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The Morning My Daughter Asked Me to Get on the Scale

The Morning My Daughter Asked Me to Get on the Scale

If I were to have one wish for my daughter, other than that she is happy and healthy, it would be that she develops and maintains a healthy relationship both with food and her body. Having my own history of eating issues combined with a complex relationship with my body, I have tried to foster a healthier partnership between my…
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Banish Your Inner Critic with Kindness

Banish Your Inner Critic with Kindness

When I first started doing guided imagery and guided meditations in my private practice, I would always begin by asking my patients to let go of any expectations they might have and approach the experience without judgment or criticism. I can hear my voice now as I write this … I have asked patients to “let go of criticism and…
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Make a Date with Yourself in 2016

Make a Date with Yourself in 2016

My calendar is getting full.  Every January when I get back from the holidays, I buy a new datebook ... a new datebook for the new year.  I keep track of the kids’ school days and their days off, their weekly classes and play dates, and birthdays and birthday parties.  I jot down the daily pick ups and drop offs of my kids at school.  I schedule doctor and dentist appointments,…
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Stand Up To Sugar

Stand Up To Sugar

We need to rethink our relationship with sugar. I have counseled patients on reducing their sugar intake for over a decade now, and I have come to this conclusion … if we dread the idea of giving up sugar, if we are frantically searching for sweetener alternatives, and if we look forward to consuming sugar daily, WE NEED TO CHANGE THE…
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Let’s Protect and Respect Our Time

Let’s Protect and Respect Our Time

I can’t help commenting on this today.  I’m wondering if you are noticing what I’m noticing? As I find myself using and depending on my smartphone more and more, I find that I am able to accomplish more and more.  I’m able to answer an email at the grocery store, reschedule a patient anywhere and anytime with a single text,…
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Let Your Healthy Behaviors Ground You

Let Your Healthy Behaviors Ground You

Occasionally I will notice a trend or make a connection in my work.  Recently, I have been super interested in what it takes and what allows us to make real and lasting changes in our lives.  What I am noticing is this … my patients who see making healthy changes in their lives as a chore or nuisance struggle more…
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Taking Care of Ourselves While Taking Care of Others

Taking Care of Ourselves While Taking Care of Others

I recently talked to a great group of moms about the challenges and rewards of taking care of ourselves while caring for our children.  Many of us are living the role of caretaker.  We care for families, children, partners, elderly parents, patients, clients, pets, and more.  We accept the role because we are needed and because we can help.  We…
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“Breathe in and Relax” … Why for some that‘s not so easy?

“Breathe in and Relax” … Why for some that‘s not so easy?

I saw a patient yesterday who, while we were talking about using breath to relax, quickly and abruptly cut me off and explained that “breathing” does not relax her.  In fact she said, “It stresses me out. “  In my experience this response is not uncommon.  A comment I hear a lot when talking or lecturing about breath is that breathing…
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• My Practice is Evolving and I’m Naming My Bodywork

• My Practice is Evolving and I’m Naming My Bodywork

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. This year I am celebrating twelve years in private practice.  My practice has taken many shapes and forms in the past decade.  When I moved my practice from New Haven to Guilford two years ago, I made the decision to focus my practice in the two areas where I felt most passionate – mind-body medicine and…
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• A Balancing Act: Our Families, Our Work, and Ourselves

• A Balancing Act: Our Families, Our Work, and Ourselves

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. Last week a patient said to me, quite casually, “You haven’t written a newsletter in a while.”  I immediately felt a slight sense of panic.  Thoughts raced through my mind like, “I haven’t been doing my job,” “I’m slacking,” and “I really need to focus more on my work.” I didn’t consciously take the summer off from…
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• What Drives Us to Take Better Care of Ourselves?

• What Drives Us to Take Better Care of Ourselves?

