Tag: Health and wellness

  • The cure is in our wisdom

    The cure is in our wisdom

    What if we did not need anymore new drugs to be developed or any new medical treatments to be found? What if the key to a healthy life, was in our personal wisdom? Imagine being able to live another decade, or more than you might have otherwise? If you knew this to be true, would…

  • Don’t worry, be happy could make you live longer

    Don’t worry, be happy could make you live longer

    Bobby McFerrin released, ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’, in September of 1988. I had turned 18 earlier that year, graduated high school and decided to move out of my parents house. It was time to make it on my own terms, something I had wanted to do for quite some time. But, when it finally came…

  • crea.spa.treat. what do you think it means?

    crea.spa.treat. what do you think it means?

    “People remember different in a way they don’t remember better.”    -Christopher Lochhead Think about that for a minute. ‘Different’ versus ‘Better’. In contrast, most of what we are taught or the habits we model involve talking about or other wise proving the ways we are better than someone else. From the way corporations are…

  • Detourism and other new word suggestions

    Detourism and other new word suggestions

    When your life takes a wholly unanticipated change and you must rethink and redefine what your life will be. A new word submitted to Collins Dictionary, pending approval. Another one – crafternoon which means, An afternoon spent (or specifically set aside for), enjoying crafts. I really like that one, for obvious reasons, but I am…

  • Do you answer yes, when someone asks if you are well?

    Do you answer yes, when someone asks if you are well?

    In truth, I can’t remember the last time someone asked me that question. I probably get asked most often, the same question I pose as a general inquiry – ‘how are you?’ As a polite person, I know the expected response, is ‘fine.’ I have that at the ready. Maybe, if I’m not really feeling…