♠ We spoke with functional medicine practitioner Dr. Will Cole on his new book, Gut Feelings. ↵ Our lead digital editor Brenna Lilly sat down with functional medicine practitioner Dr. Will Cole to talk about his new book Gut Feelings, and got his thoughts on everything from “shameflammation” to telehealth...
Read More◊ Need help caring for yourself? You might benefit from inner child journaling. “Everyone has a secret battle we know nothing about. That’s why we choose love, always.” —Emma Lovewell We all have an inner healing journey that we often keep private and don’t share with others. This can show...
Read More♠ A healing crisis is any event in which you feel worse on your way to feeling better. Seeing your healing crisis as a nonlinear journey will help you arrive at the destination of improved health. Your body knows how to heal itself, but healing is not a linear process....
Read More♠ What are flower remedies, and how can they be utilized to help highly sensitive people navigate the world? A Mind-Body Medicine practitioner shares her thoughts. When I first found out that I was a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), I finally understood why my mind and body...
Read More♠ Learn a few favorite strange-but-sage beliefs, traditions, and rituals from abuelas. Things Abuela Believed (and You Should Too!) Something many Latinos have in common is an abuela (grandmother) who might seem a little unusual. In researching my first book, American Brujeria: Modern Mexican American Folk Magic, I heard many stories...
Read More◊ Your back pain is trying to tell you something. Chronic back pain might be caused by stuck emotions. No one quite understands back pain unless they have experienced it. It can be a debilitating and painful situation that is not easily managed. When back pain flares up,...
Read More♠ What are your symptoms telling you? Knowing the meaning of your symptoms can help you recover more quickly. Getting sick sucks! No one likes it, but it happens to all of us in an incredible diversity of ways. While getting ill can be random and no...
Read More↓ Five Yoga Poses to Release Hip Pain Emotions and Restore Motion Yoga teachers often refer to the pelvis as “the junk drawer of emotions.” Discover your hip pain emotions and how to get unstuck. Yoga teachers often refer to the pelvis as “the junk drawer of emotions.”...
Read More“Although all veggies are good for you, some pack an outsized punch when it comes to promoting gut health. These six vegetables, and the easy recipes that go with them, will help your inner garden grow.” It seems unlikely that our digestive tracts would be a...
Read More↓ Accepting (even embracing) challenging emotions takes practice, but it's never too late. I’m 56 years old, but, in many ways, it feels like I am just now becoming a grown-up. At long last, I’m starting to look to myself as my primary source of inner wisdom,...
Read MoreIf you are plagued by nightmares, try one of these three practices to shift your perception of the dream. Then watch how your health is affected. Although dreams are often thought of as unreal or useless aspects of human nature, they can be turned into useful...
Read MoreThe path of grief is never a straight line, especially the complicated grief of suicide. One S&H editor shares her story, and an expert also has four suggestions for ways to make a difference in the suicide epidemic. I got the call on a Wednesday evening from my...
Read More“What is absent from medicine, and even from most spiritual communities, is the understanding of our own bodies as the living sacred. Contemporary medical paradigms seldom remind us that we are sparks of divinity incarnated into human form.” As a medical doctor, my work is of...
Read MoreTake this quiz to discover which chakra houses your major financial issue and how to move toward prosperity The 7 in-body chakras—every chakra carries your memories, concerns, and programs about money. Has the pandemic triggered money worries? Track the issue to its corresponding chakra to clear your...
Read MoreGetty Images/tadamichi ♠ “Because our five senses are so powerful, we can use them as vehicles—ways to either amp ourselves up, or ways to comfort ourselves and soothe ourselves down to a more relaxed state.” “You fill up my senses, like a night in the forest …” Ever heard...
Read More🔻 The Guru of Giggling shares how it’s possible (and beneficial) to laugh—even in the face of a pandemic. “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now,” wrote Veronica Roth in her dystopian novel Divergent. But is it okay to laugh (is...
Read More↓ “If you are a sensitive person, you might notice that you are highly affected by other people’s moods, what others might think of you, and the news you hear about the world around you.” We all know how important boundaries are. We have to stand up...
Read More↓ Aging and chronic inflammation turn out to be so interconnected, the research world has a new term: “inflammaging.” It doesn’t feel fair, does it? Just as we’re getting wise to the world, the world is taking its toll on our bodies. Wouldn’t it be great if...
Read More↓ What should we do when we’re upset or depressed? Should we analyze our feelings to figure out what’s wrong, or should we just forget about them and move on? Opinions differ, but new research suggests a solution to these questions: taking a more Buddhist or...
Read MoreIt's easy to get wrapped up in numbers, but the desire for the perfect score can become an addiction. Your imperfect self, meanwhile, is waiting for validation. I was obsessed with numbers, but not in a geeky mathematician sort of way. My first high came when...
Read MoreAte two orders of fries? Downed a bottle of Chardonnay? Haven't been to a yoga class all month? Well, today is a new day. Here are 11 mantras for when you want to take amazingly good care of your body, starting now. Today I treat myself...
Read More“The problem isn’t the depth of sadness or anger that we feel. The problem is our resistance to them.” Stress, anxiety, depression, self-sabotage, breakups, chronic pain—half the trouble we get into in our lives comes from struggling to simply feel our feelings. Our culture is a...
Read MoreEating disorders almost never stop talking to us, whispering in our ear. Here are the lies they tell us. Eating disorders aren't our friends. They just want us to think they are. And they almost never shut up. Eating disorders hold the strange status of being us...
Read MoreWhen life goes sideways on you, it's helpful to remember that one of the most powerful tools we have to affect many layers of our health is already happening within us. When my kids were little and a moment would get overly chaotic, one of my...
Read MoreHow can CBD help you with anxiety and is it safe? Anxiety disorders, a group of mental-health issues, affects about 18 percent of the adult American population, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. The organization reports that these disorders, which can include general...
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