What gets you up and off your couch? Despite debilitating hip and back pain for almost 2 years, I kept going. Toward the end, before we learned what was really [Continue reading...]

Independence certainly has its price. Last week, a very dear friend of mine, who lives in my neighborhood, missed a meeting. Worried, her friends went to see if she were [Continue reading...]

John Paul Lederach writes in The Moral Imagination of a concept called “paradoxical curiosity.” This type of curiosity maintains respect for complexity, a “refusal to fall prey to the pressures [Continue reading...]

As part of a 12 week program to help participants get healthy from inside out, participants had an assignment of no facebook,  tv or radio for one week. I participated [Continue reading...]

When did sex become unnatural and bad? Sexual repression creates an increase in violence. That is proven by research and not just me making it up. We have no problem [Continue reading...]

A 2005 study from Tuft’s University showed semivegetarians were 11% less likely to be obese than meat eaters. So how do you get protein when you start cutting meat out [Continue reading...]

What if your body became your medicine? What if you could learn how to be present with the emotions without trying to fix it, stop it, or numb it? What [Continue reading...]

1. Dish out the delicious compliments People like to be recognized and it feels good to be complimented out of the blue. 2. Hold Back on the Criticism Does it [Continue reading...]

Enough. I want transparency. I want kindness. I want compassion. Listen, after watching Gov. Brewer put her finger in the face of the President of the United States because he [Continue reading...]

Everything begins with a thought. The fear of not enough, of being attacked, of being not supported makes it come to fruition. The only way to change this path of [Continue reading...]