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The Body as a Vessel for Living
Something I’ve noticed is that we spend a lot of our lives wrapping our identity in our bodies. If our body is something we’re proud of, we feel really good about ourselves … but much more often,...
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Healer In Training, Part 1
New Rooms, Corridors, and Stairways One of my favorite character archetypes growing up, if not my favorite of all was the magician. The wise old sorcerer. In Disney’s rendition of the King Arthur...
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Healer in Training, Part 7
Listen to Your Body Dr. H came into the room at about 10:00 pm that Friday night. By then, my four-day headache and puffed temporal vein had subsided. I had taken two Aleve’s five hours prior, when I...
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Limb-Regenerating Fire-God Salamander Central to Wound Repair Quest
By Anthony King Salamanders are remarkable creatures. If one of these amphibians loses a finger, it grows back. Furthermore, if you chop away a piece of heart or spinal cord, it will regenerate....
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Reclaiming Boobs: ‘I’ve Rarely Seen an Unsexualised Breast’
By Jennifer Zeven What if women’s breasts and nipples were as commonplace and accepted in the same settings as men’s are? And why aren’t they? I talked with friends about this cultural conundrum,...
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Can I Learn To Love My Body?
Hya Doc I’ve been reading your column for quite a while and it’s been helping me out alot lately but if feels like I just ran into a brick wall regarding my progress. I’m a Cis dude, an older virgin...
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Six Reasons Why You Aren’t Seeing Results From Your Workout
Becoming consistent with your workout routine can be a challenge, but when you’re seeing no significant results it can be even more frustrating. Whether you’re experienced with working out or you’re...
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Six Reasons Why You Aren’t Seeing Results from Your Workout
Becoming consistent with your workout routine can be a challenge, but when you’re seeing no significant results it can be even more frustrating. Whether you’re experienced with working out or you’re...
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The Body Is the Bridge to the Soul
I have been thinking about my body a lot recently. I’m training for the Boston marathon. And hopefully the Leadville marathon after that on Father’s Day. I have a wonderful coach and equally...
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Love Month Mantras, Part 1
I Am A Vessel Of Light And Love I am a vessel of light and love. I allow love to guide my spirit, body, and mind. Through me flows an abundance of heart and spirit. I honor my soul by loving me as I...
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Can I Just Magic Away These Kidney Stones Before They Kill Me?
October 17th, 2010–1:56 AM I am 24 years old and 8 months pregnant. I’m perched atop my on-suite toilet, silently willing the baby growing inside me to move away from my bulging bladder. I’m trying to...
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Powering Through
Take It To The Limit Was this bowl of noodles dinner, or was it breakfast? It was that undefined other meal. And it was 3 AM, so… An hour before I had stepped off a dance floor at a work meeting where...
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How Noise Pollution Can Harm Your Heart
We just moved to a new house in a quieter neighborhood. In our last apartment, we were living in a building with a neighbor from hell. He blasts his speakers almost 24/7, and while everyone in the...
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Her Boyfriend Thinks She Is Fat, But She Is Not — Embracing Body Positivity
Recently while going through Reddit, I came across a post that stopped me in my tracks. She is a female who has been in a relationship for over ten years and she pleads for advice. Her struggle? He,...
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How the Gendered Body Is Constructed in Physical Education
By Rachael Jefferson-Buchanan The following article is a condensed version of a book chapter of mine that was published in June 2023. This is part of a book entitled Gender, feminist and queer studies:...
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Changing How We Think and Talk About Our Bodies
By Emma Macdonald Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfiit is bringing her message of body positivity to Canberra when she delivers the National Press Club Address. Admittedly, the speech is five months...
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Conversations on the Art of Resistance (3): Body as Canvas
Victoria Gugenheim was drawing before she could talk and was beginning with makeup by age 6, then focusing on face and bodypainting by age 9. She enjoys the process of de-othering as means of...
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Actually, Body Positivism Is Empowering Women to Live
By Liz Allen ‘Get out of the way, you fat fuck’. These are the words a young bloke yelled at me from his moving car as I walked across a carpark in suburban Canberra. He swerved his car toward me, I...
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Part Cat, Part Primate, All Human
The Electricity Of Maneuvering We stood considering the tree. Its twisty, spongy trunk and branches grew low to the ground, forming bridges and loops of papery bark that bounced when touched. The tree...
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Talk Tracks
An Old Classic I’m guilty. I’m guilty of thinking too much. I get caught in my head and I stay there and then all the troubles start. I replay these “talk tracks” in my head like songs from my...
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