If you've nosed around holistic approaches to caring for your teeth, you've certainly come across oil pulling as a potential for...

As a new clinician, nearly twenty years ago now, managing endocrine concerns was a bit intimidating. It seemed that a rather significant...

Certainly if you've worked much with the elderly, or as a nursing assistant in a nursing home, you've worked with those who have...

This may prove to be a rant post that I'll later delete, and I try really hard not to be overly reactive about the gross dysfunction in...

My grandmother had big knuckles in her fingers, Herberden's nodes, and when I turned thirty, many years before even finding my first grey...

Women's health has long been a specialty focus in my practice, largely become I lean into caring for those who aren't heard, who feel...

As a teenager, I did get the occasional #pimple, sometimes a few at a time, more often across my forehead or down my nose. It seemed I...

Evening primrose oil is commonly used as an alternative therapy, popular among women's health providers and midwives, and it is rich in...

Aging has its privileges, but one of the reasons it isn't always embraced is because we are more inclined to joint pain, and general...

My oldest daughter, now 30 years-old, started her menses when she was crazy young. She was prepared though, not real bothered by it, nor...

Worldwide, anemia in children is a significant concern, impacting nearly half of all children younger than five years of age (Wang,...

When my youngest was very little, she would scream when she rode in the car seat. We had her evaluated by occupational therapy, as most...

My beginnings in private practice were from having first been a Nurse-Midwife and if you're at all familiar with midwifery, you may know...

As most of you know, my career started as a nurse in the Obstetrical Intensive Care Unit, and then I worked for a smidge in the Neonatal...

Healthcare is changing. Clinicians struggle more and more to offer all they know they should to improve health within the five-or-six...

Yesterday I wrote a bit about maternal and child outcomes being pretty catastrophic here in the United States which I relate to the...

Suicide rates are increasing across all populations. I talk about this regularly with clients, and in each and every class I teach...

The Moon has a powerful and magical influence over many aspects of life here on this amazing planet. We don't like to lean into this much...

It seems to me that many #midwives are impacted personally by breast cancer. I am not sure if its because we tend to become a bit...

As we age, our ovarian function declines naturally. We produce less estrogen and progesterone, and we stop ovulating. This decline begins...