My friend’s Turkish grandmother once read my teacup. She told me that I wouldn’t have a problem finding love and I’d be prosperous but I’d have to work my tooshie off. As I carefully looked at my teacup, I tried to understand how the wet leaves stuck to the bottom of my cup could speak of my future. Flash forward to the present day I’m reminded of the teacup since I do much of the same with patients and what I call, “Plate Reading”.
Yep, what you have on your plate …
The year was 2007 and it was the dead of winter and I had pulled up into the parking lot and I had about 15 minutes until class started. There it was again, the well of emotions bubbling ...
This is a question I get a lot.
In fact, people challenge me on it and many will say, the liver detoxes naturally! Granted this is partially true, however even so, many us have livers that are ...
The phrase sounds almost funny doesn’t it. But every so often in practice, I hear it from one of my patients. And it may be that they say the opposite: I wish I had diarrhea! But ...
Throwing her hair up in a messy up do and wedging her feet into Havaianas pulled from the back of her closet, she’s happy - the warmer weather is finally here. Problem is there’s a feeling ...
Feeling tired? Sluggish? Looking forward to getting rid of your orange peel thighs? Or maybe you want to clear up your skin or stop feeling so bloated and having funky poops.
Either way, ...
I always admired my friend Macy. She was tall, beautiful, confident and smart. We’d gab about sex over coffee or make plans to have wine in the park. I loved her strength so when I received a text ...
As the summer tries to jumpstart spring, skirts make their way to the front of our closets and our skin begins to make its appearance. This isn’t exactly something that makes most women feel comfortable. ...
I suppose that was a bit vulgar or maybe too much information to be writing in the morning, but it’s true, at one point I hadn’t shat in a full seven days. I didn’t understand, I ...
I had an Ally McBeal moment the day I sat in front of my doctor who told me, “Relax, ovarian cysts happen in every woman.” I could picture throwing him across his clinic crashing into the pile of ...
Last night I attempted to go to bed before 10pm and if you know me, that isn’t exactly normal. My wake up time is at 7am to my most expensive alarm clock (Bodhi, my dog) and ...
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We've all experienced it at some point or another...bad breath. We become self-conscious after sitting in a movie theatre for a couple of hours or after our morning coffee. So this week when I got a letter from Karen, who wanted ...
It was 8am and the alarm went off. I smacked it with my hand that let out a hard thump. Surprised at the sound I looked over to realize that my hands were huge and had claws with a finger now being the size of what used ...
