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Daily life as an adult is a lot about “chores”: day to day tasks at work, at home, for our families, errands, appointments etc. That’s normal, and rou...

A recent spate of studies and articles has focused on the health impacts of what the World Health Organization has called The Loneliness Epidemic. “Be...

Today is the Autumn Equinox - a good moment to pause and take stock.

In my younger years, I used to think that if I could just come up with the  form...

We breathe in and out 22,000 times per day - we can go days without food or water, but only minutes without air. Indoor air quality took on a new urge...

Welcome to ‘the long hot summer.’ In Traditional Chinese Medicine cosmology, as in other traditions, there are five seasons - Fall, Winter, Spring, Su...

There is a saying in the practice of qigong: “Your qi follows your mind.” What you focus your mind on, increases. What you think about matters. 

In t...

Just as we’re getting into the bounty of summer produce, the news has been filled with headlines about cyclospora (and how to avoid it), a parasite th...

I think it's crucial to understand digestion from a broader view than just our stomachs. The term “gut feeling” has biological roots in the gut-brain ...

You’ve learned a lot in your lifetime so far, including things like time and money management.

But what about your energy?

Has anyone taught you tha...

June 21st marked the longest day of the year. We are at the top of the arc of Yang energy for the year.

Despite what your calendar says, today is NOT...

I first wrote this eye-catching headline in 2018, but with the rise of online ‘healthfluencers’ and cruel and unscientific ‘health’ policy coming from...

Life is a snow globe of sorts. When things get shaken up into a frenzied blizzard, we often can’t see what’s ahead of us or what’s behind; we’re just ...