By Alex Pietrowski We’ve known for a long while that unresolved emotional trauma can cause lifelong behavioral problems. Most notably, Dr. Gabor Maté has explained how addictions arise in people who’ve suffered wounds in the past, mostly during their childhood years, and how those wounds continue to…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Does the media create the fear? Who’d have thought! Are you scared of the government and all its corruption? A flunking economy or healthcare? Does your heart palpitate to the idea of a radioactive mushroom cloud, courtesy of North Korea? Do you agree…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor As I just wrote about, Chapman University released survey results about America’s top fears for 2017. Spoiler alert: Americans fear what they are told to fear! Yes, the top 10 results happen to coincide with the “hot button” issues pushed by the evening news….
By Joanne O’Sullivan Things Narcissists Say Below is a list of things a narcissist might say to anyone – Friends, Family or even their own Children. “After all the money I have lent you” To change the subject of the argument, this is to make…
By Health Tips Now Emotional eating is actually the opposite of mindful eating. It’s led by cravings, the desire to numb or change our feelings, stress, or just simply from habit and eating on “autopilot.” Many things can seem like true hunger, including low energy,…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor We’ve written before about the power of essential oils like lavender essential oil. Essential oils are the condensed, aromatic compounds that occur naturally in plants. Many, many of them have profound effects on the senses and our emotional state. They can be be inhaled…
By Roger Johnston Stoicism saved me in a way. My last deployment to Iraq was particularly trying. I was medivacced out with just three weeks left of the deployment. I recall as the helicopter crew chief told me we had crossed the Kuwait border and…
By School of Life We associate being dutiful with being safe – that’s how it worked at school. But once we are in the big world, too much of a concern for duty can be our downfall. “We start off in life being very interested…
By Health Tips Now A common solution to anxiety and depression is to take drugs like Xanax or Prozac. In fact, these medications are some of the most widely prescribed drugs. Besides they come with a risk of addiction they also come with a lot…
By Gary G. Kohls, MD Duty to Warn – A Response to a Radio Interview With Two Academic Psychiatrists [Yesterday] morning I listened, with a lot of frustration, to the usually very informative and usually quite balanced morning radio interview program “On Point Radio with Tom…
By Daily Superfood Love Despite living on a relatively small planet with 7 billion other people, loneliness is all too common. More people report being lonely than ever before and it should trouble all of us. The dangers posed by loneliness to your health are…
By Lizzie Bennett We hear a great deal about the prepper mindset, the will to survive. Well I have discovered during the last couple of weeks that having a prepper mindset may not be enough to get me through a major crisis. A…
By Wes Annac, Editor, Culture of Awareness & Openhearted Rebel “The people who [are] trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?” – Bob Marley To say life is hard is an understatement. We’re often hit with unexpected…
By Dr. Fahad Basheer, Natural Blaze “Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard,” but Harry had “always been small and skinny for his age.” He had a “thin face, knobbly knees” and wore round glasses held together with a lot…
By Wes Annac, Editor, Culture of Awareness & Openhearted Rebel If you want to live in a world where people treat each other with kindness and decency, the first step is to become aware of your effect on others. You’ve probably heard the old cliché…
By Dr. Fahad Basheer, guest to Natural Blaze The Impact Of University Exams On Your Body University exams are the fundamental factor that decides whether you have the eligibility to sit in the next year or whether you are eligible for the post nominal degree. University…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor There’s no denying that nature – and our exposure to it – has a profound effect on our mental well-being. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is only considered a disorder because of how many people are deeply impacted by rain and winter….
Dr. Fahad Basheer, guest to Natural Blaze The mind, body and consciousness exist as a cybernetic loop in which the 3 systems are highly interlinked and dependent on each other. Quantum theory of Mind body connection is a simple platform which helps a person to…
By Jake Van Der Borne An inventive team of high school students has created a new light therapy device that may provide relief for the millions of people who suffer from a seasonal form of depression. As the days shorten and fall gives in to winter,…
By Kelly Brogan, M.D. We are wired for community. If we disconnect, our bodies will call us back to the sense of human connection that we are wired for using the unexpected language of inflammation. I love dancing, so I wasn’t too weirded out when…
