Originally published in mindbodygreen
To help support your digestion, there’s nothing more important than starting the day with a tall glass of filtered or spring water before you eat anything. This is the best way to prompt your body to have a thorough bowel movement and start the day with a calm stomach.
Originally published in mindbodygreen
Sometimes family dinner is simply impossible. Life happens.
Originally published in Well + Good
We’re in an epidemic of burnout. And there’s a silent shame to this. We think to ourselves: Everyone is under a lot of stress, but everyone else seems to be coping. If I’m burned out, maybe I’m worse than other people.
To the contrary, so many of us are burning through our capacity to cope, and many people are silently and secretly burned out. Rather than suffer in silence, we should all be talking about this.
Originally published in mindbodygreen
My tip is actually to spend money on a TaskRabbit. In our household we are two working parents with a toddler and a Tetris game of logistics. By spending money on hiring a TaskRabbit to help us chop and cook, we end up saving money in the long term. This is because it saves so much time we actually have time to cook, and this enables us to eat home-cooked food all week. So we don’t order takeout anymore. Spending ~$30 a week on a TaskRabbit actually saves us money and allows us to eat healthy home-cooked food.
This one seems hard to do, but it’s really not. And once you do it, you never look back. Here’s to better sleep!
Originally published in Well + Good
Fertility represents a lot more than just being able to have kids. Fertility is part of how many people define themselves as women. Indeed, having one’s period is often considered to be a crucial passage into womanhood; once that starts to go away, some people might struggle with what it means to be feminine.
Similarly, many people go into perimenopause at the same time that their children are getting older and moving out, which is its own adjustment. The combination leads many to think about what their purpose is in life, which can shift as their children don’t need them as much.
Western culture doesn’t celebrate aging, which can further complicate a person’s relationship with perimenopause. Fertility is also linked to sex and libido… Our culture has this weird way of only celebrating young, nubile femininity, and it does not celebrate or empower women of all life stages.
Small Changes Big Shifts Podcast
I was recently interviewed by Dr. Michelle Robin on the Small Changes Big Shifts podcast. We discuss what small steps we can make today for big shifts in our physical, mental, and emotional health.
I share my advice on the importance of building a community in a comfortable environment, the difference between episodic depression and chronic depression plus specific wellness tips for expecting and new mothers.
Originally published in Well + Good
These days, we go into a stress response too readily, and one of the things that
We could all use a refresher on how to be better listeners, and how to hold space when our friends are struggling.
I was honored to sit down with GOOP and be featured on the goopPodcast to discuss what our anxiety is telling us.
We’re just not taught these days to feel our feelings. Symptoms such
I meet patients where they are; I work with people who are on antidepressants and who are tapering off of SSRIs. My most important work is not fixing a problem but helping to hold space for the full human experience.