I read a lot of papers that never make it into a newsletter. Most are incremental, narrow, built for other researchers rather than for the person trying to feel better
I read an article recently about physical activity in people living with cancer or recovering from treatment, and it stopped me the way these pieces always do. Not because the
I almost skipped a retreat last Friday, and came home with one idea I cannot put down: what if I made decisions for long-term joy, instead of for the avoidance
For a century we treated genes as a fixed blueprint. It turns out which genes are switched on matters just as much, and muscle keeps a memory of the training
Nobody arrives in my office not wanting to be well. The desire is never the missing piece. What we believe at Mindful Wellness about why change is hard, where it
A four-year Swedish study followed 500 cognitively healthy adults with repeat brain scans. The risk factors leaving marks on the brain turned out to be the ones we already know
An afternoon with a South Bay microgreens grower changed how I think about getting vegetables into a day. Gram for gram they carry several times the nutrients, which matters most
A patient confessed she had been bad over the weekend. It may have been the best medicine she took all week. Why we aim for eighty percent, and what the
Researchers pooled 67 datasets, 320,000 mood check-ins and nearly a million hours of wearable data. Movement and mood run in a loop, and the movement that did it was walking
Whatever we resist not only persists, but magnifies. A line from a day retreat, why I spent years reacting like an amoeba, and what changes when you treat the hard
