"Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert...
One of the easiest ways to dismiss information you don't like or want to suppress is to label someone "a Quack". It's the kiss of death for new ideas and kills innovation. I prefer to encounter new ideas with a healthy skepticism, which includes an inquisitive...
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain "A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD. Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory...
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club”. ~ Jack London If you want to get something done in your life, don’t just sit there waiting for the muse to hit you (with a 9 iron preferably). Want to travel blog?...
It’s all about balance really. I don’t just mean the everyday concept of balance- of ‘everything in its time, of learning to not overdo things’, but the dynamic set of balances between pairs inherent in any living system. Consider the amazing pairing of balances in our own biology....
"The Perfect Health Diet is more than a diet. It's a program for perfect health. The result of 5 years of research, the Perfect Health Diet enabled scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet to cure their own chronic diseases. With more than 600 citations to the...
The other day I was driving along, maximizing my learning time by listening to a iTunesU podcast on Pathophysiology when I realized that my brain was just stuffed. Full-up. Literally jam-packed. It wasn’t going to take in even one more tiny scrap of information no...
My best friend/sister brought her little baby girl over yesterday and we spent the afternoon talking, laughing and enjoying her little one. Tracing the shape of her cheek, feeling her tiny fingers between yours is almost surreal. Earlier last month we were scared that we...
Bringing together the definitions for my book on Textures Techniques has gotten me thinking on the ‘definition’ of art. No matter how we try to describe each technique as accurately as possible, there is something missing from our detailed descriptions. Something essential that the artists themselves...
Every day as a writer, as an artist, every new piece is a new attempt to communicate- an often frustrating attempt to express yourself in a language with few well defined words. I remember as a child sliding into the mental space that let me see...