What are the Key Principles of the Urban Monk’s Approach to Wellness?
By being aware of our thoughts, emotions, and actions, we can make intentional choices that promote overall well-being.
By being aware of our thoughts, emotions, and actions, we can make intentional choices that promote overall well-being.
By being aware of our thoughts, emotions, and actions, we can make intentional choices that promote overall well-being.
We hear it all the time – America runs on free market capitalism.
But what does that mean? Is it the same as garden variety capitalism? While we make an attempt to educate ourselves about the world we live in (because the truth is, most of us don’t understand the basic principles of our economy), it’s critical we make this distinction.
The short answer is “no.”
Before we talk about what seasonal affective disorder (SAD) isn’t, let’s talk about what it is.
Seasonal affective disorder is a varietal of depression confined to the fall and winter months.
It affects primarily women, and primarily those with other psychiatric conditions, like manic depression or bipolar disorder. (This doesn’t mean that men aren’t affected, or that you have to have another condition to experience SAD systems. Just that you’re more likely to if the previously mentioned criteria are met.)
As of 2019, it affects 10 million Americans, with a separate 10% of the population experiencing milder symptoms of a junior SAD disorder.
As much as we’d like to think that ADHD and procrastination are 20th century inventions made worse by the 21st century expansion of the internet…
Before bringing children into your life, you might have thought that since you pay property taxes, you were the boss of your own home. You
The EPA opened the doors on its US Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program in 1996. This branch of the agency was responsible for determining the impact on humans of industrial and agricultural chemicals either directly or indirectly.
Like what happens to our drinking water when herbicides run off of plants and into streams…
Or when children drink from plastic laced with BPA.
We’ve talked before about what endocrine-disruptors do — how they mimic naturally occurring hormones and interfere with signals in the body.