My Favorite 12 Natural Items In My Medicine Cabinet
Over the years it's been a joke that I'm the typical cobbler's kid with no shoes, only I'm the naturopathic physician who never seems to have any bandaids or ibuprofen in my medicine cabinet. Truth is, I generally would run out at work and just grab some from home with every intention of replacing them...eventually. Having children changed all that, though, and I now have a very nicely stocked cabinet full of three kinds of bandaids (with fun colors and characters, of cours
Why Your Vitamin B12 Could be Making you Anxious
Next time you are at a health food store, go ahead and look at the ingredients in a few of the vitamin B12 supplements. Did you realize there were so many different (and complicated sounding) forms of B12? Hydroxocobalamin. Methylcobalamin. Adenosylcobalamin. Cyanocobalamin. Wow. Well, I suppose choice is a good thing, but how do you choose which form is best for you? Interestingly enough, the type of B12 that you will do best with is actually predetermined by your gen
My new MOM-tra (and why being selfish can be a good thing for your children)
Today is Mother's Day and everyone is plastering the internet with pictures of their amazing mother who has supported them through the years and has always been there for them. As a mother myself, I can certainly get behind a day to honor mothers, however commercialized it may be. It also got me thinking, though, about how much mother's DO sacrifice for their children and how this isn't always a good thing. At preschool everyone is "so-and-so's mom". I'm just the reason my
Why I'm Not Afraid to Get Older
Today is my last day before embarking on another year, another rung on the age ladder, and another 365 days under my belt. So many people I know look at birthdays as a defeat- youth that is gone and will never be reclaimed and a constant reminder that time does not stand still. However, I love birthdays. Mine, yours, the local postal worker- it doesn't matter. It's one day a year where the world wants to celebrate with you that you exist at all. You get to be special, do