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. One of the philosophical principles of naturopathic medicine is that the body has an innate ability to heal itself. Applying this principle to mind-body medicine, we could extrapolate that each one of has an innate desire to take care of ourselves and improve our health and sense of wellbeing.  We might assume that deep down we want to make better choices like eating healthier foods, exercising, and…
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• Finding Meditation in our Busy Lives

• Finding Meditation in our Busy Lives

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. Meditation is a concept I love to talk about.  I teach it in both an academic and a clinical setting, and it is so interesting to me to hear the experiences people have had with it, the preconceived notions they may have about it, and how they see it fitting into the lives they live today.…
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• Feeling Free to Feel

• Feeling Free to Feel

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. I’d rather feel silly, excited or glad, Than cranky or grumpy, discouraged or sad. But moods are just something that happen each day, Whatever I’m feeling inside is okay! -Jamie Lee Curtis  My mom gave Lucy a book last week.  In the middle of reading it to her the other night, I thought to myself how…
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• The Gift of Time Spent Together

• The Gift of Time Spent Together

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. Nine years ago was the last Christmas I spent with my father.  Even though at the time I had no idea that that would be our last Christmas together, I remember that Christmas more vividly than any other holiday spent with my family. I remember that we celebrated Christmas a day late because my sister and…
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• Finding Ease in our Lives is Hard Work

• Finding Ease in our Lives is Hard Work

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. We live in a country that celebrates hard work.  We tell our children that if they work hard enough they can accomplish anything they set out to do.   In many ways, this is a wonderful message.  It can create confidence and a sense of responsibility, as well as instill a motivation to work hard and excel. …
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Making a Date with Myself

Making a Date with Myself

My calendar is getting full.  Every year, September rolls around, and I get out my date book.  I write down the kids’ school days and their days off, I plan for weekly classes and play dates, I keep track of birthdays, birthday parties, and holidays, I schedule doctor and dentist appointments, and I block out the hours that I teach and see patients.  This…
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• Why We Eat Too Much (Part One)

• Why We Eat Too Much (Part One)

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. If there is ever a topic which I feel most qualified and least qualified to talk about, it is food addiction.  While so much of my clinical background and experience has focused on the complex relationship we have with our bodies and our food, there are still so many questions I have regarding why we eat…
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• Learning from a City as it Begins to Heal

• Learning from a City as it Begins to Heal

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. As a person whose work centers around the concept of healing, I look at Boston with a broken, heavy heart and a sense of awe.   Amongst the horrific images and the unspeakable loss is the reality of a city and a community doing what it must do … grieve, process and move forward. As a student…
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• I’m Inspired

• I’m Inspired

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. I’ve been struggling for four years now.   Before having children, exercise was an integral part of my life.   I spent much of my youth and young adulthood dancing every day.  When I eventually stopped dancing, I tried running, weight training, yoga and kickboxing.  All were great workouts, but none of them stuck.  The summer after graduating…
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• Five Ways to Stay Motivated and Attain Your Health Goals

• Five Ways to Stay Motivated and Attain Your Health Goals

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. This is a good time of year to talk about motivation.  Many of us use the new year and/or the month of January as motivation to start living healthier lives and making healthier choices.   In my experience, both personally and clinically, come February the motivation tends to begin fading away.  Of course there are always people…
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• The Holidays and Stress – The Gift of the Present Moment

• The Holidays and Stress – The Gift of the Present Moment

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. For many of us the holidays hold such wonderful memories, such great expectations and a lot of responsibilities.  We have cookies to bake, cards to write, envelops to address, presents to buy or make, gifts to wrap, decorations to put up, parties to go to … much of which is joyful and some of which is…
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• Our Inner Reflection: <br>A Mind-Body Look at Self-Image

• Our Inner Reflection:
A Mind-Body Look at Self-Image

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. There are very few things in this world that I can say I know are certain.  One thing I can say, without a moment of hesitation, is that spending much of my adolescence and early adulthood in front of a mirror, in tights and a leotard no less, was not a great foundation for a healthy…
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• A Different Kind of Chaos Theory

• A Different Kind of Chaos Theory

by Jenn Krebs, N.D. I have had an interest in chaos for quite some time now.  Twenty plus years ago, I wrote my undergraduate thesis on how art, specifically the art of making dance, can grow out of chaos.  I ended my thesis with what at the time seemed a very revolutionary concept to me – how self-growth and self-awareness…
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