Category: Health
Posts on health that meet the whole person — body, mind, emotional life, and the small disciplines that keep them in conversation with each other. Lived experience over prescriptive advice.
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Able-Bodied Is a Temporary State of Being
A friend once told me that able-bodied is a temporary state of being. I didn’t fully understand it then. I do now—and it changed how I see accessibility, empathy, and every assumption I’d quietly made about who gets to move through the world with ease.
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Learner CliftonStrength
The Learner CliftonStrength thrives on growth—but what about unlearning? For those raised on ‘push through the pain,’ our aging bodies are now asking for a new kind of partnership. Here’s how to stop overriding what your body is trying to tell you.
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Hidden Injuries
When I was a kid, my parents would take me to visit various great aunts and uncles. We would sit on their front porches in rocking chairs for hours on a Sunday afternoon while they reminisced about old family stories. They ranged in age anywhere from their early 70s to their early 90s, and invariably…
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Bed-Rotting as a Productivity Hack
Discover how the counterintuitive practice of bed-rotting can significantly enhance your productivity. Bed-rotting is not something I ever would have considered as a productivity hack. I wasn’t even aware of the term until this past year. Maybe it’s counterintuitive. Maybe it’s because it’s been drilled into me since I was a child that staying in…
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Biohacking: Saving My Own Life
I’ve been biohacking for over 14 years, and it’s saved my life several times. The year was 2010, and a past colleague had found me on a dating app. We were both trying to find our optimal fitness at the time and that was one of the ways we hit it off. We didn’t even…
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Lunchbox Dessert Recipe: Lorna’s Peach UnCobbler
A batch recipe for diced peaches with stevia and cinnamon — enough sweet-tooth lunchbox dessert for two people for a week, from six fresh peaches.
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Questions from Readers: Empaths, Dysfunctional Families, and Insomnia
Four reader questions, four quick answers: feeling an ex energetically before he shows up, protein drinks and sleep, why empaths exist, and how to find peace in a dysfunctional family.
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Whey Protein and Insomnia
Generally defined as the inability to fall asleep and/or remain asleep, insomnia is estimated to affect nearly half of all people living in the U.S. Commonly cited reasons for insomnia include: Age (older individuals are more prone to experiencing insomnia) Stress and anxiety Medical conditions that cause chronic pain Sleep apnea Side effects of medications…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 6 Results – the Big Ass Breakfast Sweats It
Another big ass breakfast: Grilled salmon. This dish is about 10 ounces of salmon. Normally I grill 20-30 ounces of salmon at one time on my Foreman grill, then bag the other 1-2 portions for my next big ass breakfasts. This meal will typically “hold” me for 7-8 hours, with no hunger, no cravings, no…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 5 Results, or Hmmm, This Is Different
My latest find! White Oak Pastures, offers beef, chicken, and lamb in their online store. The package says everything I’m looking for in high-quality food–grassfed, no antibiotics, not hormones. Turns out they’re from “back home.” For the past month or so, I’ve been driving all the way to the Destin Fresh Market, which in touristy…
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Lorna’s Weekly Link Love – Uplifters, Food Conspiracies, and Recipes
Okay, computer’s out of the shop but it’s going to take me at least another week to reset all my efficiency tools and re-organize the mess of data that was rescued. Thankfully, I have a cloud backup, but all my presets must be reaccomplished and my programs must be reloaded. Ugh. So, excuses, excuses. I’m…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 4 Results, or Can Insomnia Make You Fat?
My big ass breakfast was about 10 ounces of grilled salmon, and I wasn’t the least big hungry until around 3:30. Meal #2 of the day, late in the afternoon and shown here was 2 5-ounce organic beef patties, grilled, with sautéed veggies–sweet onions and mushrooms with herbs. This big ass supper comprised the rest…
