Center For Wellness

Center For Wellness Center for Wellness is an integrative health and wellness center, practicing holistic family medicin

12/23/2025

We’ve been hearing from our patients that it’s an especially tough year for the flu. Here are our top tips to help you navigate it with intention.

1. Avoid things that directly inhibit immune function. This includes excessive sugar intake, seed oils, stress, and lack of sleep.

2. Epsom Salt Baths to boost the immune system, support detoxification and relieve pain.

3. Cold Sock treatment is a great immune booster at illness onset.

4. Hydrotherapy to boost the lymphatic system.

5. Burber Pinella & Parsley Detox help support the body during illness and fever.

6. Essential oils, DoTERRA OnGuard or Young Living Thieves both support the body in fighting viruses.

7. Elderberry Syrup supports the immune system and has been proven in studies to reduce the duration and severity of respiratory infections.

For more detailed information on these tips - check out our earlier posts on each one.

12/19/2025

If you’ve ever taken a deep breath and felt your whole body soften, you’ve experienced the power of mindful breathing. Pelvic and diaphragmatic breathing go a step further by using the belly, ribcage, and pelvic muscles to help you breathe fully, calmly, and efficiently. These simple exercises can make a noticeable difference in how you feel - physically and mentally.

1. Improve relaxation & reduce stress

Slow, deep breathing signals your body to shift out of “fight or flight” and into a calmer, restorative state. This helps lower stress hormones and creates a feeling of grounded relaxation.

2. Support heart health

Research shows that diaphragmatic and pelvic breathing improve your heart’s ability to adapt to stress, which is an important marker of long-term cardiovascular health.

3. Reduce anxiety

Deep breathing increases vagal tone—a key part of your nervous system that regulates stress—which can lower anxious feelings and help you manage worry more easily.

4. Boost focus and mental clarity

Breathing deeply helps oxygenate your brain and calm your nervous system, making it easier to think clearly and stay focused.

5. Ease breathing difficulties

People with asthma, COPD, or other respiratory issues often find that deep breathing helps reduce shortness of breath and makes breathing feel more natural and comfortable.

6. Improve overall quality of life

Many people experience fewer symptoms, better daily function, and improved emotional well-being after learning these techniques.

7. Improve digestive and urinary issues

Because the diaphragm and pelvic floor work closely together, these exercises may reduce bloating, abdominal discomfort, and certain urinary symptoms - particularly in people with pelvic floor dysfunction or children with voiding issues.

8. Support recovery

Deep breathing can help reduce inflammation, lower oxidative stress, and support your body’s recovery after exercise, injury, or illness.

11/28/2025

Practicing thankfulness is more than a one-day holiday - it’s a measurable health booster!

Regular gratitude actually helps retrain neural pathways, shifting the brain toward calm, clarity, and optimism. Studies, including research from Harvard, show that grateful thinking can reduce inflammation, lower stress hormones, and support a healthier immune response.

Gratitude also strengthens relationships by increasing empathy and connection, which in turn reinforces emotional well-being. Over time, this simple practice creates a positive feedback loop in the brain, helping you experience more joy, resilience, and inner balance. A few moments of thankfulness each day can gently transform both mind and body.

What are you most thankful for today? Share below!

11/24/2025

Sometimes, healing begins with the courage to change — even when it’s hard. 🌿

One patient in her 60s, who has lived with diabetes and chronic inflammation, had been resistant to changing her diet. Despite supplements and regular visits, she continued to feel fatigued and achy.

Then one day, after reading an article, she decided to give it a try — just two days without gluten or dairy…and something miraculous happened… she woke up pain-free, with energy she hadn’t felt in years.

That’s the power of reducing inflammatory load!

In functional medicine, we often see that autoimmunity (like Hashimoto’s) is driven by systemic inflammation — from foods, gut imbalance, and hidden infections.

Even short-term changes can be revealing. As a first step, try going gluten- and dairy-free for two weeks, then slowly reintroduce them to see how your body responds.

Your body’s feedback is powerful wisdom — we just have to listen. 💚

11/21/2025

In medicine, we often rush to fix, treat, and solve. But true healing asks us to pause and feel.

Several years ago, I attended a profound seminar with a doctor-friend of mine in LA. There we heard from Dr. Allan Abbass — a pioneer and "Master" in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). What I saw was transformational: videos of deeply troubled patients experiencing visible, measurable change through emotional processing. Cases of depression, trauma, even chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension improving through emotional work.

