by lisaparziale | Aug 11, 2015 | Blog
Pediatric patients diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition and their families are catapulted into crisis mode as they embark upon a challenging journey with numerous potentially traumatizing situations. These children and adolescents may experience...
by lisaparziale | Aug 4, 2015 | Blog
Alopecia is the loss of some or all of one’s hair. For cancer patients, alopecia happens because chemotherapy attacks rapidly growing cells including those in your hair follicles. This hair loss can happen all over your body, not just your head. For some, the hair...
by lisaparziale | Jul 23, 2015 | Blog
Ancient wisdom and recent research from the field of positive psychology suggests that learning to forgive may just be one pathway to greater emotional freedom, peace, better relationships and improved health. Forgiveness is defined as a deliberate decision to release...
by lisaparziale | Jul 16, 2015 | Blog
In my last post, I wrote about how to identify and understand your core beliefs. As a refresher, core beliefs are those underlying ideas that we have about ourselves, the world, and others. In some cases, these beliefs help us to get our needs met and make us feel...
by lisaparziale | Jul 9, 2015 | Blog
Core beliefs are the underlying ideas we hold about ourselves, others and the world. These ideas develop during childhood as you begin to use your relationships with caregivers and your own experience to interpret the world around you. From this learning and...
by lisaparziale | Jul 2, 2015 | Blog
Children can be over- or under-sensitive to many things, including eating, so we must remember that eating is more than just chewing and swallowing food. It is a sensory experience. Eating includes: The External Environment: What is happening around me? The smell of...
