Health
This Is Our Vision for a Sense of Self Health Care Center
What if we could decrease our health care costs by building a Health Care Center for Healing designed to empower people to have a Healthy Sense of Self? Healthcare is reaching a crisis level in the United States. We know about the benefits and successes of building a healthy sense of Self: the positive lasting impact…
Read More8 Healthy New Ways to Practice Self-Care
When you have an endless to-do list, tons of meetings, and other crucial commitments, taking the time to practice self-care is usually placed on the back burner. This is a huge reason why we often feel stressed, overwhelmed, and burnt out. Need some help getting back on track? We’ve rounded up eight healthy habits to…
Read MoreWhat Is the Brain Science of Addiction and Habits?
The science of addiction all starts in the brain. Often a behavior that we refer to as an addiction is just an unfavorable habit that hasn’t been addressed. However, there are behaviors that become so ingrained in our brain that they are indistinguishable from addiction. Here’s what you need to know about the science of…
Read More8 Ways to Let Go of Your Stress and Anxiety
Do you ever stress about how to overcome anxiety? Stress happens to everyone. And things sure can get overwhelming when you start delving into the root causes of anxiety. But talking about it with someone, building healthy relationships, and learning to recognize your own internal voice are all valuable actions that can help develop a…
Read MoreThe Best Christmas Gift Ever…
This is not an expensive Xmas present; you don’t have to stand in line; you don’t have to wrap it and the recipient can use it for a long time, for a life time even. Give the Gift of a Healthy Sense of Self If you give your children a Healthy Sense of Self you…
Read MoreA View from A Drawbridge’s: Body Signals
Editor’s Note: For more than a year now I have been following the daily postings of a Seattle Bridgetender whose blog The View From a Drawbridge makes me ponder both sacred and mundane insights before starting my day. A bridgetender has a lot of time on their hands to consider the past, the present, and…
Read MoreArtist Depicts Mental Illnesses As Monsters
It’s hard to explain: a mental illness is something that you’ll only understand when you’ve experienced it for yourself. However, U.K.-based artist Toby Allen is trying to make it just a little easier on everyone (including himself) to understand what mental illnesses like anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder are like by illustrating them as monsters.…
Read MoreIs Forgiveness Good For Your Health?
Forgiving others can be really, really hard. I mean, it would be easier to just talk badly about the person behind their back for years or sue somebody, right? Wrong. So wrong. And you certainly wouldn’t be doing your self or your overall physical health any real favors. The Cure: Forgiveness According to John Hopkins Medicine,…
Read MoreBust out the Blue: it’s Men’s Health Week!
June is the 21st annual Men’s Health Month, and today is the start of International Men’s Health week. Celebrated each year during the week leading up to and including Father’s Day, President Clinton signed Men’s Health Week into law in 1994, and rightfully so: we needed to pay more attention to men’s health back then, and we…
Read MoreTED Talk: Margaret Heffernan–Dare to disagree and say no to willful blindness.
Gayla Benefield opted to be a “whistleblower” because she cared that much and I believe she had a strong Sense of Self. She is a woman I would love to meet some day. Margaret Heffernan’s TED Talk on “willful blindness” hooked me with the story of Gayla Benefield discovering that the very source of early…
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