The Art of Healthy Living
The Art of Healthy Living
Someone I know is dying. It’s a rude fact to even write on this page. It is devastatingly unwanted, despised, heavy, and incredibly unfair. I do suppose we are all dying, but sometimes a doctor gives an expiration date and you are forced to stop ignoring that you have one. …
Let’s talk pillars of health! More specifically, let’s talk about social connection Now more than ever Medical studies have shown that loneliness and lack of connection with others takes more years off your life than smoking This seems like a drastic conclusion…because social connection means connection with others “Others” Others …
The leaves are falling, mornings are cooler, and travel plans are being made. It’s November! And that means Thanksgiving. This will be my second Thanksgiving after changing my diet to a whole food plant based, and this year I am pulling out recipes and planning all sorts of great tasting …
Wednesday was a day full of caring for health in obvious and usual ways and in ways that might not be fully appreciated. In the morning I went to the doctor for my annual check up. We discussed “being healthy” in the way of traditional health system medicine. This is …
Twenty years ago I had gotten married, moved 500 miles from my family, and had a baby. I was doing my medical training, working 100 hours a week, and experiencing the isolation that comes with being a new mom, who, as a pediatrician, was supposed to have all the right …
Welcome to The Jolly Heart; Beach Week Edition! It’s a week of travel, family time, and seeing good friends. Routines will be upended, unanticipated challenges will come, cooking will be for multitudes, and new memories will be made. It’s a vacation, but it also has moments of chaos. I have …
Am I the only one that has times of feeling alone living on a planet of a billion people? A better word might be disconnect. Disconnected is different from being alone. I have felt disconnected in a room full of people and I have felt connected while totally alone. When …
The Lion King is famous for the song, “The Circle of Life”. Most of us can picture Mufasa, holding up little Simba, proud and full of love. When I picture the scene in the Lion King, I feel my eyes crinkle into a smile and my shoulders relax. But there …
When I started eating differently, I was afraid. Of what, I could not tell you. Perhaps some rouge tofu might attack me at the grocery store once it found out I was looking at recipes with beans and lentils. I am still, truth be told, a little wary of tofu. …