Tag Archives: stress

Eating Perfectly Doesn’t Fix Everything

January 26, 2021 4 comments

Realizing that I couldn't control everything felt crushing, but it opened the space to embark on the true process of growing.Moving away from expectations and control I spent my young adulthood absorbing the unfolding story of how our daily food and lifestyle choices can manipulate who we are. Hard to pronounce superfoods could guarantee our [...]

Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants (sounds like) Do This. Shouldn’t Need Help. Mostly Easy.

July 11, 2020 1 comment

How Pollan's famous first line creates tension within the most earnest (and health informed) individuals trying to lose weight (and those trying to support them). Still Quoted, Still an Influence This post is not to critic or review the 2008 best-selling book "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. I respect the awareness this book [...]

Long-term motivation vs my susceptibility to anxiety and self-medicating

October 25, 2019 6 comments

I originally shared this post in the "Introductions" CARE Forum topic, visible only to current members. But these details shouldn't be excluded from my "About" page. That timeline ends in 2011. I wrote the below in March of 2019; an update will be coming soon (the life raft I mentioned below was damaged over the [...]

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