When Pain Spikes

When Pain Spikes

If you are a chronic sufferer, you know how miserable pain can be. Your initial reaction might be to take a pill or fight the experience with all you’ve got; however, the next time pain spikes, might want to try something different. When the pain increases, stop...
Childhood Cancer

Childhood Cancer

I just read an update in Oncology Nurse Advisor on the incidence of cancer in children. Cancer in children is rare, yet it is the leading cause of death by disease past infancy in the United States. The most common types of cancers in children ages 0 – 14 years...
Pain is an experience.

Pain is an experience.

According to Dr. Mauro Zappaterra, pain management specialist, every living creature experiences pain. It is described in the leading textbook Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as “a subjective and entirely individual personal experience influenced by...
Meditation and Mindfulness

Meditation and Mindfulness

Meditation is a journey from activity to silence … a quieting of the mind. We are all out there in the world moving quickly. Meditation helps you to reconnect with yourself and your internal world, what I call the divine within. It is as simple as following your...
Sharing is …

Sharing is …

I often hear from patients and women in crisis that sharing what they’ve created is the best part of our Create to Heal class. Sharing and listening are both acts of compassion, and compassion is healing. Healing, on any level, begins with hope and one’s...