Bonnie | July 29, 2009
The other day I talked about working towards a percentage of how often you do something rather than trying for perfection. Perfection just creates guilt in the long run. Guilt then offers an out to working on being successful. This week both my office mate and I have some opportunities to experience guilt. My office [...]
Bonnie | July 27, 2009
One issue we have about our health and the ways we work to stay healthy is perfection. Some people may feel they aren’t perfect if they get a few sniffles. Anyone who has been really sick for long periods might wish for sniffles. In fact, such a response indicates that your body is working the [...]
Bonnie | July 22, 2009
As a society, we really undervalue rest. Everyone must always be busy. This doesn’t matter if you are sick or well. This doesn’t matter who you are, you must always have something to do. Resting, really resting and just taking a break isn’t considered productive. From a health care provider’s perspective, rest is one of [...]
Bonnie | July 20, 2009
I have patients who know there are things they should change but feel overwhelmed by the changes. I have one woman who only gets back pain while she’s at work. She doesn’t really like her job but it’s what was available while she searches for a more appropriate job. Her work, however is taking it’s [...]
Bonnie | July 17, 2009
One of the big issues as an acupuncturist is seeing a patient who is living a life that is contributing to their lack of well being. Discussing this issue with patients, they are often overwhelmed at the thought of making a change. A big change most patients could make is to eat better quality foods. [...]
Bonnie | July 16, 2009
Grist has an article that talks about the problem of obesity. The author blames people for over eating and thus causing the problems of obesity which is correlated with higher incidences of diabetes and heart disease. He contrasts the slow deaths of those who over eat with the quick deaths of those who starve. It’s [...]
Bonnie | July 13, 2009
As the health care continues to be in crisis mode there is one thing we aren’t talking about. What about those people who are legitimately sick? What are they doing? Some of these people have insurance and many of them are fighting for their coverage. Some of these people have lost their insurance, met their [...]
Bonnie | July 10, 2009
I’ve been working on the question of why do we think sickness is wrong for several months now. In fact, I am devoting this blog to helping me share the answer. Sickness may be nasty, icky, and painful, but ultimately wrongness comes from a value judgment we make about the sickness. Increasingly it seems that [...]
Bonnie | July 8, 2009
Sometimes I think that we it is our fear of dying that keeps so afraid to acknowledge illness. Nina Planck talks about Gina Mallet in her book Real Food: What to Eat and Why. Mallet has a wonderful quote: Mallet writes, “a new philosophy emerged, based on the notion that death could be delayed, perhaps [...]
Bonnie | July 6, 2009
Lately, as I ponder what health and sickness mean I’ve been moving back to the foundations of the Westin A Price Foundation for eating. I think slow, local and organic seems best for me. I don’t think that this will keep well all the time but I think this sort of diet will help my [...]
