"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." — Thich Nhat Hanh The End of Summer, and a Question Worth Asking September has a particular quality to it. The light shifts. The pace picks up. The ease of summer — the longer evenings, the slower mornings, the spontaneous laughter of people who have temporarily set their obligations down — begins to give way to something more structured and, for many people, more pressur
"Your body is your subconscious mind" — Candace Pert, PhD, neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health and discoverer of the opiate receptor, whose decades of research proved that the body and mind communicate through the same biochemical language. What the Hypothalamus Does There is a structure deep inside your brain, roughly the size of a pea, that governs almost everything that keeps you alive and well. It regulates your body temperature, your hunger, your thirst,
For years, I assumed patients understood everything we could offer alongside a routine cleaning — that the conversation happened naturally, somewhere between the hygienist's chair and the checkout desk. It mostly didn't. Most people leave a cleaning thinking the visit is exactly what it looks like: a scrape, a polish, a reminder to floss more. It can be so much more than that. Not because a cleaning isn't enough on its own — it is, and it remains the foundation of everything
