WELLNESS BLOG
"Health Is the First Step to Freedom"
I say this a lot, and I mean it every time: health is the first step to freedom.
Not the final destination. Not the whole point of being alive. Not the trophy a...
What Happened When Our Homes Turned Away From Each Other?
On my morning walk, I started thinking about the difference between a front porch and a back porch.
A back porch says: come away from the wo...
Most people want a healthy body in the same way they want a clean house after ignoring the dishes for three weeks.
They want the result. They want the relief. They want the body to cooperate. They wa...
Over the weekend, I came across a sentence that stopped me cold, which is funny because nothing about the moment was dramatic. I was sitting on the grass at the Leland Wine and Food Festival with a gl...
When did health become something we had to prove visually?
I do not mean that as a throwaway question. I mean it sincerely. When did health stop being something we experienced from the inside and bec...
How to relax when the whole world encourages the opposite.
I cannot tell you how many times I have told someone to relax and watched their face do something that could only be described as polite pan...
It’s communicating. Maybe it’s time to listen.
“Sucks getting old.”
I cannot tell you how many times I have heard some version of that sentence.
Sometimes it comes with a laugh. Sometimes with a sh...
You’re going to pay for your health one way or another. The question is how.
People are funny about money.
I was at the airport recently, flying back from Germany, standing in line to buy water — be...
Stop waiting for the perfect season to get healthy. Build habits that fit the life you actually have.
Your body does not respond to one-off random acts of health.
I know, I know. Rude. Inconvenient....
The Midnight Bathroom Shuffle (And Why It’s Not Just About Your Bladder)
Let’s paint the picture.
You’re cozy. Asleep. Maybe even dreaming of something decent for once. And then—
Boom.
You’re wide...
The 4:30am Wake-Up Club: Not By Choice
You stir before your alarm goes off — not in a peaceful, sunrise-meditation kind of way, but in a confused, squint-at-the-clock, what even is time kind of way.
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The Witching Hour According to Chinese Medicine
You know the drill.
You wake up in the pitch-black stillness of the night. The room is quiet. Too quiet. You turn over, look at the clock, and there i...
