The following is an excerpt from the new book FAMISHED: A Food Memoir with Recipes by Mind & Spirit contributor Heather King.
My father—a bricklayer wit... Read More ...
It’s been two and a half years since a prenatal diagnosis began our medical journey. I have a list of words that make my blood turn cold: fever, infection, PICU... Read More ...
“So, we diagnose overeating now?”
Well, yes. Sort of.
In a time when over-indulgence is, for all intents and purposes, a pillar of society, it can be diff... Read More ...
I was a senior in high school when the first iPhone came onto the market. Honestly, I didn’t take much notice, but many others did as the world has never been t... Read More ...
If you’ve ever had, or currently have, a mental illness, you understand how easy it is to lose your identity within that illness. It’s not surprising; after all... Read More ...
The rage today in the business world is gamification. Taking a cue from the incredible decades-long success of video games, companies are looking to mimic them ... Read More ...
A few years ago I read about professional athletes in strength- and speed-based sports turning to Pilates to improve their game. It stuck with me. It seems it’s... Read More ...
Emotions. The very word itself likely either drew you to this article or caused you to roll your eyes. The thing about emotions is that they always seem to be e... Read More ...
Conservative Catholics and Orthodox often say that priests should not act as psychotherapists unless they are so trained, and should never so act in the confess... Read More ...
Children have a way of digging out the things we pushed to the back of the closet long ago. There were lessons I learned in childhood that I thought marriage an... Read More ...
In his 1987 encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, Pope John Paul II warned the world against becoming a “civilization of consumerism” and each of us becoming “s... Read More ...
For our family, the past two years have been one crisis after another. It started with a prenatal diagnosis, continued with a series of hospitalizations and my ... Read More ...
