Monadnock Mind Body Medicine- Nadine Laughlin, APRN, MSN, CNM

10/22/2025

09/15/2025

“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and…

08/20/2025

As a bereaved mother, I know the need for and the healing that can come from intentional time and space to express, honor, and integrate grief.
Grief support can reduce isolation, provide emotional validation, promote meaning-making and resilience, buffer stress and support mental health, encourage practical coping strategies, and improve physical well being.
I offer individual and group grief support. I am certified and mentored as a Grief Educator by David Kessler, an internationally respected grief specialist.
Connect by email nadine@monadnockmindbody.com or by phone 603-957-2801 if you would like to talk together about grief support.

08/07/2025

I have completed advanced professional training from Dr. James Gordon and The Center for Mind Body Medicine.
In this video, he describes the potential for a mind body medicine approach to help with healing and restoration after experiencing trauma.

Psychiatrist, author, advisor to the White House, and professor at Georgetown Medical School, James Gordon is a world-renowned expert in using mind-body medi...

08/07/2025

As an herbalist who also loves science, Aviva Romm, M.D. knows that that plants heal. These herbs and adapotgens are her top picks for anxiety.

08/06/2025

07/13/2025

"Want to know how to truly support a parent, friend, or relative who has a loved one struggling with substance use?
Start here: STOP SHAMING. Stop calling us names. Stop giving us ultimatums. Stop pretending that stigma saves lives. It doesn’t. Stigma kills.

Please, don’t call us “enablers.”
This label assumes we have control over someone else’s behavior; that our actions are to blame for their addiction or that our love is what’s keeping them from recovery. It suggests that if we just cut them off or withheld help, they’d suddenly get better. That’s not how addiction works. People aren’t puppets. Our support isn’t the problem. And our love does not cause their substance use.

Please, don’t tell us to “let them hit rock bottom.”
This is not only cruel, it’s dangerous. Rock bottom can be death. It assumes the only path to recovery is through suffering and that family and friends should do nothing but wait. But research shows the opposite: hope, connection, and positive reinforcement support change. You don’t have to stand back and watch someone drown to prove you’re not enabling. In fact, the most effective thing we can do is raise the bottom and offer stability, love, and options so people have something worth climbing toward.

Please, don’t call us “codependent.”
That word pathologizes love and implies we benefit from our child’s pain. It’s insulting and untrue. We don’t stay close because we’re broken. We stay close because we’re human. Compassion is not pathology.

Please, don’t demand we use “tough love.”
Tough love says “make them behave responsibly.” But no one can make anyone change. If unconditional love doesn’t stop addiction, why would conditional love do the trick? Love is not about control.
Tough love is not love.
Love is love.

Addiction is defined as compulsive use despite negative consequences. So more punishment, more shame, more abandonment? That’s not the answer. The problem is not a lack of suffering, it’s a lack of hope, connection, and access to real help.

If stigma and isolation worked, we wouldn’t be living through the deadliest overdose crisis in history."

Kathleen Cochran
Moms for All Paths to Recovery

07/09/2025

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Adaptogens are a class of herbal medicines that are used in Traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicines for centuries to promote a sense of well-being.

07/05/2025

I love the science and the spirit of Abdominal Therapy, a deeply nourishing and restorative massage that focuses on the abdomen, pelvic bowl, and lower back. In this body of work we recognize that the body's vital flows - blood, lymph, nerve, and energy flows - are essential for good physical and mental health. We know that we register so much emotional experience in our belly, and it is easy to hold tension and pain here.
This technique, which comes from the Mayan medicine tradition, is restorative on many levels. It helps us to bring release, refreshment, and relaxation to our deep core, uplifting our energy and health.

Link below for more info and to schedule a 90 minute appointment at my Keene or Peterborough, NH office.

07/02/2025

A workshop to honor, explore, and share together our experiences of pain and healing in grief.

Sunday, July 27, 9:30-noon. Keene, NH.

“Embrace your grief, for there your soul will grow.” ~ Carl Jung A workshop to honor, explore, and share our experiences of grief. Sunday July 27, 9:30 am - noon. $35. Nadine Laughlin, APRN - Certified Grief Educator Monadnock Mind Body Medicine, 7 Elm Street, Suite C200, Keene, New

05/22/2025

I missed National Nurse's Week last week, but reflecting on it this morning.

I became very interested in the soul of healing when I was a very young girl, about 4 years old, kneeling beside the bed of my mother who was deep in an illness - lupus - that was very mysterious to me.
I could feel, in the unintellectual way of a child, the soulful landscape of her illness.
It felt both dark and luminous at the same time.

In the 30+ years I have been a nurse, it has always been that soulful landscape that is most compelling to me.
I'm always aware of the weaving of physiological, psychological, emotional, spiritual, social experience in the topography of illness and health.

I have always felt a mission of sorts, to help build bridges between clinical medicine - which I highly respect, study, and utilize - and the soulful aspects of medicine that nourish the soil from which healing arises.
For me, this is the beauty of integrative, mind/body medicine.