Keep "The Grinch" in check this holiday Season. Celebration tips for all!

If you are among those who believe Christmas is the most magical time of year you probably aren't going to read this post anyway, but I so wish you would.  Perhaps more people would have increased compassion for those who don't celebrate Christmas and find those of us who do slightly obnoxious and insensitive in our merriment.

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Prepping for Interview on Dating in Tech Era...Where the Wandering Mind of the Researcher Goes...

I have a scheduled interview on an article I pitched: "Dating in the tech era...Some things are different while Some remain the same." Still working on the title.....My clinical practice includes a specialty working with young adults.  I like to fancy myself a "kid or young adult at heart."  However, my oldest son literally is a young adult now, so I can only live in denial for so long.

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Mind Body Syndrome & the Highly Sensitive Person – Exploring the Connection

Cooler weather brings more mats in the yoga space, more mats bring more students, more students bring more distraction.  My natural set point of having an overly active/wandering mind has been in overdrive.  Even for me.  Thus, even the holding of Warrior 2, a pose I see at nearly every yoga practice, feels unbearable.  I twitch, move around, try counterposes sorta hoping no one else notices my fidgeting, desperately wanting to get out of the pain that resides in my body.

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