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Here’s What I Learned When I Gave Birth Without Meds, Twice
My first experience giving birth without meds was crazy. I cried, I swore, I yelled, I called for my mom. The second time, thanks to a hypnosis training, I went into a deep relaxation between contractions. To the point that my midwife thought I was sleeping and decided to take…
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Why Some People Always Look so Darn Young and How They Do It
I often hear 50-year-olds saying, “I’m getting old” and see some of them practically hobbling along, as if in time to their own script. But then I know 70-year-olds who say, “I keep forgetting I’m not 16!”—like my mom, who bikes around a big city for miles, takes adult professional…
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What I Learned When I Nearly Died, and the Science Behind It
My junior year of college a friend and I were driving back from a ski trip during a Vermont snowstorm when I shifted gears and lost control. We swerved across several highway lanes into a ditch, flipped, and rolled three times before landing upside down. Somehow, despite the airbags not…
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You’re More Emotionally Intelligent on the Phone, Really
At workplaces and in families across the world, communication has gone online. We send endless emails; we video chat rather than travel across town to meet. Actually sitting down and interacting with someone in person can seem like a rare luxury. But as technology spreads, are we losing our ability…
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Stop Giving People More Stuff This Holiday – Do This Instead
The holiday season is filled with gifts—and empty of what people really want. We’re seeing a loneliness crisis in our society with 42.6 million adults in the U.S. suffering from it (and that’s not including people under 45)—representing a literal public health epidemic that leads to earlier death… but we…
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