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Becoming Spiritually Fit to Heal
Pregnant with my oldest, I hit Einstein Bros Bagels drive-thru on my way home from working out and ordered the usual: an everything bagel with strawberry cream cheese. (Side note: By the end of the pregnancy, I ordered two! So that’s some heavy-duty post-workout...
Why I Drink This During Workouts
For me working out is Type B fun: fun after you’re done! My Outward Bound instructor taught me about Type B fun somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, ascending towards our 14,000-foot peak. Sunny clear skies created suncups – open bowl-shaped depressions in...
Release Your Death Grip to Unleash Your Power
I write to heal. Often Divine insights for blog posts come when I’m out of my head and moving my body on the bike with Peloton. During one of those rides, the instructor, Christian Vande Velde, said, “release your death grip,” and went on to explain how squeezing the...
Stress Relief Medicine
Rereading No Mud, No Lotus – The Art of Transforming Suffering by Thich Nhat Hanh, I read a gem I forgot: "Stopping is the best way to get healed." "The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don't know how to handle the suffering inside of us, and we...
Give Your Excuses a Funeral
Halfway through a Peloton cycling workout, I was tired of the grind. My mind and legs were screaming, “STOP!” when the instructor, Robin Arzón, busted out these five words: “Give Your Excuses a Funeral.” Hello, truth! How many times have I stopped short of getting...
Who Should Take Collagen?
The first time I learned about the health benefit of collagen wasn’t from some lecture or textbook in med school. Instead, it was from a recipe for making bone broth with chicken feet (which I still haven’t done.) Bone broth, yes. Chicken feet, not yet. Collagen is in...
How to Know if Dairy is Bad for You
I remember coming home after school in middle school and heading to the freezer for a couple of scoops of Breyers Butter Pecan ice cream, my Dad’s favorite flavor. Of course, chocolate anything would have been my flavor choice, but it did the trick for my sweet...
3 Ways to Get Happy Fast
As a young teenager watching a naturally happy friend, I remember thinking, “How does she do that?” “What’s wrong with me?” As if her glass was always half-full and mine was half-empty. In my first year of med school, my glass was so empty I saw a psychiatrist and was...
3 Ways to Make Water Healthier & Taste Better
I find it funny that I’m a Pisces (one of the zodiac water signs,) and the only body of water I’m drawn to is the one in my cup. My daughter jokes about how I’m never in the water, just carrying it around with me wherever I go. It’s true, but I don’t prefer drinking...
How to Know if You’re Gluten Intolerant
The day gluten-free Oreos launched, my daughters drove twenty minutes to pick up a pack for themselves and another for a best friend. They were already on their way back before I knew they had left the house! I started eating gluten-free in 2004, and since then have...