If we don't confront the past, we can be haunted by sadness and self-blame. Recently, I went to high school Back-to-School night with my first husband, Mike, and we ran into a colleague of his I’d never met before. “This is Christine,” Mike said...
Read MoreBy balancing our physiology and nervous systems, body-based practices can help us through hard times. Stuff happens. Another car suddenly swerves into your lane on the freeway. You misplace your keys and wallet two minutes before you need to catch your bus to work. You...
Read MoreMindful eating is about more than simply enjoying your meal. Here's how to recognize your inner critic and make nonjudgmental food choices. ↓ Most people assume that the goal of mindful eating is to enjoy each bite of food. This assumption can lead you far away...
Read MoreWhen we deny what's difficult by putting our heads in the sand, we create more suffering. Here's a 10-minute meditation to reverse the tendency to start digging. Can you feel the heat? ↓ Life feels a little more intense these days: at home, work, out in the world....
Read More↓ Here’s how to have a healthy and mindful relationship with media so you can stay informed, engaged, and feeling good. I got my first email address in college in the nineties and had to log into a black and green Unix network on a clunky laptop...
Read More↓ We can’t seek the deepest rest. We can relax the activity that obstructs our contact with it. Several years ago, I suffered a heart attack resulting in a triple bypass surgery and many months of recovery. One morning, my old friend Martha and I were sitting meditation....
Read More↓ Our ability to stay with one topic is constantly in jeopardy, sometimes due to factors that we can control and sometimes to those we cannot. ↓ Anyone who has sat to meditate is aware of how the mind likes to bounce around. It’s similar to having a...
Read MoreThis week, I got sick. I’ve been feeling it coming on for weeks, and I finally woke up with that telltale sore, swollen throat that I know so well from my long and checkered past with strep throat. I knew what to do, though. I got...
Read More↓ There’s an increase in interest in this Asian healing modality. Let’s take a look. ↓ You might have heard of gua sha, which is basically a scraping massage. It’s often used as part of acupuncture therapy, employed to treat acute disease, from fever and migraine to hepatitis....
Read More↓ Achoo! Want to reduce seasonal allergies? Try these methods. Allergy reactions always remind me of a roll call of the Seven Dwarfs: Sneezy, Grumpy? Here. Dopey and Sleepy, if you need to take strong allergy medicine. Doc is here if you need an appointment with the...
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