Keeping Brain Health Top of Mind
"Why do you focus on brain health?", people sometimes ask me. And I tell them, "Your brain is important, it has to last you the rest of your life." Since that is the case, we should take good care of our brains. We want to keep our brains to be in optimal...
How to Celebrate Thanksgiving While Being Apart
For many of us, Thanksgiving will look very different this year and coming together as a family may not be possible. Try not to let the distance between your loved ones prevent you from connecting with each other and embracing the opportunity to create unique...
Happy Healthy Halloween
Halloween festivities are in full swing and while it looks a little different this year, one thing remains constant: Candy. Those tiny, bite-sized, sugary treats wrapped in shiny paper tempt everyone this time of year. "But they're so small", you argue,...
Redesign Your Destiny
As we continue to learn more about the novel coronavirus and the toll it has taken all around the world, we're also learning more about why it affected some much worse than others. While many healthy people died from COVID-19, the vast majority of cases had...
Functional Mushrooms: The Secret to Longevity
What are Functional Mushrooms? By Regina Schoenberger The Mushroom Movement, or Functional Mushroom Movement, is gaining serious momentum in America. Mushrooms are not new to Eastern Medicine as they have been utilized in herbal medicine for thousands of...
An Update from the PIH Team
We hope that this note finds you safe and well. It seems that trauma is all around us these days – COVID-19, confusing and conflicting information from once trusted sources on how to “live” our daily lives in health and well-being, turmoil in governance, and...
A Pathway toward Health without Dead-Ends
If like most people you have made attempts in the past to improve your health only to be let down each time, we want to show you a better way. Whether you struggle from fatigue, weight gain, chronic pain, low sex drive, mood swings, allergies, depression,...
COVID-19 and Adaptive Denial
I was working with a patient the other day, a mental health professional, who used a term that I hadn’t really heard before and certainly had never taken time to process. Adaptive Denial is a cognitive skill involving an unhelpful or unwanted urge, image or...