๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ˆ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐’๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐๐ข๐š๐œ ๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ?

By Steve Cohen

Every cardiac condition is chronic and requires you, as the patient, to care for yourself. It is essential to focus on important self-care activities and identify your strengths that will help you improve and identify barriers. Depression is an excellent example of a barrier that prevents you from participating in self-care. A survey from 2019…

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๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐“๐จ ๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐…๐ฎ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐…๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐…๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐‡๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐–๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ง

By Steve Cohen

I participated in an event at a school near my home when my daughter was three years old. My role was to wear a mouse costume.ย During preparation, my wife brought her to meet me and see the rehearsal. When they arrived, I waved and walked toward them, forgetting I was wearing my mouse costume. My…

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๐€๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ: ๐€๐ง ๐Ž๐ฅ๐ ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ฉ-๐›๐ฒ-๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ฉ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐’๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ

By Steve Cohen

  Anger that’s left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Anger is an action generally with a deliberate action to harm a person or an object. Anger can be physical or verbal ( Anger Disorders: Basic Science and Practice Issues).ย  Anger can be seen…

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By Steve Cohen
What Does Anxiety Feel Like?

It would help if you communicated clearly with your colleagues, patients, and family members. Effective communication is essential for the proper functioning of your home and work environment and to ensure better outcomes for life events. But what happens when youโ€™re too anxious to do that? If the feeling of exposing your ideas to everyone’s…

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How does your body feel right now?

By Steve Cohen
Walking down steps

When looking at an unpleasant reaction to an event you have had, imagine you in a four-story building. On your first floor, there is the event: perhaps the event is tripping over some wires around your computer table. Your brain recognizes what has happened. On your second floor is pain. Your brain is well equipped…

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Hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety- and stress-related disorders

By Steve Cohen

Self-hypnosis training is a fast, cost-effective, non-addictive, and safe option in place of medication to care for anxiety-related conditions. Multiple experimental pieces of literature on self-hypnosis in treating anxiety and stress-related disorders, including anxiety associated with cancer, surgery, burns, and medical/dental procedures, have been published. Research has also provided findings regarding self-hypnotic treatment of anxiety-related…

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Finding therapy and support can be confusing

By Steve Cohen

It’s nice to have somewhere to talk about your difficulties, but is that the reason for therapy? As a Registered Nurse and a Hypnotherapist, this is one of the frustrations I often hear when people schedule their appointments. These conversations either occur when I have someone arrive for their initial screening or while I am…

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Are You Ready to Bounce Back? Adapt and Show Grit

By Steve Cohen

We are going through a tough time. In the last of March, An ABC News/Washington Post survey found that 77 percent of people were experiencing stress as a result of the new coronavirus outbreak, and it still is experienced globally. And now the world watches us as we enter another pandemic, a social one.  Can you imagine living…

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