When you go to bed at night, do you look forward tomorrow?
Do you spend much of your day responding to someone else’s demands, not in charge of your own agenda?
Do you sit a lot, staring at a screen in a cubicle for hours on end?
Do you get bored? Do you feel like you were born bored and you just can’t stand it?
I went to a talk last week on the neuroscience of addiction. It was given by Dr. Alex Stalcup of the New Leaf Treatment Center. The focus was on drugs but as I learned the process of addiction, the changes that occur in the brain prior, during, and after addiction has taken hold, it occurred to me that it is the same process that keeps us hooked on unhealthy food, carbohydrates and sugar especially.
Click to continue…
My nearly 15-year-old son came down the stairs coughing this morning.
Ugh. I hate it when that happens.
We took his temperature; he had none.
We assessed how he felt; mediocre but he reckoned could get through the day.
We took action for him to skip his 1.5 mile run in PE.
Then he did what I insist my kids do every morning: eat breakfast, drink green juice, take supplements.
Injured
This post will be short because I had rotator cuff surgery two weeks ago.
I’m just getting back in the swing of things.
During these two weeks, our usual systems and routines have mostly stayed in place, thanks to my wonderful husband, but a few things have gone awry.
Click to continue…