In 1998, I attended my first training program with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM.org), and began a lifelong journey exploring and understanding how our emotions, thoughts, feelings, stress, and trauma are dramatically linked to changes in our physical and mental health. There is no separation. Look below the surface of a physical illness and you will find stress, trauma, or emotional distress in varying degrees, sometimes going back many years.
The same holds true for those with emotional or mental health issues. There are almost always root causes to be found…sometimes physical (think nutritional for example), but often there is underlying stress or trauma to be unearthed and healed.
Over the many years that I have worked with CMBM (I am still part of the Senior Teaching Faculty), I have traveled and worked in traumatized populations (Haiti after the earthquake, New Orleans after Katrina, Northern California after the Wildfires, Military/Vets, First responders after 9/11) and in stressed out populations of health professionals experiencing severe burnout and every day trauma in their own lives. And because this understanding of the mind-body-stress-trauma connection is now woven into the fabric of who i am and the lens with which i see the world, over these past 20+ years, I have uncovered and witnessed how stress and trauma have caused physical and emotional illness in all the people I meet and treat in my medical practice.
When I opened Blum Center for Health almost 15 years ago, my goal was always to bring Functional Medicine, Mind-Body Medicine and Nutritional Medicine all together under one roof. And I have a deep sense of satisfaction, knowing that yes, these are the services you will find when you explore our website or walk in our door. But more importantly, this is that attitude and approach you will find as you work with all our providers, because this has now become the fabric of who WE are.
SUPPORT FOR EMOTIONAL WELLNESS, STRESS AND TRAUMA
To support our community and to offer tools for our patients to explore their mind-body connection and resolve underlying stress and past trauma, we offer many services that we invite you to take advantage of.
- Weekly meditation classes
- Mind-body groups led by facilitators trained by CMBM
- Health coaching for exploring stress and sleep with Melissa Rapoport
- Ketamine consult and then treatment with Dr Greenman
- We also work with local integrative psychiatrists and therapists for a team approach for optimal treatment outcomes.
- And of course, we also use functional medicine to look for underlying causes of imbalances that affect your mood and emotional health, including optimizing gut microbiome, hormones, nutrient deficiencies, and more.
We’re here to help. If you are unsure of where to start, feel free to contact us at info@blumcenterforhealth.com and we’d be happy to guide in the direction that fits your desired outcome.