How Music Therapy Helps People Heal From Physical or Mental Illness
Music therapists help people heal from physical illnesses such as stroke and emotional illnesses such as depression. Here’s how music affects your brain. Recent psychological research in music therapy...
View Article4 Tips for Taking Care of Your Pet When You Have a Chronic Illness
Don’t let your disease stop you from taking good care of your dog or cat. These tips for caring for your pet when you have a chronic illness will help you balance your health and theirs. “The benefits...
View ArticleHow Your Doctor’s Prayers Can Help You Heal From Disease
Praying with your doctor may not be the first thing that pops into your mind when you’re sick or hospitalized, but research shows that a doctor’s prayers can help fight disease. If you’re a kid with...
View Article5 Tips for Starting a Breast Cancer Support Group
These tips for starting a support group for breast cancer survivors will help you balance hope and faith with the reality of living with breast cancer. “I just had deep faith and a positive attitude...
View ArticleWhy You Need to Join a Support Group – Early Stage Dementia
Why do I believe the first thing you need to do if you’ve been diagnosed with early stage dementia is join a support group? Because I’m doing my practicum placement with the Alzheimer Society in...
View ArticleHorses for Healing – How Equine Therapy Improves Symptoms of Disease
Horse therapy (hippotherapy or equine therapy) can help you cope with a variety of chronic and short-term illnesses. Anyone – from wounded military veterans to kids with autism – can benefit from the...
View Article3 Surprising Treatments for Chronic Illness: Stress, Aging, and Hoarding
Effectively treating your illness isn’t just about meds and doctors’ visits! These surprising treatments for chronic illness involve stressing more, embracing aging, and hoarding your reserves. Today...
View ArticleHow to Pray for Healing
Most of my MM articles on Quips and Tips for Healing and Hope aren’t about praying to God for healing from disease. Here, however, I describe what Centering Prayer is and how it can help you cope. MM...
View ArticleThe Wishing Well for Wishful Wednesday
If you had one health wish that could be granted overnight, what would it be? Here is our Wishing Well on Quips and Tips for Hope and Healing. Wednesdays is “Wishful Wednesday”, but you can make a...
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