Thoughtful ‘Rules of the Road’ for Blended Families
Planning a road trip or vacation with your family, or blended family? Giving some focused thought now will make for happier trails and pay off for everyone, starting with YOU! Perhaps nowhere is this more guaranteed than when traveling or vacationing with blended...
Two Children, Two Lives, Two Tappings… What’s on Your Child’s Mind?
Today I am mindful of Tapping with two terrific kids: Leena, who had some worries about being late, and what that might mean or say about her. And Sydney, who gets frustrated when trying to find ‘friends that fit.’ Just like adults, kids all have fears and worries –...
How Do You Learn to Handle Disappointment?
Disappointment is Something We Learn to Handle…or We Don’t. Learning how to share news we don’t like, and how to handle receiving and giving it, are valuable gifts we can give to our children more easily than we think. As with anything else, we’ll do a better job by...
Acupressure
These acupoints do A LOT. Multitalented and effectual for hundreds of issues, they are junction points which influence each of our meridians, as well as our other eight energy systems. These points can be added to your file for working with colds, coughs, and...
Emotions, Illness, and EFT
RESEACH SAYS: Thoughts and Emotions Impact Our Health Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, tapping) is a complementary approach improving emotional health. EFT typically involves tapping meridian endpoints while making statements about about an emotion that is negatively...
Emotional Freedom Technique Reduces Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout
Nurses are exposed to extraordinary stress during a pandemic, including extra hours of work, having patients die, experiencing conditions in which patients and their loved ones cannot be with one another, and considering whether they will contract the disease. This...
Public Speaking Anxiety
Do you have a fear of giving speeches? Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT is a technique in which a trained EFT practitioner demonstrates a series of acupoints which you tap. The practitioner taps on her/him self, while the client taps along on themselves. The...About me
A Life of Science, Spirit, and Service
Dr. Valerie J. Rice is a grounded force of healing—a practitioner, scientist, and soul guide who brings decades of experience to her work at VitaLife Center. Her path began in occupational therapy and expanded into something more profound: the integration of evidence-based healing and energy-based wisdom.
Dr. Valerie J. Rice is a grounded force of healing—a practitioner, scientist, and soul guide who brings decades of experience to her work at VitaLife Center. Her path began in occupational therapy and expanded into something more profound: the integration of evidence-based healing and energy-based wisdom.