Demystifying the Emotion-body Connection

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, so please take this with a grain of salt. If you have any medical problems and need help, please see a medical doctor. The below tentative option I have is based on my own personal experiences and those of others as well and not to be substituted for medical...

The Unreliability of Personal Experience

I always say personal experience is our best way to truth. Throw dogma and orthodoxy to the wayside and only answer to yourself. Everything outside of you is usually just a racket and a barrel of monkeys. But even personal experience is tricky. It sounds romantic and easy, but to judge using personal experience as...

The High Price We Pay For Fake Smiles

“Whatever you’re going through, there’s no rule that says you have to do it with a brave smile all the damn time. You’re a person, not a freaking hospitality lounge. You don’t have to make everyone comfortable. Just be your real imperfect self.” ~Nanea Hoffman We often say "be yourself", but the truth is, it...

The Difference Between Diet and Health and When it Becomes a Religion

Does your diet cause you to love or judge? Since 2014 when I started to make major changes in my diet, I joined a lot of Facebook health groups and fast-forward to 2018, I am reporting a pattern. The internet is ripe with diet "experts", know-it-alls, and a lot of people whose validity is contingent...

Hard Lessons I Learned from Fad Dieting

One thing that's for sure is that we all die. There is no diet we can go on that will prevent our death. We are all here to do what we came here to do and then die. So whether we're on the standard western diet, or the Japanese rice diet, the keto diet, the...