The Betrayal of Growth: Moving On from Your Former Self
Have you ever lost touch with a close friend, only to hear about their lives later and think “That doesn’t sound like them at all”?
Have you ever lost touch with a close friend, only to hear about their lives later and think “That doesn’t sound like them at all”?
Have you ever lost touch with a close friend, only to hear about their lives later and think “That doesn’t sound like them at all”?
“Go on, have another slice.”
“Didn’t you like the food? You only had two helpings!”
Lots of people have a hard time setting up effective boundaries with not only their family members, but themselves — especially around the holidays. Even though the holiday myth that we gain 5-10 pounds during the holidays was busted a while ago, weight gain isn’t the only way to measure how healthy your gut is.
Some of the worst parts of childhood are the rainy weekends where you can’t go anywhere. Or those birthday-party-Saturdays when you’re sick and Mom won’t
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates, the father of medicine
Ever since human beings evolved beyond simply finding our daily food, to storing it, curing it, and planning it, taking pleasure in our food has become a priority.
We don’t eat to survive anymore, at least not in the Western world. The amount of food the US wastes every year is proof of that. (If you’re curious, it’s about $161 billion per year, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.)
Everyone’s got an opinion on dairy, and the science is dense and often conflicting. From the ubiquity of the “Got Milk?” campaign to the recent
If human beings as a whole had figured out the secret key ingredient to falling, being, and staying in love, we’d have stopped writing about.
Alas, we haven’t. And probably won’t. Ever.
But what we have done is spent our entire collective sentient experience since the dawn of conscious personhood studying love and attraction, trying to crack the code.
And honestly? We’ve learned a lot.