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Life unfolds in seasons—spring, summer, fall, and winter. Just as farmers rhythmically plant, nurture, harvest, and rest, our lives also...

A wise sage Joe Dirt once stated, “Life’s a garden, dig it.” All of us are like seeds. If we are planted in great soil we’re more likely...

Life is as if we are dropped off in water with little direction. When we get in the water, some may feel like they know where they want...

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and felt like it went well, then you come to find out that the person you were talking to...

A couple years ago I was working in a health clinic in a military base in the middle east. There were a considerable number of service...

Signal and noise are common terms in economics and finance. When trying to figure out what matters in healthcare and wellness there’s a...

Major life transitions are more common than we expect and can be a catalyst for positive or negative changes in our health. These are...

With patients, I often make the statement that my goal over time is to make an individual's current life match their ideal life.  There’s...

Work, Rest, Play & Pray The reason that I personally wanted to write this article series was to think about the purpose of play and pray...

Work, Rest , Play, Pray Sleep: Matt Walker’s book Why We Sleep came out a couple years ago and I was a little surprised that so many...

Work , Rest, Play, Pray Work is not merely our employment or job. We are working when we have a hard workout, we are working when we...

The month of July will be an article series about the Compass of Life. This was a concept introduced by Dan John in this article on...

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways that you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to...

When you’ve won the game, stop playing  - William Bernstein Words that are synonymous with enough in the context of this article are...

Become who you are - Friedrich Nietzche After squaring away the fundamentals of lifestyle medicine and improving our capacity through...

Level three on the Hierarchy of Health is The 4 Doctors. The four doctors is a concept developed from Paul Chek and his work The Last 4...

Social determinants of health can account for the majority of an individual's health outcomes. Of these, financial security and community...

At the base of the hierarchy of health is the determination of your values and spirituality/philosophy. The underlying question is what’s...

Over the next several weeks there will be an article series exploring different levels of health. This is a play on Maslow’s Hierarchy of...