Wellness

By Jamie C. Williamson, PhD Love is an action word. If you want to send a message with long-lasting impact, skip the flowers and make your gift a year-long calendar of Date Nights. Research shows that institutionalizing “date night” can protect your marriage from deterioration and keep you and your spouse...

Lauren Stipp, MD, FACC, is a cardiologist with Ascension Medical Group Sacred Heart and is board-certified in cardiovascular disease and cardiac imaging modalities. She started working with Ascension Medical Group Sacred Heart in July. Dr. Stipp is accepting new patients at Ascension Medical Group Sacred Heart 30A Cardiology at 12805...

By Richard Chern, M.D. Hormone therapy can be traced back over 2000 years when the Chinese isolated pituitary and sex hormones for medicinal purposes. The hormones had not been identified, but the benefits were already known. Of course, many discoveries have occurred since then and today we are not only...

By Jamie C. Williamson, PhD If you want to improve your relationship and think making New Year’s Resolutions as a couple is a good idea, think again. Relationship resolutions can’t lead to sustainable increases in happiness because they are worded like wishful thinking instead of like SMART goals that ignite...

Residents in the Panama City Beach area have a new option for excellent primary care close to home with the opening of TMH Physician Partners – Primary Care, 651 Grand Panama Blvd., Suite 101. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) recently celebrated the practice’s grand opening with the Panama City Beach Chamber...

By Richard Chern M.D. The holidays are here and these are the best times of the year. At least that’s what we are led to believe. In fact, the holidays can be very stressful for people. Even though most people enjoy the holidays, nearly forty percent of people report increased...

By Dr. Richard Chern, M.D. Are there any men out there who are tired, irritable, have trouble sleeping, headaches, brain fog, dry cracked skin, depression, anxiety, high cholesterol or high triglycerides? These are just some problems associated with low Estrogen levels. As I’ve discussed previously, testosterone breaks down into estrogen...

By Jamie C. Williamson, PhD In this season of Thanksgiving most of us become more intentional about practicing gratitude. We ought to do this all year long, however, because feeling and expressing gratefulness makes us happier and more resilient, improves our relationships, and even boosts our psychological and physical health. Focusing...

“My Mom can’t stay home alone anymore... What are we going to do?” This is a question you may have been faced with concerning a parent. We often find ourselves in the position of making difficult decisions regarding the care and well-being of the dear ones in our lives...

By Jamie C. Williamson, PhD Fall is the time when trees remind us how important – and beautiful—it can be to let things go. As the days grow shorter, trees sense the natural loss of light and undergo chemical changes that causes their leaves to shift from a green pigment to...