Feature | Thursday, January 12,2006

Mental health

Local therapist teaches how to manage pain and stress

Eva Muller says she learned how to be a therapist as a child, sitting on her mother’s knee and listening as her mother related memories of the Holocaust, i

Feature | Thursday, January 12,2006

Meditation

Springfield multimedia artist provides spiritual consultation

By Becky Aud-Jennison

Gentle, soft-spoken David Cain wears many hats — artist, businessman, practitioner of the healing arts — and the blossoming of his career closely parallels his

Feature | Thursday, January 5,2006

Weight loss

Springfield counselor-dietician says overeating is a symptom of deeper problems

By Becky Aud-Jennison

During her years in practice as a dietitian, Neala Ausmus says, she met many clients who could have taught the mechanics of weight loss better than she. “As I worked wi

Feature | Thursday, June 9,2005

health wise 6-9-05

By Becky Aud-Jennison

In a home on the west side of Springfield, I recently met with a group of five local reiki practitioners. Their walks of life vary, but one thing they have in common is a pas

Feature | Thursday, April 28,2005

health wise 4-28-05

By Becky Aud-Jennison

My first experience with Jim Sullivan was light on words and heavy on physical touch. I had heard about Sullivan’s skill with bodywork and went for a massage —

Feature | Thursday, March 17,2005

health wise 3-17-05

By Becky Aud-Jennison

Donna Griffiths’ life is marked by many firsts: She’s the first in her family to go to college, Springfield’s first female union carpenter, and the area’s first resid

Feature | Thursday, March 10,2005

health wise 3-10-05

By Becky Aud-Jennison

Come in. Shut door. Sit down. Close mouth. Barely out of her teens, Joyce Surbeck-Harris found her life forever altered by those words. As a child, Surbeck-Harris was aware