We want you to have all the facts so that you can make informed decisions about how you think about your emotional wellbeing and your healthcare. So, here it goes: According to Dr. Andrew Weil (with a critical eye), "The biomedical model explains depression as the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain, specifically neurotransmitters affecting our moods…[even more specifically] a deficiency of serotonin at synapses in key areas of the brain; therefore, boosting the activ

So, is pain all in your head? Our society has created this idea about pain being a direct result of a wound, injury, or illness. But, pain is actually a construct. It's NOT that the pain is all in your head, as in, it's imaginary! It's that pain is actually a signal created by the nervous system and sent to the brain when the body senses something that it perceives as a threat to the body, not by the tissues themselves. Sometimes those perceptions and alert signals that the b