Moira Fitzpatrick
Director of Clinical Training, faculty of the American School of Professional Psychology in Point Richmond California.
Title: Stress: Healing the Underlying Cause of Dis-ease
Biography
Biography: Moira Fitzpatrick
Abstract
Health is affected by the ways individuals cope with stress, toxicity, our unresolved wounds, essentially our connection to life. Today, we know that most major illnesses can be linked to chronic stress. The frontier of epigenetics recognizes that something in the environment has to trigger gene activity patterns. This may take the form of environmental influences, stress, emotions, thoughts or nutritional deficiencies. Healing begins as individuals are aware of symptoms and look deeper into the intimate connection with thoughts and emotions. Mindfulness or paying kind attention to what is occurring moment to moment in our mind provides a way to realign with ourselves and values. Stress and mindfulness affects neuroplasticity, attention, cortisol rhythm and inflammation. Healing stress involves consciousness, calming the stress hormones, balancing the microbiota, physical activity and foods nutritious for each individual. This presentation will provide a wholistic model to guide the healing process that takes into account the complexity of dis-ease and the dynamic interplay of mind, body and soul which when in dynamic balance results in a state of optimal health.