No one tells us that a breakup is a nervous system event. We speak of heartbreak in metaphors, but the body speaks in symptoms. Tight chest. Restless nights. Sudden waves of panic. A hollow feeling in ...

I have a good friend who is convinced everything is too late for her. On a girls trip, we all got tattoos. In the moment it was fun. Afterwards came the spiral: it’s too late for me to get tattoos. On ...

It’s hard to put an enthusiastic, happy “exclamation mark” at the end of that, these days, as the head of the EPA is dedicated to actively destroying our America the Beautiful and serving the ...

When I worked as a professional model, people would see me in a magazine or on a billboard and say, “I want to do that.” What they didn’t understand was that it meant being evaluated constantly, ...

Saying “thank you” ain’t nearly enough, I’m sure we agree, but it’s a start! Those who know war, as they say, hate war. It’s not a thing of glory, it’s a thing of mud and blood. Plato said “Only the ...

It is often said that we don’t find yoga, but that yoga finds us. That something in our life, in the universe, responds to our readiness to benefit from what yoga has to offer us and then presents us ...

During that global pandemic that disrupted life as we know it, many people attempted to find the silver lining in the chaos. For some, it brought people closer to their friends and families. For ...

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Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I ...

It’s actually the key to a happy romance and life. Here’s why. Isn’t non-attachment something very similar to indifference? Actually, not at all. Non-attachment is a highly beneficial state of mind in ...

The Harder the Wife Works, the Cuter She Looks!

I often think of yoga as a practice which moves beyond the boundaries of the spoken word. I did my first teacher training in Cologne, Germany—at a time that I didn’t speak more than a handful of ...