the body keeps the score

To treat the body as something we “own” rather than something we inhabit is to exile ourselves from the place where meaning takes root.

People say “touch grass” to mean getting away from a screen, and it’s kind of a joke, but literally, it’s true: touching grass is the capacity to dwell in physical reality, to let the body speak its own language of temperature and pressure, of scent and color.

UNLIKE THE STORY TOLD by science fiction, the machine probably won't win by conquest. Instead, like the cuckoo, it'll dominate us via parasitism—by hijacking our care and redirecting our attention. Like the warblers unable to distinguish the imposter among their precious ones, we will continue to give our focus to the wrong thing.

Our visceral

To sense is to participate, to live inside the world rather than above it or outside of it. To feel—to experience—is to be real.

The question of impact is my favorite. If the people doing the impacting are tired and sick and frustrated and have all these needs that are not being met, what good is that impact? The quality of work that we can do for each other depends on the quality of care that we’re experiencing and cultivating for ourselves. I can’t say that enough.

Most of us really have very little say in the diagnoses we get, even though we all carry a lot of self-knowledge about our bodies and minds. You see the impacts of this a lot when it comes to mental health and neurodivergence: people fighting for years for their autism or ADHD diagnosis, or trying to get an eating disorder diagnosis despite their

A cardiologist, endocrinologist, obesity specialist, health economist and social epidemiologists all said versions of the same thing: Striving to get ahead in an unequal society contributes to people in the United States aging quicker, becoming sicker and dying younger.

“We should take a step back and look at the society we’re living in and how that is actually determining our stress levels, our fatigue levels, our despair levels,” said Elizabeth H. Bradley, president of Vassar College and co-author of the book “The American Health Care Paradox.” “That’s for everybody. Health is influenced very much by these