Mitigating loneliness in the integrative healthcare setting
By Julie Luzarraga Situational loneliness is something we all experience at some point in our lives. It may be a move to a new city, the loss of a loved...
Read MoreTraditional Chinese Medicine to manage pain
By Melissa Carr, BSc, DrTCM As healthcare providers, the increasing problems of chronic pain, opioid use, and drug addiction can be challenging when it comes to finding treatment options. In...
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Burnout Syndrome and Compassion Fatigue: A Self-Care Guide for Integrative Practitioners
The U.S. healthcare system is evolving toward a person-centered, whole-person approach. The physician, however, is focused outward, and not on the fact that he or she is also a patient...
Read MoreMay marks “Mental Health Awareness Month” in healthcare community
By Nancy Gahles “The physician’s highest and only calling is to make the sick healthy, to cure, as it is called.” In this month of May, Mental Health Awareness Month,...
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Compassion meets wisdom: An emerging medical paradigm
By Nancy Gahles Compassion and Wisdom are the two wings of a bird Flying to Enlightenment —The Buddhah This year began with top industry contenders parlaying prevailing medical paradigm into...
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Q&A: Integrative Therapies for Relapse Prevention and Opioid Treatment
By Katherine Shagoury Many practitioners have a misconstrued view of what addiction really is, according to Loretta Butehorn, PhD, CCH. Butehorn is a psychologist and homeopath who has worked in...
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Influenza: A Homeopathic Perspective
By Nancy Gahles by Nancy Gahles, DC, CCH, RSHom(NA), OIM The most devastating influenza epidemic ever to befall mankind began in the fall of 1918. Sandra J. Perko, Ph.D., C.C.N. recounts...
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Why Traditional Chinese Medicine is a “Modern Medicine”
By Melissa Carr, BSc, DrTCM One of the bragging points that we Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners sometimes use is that it has been a practice for thousands of years....
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