Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Sydney Williams
I want to note that fat is not a bad word. Fat activists and leaders of the body positive movement all over the world are working hard to reclaim this word. When I say, “My mother is fat,” I’m not insulting her. I’m offering a descriptive word to help illustrate my point.
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- Written by: Jean-Pierre Willem, M.D.
Alzheimer’s disease is mentioned in the media with increasing frequency, but it is still not considered just another disease. Despite the harshness of the diagnosis, one of the challenges we have to meet is to change the way this disease is perceived and stigmatized for all its negative aspects.
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- Written by: Clive Witham
The ancient Chinese did not view emotions in the same light as most people today see them. This different approach to how emotions impact our bodies has implications for the treatment of common disorders associated with the mind, such as anxiety and depression.
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- Written by: Vickie Dodd
Listening from love, and with love, takes time and trust and patience. We do not know beforehand what the body will reveal, because listening is an evolving formula, never a pre-planned formula.
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- Written by: Kevin F. Boehnke, University of Michigan
How cannabis and psilocybin might help some of the 50 million Americans who are experiencing chronic pain
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- Written by: Vir McCoy
We are all intimately interconnected in this web of life. Since the beginning of time, people have been deeply connected to the natural world, relating to it as a source of food, shelter, clothing, and medicine...
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- Written by: Judith Orloff, M.D.
How we attune to ourselves or others may be different for each of us depending on which of the four styles of empathy—cognitive, emotional, intuitive, and spiritual—we relate to most strongly.
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- Written by: Lisa Masé
When we reach for a treat or crave a certain food, what do we really need? Try to stop, take a breath, and ask yourself this question before you eat.
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- Written by: Lisa Masé
In 1995, nutrition therapists Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole wrote one of the first books on the concept of intuitive eating. That book sparked a worldwide awareness that the mentality of dieting disrupts metabolic health and leads to stress and disordered eating.
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- Written by: Yury Kronn, Ph.D.
We cannot progress as a civilization, even as a species, without the understanding and knowledge of subtle energy. And, importantly, most of this knowledge is not even new. It is merely a rediscovery of the wisdom all ancient traditions and cultures possessed.
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- Written by: Simon Bratt, Staffordshire University
For people with mental illness, drugs and alcohol can be a key survival strategy. I’ve learned they shouldn’t have to ‘get clean’ to get treatment.
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- Written by: Eric Leskowitz, M.D.
Western medicine is the world’s only medical tradition that does not harness an invisible healing force or energy. In the East, there is prana (yoga) and qi (acupuncture, tai chi), but in the West, “energy” means a chemical...
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- Written by: Katie Arnold
My surgeon told me I should never run again. As a competitive runner, outdoor athlete, and writer, I was determined to prove him wrong. I trained my mind to heal my body.
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- Written by: Vir McCoy
I spent far too much money on doctors, healers, and pills in my journey with long Covid, to a point where I was obsessing about the illness and healing. I ended up with conflicting pills, protocols, stories, diagnoses, and so on.
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- Written by: Wolf-Dieter Storl Ph.D.
Two physicians involved in heart transplants became aware of some strange phenomena. Many of the patients with a new heart underwent a personality change. They took on many of the emotional qualities of their donors.
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- Written by: Stephanie Mines, Ph.D.
The intelligence, creativity, curiosity, and vitality that motivates you now motivated you with significantly greater force when you were much smaller. Furthermore, reclaiming the awareness that infused you then is the key to personal fulfillment and also to the continuity of humanity.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Diet books and fitness circles commonly promote protein as a magic bullet for weight loss, muscle building, and athletic performance. But what are the unintended consequences?
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- Written by: Jean-Pierre Willem, M.D.
The illness of a family member will overturn the entire structure of a relationship that has been woven together over the years. This disarray is even more profound when the illness is Alzheimer’s disease...
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- Written by: Sydney Williams
The main thing is to move your body, somewhere outdoors, free from the distractions of this hyperconnected world we’re living in.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
We've heard plenty about how plastic is choking our oceans and endangering marine life.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
The saying "you are what you eat" has a deeper meaning when considering how our daily habits affect our overall health and how long we live.
