Mom got the first inkling of Parkinson’s when she fell into the flower garden for no reason back in the summer of 2003. It turned out there was a reason but the knowing of reason took a long time — well over a decade — […]
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How to Connect with People Better
The holiday season is upon us, meaning chances are good you may have more family and social get-togethers coming up. But whether you dread holiday parties and figuring out what to chat about with everyone from young to old, left or right, happy or sad, […]
Real Deal
About 20 years ago I worked with a guy who always had a side gig going. After his Primerica phase, he tried to sell me on a gummy made from real fruits and vegetables that would take care of a whole day’s worth of fruits […]
Beware the Wellness Trends that Lean Extreme
Some wellness websites are now touting the health benefits of steeping poppy seeds into a strong brew to help with everything from anxiety and insomnia to workout recovery. Appealing to the “more is better” fallacy to drive sales, some poppy seed sellers are promoting their […]
Tap Tap Tap
I couldn’t believe it when I read the New York Time’s headline. I knew it. Gluteal amnesia, aka “Dead Butt Syndrome,” is a real thing. I’ve been going around for years polling family, friends and physical therapists about whether they engaged their glutes when they […]
House: A Framework for Holding it Together
Every morning, we wake up and set about our day. In the hours to come we will experience a continuous stream of pressures testing our in-the-moment soundness of mind and body. For example: Minimal pressure: You’re walking down the street and come to a crosswalk. […]
Making Room for the Unwanted
Some new neighbors moved into the neighborhood a few weeks ago. They are loud. They disturb the peace. They set off firecrackers. Illegally. I regarded this as a big problem. I wanted the old neighbors back, the formerly invisible ones. These new ones need to […]
Fountain of Youth
If ever there was a fountain of youth, I think squats would be it. If you’re young or even young-ish, it’s hard to conceptualize the day coming for you in which an intangible underlying buoyancy is no longer there to boost you up steps and […]
Coming Back to Our Senses
Being able to navigate the overwhelming nature of distress is complicated by the way it focuses our attention right down to a pinpoint, confining us to a very small parcel of real estate in our mind. In this reduced space our entire field of vision […]
How Safe is Raw Honey?
While the idea of honey straight from the hive and milk straight from the cow has great appeal, I’ve always been way too leery of microbes to mess with that. Pasteurization all the way for me. But it turns out honey doesn’t need to be […]
The Surprising Way to Get a Pill to Kick In Faster
If you have a bad headache and really want the pain reliever to kick in fast, it probably will in about 10 minutes if you are in the right position. If you are in the wrong position, however, it might take a… Very. Long. Time. […]
How the Light Gets In
A psychiatrist once told me that when people reach a breaking point with a mental health issue, they tend to deal with it in one of three ways: The religion part was the surprise punchline but after a few beats it made sense. If a […]
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