Where There's Smoke . . . The Verde Valley, Sedona, and Flagstaff have been inundated with smoke from the Slide Fire that started in Oak Creek Canyon Tuesday afternoon, May 20. It was driven by the wind initially, and it went from burning 450 acres the first day to...
Homeopathy
Biotherapeutic Drainage
What is it? This is the technical term for what I have been doing with a lot of my patients for years. It is the main system of medicine I learned from my homeopathic mentor, Dr. Gerard Gueniot, MD. It is one of the deepest ways to heal - by eliminating cellular...
Power vs Force in Detoxification
Power vs Force in Detoxification Something I was taught the first week of Naturopathic Medical school (at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine) left an indelible mark on my thinking about healing. Dr. Sensenig quoted Paracelsus in his first lecture: “The...
How to Proceed in a Friendly Universe
How to Proceed in a Friendly Universe Albert Einstein thought that the supreme question is “Is the universe friendly?” Wow! the implications if it is friendly . . . Is everything working towards my greatest good? Will I be provided everything I need? Are there...
Deep Cleanse
Sluggish? Overweight? Headaches? Skin problems? Indigestion or bloating? Joint pain or stiffness? Difficulty concentrating? Occupational toxin exposures? THEN THIS IS FOR YOU! The specialty products go deep to route out toxins from your fat cells and completely...
Change of Season Wellness
We celebrated the Autumnal Equinox, and nights really are getting cooler! Here is the sunrise on the equinox from a 2012 trip to Salt Lake City! As our bodies are making the shift, we find we might be desiring different foods, getting up and going to bed at different...
Naturopathic Medicine: A Unique Choice in Natural Health Care
Where do you go in the Verde Valley for natural health care? How do you choose? First consider this. Chronic health care accounts for 70% of Western medicine. The reason is failure to prevent and treat chronic disease and failure to treat causes. However, there...
Health as a Wealth of Reserve Energy
Reactional Modes: The Ability to Respond We recognize health in individuals with abundant reserve energy, a radiant aliveness. This aliveness is dependent on the ability to identify what is beneficial to one’s own growth and development and readily and efficiently...
Flu? What to do?
Flu? If we but knew The cause of flu And whence it comes and what to do. I think that you And we folks, too Would hardly get in such a stew. Do you? -The Illinois Health News , 1918 What worked in the 1918 outbreak? Do we know now much more than in 1918? That was...
Getting to Know Dr. Cheryl
First, a fable . . . The human body responds to medical treatment much like the traveler in Aesop’s fable “The North Wind and the Sun.” The Wind challenged the Sun to remove the jacket of the traveler walking along the road beneath them. As the Sun hid behind a cloud,...


