Category: Doctor’s Thoughts

When we encounter significant shifts and disruptions to our daily life– good or bad– they often trigger a profound change in our happiness (again, good

Last week​, I wrote about how the things that are most meaningful to us are generally hard and difficult. The idea was not that hard

As humans, we evolved to conserve energy. When offered the choice between doing something the easy way, and doing something the hard way, most of

What if I told you that there is a cheat code to life? What if I told you the key to happiness, economic prosperity, health,

We often think of freedom and structure as opposing forces, with freedom representing spontaneity, choice, and the absence of rules, and structure representing rigid schedules

We often feel tension between the things that bring us happiness and what we believe makes us healthy, assuming these two aims are at odds.

What do you want for… your kids? For your partner? Your family? Yourself? It is interesting to me how we often do not think through

I will often get asked What is the most important thing I should do for my health? It’s an excellent, well meaning question, and a highly reasonable

When we look back at our life, our recollection of events often differs significantly from our perception of them in the moment. Memory is fluid,

We all have fantasies– and they can be great. In our fantasies, we are not bound by the constraints of time, resources, societal expectations, or