Welcome Year of the Wood Dragon!
At our annual Lunar New Year staff event, we created haikus about our collective intentions for this...
Many years ago I read a book by Larry Dosey called Prayer is Good Medicine, and my life has been forever changed.
In this book, he examined...
Many of the fitness monitoring tools such as Fitbit, Oura rings, Apple Watches etc have features that monitor your sleep and give you a Sleep...
I vividly remember the first time I traveled on an airplane as a young adult, and I actually listened to the pre-flight instructions. I was...
As health care practitioners, we bear witness to the physical, emotional, and psychic pain that our patients experience.
Many of our patients are...
On December 21, my wall calendar says: "Winter begins.” I disagree! December 21 is the Winter solstice and marks the longest night of the...
A few weeks ago, on a blustery Saturday afternoon, I spirited my niece away from her studies at Berkeley for a walk at Sibley Park in the...
Thich Nhat Hahn’s little gem of a book How to Eat simply puts it this way, “When we are eating, we know that we are eating. When we are...
Last summer we sent out a series of emails about the importance of hydration habits. From the number of responses we received, hydration is a topic...
Beans are having a moment. It seems silly to say that, when legumes have been a staple in human diets for more than 10 000 years. But at least...
I started the 1 Minute to Better Health blog in 2014, and one of the first posts I wrote remains a favorite, both of mine, and of readers. So every...
Reader contribution
A few weeks ago, I sent an article titled The Spiral of Grief. I received many emails in response.
Over the next few days, many...