Changing seasons are inevitable, but does winter have you down? For some people, the change in weather can usher in a lower mood, while others ride through the cooler months of the year with mental ease. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is not an uncommon event. It’s estimated that millions of Americans experience SAD every year, …
When humans are walking barefoot outside, we can feel stress and worry melt away. Feeling the grass beneath our feet and the sand between our toes, or even warm pavement radiating heat into our skin, supports this. That's often why we seek out these areas for a reprieve from our normal routines and environments. Being …
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With greater attention on mental health and emotional wellbeing in recent years, more people are seeking therapy or counseling to deal with life's ups and downs. In some situations, traditional approaches may not be enough to help a person find their way out of a dark time. The remarkable effects of wilderness therapy programs have …
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One of the essential principles of natural medicine is that the symptoms of illness manifest as a result of underlying or "root" causes. By this, we mean that there is an imbalance in the body which consequently produces symptoms. If we only treat symptoms, as conventional approach does, then we fail to address the underlying …