For several weeks, our client Melissa was becoming increasingly frustrated and concerned. Not only was she planning for major heart surgery, she was also gaining weight, having trouble breathing and feeling “tired all the time.” On top of all that, she felt that her doctors weren’t listening to her and were not even communicating well… Read on…

We all know (more or less) what stress is. Dictionary.com defines it as: a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. Interestingly, stress in this emotional context is a relatively new term, first coined by Hans Selye in 1936. He defined it as, “the non-specific response of… Read on…