Every January, people make New Year’s resolutions with genuine hope, and then many feel a familiar wave of disappointment when those resolutions unravel a few weeks later. This is often framed as a personal failing or character flaw. But it's not that we are weak, but rather that the ask was ill-timed and unfair. We can't really be expected to radically change ourselves right after enduring the emotional, social, financial, and relational stress of the holiday season. That is

I love this time of year. The winter solstice just passed, the light is slowly returning, and whether you mark the New Year on a calendar or in your bones, there is a feeling of possibility in the air. Not because I want to catalog everything I did wrong last year and make grand resolutions. I’ve done that. It’s exhausting. What I love about January is the sense of possibility. The feeling that something new can be added. Something inspired. Something that makes life feel a

You can tell it’s fall in Florida when the air finally cools below 90, the snowbirds return, and the highways fill up again. The sidewalks get a little busier. Grocery stores a little louder. There’s a shift in the social atmosphere, maybe not leaves turning or fireplaces lighting, but people gathering. The season of Thanksgiving arrives, and along with it comes the annual chorus: be grateful. It’s an easy phrase to dismiss. We’ve all seen it flattened into cliché on a Facebo

If you someone told you that your medicine worked because of the placebo effect, would you feel tricked? That somehow, you’d been duped and didn’t get the good stuff? That’s often the case. But what if we question that negative connotation and start looking at it as something far more positive? What if it isn’t a trick so much as a clear demonstration of how belief, attention, and energy shape our biology every day? The placebo effect is when belief makes the change, not any

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