We just embarked on another grand adventure. This time we’re sailing across the Pacific. There’s lots to do to prepare for time away. Last-minute work projects that can’t be paused, travel planning, and personal maintenance. It’s the personal maintenance … or self-care … that I’m thinking about today. I was so busy making sure that

I was on a call recently sharing my views on symptom suppression. In case you’re new to my approach … When you suppress a symptom, you are creating an internal storm. Your body manages it until it can’t and then … Another symptom. And as the symptoms accumulate, they tend to become more severe. It’s

The seasons fascinate me. A few days into September and there’s already a shift in the weather. It’s never just a flip of a switch. Change happens in fits and starts. One day it’s definitely happening … The next day, it’s back to same old … same old. When I work with patients, we’re leaning

I was startled awake this week by an emergency warning alert. The storm surge was high enough to justify waking thousands of people in the wee hours of the morning … apparently.  Unable to go back to sleep, I used the extra time to extend my morning meditation. As my nervous system calmed down, my

When I was in Spain recently, I met a woman and her son. They had just completed an alternative path on the Camino de Santiago. It’s known to be a bit less challenging than the path I hiked, but I was still in awe. She was 83! Her adult son was just along for the

The recent devastating fires in Maui hit close to home. My husband’s sister lives in Maui. Fortunately, where she is in Kihei, the damage was limited. We have a trip to Hawaii planned for late September. So we’ll replace the images in our minds from the news media with live ones from personal experience. I

Simply sound sleep 🛌 has returned. It took a few days for my body to feel rested again.  When we’re forced to function on a critically low fuel tank, ⛽ our body does what it can to manage available resources.  If you’ll take just a moment to think about all the systems that are currently

I started myself on a new protocol yesterday. My symptoms had finally reached a point where I had to act. How does my body tell me that toxic stress is building up? Sleep disturbance! I wake up around the same time most nights. As it escalates, I may be awake for several hours before falling

I came back from my adventure, a couple of weeks earlier than originally planned. Some would see that as a failure. I fast forwarded through about 10 days of what would’ve been spent doing the same thing I had been doing for a month. It was an undeniable metaphor. There are times when that is

When I was preparing to leave for my sabbatical adventure, most of the women I spoke with asked, “How much weight do you think you’ll lose?” As if that was one of my big goals! If I lost more than 10 pounds, it would have been a problem. But 5 pounds?  Good riddance! My response

After over a month traveling in Europe, it’s time to bring my sabbatical 2023 to a close.  Along the way… in Lorca … I saw a sign. I’m paraphrasing because I neglected to capture an image of it in the hundreds of pictures and videos from the trip.  The message was (essentially) that we should

I’m excited that you are along for the ride. I’m writing to you from the Newark airport. We had a longer layover than I would have preferred, but … hey … it gave me time to share this message. A few (quite a few) years ago, I became intrigued by St. Francis of Assisi. I