When we think about how to get or stay well, we often turn to the tried and true: nutrition, exercise, maybe some sort of stress relief. Do you know there is more to overall wellness than that? … [Read more...]
Do you get blocked in your process — and your desire — to get healthier because it seems like such a dreary, gloomy way to live life? Let me guess — here’s how that conversation with yourself goes: … [Read more...]
My recent article for Life Extension is great news — it shows that your DNA doesn't doom you. For most of us, what we do today and tomorrow and so on greatly influences whether our cells express … [Read more...]
Rules. I hate ‘em. Give me a rule, a must do, and, most of the time, I’m gonna work harder on blasting that thing into a million pieces than following it. This is where I think we go so wrong in the … [Read more...]
Feelings … nothing more than feelings … trying to forget my feeeeeellllllinggs … Ha! I just got that song stuck in your head, didn’t I? My apologies. It’s the whole “misery loves company” thing. It … [Read more...]
Extremism seems to be our flavor of the year. (Day, week, month, decade, century … I hope not, though.) Same thing in wellness. The feeling is: Do all this. Never, ever do that. Never. Did you hear … [Read more...]
Is anyone else tired of the idea that cutting out body parts yields health? If something isn't quite right or is causing pain, the response seems to be: cut it out. That may seem to make sense — get … [Read more...]
How many times do you wash, rinse and repeat? No, I’m not talking about your laundry. Or shampooing your hair. Or any of those things where, actually, it doesn’t matter, really, at all if you do that … [Read more...]
You are either moving toward wellness or away from it. Toward. Away. Toward. Away. Which way, right this moment, are you headed? No, not what you aim to do in an hour or tomorrow or next week. Right … [Read more...]
