Self-Care

Everyday pressures and responsibilities can keep us distracted from taking care of ourselves. With our fast-paced lifestyles, it is hard to remember that we are pretty amazing at all the ... Read More

The practice of young people going off on a trek to find themselves is ancient. Recently, though, we’ve found ways to integrate walking treks into the Core Gift Process framework. In ... Read More

To outsiders, Americans seem chronically vacation-deprived. Workers in the United States get less time off than workers in other developed nations, and the U.S. is the only developed nation ... Read More

Those of you who’ve read my chapter in the anthology Goddess Shift: Women Leading for a Change know that I have had plenty of personal experience with depression, and that I have a unique ... Read More

Developmental milestones provide insight into how children progress with respect to motor skills, communication, cognitive processes, and even emotional intelligence. When and how well ... Read More

Tantra is an ancient Indian practice that has a presence today around the world. Imagine, 5,000 years ago, this practice being developed, explored, and enhanced to promote sexuality, spirituality, ... Read More

Welcome to April, as fitting a choice as any for Stress Awareness Month. (No? Taxes done yet?) No one—not even the therapists who treat it—is immune to stress. Relatively few, in fact, ... Read More

As a culture, we tend to think about stress as something that happens to us from the outside. Another way to look at stress, though, is the entangling of our outer and inner experiences ... Read More

“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, ... Read More

Most people get a massage in order to relax, perhaps a pleasurable way to unwind after a long work week. Others go to address some physical discomfort or injury. Maybe your lower back ... Read More

If you have a child with special needs, a typical day might begin something like this: You wake up before your alarm goes off. Your mind is racing. You can’t stop thinking about the most ... Read More

It is said that there are two things we can count on: death and taxes. I’d like to add to that list stress. Stress affects all of us, and it is believed to cause many of the other medical ... Read More