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: Dawn Branley-Bell and Catherine Talbot
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact across the entire population, but one group likely to have been disproportionately affected is people with eating disorders.
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- Written by: Dana Ullman
There are dozens of kinds of arthritis: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, systemic lupus, and bursitis, to name just a few. Each type of arthritis has numerous influences that increase or decrease the chances of getting it.
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- Written by: Marianne Teitelbaum, D.C.
America is reeling from an epidemic of ill health that drives people to despair and to doctors. The litany is familiar: cancer, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, and digestive disturbances, with the latter two often one and the same.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
Everyone has the power and the ability to connect with the life energy that brings in healing. You don't need training, though you can certainly learn techniques... If you're wanting to increase your healing ability so that you can use it for your own healing, then it's right there waiting...
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- Written by: Paul Jenkins
As the coronavirus pandemic has spread, a growing number of people have been negatively affected not so much by the virus itself as by the response to it.
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- Written by: Wanda Easter Burch
In the ancient world, people routinely sought healing guidance from dreams and from the divine power that showed itself in dreams. In the original Hippocratic oath, doctors swore by gods of healing, including the god Aesclepius.
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- Written by: Vasso Apostolopoulos et al
During the COVID-19 pandemic we’re constantly being reminded to practise good hygiene by frequently washing our hands and regularly cleaning the spaces where we live and work.
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- Written by: Yale
The number of adults in the United States who suffer from major depressive episodes at some point in their life is far higher than previously believed, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Pat Harriman
The pandemic may raise widespread awareness of the production, processing, and distribution of food to new heights.
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- Written by: Anna Jorgensen and Jake M. Robinson
Has your doctor recommended you go for regular jogs in the park, countryside walks, community food growing sessions, or some other nature-based activity?
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- Written by: Julia Evangelou Strait
Malnutrition can lead to stunted growth. A new study of children in Bangladesh implicates 14 types of bacteria in the small intestine.
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- Written by: Roberto Kaplan
From interviews of tens of thousands of nearsighted patients, I've been able to catalog patterns of personalities and their potential behaviors that can present clues to direct you into a deeper self-understanding, helping you to know who you are behind the illusionary perceptions and beliefs of your present way of seeing.
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- Written by: Jerry Sargeant
You are a vibrating mass of particles. You are energy. You are light. Energy is continuously moving through form, into form, out of form and back again. Energy is expansive and is always on the move.
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- Written by: Craig Lockwood and Zoe Jordan
Yes, wearing a mask can be uncomfortable or frustrating, especially if you’re not used to it.
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- Written by: Shira Polan
Reviews of hundreds of studies show that a growing number of chemicals—in pesticides, flame retardants, and certain plastics—are linked to widespread health problems, including infertility, diabetes, and impaired brain development.
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- Written by: Roberto Kaplan
Consider for a moment the possibility of your personality acting as your mask, as the protection you don for the world. Like performers, each of us presents ourselves as having certain personal characteristics. We may be aggressive or meek, loud or soft-spoken, dominating, loving, inquisitive, or good-natured...
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- Written by: Lara Streiff
Researchers have interrupted a neural pathway responsible for opiate-associated memories in mice.
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- Written by: Nir Menachemi
Since day one of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has not had enough tests. Short of testing every person in the U.S., the best way to get accurate data on who and how many people have been infected with the coronavirus is to test randomly.
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- Written by: Carol Clark
A compound in the leaves of a common shrub, the American beautyberry, boosts an antibiotic’s activity against antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria, scientists report.
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- Written by: Nick Haslam and Fabian Fabiano
Psychiatric classifications catalogue the many forms of mental ill-health. They define what counts as a disorder and who counts as disordered, drawing the boundary between psychological normality and abnormality.
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- Written by: Nigel McMillan
How is the world going to go back to the days when we could grab a coffee, see a movie, or attend a concert or footy game with anyone?
