Month: September 2017

  • Why We Collect Clutter and How to Clear It

    An excerpt from  Why We Collect Clutter, and How to Clear It By Therese Borchard In our modern society, when we get lambasted with information — dozens of pieces of junk mail in our physical mailbox and more in our email, not to mention social media — it’s an awesome task to stay on top of the clutter,…

  • Your Health Matters: How Losing Your Temper Puts You At High Risk

    Excerpt from: Lose Your Temper and Risk Your Heart Health By T. Jared Bunch, MD …Can losing your temper cause heart problems? Anger and Heart Disease: The Evidence Is In Just like high blood pressure and cholesterol, exposure to emotional and psychological stress can cause heart problems.  For example, after the September 11 terrorist attacks on…

  • ADHD – Could it be a type of sleep disorder?

    October is ADHD Awareness Month! Could some ADHD be a type of sleep disorder? That would fundamentally change how we treat it.  By Ariana Eunjung Cha September 20 at 2:30 PM Over the past two decades, U.S. parents and teachers have reported epidemic levels of children with trouble focusing, impulsive behavior and so much energy that they are bouncing off walls.…

  • How Music Therapy Can Relieve Depression

    By Therese Borchard Growing up, I had three primary therapists: Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff. My hour or two a day at the upright piano in the family room of my childhood home became a sanctuary of sorts for me. I practiced scales, cadences, and arpeggios until they were perfect, because rhythm–that sweet pattern between sound and…

  • Disrupted Sleep? No Wonder You’re In a Snit

    by Margaret Wood, Freelancer Sept 21, 2017 No one likes moody people. And moody people typically don’t like other people. Are they moody due to sleep deprivation? On any given day, you can easily find tons of articles online, in magazines, in television commercials, etc., that try to increase our awareness of the negative effects…