Do you or your child struggle with sports performance anxiety? Or need to boost toward peak performance? If so, I imagine you might be feeling frustrated, disappointed, and perhaps a bit discouraged. And I feel sad to hear about this. On the other hand, I feel hopeful as medical hypnosis is used all the time
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Hello Village Doctor family! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Erik Arvidsson. I am a professional Alpine Skier on the US Ski Team. My family has been Village Doctor patients since Dr. Weiss opened the clinic, and now I am fortunate enough to represent the Village Doctor on my helmet
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Friends, With Thanksgiving behind us, and the Holidays just around the corner, there is much for me to be thankful for, and much to share here with you. First, and with a heavy heart, I must share that my medical assistant, the wonderful Kimmie Butler, has taken advantage of an opportunity with more upward mobility,
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While the holidays can be full of excitement and merry-making, they can also be a huge stress on our sleep schedule! Our circadian rhythm timekeeping system is pretty amazing. This intrinsic system modulates many physiologic processes, including daily rhythms in core body temperature, melatonin secretion, cortisol and appetite. It drives wakefulness during the usual wake
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Mindfulness, or the intentional practice of bringing one’s attention to the present-moment experience without judgment, has become a buzzword lately after the popularization by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and the development of smartphone apps like Headspace and Calm. It is an easy and helpful technique to practice and has many benefits including, but not limited to,
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If 2021 included any changes to the information we have on file for your family, please be sure to let us know. We need to know about updated insurance coverage, addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses. Remember, that information accompanies your referrals, prescriptions, and samples sent to labs. Make sure it’s up-to-date with us so
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November!? Where has this year gone? The weeks and months have passed by like a Halloween ghost… and now we’re approaching the season of gratitude and too much turkey stuffing. Amazing. In the spirit of gratitude, I’d like to give my friends and colleagues at Stanford Emergency Medicine a shout out. I’ll start with my
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Fall is the season of abundance and cooking with your family and friends is a great way to cultivate joy and spice (pumpkin spice) in your kitchen. These are two favorites in our house: Mulled Apple Cider Now this is a recipe you can make every weekend! The fragrant spices will boost everyone’s mood. Cinnamon
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Tired of bickering, jealousy, and selfishness? Kids are naturally materialistic and self-serving– but the good news is that gratitude can be taught. And from gratitude flows joy. Teaching Children Gratitude and Creating a More Joyful Home: 1 Surprise them! Avoid too many choices: Surprises help children see something as a gift, not an entitlement. Having
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Happy summer, friends! I hope this newsletter finds you well and enjoying these beautiful days with friends and family. Yes, we have to still pay attention to COVID precautions (the BA.5 variant is still on a roll), but no, you do not need to worry about Monkeypox (and rest assured we are watching this
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A child’s sense of self-esteem is fundamentally the result of how they perceive themselves, their abilities, and their confidence in their ability to navigate their environment. It is also greatly influenced by the perceptions and expectations of important people in their life, starting with parents and family members, and extending to teachers, coaches, schoolmates, and
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In today’s blog I want to address a problem that affects about 54 million of our fellow Americans. Non-Hispanic White and Asian American women make up the bulk of that number. Amongst men Non-Hispanic White men are more often affected than others. Quite often I hear from men that Osteoporosis is a female problem only.
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What is a sleep regression? A sleep is regression occurs when your child who normally slept well starts resisting going to sleep, has trouble staying asleep either with night time sleep or naptime sleep and/or wakes up before 6 am. Why do sleep regressions happen? Any time you hear sleep regression, think growth and distraction.
For parents of children younger than five years of age, frustration and disappointment are mounting. Recently, the FDA delayed approving COVID immunizations for the under-5 age group until more data is available, regarding a third dose. This has many people upset and two timely articles were released in the NY Times and Washington Post discussing
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The pandemic of 2019 only heightened in 2020 and bled into 2021. Society had turned on its head. As a pediatrician I noticed what should have been a temporary adjustment or transition period for my patients turn into full blown anxiety and depression. During these periods of extreme uncertainty with constraints of daily living, it
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