At a recent conference, a psychiatrist demonstrated how deeply the body holds emotion - how anger can rise from the feet, through the chest, and out the head - and how releasing it can transform both emotional and physical health. I have seen the nervous system shift, the body heal, and the spirit settle not just through procedures, but through presence.

We’ve all experienced trauma. It’s part of being human. But when we’re met with compassion instead of quick fixes, healing takes root.

It’s okay to feel the grief.
It’s okay to slow down.
It’s okay to let emotion be part of medicine.

If you feel emotionally stuck, we can help.

11/17/2025

We’ve all heard it: “Stay out of the sun — it causes skin cancer!”

We have previously discussed how modern studies indicate that sunlight exposure does NOT actually put you at greater risk of skin cancer – but can actually be beneficial for your health. What’s more, new research shows that it can positively impact brain health as well!

Here’s what most people don’t realize 👇

Infrared light — part of the sunlight spectrum — has healing potential that goes far beyond what our eyes can see. It’s invisible, but incredibly powerful. In fact, doctors have been using infrared therapy for years to support:

✨ Skin healing
✨ Muscle and joint recovery
✨ Hair growth
✨ Acne and even wrinkle reduction

And now, researchers are exploring its impact on Alzheimer’s and memory loss.
In the UK, Dr. Abdel Ennaceur and his team have been testing a special infrared “light helmet” designed to bathe the brain in gentle infrared rays for 10 minutes a day. Early studies suggest this could help improve memory and cognition in just weeks!

Why? Because infrared light helps your body at a cellular level — boosting circulation, encouraging cell repair, and even stimulating new growth. 💡

Professor Harry Whelan from the Medical College of Wisconsin found that cells exposed to infrared light can grow up to 200% faster than normal. It’s already being used to help chemo patients heal mouth sores — and could someday help those with paralysis or vision loss.

But here’s the best part…

You don’t need fancy tech to experience the benefits. The sun is nature’s original infrared source. 🌞

Spending a little time outdoors (10–20 minutes a day) gives your body a healthy dose of this invisible light — no helmet required. Just skip the hat so those rays can do their work, and avoid burning, of course.

The takeaway: Moderate sunlight exposure = natural infrared therapy that could support everything from skin and mood to brain function.

So go ahead — step outside, soak up some gentle sun, and let nature light the way to healing. 🌿✨

11/15/2025

Healing often looks less like a single miracle and more like a mosaic — faith, science, nutrition, and persistence all coming together. 💛

One of our patients, a 68-year-old woman of faith, has been dealing with Hashimoto’s for over a decade. We are thrilled to report that her labs have recently came back normal:

✨ ANA – negative
✨ Thyroglobulin antibodies –

11/11/2025

The Open Dialogue Approach to psychosis recovery, developed in Finland in the 1980’s has impacted my own approach to the mental health and wellness of our patients.

More than 80% of people receiving Open Dialogue care experienced major recovery - with many becoming symptom-free, being able to return to work or school.

What makes Open Dialogue so different?

Instead of immediately hospitalizing someone experiencing psychosis, a mobile crisis team meets with the person and their support network within 24 hours. Family, friends, and even coworkers are invited, because connection and community are at the heart of recovery.

Meetings usually take place in the person’s home, in a circle where everyone has an equal voice. Clinicians are part of the circle, not talking about the person behind their back. Medication can still be used, but the focus is on dialogue, inclusion, and collaboration, not coercion.

Research shows this model not only supports symptom recovery but also fosters a sense of being heard and understood — something many people don’t experience in traditional U.S. psychiatric care, where long ER waits, hospitalization, and minimal family involvement are common.

Even though more large-scale studies are needed, there are key lessons we can bring into any mental health system:

✨ Early intervention: Responding within 24 hours makes a big difference.
✨ Family & community engagement: Support networks are a core part of healing.
✨ Shared decision-making: Empowering the person at the center reduces stress and builds trust.
✨ Space to be heard: Even experiences outside consensus reality are treated with respect and curiosity.

Additional info in comments.

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Our team at Center for Wellness is committed to providing the best medical care for our patients. Our expertise is in Osteopathy and Integrative Medicine. Our purpose is about supporting the innate healing potential in each one of us.

Unlike other medical models, we do not have a ‘quota’ of patients to see each hour. You will not be rushed through like a number on a list. You will not sit for hours past your appointment time in our waiting room.

We believe that symptoms of illness have an underlying root cause (or causes). We are here to help you identify the root(s) and address the issue(s) directly.