Back in high school, a good friend said after meeting my family, “Your mother is so beautiful. What happened to you?” I laughed. Good question. Part of Mom’s looks have been their enviable resilience to time, something she never took for granted. Korean women remain vigilant against the insistence of gravity on their face, and… Read More Men and Women: Another Difference, Part 2
A friend of mine who suffered greatly caring for her ailing parents found herself an orphan in her 20s. She was left with such an inheritance that she could – by her own admission – stay in her room and live on take-out the rest of her life. Meaning, she was set. My friend was… Read More The Secret to Happiness
What do you worry about? Am sitting on the like button but feel free to confess what keeps you up at night. PS: Friends, I said I pulled the button. Means I don’t want your like, right? Please STOP it!! You got me woRRying this won’t turn out to be the rich, meaningful post I… Read More Oh, How We Worry
It still hurts to swallow, and I can feel I’m not quite drug-free. I managed to contain my thoughts this morning, not ramble into the thicket of fear or worry about bleeding and complications. Though it was cold—of course it was cold —I focused on the moment. Milked how nice the nurses were and asked… Read More Twilight
It happened after yoga one night. The April air was crisp as we hadn’t fully settled into spring. My family waited for me at home, dinner on the table. My eyes filled with tears of contentment. I had come through years of debilitating anxiety and was fortunate to be alive. Average Yogini So here are… Read More It’s Happy Hour
One sunny afternoon I went to a family and friends’ celebration, and I wanted the earth to swallow me whole. I’d that very week been diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety; nobody there knew. Those at the gathering were celebrating religious and political beliefs that were virtually opposite to my markedly less conservative views. I… Read More My Misfit Brain
“Change is the only constant in life.” ~ Heraclitus Change. It happens every day to each and every one of us. People we know change, situations change, life changes. But what happens when, without warning, you are the one who changes? In the fall of 2008, I was diagnosed with a chronic medical condition called… Read More My Own Mind Alienated Me
You might run for the thrill. You sail into the zone, keep on like you’re under a spell. I wish it came so naturally to me, wish these limbs would move with knowing. I run because I was terrible at it. And I’m less terrible the more I do it. I run to silence the… Read More Why I Run
Correct, he’s never had it. Even here, it’s pseudo cream – really just cold, sweetened coconut milk. But I can live with his record broken at six years, four months. Tennyson has never been given candy, chocolate, jelly beans. You get the picture. Sugar weakens the immune system and feeds pathogens. Food so cold not… Read More The Boy Who Never Had Ice Cream
We interrupt this program to bring you Food News with the Holistic Chef. Rather than wait until the end of the year, let me go ahead and introduce the blog that was my first love. Was. This blog – where I write you from – has stolen my heart and I have largely you to… Read More My Holistic Table
A Holistic Journey 