Now is the time when maple trees here in the Northeast become precious sources of sap instead of just natural beauty. Commercial producers and hobbyists alike start spending weeks, days and hours cooking up the magic and mystery of the...
4 Steps to Managing Any Life Crisis with Heart and Healing
In her latest book, inspirational author Tara Brach reveals a Buddhist technique for dealing immediately with emotionally difficult and stressful situations called RAIN. The four steps can be practiced any time, anywhere, and are described as follows:• Recognize what is...
Fun Workouts To Try This Year
The New Year brings us a fresh start, and a time to make resolutions and set intentions for the months ahead. Our goals often fall into categories such as career, relationships, and fitness. While fitness activities can sometimes seem like...
How to Let Loose and Be Bad for a Change
Amid all the arrangements, obligations, and pressures for perfection this holiday season, do you ever find yourself fantasizing about a blissful escape from responsibility? Wouldn't it be nice to skip the shopping and treat yourself to a massage instead? Go...
The Value of Simplicity and How to Find It
As humans, we are naturally complex creatures: Our problem-solving ability has been our primary survival mechanism, allowing us to monitor and adapt to our environment very successfully, and even to learn to adapt the environment to ourselves. Combine those inherent...
Fight Inflammation with These 5 Super Foods
Inflammation is a physiological response the body has to injury, pain, illness, and even stress. If your body has a temporary, acute inflammatory response-like pain, redness and swelling if you get a bug bite, for example-it is simply a sign...
Coconut Water: Healthy Benefits, or Just Plain Hype?
It seems coconut water is everywhere these days. People ask me all the time if it's hype, or if it's actually good for you.Once confined only to tropical beaches and health food stores, coconut oil's watery cousin has exploded into...
Adrenal Fatigue: Could It Be Zapping Your Energy, Vitality, and Health?
Daily living causes much stress, which is not easy on the adrenal glands. Combine stress with poor eating habits, lack of sleep, and too much caffeine, and you have a recipe for the development of what is known as adrenal...
Top Tips for Beating the Summer Heat
I have never really liked the intense heat of summer (75 degrees is about perfect for me). Growing up in the Midwest, green turned to brown in July under the blazing sun, and was followed by the mugginess of August....
Do Carbs Make You Fat? Maybe So, Says New Research
It's a discussion I've had countless times: What role do carbohydrates play in weight gain, and where do they fit into a healthy diet? Recent research seems to indicate the answer may depend as much on their source as on...