Caring Matters
My recent discovery is mewing. How through tongue posture re-training one can correct facial asymmetry, which is strongly correlated to the development of scoliosis. Idiopathic scoliosis is a complex three-dimensional deformity of the spine. It [Read More]
Recently confirmed SCOTUS, Amy Coney Barrett is also supermom or so it seems. Besides being a highly accomplished and successful career woman, she is also mother to 7 kids – aged 8 to 18. What’s [Read More]
Raising kids to be rejection-proof is critical for their mental health and happiness. And it is a teachable attribute that should be instilled when they are young. Life can never be one smooth sailing trip [Read More]
One of my biggest struggles in healing from childhood trauma is managing ruminating thoughts and intrusive memories. Like a broken record my mind simply keeps replaying the past over and over again. How does one [Read More]
As far back as I can remember, I had trouble putting my needs first. I grew up in a home where I was taught it was selfish to think of myself ahead of others. I’d [Read More]
Most of us have grown up being shamed for expressing anger. With such an upbringing we learn to repress our anger and internalize the shame about our feelings. We are unable to manage or tolerate [Read More]
I had heard about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) quite some time ago. But the skeptic in me thought this was simply some pseudo-healing therapy, just a placebo pill for the gullible. How could tapping on [Read More]
You are almost reaching the edge, and are desperate for some sleep! Your baby won’t sleep, and you find it even harder sharing your story with other parents – it’s as though the heavens dealt [Read More]
In my last post on scoliosis, I summarized how hypervigilance leads to tilted eye-line thus leading to scoliosis. And since that piece, I have serendipitously come across Posturologist Annette Verpillot who confirms my theory ‘eye [Read More]
One of the most insidious effects of childhood trauma is arrested emotional development. The feeling of still being a child when chronologically you are an adult. One feels like a child play-acting in an adult [Read More]