I have been following the science on weight loss, been listening closely to the vegetarian and Paleo communities, and have coached/listened to scores of men and women through significant weight loss. Based on that, here is what I know to be true: First, Address what’s Eating Us: If processed food is being used to fill...Read More

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. Bob Dylan It is estimated that the average person can comfortably maintain stable relationships with 150 people  (known as Dunbars number).  It is our human cognitive limit, mostly due to the size of our brains, that the number of people...Read More

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.—Maya Angelou – American Poet 1928-2014 We underwent a home renovation and like most, it was horrendous to live through. During the process, we had a small fire, a flood, and the entire interior of the house was painted a hideously wrong...Read More

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. —Simone de Beauvoir The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology went to scientists who discovered the intelligence of cells was not its nucleus, but its membrane. The cell membrane, it turns out, is the “brains” of the cell and is fully in charge of how...Read More

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. —Rumi Almost universally, when a person is feeling overwhelmed in life, it is due to the tragic expression of unmet needs. We are all dealing with the demands to do more with less, we have multiple, and sometimes conflicting roles (parenting...Read More