Conditions Addressed at the Center

and Case Studies

• Troubled relationships
• Food obsessions (eating disorders)

• Anxiety and panic
• Addictive behavior

 

• Life-threatening illnesses
• Heart disease

• High blood pressure
• Death of a loved one

 

• Economic hardships
  
• Issues at work 

• Chronic pain
• Chronic stress

 

• Poor physical health
  
• Emotional disorders

• Substance and behavioral addictions
• Fibromyalgia

 

• Aging
  
• Gay and lesbian issues
• Adaptation and re-adaption of "Snow Birds"

Case Studies

Fibromyalgia

Presenting symptoms: A 52-year old female presented with long-term, body-wide pain and tender points in joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues. She reported with pain in the neck, shoulders, arms, hands, legs and especially in the lower back. She also reported feeling fatigued, morning stiffness, sleep problems, headaches, numbness in hands and feet, depression, and anxiety.

Outcome: After four 30-minute sessions of life coaching and four weeks of practicing meditative yoga, she reported that her pain has subsided considerably and that she was able to resume her my normal life. "Now I feel like a totally different person, pain free, stress free and full of energy."

Insomnia and Anxiety Associated
with Loss of a Loved-one

Presenting symptoms: A 55 year-old female presented with a multiplicity of symptoms and issues, including, loss of a family member, a sister diagnosed with lung cancer, despair, generalized anxiety, and total body weakness.  

Eating Disorder

Presenting symptoms: A 49-year old female presented with an abnormally high proportion of body fat and a body-mass index (BMI) of 42 kg/m² (obese BMI is considered greater than 30kg/m²).

Outcome:  She participated three times in the eight-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program (modeled on the Stress Reduction Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School established by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.) This helped her change her daily routine to a mindful mode, including mindful eating. Within a three-month period, she managed to lose weight and maintain a BMI that oscillates between 25 and 27 kg/m².

Work-related Stress

Presenting symptoms: A 53-year old female presented with anxiety related with her work. She also felt guilty about not seeing her aging mother in Canada.

As goals she set: 1) looking for a better job and 2) going to see her mother.

Her regimen of management included: six life-coaching sessions and ongoing once per week participation in a Serenity Yoga classes.

Outcome: After, and during, compliance with the regimen of management, she reports feeling much happier, went to visit her mother, and now is able to tolerate her difficulties at work.

Multiple Stressor-Induced Anxiety

Presenting symptoms: A 50-year old female presented with a stress index of 10 (on a scale of 1 to 10) and a multiplicity of problems stemming from her past:

1. Loss of husband 27 yrs ago
   
   
2. Brake up of family
   
   
3. Losing purse; has fear of identity theft
   
   
4. Fears of losing the inheritance she deserves from husband, since Husband's trust is to his mother and children - not to her.
   
   
5. Fear of having no home if husband dies
   
   
6. Fear of having no purpose in life "feelings of "not belonging"

Regimen of management included, life-coaching, Neuro Linguistic Programing, journaling her pleasant and unpleasant daily events, at least two three-minute breathing session, meditating to a guided meditation to CD, mindfulness throughout the day, including mindful cooking and eating.