"Have you been avoiding me?" my therapist asks as he fetches me from waiting room 2. We walk down a long, beige hallway to his sparsely...

There were the "bad" foods that I considered "off-limits." Candies, cakes, donuts, cookies, ice cream, white bread, sugared cereals,...

“Intuition is the nose of the heart.” ― Amit Kalantri A while back, I wrote a blog about how unnecessary the Myers Briggs personality...

“Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.” ~ Dostoyevsky Last weekend, I drove myself to Mount San Antonio, a 10,000-foot peak west...

"Yoga means addition of energy, strength, and beauty to body, mind, and soul."~Amit Ray I have been *consistently* going to hot yoga for...

When I googled, "how to get rid of laugh lines," over 18 million results appeared on my laptop screen within half a second. Laugh lines...

Diet culture is defined as a system of beliefs that worships thinness and equates it to health and moral virtue. Since...

Hang with me for a second. The universe is infinitely large and incomprehensible. Dr. Luke Davies of the Science Network in Washington,...

Think back to the first book you remember reading (mine was Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss-very sophisticated I know). Now, think about...

Lately I've been grappling with the idea of myself as an artist. Art, when boiled down to a proper Merriam Webster definition, is simply,...

In a recent therapy session, my therapist and I were discussing how narcissism affects relationships, and how to spot a narcissist before...

I often feel like I have so much on my plate that it's difficult to concentrate on just one thing at a time. Harriet Griffey writes in...

The title of this blog is an unforgiving self-directive. Last week, I downloaded a *free* app called My Addictometer that tracks how much...

If you know me, even tangentially, you know I identify as a feminist. Why? Because despite U.S. women earning more money than ever...

"I just don't feel like he's listening," said me, said you, said every woman who has been in any type of relationship with a man. On a...

Last Saturday, I found myself in a huge shopping plaza to fetch a race packet for a local half marathon. In my 13 years of racing, I've...

Selfish. Needy. Too distant. "Too much." Being yelled at for minor things, but never knowing what those minor things might be. Being...

I recently went on a solo, 12 mile hike in Muir Woods State Park, just outside San Francisco. As I took in the vibrant forest, ocean...

*I am not a Doctor, Registered Dietitian, or Certified Mental Wellness professional. The resources used in this article are vetted, but...

The other day I was purchasing travel sized toothpaste and makeup remover wipes at CVS, and was stuck standing in a long line at...