This blog post is not just written to expecting mothers. This post is directed to everyone as postpartum care drastically changes people’s lives. This post is a means of educating people that the first few weeks after birth are not the only time new families need assistance. Really the continued need for community is through …
The grass is inevitably greener on the other side; if we are too thin we want to be curvy, if we are too curvy we want to be beanpoles. There is a certain amount of longing, no not exactly longing, but assuming that the other way would be easier. I don’t remember exactly when I …
These last few years I’ve been defining and redefining comfort. Truth be told I’m a comfort lush. If someone were to count how many times I use the word comfortable in a yoga class they wouldn’t be able to participate in the class, they would be too busy counting. I am all about comfort. When …
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 …
It is amazing how many people come in and check off “Fear” under the Emotions category of my health history form and then when I start to ask questions correct themselves and say it is worry. It might be helpful in addressing fear to return to my Worry post or my post on a recent skiing trip, Outside …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …