Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Veenu Manoharan, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Many people question whether a lack of side-effects from COVID vaccines indicates insufficient immune protection. Research shows that significant immunity can develop even without noticeable side-effects. This article delves into the complexities of immune responses, explaining how both innate and adaptive immunity contribute to vaccine effectiveness.
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- Written by: Chris Robinson, University of Florida
One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly referred to as COVID-19 long-haulers, suffered from neurologic or psychiatric disability six months after infection, a recent landmark study of more than 200,000 post-COVID-19 patients showed.
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- Written by: Laura Khoudari
Figuring out how to initiate (or return) to exercise in a way that feels emotionally and physically safe after experiencing illness, accidents, or acts of violence can be challenging, triggering, and overwhelming. If any of these scenarios resonate with you, a trauma-sensitive approach to fitness can help.
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- Written by: Laura Khoudari
Figuring out how to initiate (or return) to exercise in a way that feels emotionally and physically safe after experiencing illness, accidents, or acts of violence can be challenging, triggering, and overwhelming. If any of these scenarios resonate with you, a trauma-sensitive approach to fitness can help.
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- Written by: Gloria Gilbere
Skin brushing is a highly effective technique for cleansing the lymphatic system. Topics covered in this article: Benefits of Skin Brushing; What type of skin brush is the best to use; How to Brush Your Skin...
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- Written by: Matt Shipman, NC State University
Unhealthy eating behaviors at night can make people less helpful and more withdrawn the next day at work, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Denise Linn
Have you ever walked into an empty room and immediately sensed that the atmosphere was laced with tension? You may have had no idea what occurred there prior to your arrival, yet you somehow knew that it was something unpleasant. By contrast...
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- Written by: George Van Patten
An herb garden can be as simple as a few pots of chives, mints, and basils at the edge of a sunny patio or balcony.
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- Written by: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King
People ask me if I'm a medicine man. Well, I'm not. Some of our Indian people were blessed with that power in the past. They're all gone now. Today our people know only a little medicine. We had great medicine men. I'll tell you about one I knew when I was a boy...
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- Written by: Eliott Cherry, BA, LMT, NCTMB
You may be familiar with the term Relaxation Response. This was coined by Dr. Herbert Benson, who wrote a book by the same title. All stress reduction techniques generate this response, marked by physical and mental features which contribute to good health.
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- Written by: Kristina Sauerwein, Washington University
New research finds that, when schools practice mandatory masking, social distancing, and frequent hand-washing, COVID-19 transmission is rare
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- Written by: Barry Grundland, M.D. and Patricia Kay, M.A.
Cell Level Meditation is a vehicle for finding our way “home.” We take the breath to our cells, offering them our deepest desire to be happy and healthy and strong. In some way, they hear us and respond. This meditative form is a gift that helps the mind and the body come into healing, which in turn, helps us be ourselves in fullness.
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- Written by: Barry Grundland, M.D. and Patricia Kay, M.A.
Cell Level Meditation is a vehicle for finding our way “home.” We take the breath to our cells, offering them our deepest desire to be happy and healthy and strong. In some way, they hear us and respond. This meditative form is a gift that helps the mind and the body come into healing, which in turn, helps us be ourselves in fullness.
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- Written by: Carolyn Scott Kortge
All too often we approach exercise as just another task -- maybe even a burden. We do it because we know we should. "Stress walking", some folks have labeled it as they dash off to battle calories and advancing years with frantic lunch-hour sprints...
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- Written by: Kerith Duncanson
The trend towards vegetarian and vegan diets means more people are looking for meat-free protein alternatives.
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- Written by: Tamara Bhandari
Foods such as cheese and processed meats can infect sites of intestinal damage in mice and people with Crohn’s disease and prevent healing, according to new research.
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- Written by: Tjitze de Jong
Pioneers of all types are often met with disbelief, ridicule, harsh judgements, and lack of cooperation and support. If the establishment feels threatened by novel ideas and theories, this can have severe consequences for the pioneer and their work...
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- Written by: Tjitze de Jong
Pioneers of all types are often met with disbelief, ridicule, harsh judgements, and lack of cooperation and support. If the establishment feels threatened by novel ideas and theories, this can have severe consequences for the pioneer and their work...
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- Written by: Amy Loughman and Heidi Staudacher
If you walk down the supermarket aisle, you may be tempted with foods marketed as being good for your gut. Then there are the multiple health blogs about improving, supporting or maintaining your “gut health”.
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- Written by: Erica Longdon
Broadly speaking, all sound and vibration affects us. Just like food, what we take in can bring us health or detract from our well-being. We consume sounds from the vibrational soup in which we exist every day from our moment of birth and even before birth in the womb.
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- Written by: Deanna Waggoner
If we are so gracious with flu symptoms in ourselves, or pneumonia symptoms in our friends, why then are we so cruel with symptoms of another disorder that affects nearly 70% of the American population? Obesity. Do we really think that someone would choose to be overweight? Do we really think that children say, "When I grow up I want to be fat?"
