Editor's Corner

Welcome to the December issue of the Yellow Courtyard Newsletter.

We continue to serve as your network for connecting to our local practitioner community. We appreciate your feedback, suggestions, articles, information on upcoming workshops and events that you wish to share with us.

We have expanded our focus to include information on upcoming conferences that we think may be of interest to you.

Happy Holidays,

Susan

Please send all info and inquiries to: sluck@yellowcourtyard.com

Practitioner Corner: Meryl Brandwein RD/LDN

While many of us separate our work from the rest of our lives, I consider myself blessed that I am able to live, breathe, and literally eat the work I am so passionate about.

I am, a self described “Out of the Box”, Registered Dietitian (some may even call me a rebel) Licensed Nutritionist. My practice involves a wholistic approach to not only nutrition but to all of  life.  With a focus on the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Alternative Medicine and Functional Medicine, I am able to provide my clients with a well balanced approach to health.

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Practitioner Corner: Laya Seghi, LCSW, CBP
Psychotherapist, BodyTalk Practitioner and BodyTalk ACCESS Trainer

When people ask me what I do, it used to be easy for me to answer. As a licensed psychotherapist, I have worked with individuals, couples and groups for many years. Anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress are a few of the most common mental health issues I have addressed. But these days, my job description has expanded to almost unwieldy proportions.

Of course, I still do psychotherapy. But once I started incorporating a variety of advanced systems into my practice, my clients’ progress began to accelerate rapidly. Results extended beyond treatment goals, so that the effects experienced were no longer related to mental health issues alone, but affected the entire body-mind-spirit complex. Consequently, answering that question about what I do has become more and more challenging.

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Yellow’s Green Corner: Real Prevention
in collaboration with the Earthrose Institute (www.earthrose.org)

October is widely promoted as Breast Cancer Prevention month, yet it is noteworthy that little mention has been made in the mainstream media to the influence of the environmental exposures on breast cancer risk.

Breast cancer prevention requires addressing the real issues surrounding the global increase in incidence of breast cancer. Public health education, corporate responsibility, and governmental regulation of toxic chemicals and poor quality modern foods must be included in addressing the factors contributing to today’s cancer epidemic. Environmental factors influence an array of molecular mechanisms and consequently influence disease risk and gene expression.

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For article submissions, book reviews, workshop proposals, and anything else you think would be of interest to fellow practitioners, please e-mail: sluck@yellowcourtyard.com.