An inspiring talk, asking inspiring questions: What are the roads less traveled in your life? What are the roads less traveled to you that are calling you to change your habits, closing the gap by traveling somewhere unfamiliar, within and without. Maybe there is people you need to have a conversation with, something you need... Continue Reading →
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New Moon and Solar Eclipse at the heels of Summer Solstice; an uncommon occurrence.
This is not the usual lunation. This is not the time to just say we forge forward because it is a New Moon. We can say this but in order to forge forward something has to give, something has to eclipse its way and possession if you will. I would propose the following: This New... Continue Reading →
On June 17th, the ACLM Mental and Behavioral Health MIG, is launching monthly Community Conversations, covering a different topic that is impacted by the broad scope of mental and behavioral health, and applicable to lifestyle medicine approaches. These sessions are open to both ACLM and non-ACLM members. I hope you will join us. Bias, Racism,... Continue Reading →
Our words have the power to inspire or undermine; to create or to destruct; to uplift or to hurt. Words have a vibrational frequency and they affect us at more than one level. Consider the use of "we are in lockdown" versus "we are in shelter-in-place." How do you feel in your body when you... Continue Reading →
Eco-Anxiety; starting the conversation on a new peril and opportunity for global change
Eco-anxiety as an emerging field within the environmental health and climate psychology circles has been making slowly but steadily its face known. I would like to share these two articles as a way to start the education and reflection on a topic that brings dis-harmony in the whole Mind-Body connection, with both individual and societal... Continue Reading →
Catholic Easter Sunday, Passover, Eastern Orthodox Easter Sunday
This morning, sadness fell over me as I saw the photos my friends had sent overnight from Europe, celebrating Easter Sunday. For one, I was so totally out of it, perhaps because we had just celebrated Passover and because of the current pandemic situation I did not have the right inputs or triggers if you... Continue Reading →
Building whole-body immunity is a necessity
One of the things that infuriates me, is that so far I have not seen one health care professional on national tv saying what to do other than wearing a mask and washing your hands. Truly, this becomes an undermining of my intellect and being. If people think that this is all it takes to... Continue Reading →