How Do You Know It’s Anxiety?

How Do You Know It’s Anxiety?

Anxiety manifests in many ways. Symptoms can include excessive worrying, a nagging sense of fear, restlessness, overly emotional responses, negative thinking, catastrophizing, and defensiveness. Anxiety is usually present in cases of addiction, perfectionism, being...

Reactive Attachment Disorder or RAD

Reactive Attachment Disorder, or RAD, is usually associated with children who have been adopted.  RAD can occur even if a child was adopted in the first few days of life. Although RAD is generally linked to adoption, not all adopted children develop RAD. In addition...
Neurofeedback and Peak Performance

Neurofeedback and Peak Performance

We look for ways to improve our free throw percentage, our batting average, and our start and finish times.  We improve those statistics with practice.  So, what if there was a way to help athletes to enhance optimal performance in addition to practice?  There is, and...

The Brain and Medication

If you have been medically diagnosed with depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADHD, migraines, etc, most likely you were given a prescription for a stimulant, an antidepressant, an anti-anxiety medication, or some other form of medication to “treat” the...
What are you feeding your body?

What are you feeding your body?

Hydration is key: Wherever you are with your water intake per day, we could probably all stand to increase that amount. We do not recommend a certain amount because we understand that everyone is different and we don’t want you to run to the bathroom every hour. A...
Autism

Autism

There are 3 categories of the “Autism Spectrum Disorder:” Autism Asperger Syndrome Other (technically described as PDD-NOS, which stands for “Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified”) To obtain the diagnosis of “Autism” requires that the child’s...
Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia

Are there mornings you wake up in so much pain that you can hardly move?  No matter how much sleep you get or how healthy your lifestyle, the pain from Fibromyalgia can be unbearable.  You hurt all over even when you’re not sick or injured. The only relief you can...
Sleep

Sleep

Research suggests that the amount and quality of sleep we achieve has profound effects on wellness. Nightly sleep is critical for the restoration of health. Missing sleep leads to poor decision making and affects everything we do: rushing when we should be methodical,...