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What is in Your… Cleaning Products? By: Hillary Straus, LMHC Cleaning can be harmful to your health!  What!?! Don’t let your teenagers read this article, or they may have a perfect excuse for never cleaning their room again.  Fortunately, the cleaning part isn’t harmful, but the products and chemicals that are most widely used in […]

By: Hillary Straus, MA, LMHC As the director of a wellness center, much of my life has been focused on trying to find the healthiest products and eliminate as many toxins as possible from me and my family’s life (much to their dismay, I must admit, at times) for the last ten plus years.  Yet, […]

By: Hillary Straus, MA, LMHC – Holistic Psychotherapist As much as we all want to believe we don’t care that much about money, whether we realize it or not it has a great effect on us.  Money is important and we spend a lot of time and energy trying to get more and figure out […]

By: Dr. Elizabeth Barrett, AP At the beginning of every year, people start to ask themselves how this year is going to be different—and better. They sign up for new exercise regimes. They resolve to lose that weight they put on last year. They decide it is finally time to kick that bad habit. Everyone […]

The term “holistic health” is a popular buzz word these days.  Although, it can be confusing to nail down a precise definition of exactly what this concept means.  You might feel a little confused and that is totally normal, because, the term holistic health is general and broad and there is currently not any official […]