Eseosa Ighodaro, MD, PhD, is a neurologist busy tackling health disparities now. But she kept her first experiments on ice at home. “I used to hide experiments in the freezer so my mom couldn’t see them,” she says. “I’d mix…
Year: 2023
Feb. 24, 2023 – Most women are aware of the emotional ups and downs that can occur before their monthly period, known as PMS, or premenstrual syndrome. Some women’s PMS symptoms are so severe that they may receive a diagnosis…
Feb. 24, 2023 — Irregular sleep, such as sleeping for an inconsistent number of hours each night or falling asleep at different times, may increase the risk of developing atherosclerosis, or the hardening of the arteries, among adults over age…
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” ~Albert Einstein I woke up one morning and realized that I had no idea who I was. I realized that over the past thirty-something…
“You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head. Be kind to yourself.” ~Unknown Talking to ourselves in a nurturing way can be a challenge if we rarely heard nurturing words in the early…
“The truth is that the way other people see us isn’t about us—it’s about them and their own struggles, insecurities, and limitations. You don’t have to allow their judgment to become your truth.” ~Daniell Koepke As a child growing up…
“Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take action. Take action and your feelings will change.” ~Barbara Baron You are stuck because you are waiting to want to do the things you know you need to do to get…
“A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” ~Unknown I couldn’t understand his grateful mindset, especially given his obvious rapid decline….
“There’s the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.” ~Emil Ferris I was leading a yoga training in a small village…
“There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.” ~Helen Keller When I was eleven years old, I would force myself to stay awake until the wee hours of the morning. I was severely anorexic at a time when…