A nutritional anomaly

What do water, fat, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals have in common?

Humans require them for life; they’re our six core dietary nutrients.

These nutrients are converted into energy in our bodies which helps us to move, think, breathe, build our muscles and bone...

My husband marvels at my ability to shut off a movie mid-scene, declare, “Bedtime!” and walk away. My bedtime is 10:00pm. I don’t always make it on time but I try. I know the movie will be there for me tomorrow after a good night’s sleep.

If your health has always been reliable, count your lucky st...

Do you remember where you were when you learned that scientists had started mapping the human genome?

I do. I was just a kid hanging out in my livingroom with my dad, and I didn’t understand why scientists were so into bluejeans. My dad, an environmental scientist, explained that it wasn’t bluejean...

Have you ever thought to yourself,

“I wish someone would just tell me what my life purpose is so I can make choices without questioning myself!”?

The CDC reports that only 25% of American adults have a clear sense of purpose. Even if you’ve done a ton of personal growth work and been in therap...

When you meditate, is your mind still racing with thoughts--maybe even negative thoughts that you can't turn off?

You're not alone! I often hear from clients: 

"Jeanell, I think I'm meditating wrong. I can't stop my thoughts!"

My reply? "That's great, you don't need to!"

A common misconception a...

There are three heirloom fruit trees in my yard. They are tall, tangled, and half-wild. I love them, and I dread them.

These trees were old and established when my husband bought the house over twenty years ago, in a subdivision that used to be an orchard, and they haven’t been well-maintained. Eve...

I've been journaling for over thirty years.

I have every journal I've ever written.

I can't imagine not journaling, and yet I often hear from people that they find the process daunting, intimidating, or confusing.

Here are some simple tips for how to dissolve that resistance and get started with ...

The allure is strong: you have a mystifying nighttime dream and then you open a magic book that de-codes the symbols and, voila, the meaning of your dream is revealed.  Nice and clean. Cut and dry. Easy peasy. Too bad it doesn’t work like that…

Do I use dream dictionaries? Absolutely. They have the...

Remember when you were a baby, before you could talk, before you could make meaning of the strange jumbled mumble of sounds coming from the adults’ mouths? No? Me neither. And part of the reason we don’t remember that time is because we didn’t yet have symbolic awareness to which we could attach mea...

I dreamt vividly that a friend was pregnant. I knew this friend definitely wasn’t intending to be pregnant, yet the dream was as real as day. I saw her that same evening in waking life and heard the words, “I have news!” come out of her mouth in a way that made my eyes open wide. To my relief, she f...

Each morning, I wake up bleary-eyed, barely conscious, still halfway in Dreamland, and I grab my dream journal. I scribble down whatever I can catch from my dreams before they dissolve back into the ether. I’ve been doing this for nearly thirty years and I can’t imagine it any other way.

This pract...

“Are we going to learn about lucid dreaming in this class?” as student asks at the start of a dreamwork series.

This question often arises from new students in the first or second session of my dreamwork classes, regardless of the theme of the class. When I give my answer, I see a mix of relieved n...