September. This past week especially, the change has been palpable. Cold, crisp mornings. Breeze slightly more cutting, bit of an ominous...

"Hope is very often a refusal to know what is so, and steadfastly it is a refusal to live as if the present moment is good enough and all...

For Peggy, who’s constantly teaching us that the next great adventure is always within our reach, if you only have the vision, the...

“Who. Are. You?” demanded the Caterpillar. “Well, I… I hardly know sir. I’ve changed so many times since this morning, you see.” “I do...

I’ve just made a cup of coffee. It smells delicious - rich and comforting, spiced with a pinch of cinnamon, made creamy with almond milk....

The effects of my experiences in the world of psychiatry were not initially apparent. After discharge from inpatient care, I was still...

I don’t know if severe clinical depression was an experience I ‘needed’ to have. Maybe it occurred in part because a crash, a low phase,...

The Void is the space in between. It is a space in consciousness, between objective and subjective realities. As we fall asleep at night,...

** I wrote this nearly a month ago, and didn't feel right about publishing it until now. Something has since shifted and I'm feeling much...

Everything that we have has been Given to us. I, for one, have earned nothing - Not this life, not my body, not my health. Not my family,...

“I’m just getting tired of the pain. First it was in one place, now it’s another… and I just want it to GO AWAY. I’m getting frustrated...

Sometimes you just have a sad day. And sometimes it lingers. Sometimes for a week, sometimes for endless awful months. Sometimes you...

A highlight of my time here in Mysore has been "conference" with Sharath. At the end of each week, The Boss takes a break from folding us...

Over the past month in Mysore, I have begun to develop quite a deep and intimate relationship with my ceiling fan. Although there remains...

Ask anyone who's ever travelled to India and they will undoubtably tell you the same thing - that this is the land of unapologetic...

Sometimes all you can do is sigh and start again. I did a Vipassana meditation retreat - it was over a year and a half ago now- and this...

I've been in India for two weeks and am simply loving it. But I've quickly come to see some of the frustrations people have to deal with...

A really unfortunate and yucky incident happened to me the other day. The kind of yucky that persistently runs around in your brain, over...

When I am good at what I do, I am fully present. I'm not at my best when I'm coming up with the most accurate diagnosis, or the most...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is built on the foundational theory of Yin and Yang. Some people might recognize the Yin/Yang symbol...