May 31, 2022, is World Bedwetting Day. Is that a good name for this day? I don’t think so! Because, as my teacher and mentor, Michael Yapko, PhD, taught me, “What you focus on, you amplify.” Do you want to focus on something negative, or on something positive? If I tell you, “Don’t think of […]
Which is better? The carrot or the stick? Is it better to criticize someone or to try to help build them up? When working with people of any age, we always want to be positive. Here are a couple of examples of this: I knew of a teenager who got all A’s and a B+ […]
How This Unique Approach For Treating Hard-To-Solve Conditions Is Different From Anything Else You’ve Tried “Do…or do not. There is no try.” This iconic quote is from Yoda, in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. * And it often applies to many of my patients and families. By the time I see patients, […]
How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Treat IBS By Healing Your Gut Microbiome A couple of years ago, I spoke with an old friend whom I hadn’t spoken with for a couple of years. I asked him how he was doing, and he replied: “Great! In fact, I’m getting out of the hospital tomorrow, 2 days […]
Why the Mind-Gut Connection Is the Key to Solving Your IBS & Ongoing Stomach Issues Most people are at least somewhat familiar with the concept that our bodies are integrated systems that talk with and affect one another. However, traditional western medicine has programmed us well that when we have a physical symptom, we take […]
Hello, again. Yes, summer is officially over, and children and adolescents are returning to school. Many of them haven’t been to school for the past year and a half, as they had to participate in remote learning from home. Now they are returning to the classroom, and although they are excited to be out of […]
In previous years, the summer always seemed to have passed too quickly. This year, with the pandemic and the Delta variant, many students are actually glad that summer is over and are excited to get back to in-person schooling. Their socialization drought is now over. And, as it happens, tics in patients with Tourette syndrome […]