There are five main factors that make up our brains. (1) Nurture, the environment you were brought up in, your parents, your siblings, etc. (2) Gender. (3) Your introversion – extroversion – amberversion level. (4) Your brain quadrant dominance or your BQD, which we will discuss in the second part of this blog. (5) Your communication styles or sensory modalities,… View Post
How does your kid react to getting a bad grade in school? Does he freak out or take it in stride? Now, what was YOUR reaction the last time your child brought home an unfavorable grade? Did you get upset or walk your child through it calmly. Perhaps your kid/kids don’t care about grades in general but the point is… View Post
Have you ever gone through an emotional experience where you’ve said, “That makes me sick to my stomach.”? Or get excited or anxious about something and feel butterflies in your tummy? Do you trust your “gut feelings” or intuition? There’s an easy answer to why this is…the very real gut connection to the brain. We’ve always known there has been… View Post
Music Therapy is defined as the use of musical experiences to address non-music treatment goals, such as pain management and anxiety. The field of study began in the 1950’s after the end of the Second World War. Musicians realized the therapeutic effect that music had on the soldiers they visited and it was quickly realized that this exciting new field… View Post
The topic of death is never an easy subject to consider. Discussing death caused by suicide is even more taboo and is not often found in daily conversation. However, in 2014 the CDC (Center for Disease Control) reported that there were over 42,000 deaths contributed to suicide. That’s 117 lives a day, an average of 1 person every 12 minutes,… View Post