Today’s post is powerful testimonial from a patient that has beaten addictions! This Monday marks the five-week anniversary of my first visit to Dr. Sidman and I remember being filled with trepidation about driving the great distance to her office. Three weeks earlier I had upped the ante on my daily alcohol, nicotine and Tylenol PM consumption. It was now a whopping half gallon of Red Label, ten to twelve Coors Lites, three packs of [...]

What’s missing in your Life? So often people are trying to fill the hole they feel inside because it feels like something is missing. So many people try to fill this hole with food, drugs or alcohol, cigarettes, friends or shopping. The desire to obtain material things and then retain them by hoarding them, happens so much that it’s astonishing!  What is truly missing is that inside they are feeling unloved or unwanted. Something happened [...]

Pain is a perception.  Physical pain is a result of long-standing emotional pain, and it comes from somewhere within our emotional memories.  People have searched for a solution for their problems for centuries.  Psychologists know that they can trace back adult problems to early childhood and some people spend the next fifty years trying to undue the first five. We don’t want to only have better coping skills and keep the problem.  That would be [...]