Our collective resilience is currently being tested on a global scale.
Finding strategies to help you weather the storm within yourself is important.
Resilience is often pictured as someone who is “strong”, “tough” or generally impervious to insults and obstacles. But does being resilient really mean you remain completely unaffected in difficult or traumatic situations? Or does it mean you’re affected by them, but have the resources to keep going?
Read MoreHow can you responsibly self-isolate or physically distance yourself from others without socially distancing yourself? And how can you take care of your physical and mental health while still doing your best to support the greater good? After all, some of the routines that previously kept you happy and healthy have probably been disrupted by stay at home orders.
Here are 11 strategies my patients and I are using:
Read MoreAh, the infamous New Year’s resolutions. The time of year when information on diet and weight loss overwhelm every form of media. Yes nutrition is incredibly important, but let’s bring a new perspective to your goals for the year ahead.
Read MoreThis post is a round up of the best social media posts I’ve created on this topic, listed by year.
The goal is to provide a format that is easier for you to refer to, or to search. It will be updated periodically.
I can’t argue that you are made up of fish the same way I could argue that you are made up of bacteria. But fish does contain special fatty acids that your brain needs to function at its best and it contains them in a form that you can’t get from just any fish oil supplement. It’s time to get snobby about what you feed your brain…and this article will tell you why!
Read MoreDo probiotics improve your mental health?
The answer may surprise you.
It’s common knowledge that you should supplement with probiotics if taking an antibiotic, right? Probiotics are recommended to improve a number of symptoms, especially those surrounding gut dysbiosis (an imbalance of good and bad bacteria and other small creatures that live in your gut). You may feel like you are supposed to be on a probiotic for general health and I’ve seen others express guilt if forgetting to take it.
We often think of supplements as harmless at worst and beneficial at best. But is this really the case?
In looking at mental illness we have to remember to see the patient as a whole person. This is not just about the brain. This could be about inflammation, anemia, gut dysbiosis, thyroid dysfunction…and supplementing with vitamin D, while making lab values look better or possibly improving symptoms, may completely miss the root cause of the problem.
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