Healing Elixirs for Holiday Stress December 23, 2013 • 0 Comments Well, here we go into the final stretch of the season and boy are the holidays are a cauldron of inflammatory elements: stress, sugar and alcohol. With age, these things seem to leave a longer imprint on my body. Is it this the way it is with you? Even my sheets leave their tracks – in the morning, a trail…
Befriending Stress and Creating Resiliency September 25, 2013 • 2 Comments I recently saw a TED talk by Kelly McGonigal on befriending stress. It is worth watching because she outlines a deceptively simple concept: changing the way we think about something can alter our body’s response to it. My favorite part of her talk is the idea that how you think and act creates the “biology of courage.” In other words,…