by | Jan 27, 2015 | Michelle Alva Blog
Love is such a powerful feeling. It evokes connection, healing, boosts our immune system and helps us to grow.  A mother needs certain levels of love hormone to birth her baby naturally and to breastfeed. Love hormone helps us to focus and it makes us feel...
by | Jan 21, 2015 | Michelle Alva Blog
Emotional pain is defined as an experience of pain and discomfort brought about by our mental perception of an event or person’s behavior as being hurtful. When we hold onto past hurts and do not forgive, we become resentful and accumulate more emotional pain...
by | Dec 20, 2014 | Michelle Alva Blog
Stress is a perception that we are in danger, that something or a situation is of danger, unsafe and threatening to us. Our body is perfectly designed to move us away from things, situations, people and places in our lives that are dangerous and make us feel unsafe so...
by | Dec 18, 2014 | Michelle Alva Blog
There is a relationship that we often don’t hear about that one underlies all relationships, the relationship we have with who we are, our Soulf, I don’t mean your relationship with you body, do you exercise and eat healthy food? I don’t mean the...
by | Nov 27, 2014 | Michelle Alva Blog
Did you know that feeling grateful effects your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health? According to Robert Emmons, a leading researcher in the growing field of ‚Äúpositive psychology,‚Äù and author of “Thanks! How The New Science of Gratitude Can Make...
by | Nov 11, 2014 | Michelle Alva Blog
Ever since graduating Physical Therapy school about 20 years ago, there has been a relentless drive within me to understand how the mind, body and soul work together to heal the human body. Physical Therapy taught me to implement “the easiest and most...
