The Perfect Snooze: 8 Simple Steps to Sleep Better
Tossing and turning. Sleeping, yet waking up exhausted. Waking up during the night. Though these are all common complaints, it doesn’t make them any less aggravating. The trouble is, much of what we do...
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7 Practical Tools to Ease Anxiety and Depression to Make Your Season Merry...
It’s the time of year when your regularly scheduled programming for nutrition, exercise, and centering activities (like meditation and journaling) is interrupted for party hopping, shopping, and...
View ArticleSleep Solutions: 14 Ways to Sleep Better Tonight!
Though sleep disorders are hardly new—even Aristotle wrote about them—our modern round-the-clock lifestyles plus caffeine, alcohol, lack of exercise, stress, and a myriad of other factors have...
View Article20 Ways to Detox Your Home
Many of us have done a detox in order to eliminate internal toxins from our body, but how many of us do anything about the toxins in our own homes? Common household and body care products are...
View Article10 Foods You May Think Are Healthy, but Aren’t (Part 1)
When patients first visit my office, I always make it my business to find out not only about their health histories and lifestyle habits, but also what they eat. Fortunately, these days patients are...
View Article10 Foods You May Think Are Healthy, but Aren’t (Part 2)
In my earlier post, we looked at the first five so-called health foods that are often mistaken as good for you, but in actuality are anything but. As even those who are knowledgeable about nutrition...
View ArticleWhy Sleep Keeps You Young, Fit & Sexy
Sleep. We all know we need it, but with our twenty-four hour lifestyles, many people view sleep as a waste of time that could be better spent doing just about anything else. Problem is, when you skimp...
View ArticleWhat Really Happens As You Get Older?
Most of us have been programmed to believe that growing older is synonymous with getting fat, slow, forgetful, and sick. Like most people in our society, you might see the years from age forty onward...
View ArticleBusting the Myth on Genes and Family History
Most of us were raised to believe that the genes we were born with are our destiny, and that the diseases that “run in the family” are most likely coming for us too. I myself have wrestled with this...
View Article14 Ways to Eat Clean and Healthy on a Budget
Recently, I hosted a discussion on eating healthy and on my new book 10 Reasons You Feel Old and Get Fat. During the Q & A session, I was reminded by one of the attendees about one of the...
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How a Health Coach Harnessed Her Rebel Tendency to Lose 40 Pounds and Boost...
I love hearing how people put the Four Tendencies framework to work — whether by using knowledge of their Tendency to improve their own live or to work more effectively with other people. Recently, I...
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Compassion in the Eye of the Storm
Of all the human qualities, compassion tends to take my breath away the most, in part because of the way in which it can transform the gravest of circumstances. Nowhere has this been more evident to me...
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Dear Daughter!
This is a letter I have just written to my adult daughter who is continually treated by the important people in her life as though she doesn’t matter. I was up half the night thinking about you. There...
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Beyond the Cliché: The Myths of Love and How to Debunk Them
When we think of the word “love,” most of us think of images, symbols, and mythologies about romantic love from pop culture: fireworks bursting, flower petals falling—she loves me, she loves me not;...
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Use This Awe-Eliciting Trick to Put in Your Back Pocket for a Rainy Day
The mind. It’s a beautiful and a cruel place to be, depending on the moment. (A.K.A.“brutiful.”) The mind is part of what makes humans so amazing (Innovating! Creative! Unique!); it allows us to learn...
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What If All Your Work Disappeared at the End of the Day?
Over the past ten years, I’ve thought a lot about building a legacy. In particular, I’ve thought about it as it relates to a body of work that you produce and share over the years. This model has kept...
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Why Shadow Work Keeps You Away from the Light
I’ve done a lot of “shadow work”. Shadow work meaning looking into the feelings, thoughts, and associations I made in the past that are giving me grief in my present. In other words, I took lots of...
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How to Write a Page-Turner
Alex Berenson had the dream job. But he was unhappy. And perhaps it even scarred him in some ways. He switched it up. To his true dreams. To the dreams he had for himself since he was a child. I want...
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The First Step to Take When You’re in Hell
It feels interminable. Like you’ll never get out. Like it’s never…going…to…end. That’s the nature of hell. It’s not the pain that drives you insane, it’s the fear that the pain could go on and on. The...
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You Can Outgrow a Metaphor – for Example “Cancer Journey”
Whatever our circumstances in life, metaphors can give us clarity, meaning and stability. And so, like many other people diagnosed with cancer, I used to look at my life as a cancer journey. But at...
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