Don't get me wrong, I'm no scrooge. Quite the opposite. I'm inclined instead to want to make everyone's dreams come true. But raise your...

In my last post, A No Brainer I wrote about how important our deep connection to our senses is to all aspects of our lives-- health,...

In my previous post EMDR Anyone? I wrote about this body-based form of psychotherapy as a relatively quick and effective way to address...

I first heard of EMDR Therapy a number of years ago, but it was only recently that I sought it out to experience it for myself. One of my...

Get this. Turns out, after two years of genetic research on my brother Dan, the only living developmentally disabled sibling and...

I love it when this happens. At the gym, he asks me if I'm a dancer. Outa' the blue, as if there's a sign on my forehead. I like it that...

Thirteen marked a big turning point in my life. As much as I was connected to my body, I was reckless in pursuit of exhilaration and...

Looking back, it strikes me how much we are shaped by the circumstances we are born into. Time, place, belief systems all profoundly...

There were moments when I was dancing, brief glimpses of feeling euphoric, rapturous. Aware of the momentum of my body carrying me...

Before they were 30, my parent's lives were devastated by the mental health community's scrutiny about what they did or didn't do to...

My mother returned from the sanatorium six weeks later, having made a beautiful dress for me for my First Holy Communion the following...

After Susie went away, my world split in two. There was the sad, confusing world of my home and the happy, exhilarating world of the...

There's not one of us who doesn't cherish our down time. Especially long weekends like Labor Day are an opportunity to gather and...

The Nike trademark coined in 1988 has become a call-to-action for a generation. This "ultimate statement of intention...turned a niche...

Relationships of all kinds are tricky. Romantic love relationships especially can really boggle the mind. Just when things are going...

For many of us, being productive and generative (of ideas, income, value, etc.) is what we thrive on. It's interesting to me, but not...

This song from 1969 by Steppenwolf became a kind of anthem for the generation born between 1946 and 1964. This extraordinary demographic...

Nothing is more important than our health. After all, where would we be without our bodies, our alive-ness? Given that simple stark fact,...

I know a thing or two about bodies. After all, I've lived in mine for nearly 67 years. I've trained it to to do extraordinary things,...

We all live according to certain values or core beliefs, whether we think about these or not. Every day we are making decisions based on...