If you look closely at your love life, you may see that at first it serves to heal your relationship with your parents. Only after that work can you truly access real love — the kind where both partners bring their baggage, but don’t expect the other to fix it. Your partner is not a substitute for a parent and cannot be the solution to wounds that began long before them.

I’ve lost count of the men and women who told me they wanted to separate or divorce but stayed for the kids. And I’ve also worked with those very kids—now adults—who grew up in homes where parents never divorced, yet filled the house with passive-aggression, emotional abuse, cheating, resentment, endless complaints.

Whatever your needs — calm, clarity, relaxation — plants can help. And the most soothing among them are often the most common ones.

When the body detects a threat—injury, infection, stress, or irritating foods—it activates the immune system and releases messengers called cytokines. In the short term, acute inflammation is protective.

Today marks one year since I gave birth to my 11 embryos — and nine were selected. I like to believe my children already wanted to send me an angel number, knowing it would make their mom smile. The least they could do… because my frozen children have definitely been expensive.

Living in America, most of my clients are American—very often first-generation Americans. And whatever you may think about America, one of its greatest riches is this: it is a country built by immigrants. That is its beauty.