In our culture, healing is often understood as something that happens to us. We get sick, we seek treatment, and we hope to be returned to normal. In this framework, medicine becomes synonymous with healing — the intervention that will fix what has gone wrong. But...
“We do not grow by pushing. We grow the way trees do — in cycles of expansion and dormancy.” — John O’Donohue Winter invites us into a slower, quieter, more spacious rhythm — a rhythm many of us instinctively long for but often resist. As nature turns...
When living with chronic illness, it’s natural to long for someone — a doctor, a specialist, a system — to finally have the answer. Many of us carry deep fatigue from years of searching, advocating, and trying to “fix” what feels broken. The medical model...
If you live with a chronic illness—or if you feel wired, restless, and unable to fully relax, or even exhausted all the time—you may be living in a chronic state of hyperarousal. It’s not a flaw or a failure. It’s your nervous system doing its...
Food as a Foundation to Health When health issues arise, it’s easy to overlook nutrition. Many people believe food has little to do with illness, largely because our medical system rarely connects diet with healing. Yet in the late 1800s, German naturopathic doctors emphasized how essential...
No one really teaches us how to live with chronic illness. There’s no guidebook, no class, no set of instructions. Most of us are left to figure it out as we go, usually with only the medical system offering one narrow path forward. And while...
There is more of a sense of carefree fun during the summertime and sense of routine, direction and focus take a back seat for a while – this is good for us, to break free a little and be more in a relaxed or8uyi "fuck...
Zoning out, going “spacey” or sleepy, numbing, “stepping out” of the experience, disconnecting. Does it sound familiar to you? It’s a common response to over stimulation, overwhelm either emotionally, physically, mentally or all. Deb Dana refers to our “other” go-to state apart from being calm...
I’ve been reflecting on how often we tolerate unpleasant symptoms, brushing them off as unfixable or simply part of life. Our healthcare systems are brilliant in a crisis, yet often fail to address quality-of-life issues. So, who’s responsible for how well we actually feel? The Gap...
Acceptance is more than just tolerating a situation—it’s a complex emotional and embodied state that can take weeks, months, or even years to reach. In life, we’re often faced with realities we didn’t choose—money challenges, illness, heartbreak—that ask us to accept without giving up. It’s...