When I saw a man in a rabbit costume visiting Jocelyn Olivier at the Healus Center while discussing Candace Pert and the mindbody system, just after having green tea with Dr. Rosenbaum on video while discussing nutrition, supplements, and his holistic healing practice, I knew spending five weeks in Marin would be a rich and exciting experience to be exposed to various aspects of the holistic health community.
Dr. Candace Pert, the neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor and is known for her research with endorphins and peptides has the resources and experience to help us to understand the mind body connection and how our thoughts and emotions are affecting our physical state.
Information on anxiety disorders and depression illustrate that both illnesses have known causes and are highly treatable -- including with a variety of natural and integrative health approaches. A survey of the available information on anxiety disorders and depression demonstrates that these illnesses manifest differently in each individual and that personalized care and treatment routines are necessary for best results.
The lack of reliable information on anxiety disorders and depression can contribute to the feeling of hopelessness in a suffering individual and their loved ones. Anxiety disorders manifest as reoccuring feelings of dread, worry, panic, and fear, uncontrollable obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and physical symptoms such as shortness of breath, nausea, heart pounding, sweating, and sleep disorders. Depression can be a serious medical illness that fundamentally affects every aspect of thought, feelings and behavior.
My husband and I love to hike. We only really got into it a few years ago, when our two children got old enough to accompany us on some of our shorter rambles. (They are now twelve and thirteen.) We’ve put in some pretty serious mileage in the last three years, including hiking 96 kilometers (59 miles) in four days. (The kiddies stayed with Grandma for that one!)
We had hiked enough (all short day hikes) that we felt pretty confident that we could be able to do the hardest hike in the Maritime Provinces, Cape Chignecto Provincial Park. The hike is a grueling 52-kilometer (32 mile) coastal trail that promised, in return for all our hard work, some pretty spectacular scenery. We had only ever “backpacked” for one night prior, but that didn’t worry us. We had hiked plenty of trails before that were rated as difficult, and we found them to be a breeze. Although this trail was rated as “Very Challenging”, we thought perhaps like so many other trail descriptions that this would be a bit of an exaggeration, or perhaps not apply to “fit” folks like us.
