In India, when training elephants, handlers begin by chaining one of the elephant’s legs to a tree. Over time, they gradually decrease the size of the chain until all it takes is a flimsy string to hold the elephant. It’s…
I can’t tell you how many times, I have exhausted myself moving heaven and earth in an attempt to force a specific outcome that I thought was best. In the past (and sometimes currently I’ll admit), I’ve spent way too many…
“Time is a great healer” – how many times have you heard this reassuring phrase meaning that any painful and difficult situation won’t seem as bad as time passes? In most cases, that’s exactly what will happen. As the years pass,…
I’m betting that you don’t need a bunch of research and statistics to tell you that there’s a link between sunshine, mood, and mental health. You can feel it. On sunny days with a crisp blue sky and a big…
Although we still don’t know all that we’d like to, science has come a long way in understanding what depression looks like in your brain. It’s now known that what you do in your life every day, because of neuroplasticity,…
How you feel, think, and move, what you see and hear, literally every single thing originates in or is processed and assigned meaning by that three-pound mass in your head. I didn’t realize just how big a part my brain…
Did you know that every brain starts out as female? At eight weeks of development, either a testosterone surge kills off cells in the communication center of the brain, and grows more cells in the sex and aggression areas –…