Intuitive Health & Healing Blog

My favorite skincare routines, lesser-known practices like gua sha for facial rejuvenation and anti-aging, and my very own beloved skin serum recipe.

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) occurs when excessive bacteria inhabit the small intestine, a place they don’t belong. Understanding how the gut moves food along explains why this happens and how to fix it. From the Migrating Motor Complex to non-Fermenting foods, to herbal prokinetics and natural antimicrobials, this post offers a roadmap to heal SIBO.

Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) is a complex condition that requires awareness, attention, patience and holistic care. This post highlights some of the most effective treatment strategies that emphasize nutrition, holistic remedies, and stress reduction, drawing from Chinese Medicine Acupuncture (TCM), allopathic medical approaches, as well as functional and naturopathic recommendations.

A Course in Miracles recognizes that it easier to believe negative, fear-based thoughts because they are louder. The Course teaches us that following Spirit takes courage and practice. It rewires the brain and absolutely opens our Lives up to synchronicity, joy and miracles. This is not just “positive thinking” — it is training the mind to align with Spirit: Truth and Love.

War leaves profound marks — on bodies, families, cultures and entire nations. They ripple through generations in the form of health conditions, emotional wounding, dismantled communities, and changes in physiology that science is only beginning to understand. This post explores the intersection of epigenetics, intergenerational trauma, and healing — blending research with my own history of surviving a war 85 years ago.

Trauma can shape every aspect of our lives. From physical pain and fatigue to anxiety, digestive issues, disturbed sleep, autoimmune issues, and emotional disconnection, trauma lives in the body. At Intuitive Health & Healing in Tucson, I offer a trauma-informed, integrative approach to healing that combines the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine and acupuncture with intuitive coaching, somatic therapies, nervous system regulation, CranioSacral Therapy, and Reiki (energy heal

Inner Family Systems (IFS) is a therapeutic model understands that the psyche is comprised of distinct “parts” or sub-personalities, each with its own feelings and roles. Individuals heal by accessing their compassionate inner care giver, or higher Self, to understand, integrate, and unburden the different parts. Learn how to get in touch with your inner child, your inner teen & more. Identify and intercept the inner critic and empower your inner loving caregiver or higher se

We often focus on attaining what lives just outside the body, whether it’s through relationship, achievement, accolade, wealth, status, power, perfection, etc. Beneath the surface of that striving lies something far more tender and real: the impulse to feel particular emotions and sensations. To feel connected, safe, seen, heard, loved, special, alive . . .

Addictive behaviors are the body's attempts to self-regulate in response to (often trauma-induced) autonomic dysregulation. Instead of viewing these behaviors as diseases, they are survival strategies that can be transformed through embodied awareness, nervous system regulation and self-compassion practices .

Identify Nervous System states and learn practices that will help shift you from dis-regulated and stressed to calm, curious and connected.

Drawing on the entire series, Part 4 outlines a potent Growth Process to shift you out of self-sabotage to self-mastery by using awareness, presence practices and activating your inner wisdom.

In a simple 4 step process, we can release self-defeating thought patterns and increase self-mastery. Rather than react from our Saboteurs—those outdated strategies rooted in fear or control—we can consciously choose to operate from our Sage - our Wisest Self. The 4 steps are: 1. Notice Saboteurs (Awareness); 2. Celebrate (10 seconds of Acknowledgment); 3. Build Capacity (10 seconds of a Presence Practice); 4. Activate your Sage (utilize aspects of your Inner Wisdom)

Introducing 10 second Presence Practices - powerful tools that can interrupt stress patterns, build resilience, and literally rewire the brain toward greater clarity, capacity, and emotional agility.

Learn to identify self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors (the Saboteurs) and more easily activate your Inner Wisdom (the Sage).

Borrowing from many cultures and wisdom traditions: plan activities during the early morning and late evening, retreat indoors or into shade during peak hours and preserve your energy midday so you can gather and celebrate after sunset. 

An easy-to-understand framework that will help you identify and transform self-defeating subconscious thought patterns. When our subconscious beliefs are negative or rooted in fear, they manifest as reactions, strategies and behaviors that keep us stuck in patterns of self-sabotage. To live a life we love, we need to identify and transform these beliefs at the root.

Simple ideas to optimize your health and harness the blooming, upward energies of Spring. Health from a Chinese Medicine perspective

Holistic immune boosting strategies to prevent and alleviate allergy symptoms this spring.

How to increase vagal tone and nervous system resilience. The vagus nerve is essentially the communication super highway of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Here you will find simple exercises that increase vagal tone in just a few minutes. Increase your vagal tone and stimulate the parasympathetic system (rest and digest), and a robust vagal tone promotes our body's’ ability to process and relax more quickly after a stressful event.

Learn to resource the Nervous System with Bilateral Stimulation and Vagal Toning Techniques. Beyond noticing the breath and the physiology, there are a number of simple practices that we can engage when we are activated that will invite the parasympathetic (rest & digest) aspect of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) to come online and rebalance from a sympathetic state (flight, fight, freeze, appease or fawn). Taking just a few minutes to resource the ANS can make a profound