A Grain of Salt: A health column… sort of
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
As a natural health practitioner, it seems rather reasonable that my expectation of the human body is as follows: give it what it needs, and …
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A Grain of Salt: A health column… sort of
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
It should come as no surprise that if there is any means of dissociating from stress, discomfort, emotions, boredom, intrusive thoughts, yammering children, apocalyptic outbreaks …
A grain of salt
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When my granny died, I was half a world away in India. I had seen her just days before at her home in Oregon, where …
A grain of salt: The small things that keep us sane
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
The world may well be ending, and if assessments of common science are plausible, we’re headed along an expected trajectory where the only real debatable …
A Grain of Salt: The shame game
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Okay world, that’s enough.
I’m not quite certain where it began — though I suspect there are some strong roots in the Old Testament — …
A grain of salt
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
I have decided that living with trauma is kind of like having emotional fibromyalgia. Some days, everything hurts and all the inexplicable tender parts feel …
A grain of salt: The detrimental danger of goal setting
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
There’s a sort of pass/fail culture happening in, well, pretty much everything we do these days. We set lofty intentions and label them as “goals,” …
A grain of salt: Seasonal affect for the resistant
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
When the sadness hits, I know it. It’s different from other kinds of sadness; it’s a kind of tender response to the humdrum of everyday …
A grain of salt: The happiness project
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
Every year, without fail, the new year arrives. With it’s slow, unstoppable force, like blackberry overgrowth, it creeps over us with suffocating thorny truths and …
A grain of salt: Gifting yourself down-time
By Ammi Midstokke
Reader Columnist
It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa …
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