Improving Self-Esteem In my Wellness work I come across many patients who struggle with maintaining healthy self esteem. They feel...

Take a Walk 15,000 steps,10,000 steps, 7,000 steps. does it matter how many? Probably not. More on this later…The point is to move. And...

Healing Our bodies are programmed to heal. Virtually every organ system and tissue structure of our bodies, once injured or diseased,...

The Vagus Nerve We have long known and oft discussed the “brain - gut connection”, and there is recent scientific interest in the...

TOXIC SHAME Shame is an important emotion which, in healthy amounts, can help us to live the moral lives we hope to live. But when...

Nutrition or Nourishment? We are all familiar with these terms, and many of us think they are synonymous. In common usage they may be. I...

Being Alive The musical number “Being Alive” occurs at the end of Act II of the Steven Sondheim Broadway musical “Company”. It is sung by...

Renewal Everyday we have the opportunity to renew and reinvent ourselves. Especially this time of year, spring time with Easter, Passover...

Entropy The Second Law of Thermodynamics  states that the entropy of a closed system always increases over time.   The best synonym for...

TRANSITION STRESS Change is stressful. People facing new environments - jobs, school, living situation, marital or relationship status -...

Nature and Health It has been well documented that one’s environment  plays a very important role in improving and maintaining health....

The War on Empathy A high ranking unelected government official recently stated on a podcast that “Empathy is the fundamental weakness of...

Spring, Baseball and Life This time of year is about renewal - new grass, baby birds, flowers blossoming, spring cleaning and…baseball....

The gut-brain axis We now understand that there is a very close association between the gut and the brain. The status of one’s gut...

The FAMILY OF EMOTIONS We are our emotions, positive, negative, productive, nonproductive. They exist within  us simultaneously.  We...

OTHERING “I can’t believe this is happening. They’re making us feel like outcasts!” This is what a dear Ukrainian refugee friend texted...

Healthy Nutrition My definition of “fundamental nourishment” needed for health is different from what you might think. Of course the food...

Happiness? The Harvard Study of Human Development is a longitudinal  examination of 2000 people over their lifetimes hoping to answer the...

HUMILITY “We are no better than the worst of us, and no worse than the best of us.” In other words, being humble connects us to the rest...

Combatting loneliness with Compassion We live in an era of unprecedented disconnection and loneliness.  Despite the explosion of social...