• • • During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unlikely hero has emerged: pets. “In addition to helping us navigate an increasingly frightening and lonely world, our pets can also help us manage the interpersonal relationships inside our own walls.” As COVID-19 raged across the world, stranding Americans...
Read More♠ How greening your space, petting your animal bestie, and taking a break to walk can fight Zoom fatigue and improve your work-from-home routine. We can probably all agree that there is nothing normal about the so-called new normal. The World Economic Forum has even proclaimed that “lockdown is the...
Read More♠ COVID can result in long-term brain fog. Energy healing can bring relief by clearing energetic spider webs. By the time Kay came to me complaining of brain fog from long COVID, she had already dropped out of graduate school. She survived the illness but continued to...
Read MorePregnancy naturally causes anxiety—then tack on a pandemic. Writer Julie Peters shares her journey and how working on stress-management skills helps. You’re facing the big question: when (and whether) to have a baby? Then, you’re in the right situation, you feel ready, everyone is on board...
Read More◊ Turn lights on to destroy viruses. Turn off to prevent heart disease. And through it all, just keep drinking coffee. Virus-Killing Lights Think of all the safety measures you take to prevent the spread of viruses indoors. You might wash your hands when you leave a store,...
Read More“How can you help yourself feel a sense of calm, reassurance, and peace? The answer is at your feet. Literally.” Have you been feeling a little uncertain lately? Perhaps you are nervous about where the world is heading and whether coronavirus will ever go away. You are...
Read MoreWe may be headed for reverse culture shock when we re-enter society. But just as our brains worked to adjust to our current state of life, they must go through the same process to adjust to post-COVID reality. BY LAURA FITCH After lockdowns throughout...
Read MoreWhat have you learned in 2020? If you feel you have struggled this past year, mentally or physically, you are not alone. But what are the positives? ↓ To say that 2020 was a challenging year is hardly a hot take. If you feel you have struggled...
Read More↓ Banish coronavirus burnout and pandemic fatigue with these positive affirmation statements. ↓ In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, I wrote about the sudden emphasis on the domestic sphere and the pressure that put on many working women. The media was filled with tips for baking...
Read MoreIf you are a parent and feeling anxious, you are not alone. by Kathryn Drury Wagner Back-to-school time is usually a happy stress. This year, the pandemic and school closures have us all feeling extra anxious and stressed in a not-so-happy way. Try these affirmations for returning...
Read MoreLike serotonin for your soul, ginger root during the pandemic can be a balm for anxiety—among its many other benefits. Mary Novaria spins a yarn about how the superfood brought her relief. Before the first COVID-19 death in the United States, and before I learned of my neighbors’...
Read More↓ “How can you help yourself feel a sense of calm, reassurance, and peace? The answer is at your feet. Literally.” Have you been feeling a little uncertain lately? Perhaps you are nervous about where the world is heading and whether coronavirus will ever go away. You are...
Read MoreFeeling trapped inside? Or completely anchorless? A psychologist explains how we can intentionally build more freedom, structure, and connection into quarantine life. Photo by Tierney / Adobe Stock During my first day of graduate school to become a psychologist, a wise, mischievous, provocative professor said...
Read More♠ Researchers in South Korea traced over 100 positive coronavirus cases to an exercise class ↓ A preponderance of online yoga classes, at-home workouts, and concerns about the “Quarantine 15” (seriously, do not worry about weight right now) suggest that the pandemic has not dampened the public’s interest...
Read More♣ These feel-good foods are better alternatives than inhaling a sleeve of ultraprocessed crackers. I get it. You’re stressed. And you want a bag of Doritos. My svelte outdoorsy friend who hasn’t eaten crackers in decades just texted that she consumed a whole comforting cylindrical packet of them...
Read MoreFeeling trapped inside? Or completely anchorless? A psychologist explains how we can intentionally build more freedom, structure, and connection into quarantine life. ↓ During my first day of graduate school to become a psychologist, a wise, mischievous, provocative professor said to us: Human suffering is often about freedom...
Read MoreThe news that a tiger in the Bronx Zoo tested positive for COVID-19 is raising questions about interspecies transmission and how to keep our pets healthy. For many of us, quarantine and social distancing have increased time spent with our beloved companion animals. These furkids attend...
Read More🔻 Pandemic wasn’t one of the vows. How to hunker down with someone and love them still. Right now, many people are holed up alone with just one person (plus maybe a couple of kids): the one they love and adore—the very same one who absolutely drives...
Read More🔻 It’s a pandemic and you’re a stress ball. Here are 5 ways to catch your breath and calm down. Experiencing stress, fear, and anxiety are part of being human. These emotions are reactions from the body and spirit to outside stimuli, and, despite their negative connotation,...
Read More↓ The news that a tiger in the Bronx Zoo tested positive for COVID-19 is raising questions about interspecies transmission and how to keep our pets healthy. For many of us, quarantine and social distancing have increased time spent with our beloved companion animals. These furkids attend...
Read More↓ “If we are going to survive as a species worthy of survival, we will have to get beyond the limits of ‘us’ verses ‘them’ and open to the truth of all of us together.” Are people naturally good or naturally evil? I put this question to myself...
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