Phase 2 trial participants on the highest dose lost about a quarter of their body weight, and Phase 3 went higher still. But one in six stopped taking it. Powerful
A patient started leaving her phone at home on walks, and said her mind felt unburdened. Research suggests a phone in your pocket costs you focus even when it is
I am putting a decision in writing so I actually follow through. After years of hospital night shifts, I am titrating down and eventually stopping, and here is the thinking
Mothers tend to put themselves last, and then last again, until last begins to feel normal. Why self-care is not a luxury in that picture but the thing that makes
The evidence for cold plunging is more modest than the claims. But a practice does not have to do what its loudest advocates say in order to be useful, and
Cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration and cancer may share one underlying mechanism: a dysregulated immune system and chronic inflammation. What that convergence means for how we practice.
Insight is one thing. Regulating a nervous system already in motion is another. Why slow, deliberate breathing works at the level of the body, before the mind gets involved.
Fear-based safety and wellness can look identical from the outside. Eating less, staying home, avoiding the hard conversation. The difference is that one contracts your life and the other expands
We start with self-compassion because the amygdala treats a new diet plan like a lion in the grass. But lasting change eventually needs structure too, and commitment is a structure
The gap is the space between where you are and where you think you should be. The gain is everything you’ve already accomplished. A long drive home from San Francisco
