There is a difference between healing and treating. And there is a difference between following and deciding. I recently went to my OBGYN for my annual visit. Lovely gal. She sees me for about fifteen minutes a year. At the end of the appointment, she said, “At your age, you should be taking 1,200 mg of calcium daily.” I scribbled it down like a good little patient and went on with my life. After two weeks, I finally sat down to research a more natural calcium brand so I coul

Springtime in New York, and I still see dandelion fuzz as a thousand wishes, not a thousand weeds. How many things have we been taught to override, despite something in us quietly feeling otherwise? When did critical thinking become synonymous with being labeled a conspiracy theorist? In the 90s, my teachers encouraged us to question things, think deeply, challenge assumptions, and form our own conclusions. Somewhere along the way, many people stopped trusting their own disce