As an enthusiast of all cures holistic, I had heard of EFT, but until today, I didn’t know what it was all about. It turns out, EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, integrates acupressure into neutralizing negative thinking. Now, you are going to think ol’ Baddy has gone batty, but before you totally dismiss what [...]
I knew the drill. “Bottoms off, only” the receptionist told me, as she walked me into the exam room and started to close the door. I straddled astride the table, bottoms off. I laid back on the table and opened up a Star Magazine. It’s my fourth treatment but my warts are only getting worse [...]
During November of 2011, Loudymouth and I had the pleasure of attending a seminar about healthful living by Dr. Andrew Weil (pronounced, “while”). For those of you who aren’t familiar with Weil, he’s a Harvard med school grad who specializes in integrative medicine. He works on bringing natural/”eastern”/logical/holistic medicine together with “western”/feed ‘em drugs/operate/keep ‘em [...]
Until I was 21, I went to a children’s dentist. Being 5’9”, the final height I attained at age 13, this was no easy accomplishment. I was absolutely gargantuan, hanging off the chairs; the freebie toothbrushes were too small to make a difference in my cavernous mouth, and it was always embarrassing asking for stickers [...]
Which came first, the ear canal or the Erie Canal? Obviously the anatomical channel we now call the ear canal came first, but before the Erie Canal, did we call the ear canal the ear canal? Or something else, like the Hearing Tunnel? I mean, the human body only has one or two “canals”: the [...]
In the past ten years, I’ve suffered three bouts of depression. It seems to have been pretty seasonal, and I got pretty freaking low. Think divorce, breakups, scarring self-mutilation, meds, just horrible feelings of worthlessness I thought would never end. Might have been Seasonal Affective Disorder, but might have just been regular old depression. It [...]
Until college, I had always gone to the same pediatrician. I went to the gyno too; as soon as I got my first visit from Auntie Flo, my mom had me on birth control, and I guess pediatricians don’t handle that stuff. There would be no teen pregnancies under our roof! At some point, [...]
