020-06-12T08:30:54-07:00June 12th, 2020|Categories: Articles, Mental Health, News|0 Comments

Social Distancing and Loneliness

Guest Post by Dr Mariah Mosley; Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay  I am not going to address whether or not ‘social distancing’ will be effective if we don’t do it for the full 18 months1 as some models are claiming, or if it is even truly as effective as they had been previously [...]

By |2020-05-15T09:40:28-07:00May 15th, 2020|Categories: Articles, Mental Health|0 Comments

How Fear Affects Your Immune System

Guest Post by Dr Mariah Mosley Why your health may be severely suffering during the COVID19 outbreak, even if you are not exposed: The scariest part of this pandemic This isn’t going to be an article trying to convince you the COVID-19 virus isn’t something to worry about, because right [...]

By |2020-04-10T11:57:33-07:00April 10th, 2020|Categories: Articles, Mental Health|0 Comments

The Mood-Boosting Winter Vitamin

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a variant of major depressive disorder that occurs during darker winter months when the days grow shorter. It’s fortunately far less common in sunny AZ. But it still does occur. This may be in part because, despite the sunshine, Vitamin D deficiency is still common [...]

By |2019-12-13T08:36:46-07:00December 13th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Mental Health, Nutrition|0 Comments

How Your Gut Makes Serotonin

We know that there’s a huge connection between the gut and the brain—so much so that it’s got its own term: the gut-brain axis. We’ve also known for awhile that there is a definite relationship between the gut and mood regulation. Serotonin is the “happy” neurotransmitter best known for its [...]

By |2019-10-04T08:39:57-07:00October 4th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Mental Health|0 Comments

Adrenaline-Deficient Anxiety

From a neurotransmitter standpoint, there are several different types of anxiety. I wrote here about the high dopamine/low serotonin variety, largely characterized by obsession and overthinking. High levels of adrenaline (norepinephrine and epinephrine) fit here too, since too much dopamine will spill over into high levels of norepinephrine and epinephrine [...]

By |2019-06-28T10:02:58-07:00June 28th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Mental Health|0 Comments

Neurotransmitter Imbalance and Depression: Chicken or the Egg?

The bulk of the evidence is against the use of psychotropic medications for anxiety and depression. Studies show that in many cases, effects of SSRIs and benzodiazepines are no better than placebo for mild to moderate depression--indeed, some studies showed that SSRIs were less than half as effective as placebo! It also [...]

By |2019-06-07T07:20:56-07:00June 7th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Mental Health|0 Comments

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) vs Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)

There’s a lot of overlap between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) as techniques for psychotherapy—so much so that it can be difficult to tease apart the differences between them. Let’s first define each, and then compare and contrast. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) CBT is the older of [...]

By |2019-04-27T09:26:57-07:00May 10th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Mental Health|0 Comments
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