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“Please be here,” my husband pleaded when I hung up the phone in tears. It was December of 1984, and we were living and teaching school in Vienna, Austria. It was the 2nd time I had spent [...]

I love anxiety. I know that sounds crazy. Maybe it is, but I don’t care. I love it. When there’s an opportunity to delve deeper into it, I delve. I love reading about it, researching it, teaching [...]

“Mama, I want you to pick me up,” the 4-year-old voice whispered from behind the kitchen island. She had stopped cold at the doorway, frozen in ambivalence while her internal want to argued with [...]

“Benign and in the bucket”. That seems to be the rally cry of Western medical providers who vow to treat what ails us. Whether it hurts, doesn’t work, or is cancerous, you fix it by taking it out [...]

“Go outside and play” – it was one of those expressions that would slide out of my mom’s mouth frequently. But why? Was she just stressed out and needed a break from us five kids pulling at her. [...]

We’re hearing a lot about Mindfulness Meditation lately. Now I know that some of you are brushing it off as the latest wellness trend that requires a big investment of your time and money. Who [...]

I have always considered myself to be pretty resilient, so much so that friends would ask me how I can be so calm in stressful situations. My answer was always, “I bounce.” And I did. I [...]