by Hillgreen | Mar 25, 2014 | Blog, General Health Tips
What, if anything, do our emotions have to do with our physical health? In recent years, Western medical researchers have increasingly acknowledged the links between emotions and physical symptoms. Since I first studied cognitive neuroscience, the neurobiology...
by Hillgreen | Jan 26, 2014 | Blog, General Health Tips
Winter is the season of the “Kidney-Adrenal” energy system according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. The TCM Kidney-Adrenals (not the same as your physical kidneys, please note) are the foundation of all life energy the body. So winter is a time to focus inward,...
by Hillgreen | Nov 19, 2013 | Blog, General Health Tips
1) It’s not just WHAT we eat, but HOW. Many of us rush around trying to meet obligations and deadlines, and a strict diet can definitely become one more stressor, one more thing to be hard on ourselves for. Step One can be just scheduling in enough time to sit...
by Hillgreen | Sep 5, 2013 | Blog, General Health Tips
“As one of Pema Chodron’s grateful students, I have been learning the most pressing and necessary lesson of all: how to keep opening wider my own heart.” – Alice Walker A generous friend once left me a copy of When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for...
