There is a very good blog featured by Boston’s NPR news station, WBUR, called The Common Health Blog. This morning I read one of their pieces that I thought was so important that I intend to post it here in its entirety. It’s by Rachel Zimmerman, who I know nothing about, except that she is… [Continue reading]
GAPS Practitioner MA
Histamine Intolerance and Emotional Stress
Histamine intolerance depends on many factors including intestinal health, genetics, medication, diet, environment, and perhaps most importantly, emotional and spiritual well being. It is widely recognized that the degree to which we are histamine intolerant is greatly influenced by our level of emotional distress. Many of us have lives that we experience as stressful, which has… [Continue reading]
Histamine Intolerance: Another Great Pretender
Graphic from Healthy Pixels: The Many Faces of Histamine Intolerance (well worth reading) Almost a month ago I blogged about Histamine Intolerance, a widespread and under diagnosed condition. I have been preoccupied with this topic, and have since heard from many readers who recognize themselves in the widely inconsistent and variable symptom picture that can be associated with… [Continue reading]
Go Make a Ruckus
The law of synchronicity was alive and well this morning as I lay in bed listening to a fascinating conversation on the radio. Krista Tippett interviewed Seth Godin, an internet thought leader, innovator, and author who has recently written a new book, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?, which I read for hours on a… [Continue reading]
The Five Remembrances
This is a picture of a sand mandala, a traditional Tibetan Buddhist symbol of transience. Tibetan Buddhist monks perform a ritual of meticulously creating beautiful intricate mandalas from colored sand, which they then ceremonially destroy, symbolically representing and reminding us of the doctrinal Buddhist belief that impermanence is the quintessential quality of our lives. My… [Continue reading]