I wrote about stress during my Emotions Series. But there is one component of it that has been on my mind lately. Most disease in the body caused by stress is often deemed as cure-less. And believe me it is, if we disempower the person by saying it is hopeless unless they shut the stress off. The important […]
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Last weekend I was invited back to my alma mater, Bennington College, to be part of an alumni panel on careers and grad school. Bennington is probably the only school in the universe that would invite a Writing/Literature/Dance Major who eventually became a Yoga Teacher/Acupuncturist/Herbalist back to speak. When I agreed to the event they
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This weekend we helped friends move. It was a highly successful move with lots of helpers and two very organized home owners in charge, but it was overwhelming. There is nothing quite like lifting everything one owns to see how much we accumulate in our life. It left me with this stir-crazy desire to come
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I recently learned that lawyers bill their work in 6-minute increments. 1/10 of an hour. That means that they have to log everything that is accomplished in every 6- minute session. What have you accomplished in the last six minutes? The last 12 minutes? The last 18 minutes? Friends of ours recently renovated part of
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I feel moderately obligated to skip ahead and talk about fear with all this snow buzz, but as I’ve spent all week treating spiked levels of stress I must stay true to course. The most dangerous aspect of stress is thinking that it is inevitable. Don’t get me wrong there are going to be times
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Napping is an integral part of my life. Other people could have hobbies that take up as much of their lives as napping does in mine. I’m a public napper and a private napper. I’m a morning napper and an afternoon napper. When I got married two summers ago we built into our wedding day
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The age-old joke about women and their “time of the month” is an unfortunate reality for a lot of women. The most popular emotion that women report to me is irritability and it is usually 5-7 days before they start bleeding. It is a truth of life that our bodies are taxed the days leading
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This morning one of the fuses blew in our apartment. Our house, built in the 1890s, has its quirks. The wiring was mismatched and confused, in not one, but three additions put on the house about 80 years ago. Luckily we are not frequent small appliance users and in the nearly six years we’ve been
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In our household 2013 has consisted of one week of exhaustion post holiday, two weeks of flu post exhaustion and then a week of catch up being normal. Needless to say on Friday morning last week when we made a grocery list we needed almost everything. Friday night we committed two fundamental, but wonderful errors,
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A friend of mine recently commented that I live a blessed life. My first response was jaw-dropping disbelief and then immediate defensiveness. Luckily my rapid second response was understanding. For the last five years my husband and I have married, studied our passions in grad school, lived in the town of our dreams, built an