Health & Wellness

For more than two decades as a nurse, I have worked in environments where human emotions can reach their most challenging moments, psychiatric hospitals, emergency departments, correctional healthcare facilities...

One of the things that often surprises people when they first visit my clinic isn't the therapies I use. It's the questions I ask. Of course, I want to understand their diagnosis, symptoms, medical history...

Fibromyalgia and trigger point pain can feel remarkably similar, but their patterns and potential causes differ. This article explores how widespread pain may be distinguished from localized trigger...

Understanding a pattern is not the same as being free of it, and no one learns this more clearly than a high-functioning leader. By the time senior executives come to us at Algarve Wellness, most have already done...

The world is paying attention to psychedelics again, but this time for very different reasons. What was once dismissed as a fringe movement is now entering hospitals, universities, and even...

Have you forgotten who you were before the pain? In my previous Brainz Magazine article, “Can Eight Years of Limited Mobility Really Change in Twenty Minutes?”, I shared the story of Matthew, who had lived with...

All healing is self-healing. This might not be what you want to hear, especially coming from someone offering healings to his clients. But the role of a healer is not to “fix” you, as if you were a car or a...

When I was diagnosed with autoimmune disease at seventeen, nobody spoke to me about my brain. They spoke about my eyes, my immune system, and medication. They explained that my body was attacking itself...