Worried Sick: Healing Anxiety

It is often said that everything we feel originates from two basic emotions: love and fear. On an everyday basis, fear tends to manifest as worry.  We medicalize this in the condition of anxiety. When you consider the number of people whose lives will be limited by anxiety at some point, the personal and social…

Count Your Blessings

Research on the connection between gratitude and health goes back decades now. Abraham Maslow is a famous psychologist who is known for his theories regarding the so-called “Hierarchy of Needs“. In the late 1960’s/early 1970’s, he put forward the position that the experience of gratitude has a big impact on psychological health.  At the bottom…