As shelter in place rules loosen, the question on everyones mind is how you can defend yourself against a secondary coronavirus attack.  A healthy immune system is crucial as we start to get out of shelter in place and start gathering in our communities. Even with...

The CDC is responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in China.  It's now been detected in 60 locations internationally, including in the United States. The virus has been named “SARS-CoV-2” and the...

New Year's Day is just another day, similar to one that you lived in 2019.  Making resolutions on this day and in early January are no different from making goals on any other day.  Placing too much emphasis on achieving these goals immediately and it being a new...

Depression is a serious mood disorder with symptoms that range from mild to debilitating and potentially life-threatening. Some people look to manage depression with herbal remedies, rather than with medication a doctor prescribes. Medications and counseling are...

When my local Starbucks starts advertising Pumpkin Latte’s, I know that it’s officially “Pumpkin Season”. Trader Joe's will also have a variety of pumpkin goodies on their shelves now, such as honey-pumpkin roasted ravioli, pumpkin biscotti and chocolate-dipped...

The new Chase Center in San Francisco, built for the Warriors basketball team, includes a “mindfulness room”, which is part of the players locker-room complex known as “the campus.” The mindfulness room was built to help with vision and focus and will allow players to...