As the fallout from COVID-19 continues to ebb and flow, our lives may now carry stressors that look and feel like trauma. Even if you never lost your job, never became sick, and never lost a loved one to the pandemic, what have been the effects of prolonged lockdowns? Social distancing? Lack of childcare and
As COVID-19 has reached pandemic status with almost 4 million confirmed cases in the United States alone, scientists are globally racing to better understand and predict how the virus works, and how we can forge a solution to best protect communities. Researchers have marked how the virus spreads (from tiny, respiratory droplets), how long it
If you’re lucky enough to have never experienced adversity, you’ve also never been given the opportunity to know quite how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles and stress that resilience—or the lack of it—emerges. Do you view problems as catastrophic or as opportunities to learn and grow? How do you face
In the natural health community, adrenal fatigue is diagnosed by a set of specific symptoms and stages, but it’s often dismissed by the mainstream medical community. Like thyroid disease, the symptoms are very real to the people who have it but are all but invisible to others. As a result, adrenal fatigue has been labeled
Use your mind-body connection to heal the damaging effects of broken-heart syndrome. For six months after my husband left, I rarely ate. I rarely slept. Complaining of fatigue sounds like weakness; in adulthood, tired is normal. But the additional fatigue from our newly adopted baby weighed on me like a thick gray fog. My body’s