Away We Go is the funniest, most charming film I’ve seen in years. It’s the story of a thirty-something couple, Verona and Burt, who are expecting a baby and wonder where they should live once the baby arrives. They travel around the United States looking for the perfect place to raise their child.
As you know, I’ve been researching the beneficial effects of pleasure as a health strategy for the last few years. To get in on these benefits, you have to become a student of your own pleasure.
I recently went to Sicily with a good friend. She lost her husband a year and a half ago, after going through his three-year ordeal with cancer, and decided that it was time to rediscover the world of joy and pleasure.
My brother called me a while back and said, “You’ve got to see Clint Eastwood’s latest movie Gran Torino.” My brother and I are major movie buffs, and we keep each other in the loop about what’s good and what isn’t. Needless to say, I loved the movie.
Surveys done by the National Sleep Foundation over the last 10 years show that most women in the United States don’t get enough sleep. This isn’t surprising since many women have hectic schedules and need to sacrifice something in order to “do it all.” It’s long been known that sleep affects your hormones, mood, and cognitive skills. But now, researchers are learning there’s a connection between sleep and your ability to stay trim.
Recently, I received a question from a craniosacral practitioner. She told me that many of her mid-life female patients are discovering that they are unhappy with their marriages. They are intelligent, kind, devoted wives and moms, yet are disconnected from their husbands. She asked what I would recommend to help them sort out their feelings. I have a lot to suggest.
Bottle Shock, set in 1976, is a docudrama about a group of upstart and innovative California vintners who topple France from their position as the world’s top wine producers. Seen through the lives of father and son, Jim and Bo Barrett (played by Bill Pullman and Chris Pine, respectively), Bottle Shock recounts the events leading up to the famous “Judgment of Paris’ tastings.” I’m not a wine drinker, myself, but I love true stories in which the underdog wins.
Dr. Northrup sent out a cautionary message about the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine to her entire e-community in November 2006 when the Gardasil vaccine was approved and being promoted to all girls and young women as a way to help prevent cervical cancer. She advised you to forego having your daughters (or yourself) vaccinated, explaining that the inoculation wasn’t necessary and that it carries significant risks. Sadly, to date there have been thousands of incidents of side effects and health problems, including more than 30 deaths, connected with the Gardasil vaccine.
It’s very useful to have a basic understanding of your energetic anatomy, including how the energy centers — known as chakras — function in your mind and body. Different lands, people, and times, both ancient and modern, have given different names to different parts of our energy anatomy.
When I am anxious, nothing calms me more than trimming sections – ¼ inch at a time – from the bushes in my back yard. By the time I have gathered one hundred or so of these tiny specimens, my view of the world is righted and I feel confident in my ability to manage whatever is bothering me. Born when the moon was in Aries, activity is my soothing mechanism. For a person born with the moon in Gemini, information would bring about the same result. Who ever invented the term “comfort food” must have had the moon in Cancer!
