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How Spirituality Ruined My Social Life

Twelve years ago, I had just returned from a four month solo journey in India. I received physically and emotionally intense Ayurveda treatments for forty days. …

Spirituality

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How Spirituality Ruined My Social Life
How Spirituality Ruined My Social Life
Spirituality

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Jul 28, 2020

Ayurveda and Rheumatoid Arthritis

I’m not an objective storyteller. None of us is, honestly. As a teenager, I had moderate-to-severe Rheumatoid Arthritis. I had all kinds of support and braces on the outside of my body and drugs on the inside, and at the age of nineteen I walked with a cane. The RA…

Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Ayurveda and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ayurveda and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Apr 20, 2020

Parents: Give up your Goals.

Nine years ago, I was introduced to the concept of a Birth Plan. Aside from planning to give birth, the term is an oxymoron at best. …

Parenting

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Parents: Give up your Goals.
Parents: Give up your Goals.
Parenting

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The Startup

·Apr 14, 2020

Screens are not going to melt your kids’ brains

This hippie mama is not going to fight with her child over tech Like many Gen Xers, I was raised by Woody Woodpecker. I spent hours every day learning how to evade authority with wooden mallets, blatant lies, and hiding in holes. Captain Stubing from Love Boat was my father-figure…

Parenting

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Screens are not going to melt your kids’ brains
Screens are not going to melt your kids’ brains
Parenting

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Mar 18, 2020

What to Eat When You’re Freaking Out

Ayurveda offers simple ways to calm your mind through your diet We‘ve entered the moment when planners and non-planners alike are equally freaking out. And yet, somehow, we still have to meal prep. Because an amazing amount of adulting includes deciding what to eat every day. …

Ayurveda

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What to Eat When You’re Freaking Out
What to Eat When You’re Freaking Out
Ayurveda

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Mar 18, 2020

What is Ayurveda?

The 5000-year-old mind-body science, simplified. Ayurveda (aye-yoor-VAY-deh) is a 5000-year-old natural medicine, teaching us how to live in harmony with our own nature (microcosm) and the world around us (macrocosm). Ayurveda provides a map of how your daily choices, your intellect, spirituality, and biology work together to create your current…

Ayurveda

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What is Ayurveda?
What is Ayurveda?
Ayurveda

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Human Parts

·Feb 27, 2020

How I Learned My Mom Was Afraid to Touch Me

Overcoming the isolation of chronic pain — We were in the church basement. I’m certain it was adequately lit, but my memory has downgraded it to a scene from The Blair Witch Project, with dark gray cement walls and cryptic etchings on the walls. We were attending a workshop called “Hands-On Healing,” which was totally outside my…

Relationships

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How I Learned My Mom Was Afraid to Touch Me
How I Learned My Mom Was Afraid to Touch Me
Relationships

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P.S. I Love You

·Jan 8, 2020

Why My $80 Robe Was Worth Every Penny

How my post-breakup purchases showed me what I really wanted in the relationship — How does one justify spending money on a flimsy piece of fabric that no one is going to see? I couldn’t, so that coveted little robe flopped in and out of my digital shopping cart and haunted my sidebars for at least 18 months. I was well into the second…

Relationships

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Why My $80 Robe Was Worth Every Penny
Why My $80 Robe Was Worth Every Penny
Relationships

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Nov 25, 2019

How To Eat Just One Cookie

The time of overconsumption is upon us. It was a perfectly glazed fruit tart perched on the corner of the buffet table. You know the kind: impossibly shiny peach slices teasingly fanned out and dotted with undeniably out-of-season blueberries. My eyeballs tried to grow taste buds. …

Mindfulness

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How To Eat Just One Cookie
How To Eat Just One Cookie
Mindfulness

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Oct 17, 2019

Affecting Your Mind Through Your Skin

I’m incredibly practical; I contain generations of mathematician DNA. I practice Ayurvedic medicine as both a deeply poetic and infinitely logical science. I don’t prescribe self-massage as a practice of self-love or meditation, even though it could be. …

Beauty

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Affecting Your Mind Through Your Skin
Affecting Your Mind Through Your Skin
Beauty

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Kate Shankari Sadowsky

Kate Shankari Sadowsky

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Summoning the sacred, one ridiculous human experience at a time. www.EmbodiedHealth.com

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