If you wake up each morning feeling mentally, physically, and emotionally drained, then this new 9-part documentary series was made for you. Exhausted! reveals why there is such a crippling epidemic of exhaustion and fatigue in our society, and provides actionable insights from over two dozen globally recognized health and [...]
If you ever search online for tips on how to increase your energy, it may have looked something like this! In order to boost one’s energy: Get more sleep each night... Reduce stress levels by having more down-time... Eat more fresh food... Take a good [...]
In this update received from Roshi Joan Halifax, she discusses the changes which have been made at Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the 2020 global pandemic. In March, the Center began offering their resources by donation only so that more people could participate. The [...]
What if you could pick up your phone and speed-dial call… A top nutritional scientist… A world-leading physician, or two (or three or four)... Naturopaths… Herbalists… And an array of experts in traditional healing practices… And then what if you could request they all "join forces" and put together [...]
Laughter at the ranch – it was a vital part of our mileau. When family sat around the table before a meal, Mother would do a reading – sometimes a humorous one she had found… During Dad’s 18-month hospice experience, they enjoyed jokes with the hospice chaplain who brought a [...]
Guest Contributor and author, Carol J. Farran, PhD, RN, MSN, FAAN, has served as Professor, Researcher, and Principal Investigator at Rush University Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Based upon her contribution to Alzheimer’s Disease research, she is included as our first Influencer in ABeautifulVoice.org. As a personal friend, she had influenced my [...]
"A number of factors can affect the sleep cycles. For example, if a person is not breathing well during sleep (snoring or sleep apnea), this will disturb the normal sequences and cause the individual to awaken feeling unrestored. Sleep quality can be diminished by the use of electronic devices, tobacco [...]
I was offered a “pass.” It was a routine appointment approximately one year following Mother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in late 1997. The physician quietly handed over to me a written order saying, “Admission to nursing home.” And then he waited silently for my response. Having toured the area nursing homes [...]
2002-2003 Those were the SARS years, but communications were so different in the early 2000’s! The internet was still quite new – and most hospitals did not yet have websites. Our regional television networks and newspapers reported on the threat of the SARS pandemic and we learned that older people [...]
“Like food sharing, health care was part of life for our ancestors—a major aspect of how they worked together to survive hard times. Humans have an instinctive reaction to provide care and empathy for those who are sick or hurt; it works to our evolutionary advantage. It is only higher-level [...]
