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Sorting Stress into Buckets

“Stress” is one of the most frequent reasons I hear when people try to describe what ails them, and what limits taking care of ourselves.

Mind the Gap

When it comes to taking care of our health, my job is often less about delivering new information and more about helping people problem-solve, reframe

Choose Your Difficulty

I recently had a conversation with a patient about how hard recovery is– facing challenges, embracing honesty– there’s a whole suite of difficulties involved. And

How to Be Miserable

Turn a world map upside down, and the almost automatic sense of understanding that we have about the globe feels less intuitive. We have to

Embrace Wonder

I recently started seeing a new patient for addiction. This man has been through an incredible amount in his life, and substance abuse has been

The Space Between Zero and One

We have a tendency to think of things in binary terms—on or off, yes or no, true or false, good or bad. In reality, though,

The Love of Money

Think about the people who have moved humanity forward over the past 200 years—the individuals who made a meaningful, lasting contribution to the world. Who

We Shall See

In the 1960s in a small village in France, there was a group of teenage boys who would run around the town together. They would

What We Lose When Everything Is Easy

I often say that we are all instant-gratification pleasure-seeking pain-avoiding monkeys. Our nervous systems have evolved to seek pleasure and to avoid pain. In the