Pepper Pavlish, ERYT 500 and best-selling author of MS Wellness Solutions interviews Maya Georg about the mind-body connection and the intersection of yoga and talk therapy. Pepper Pavlish has used her experience of managing her autoimmune symptoms naturally to inspire and teach others. She shares her wisdom and experience through online and in-person classes, as […]
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The Problem With Passing
Humans tend to make snap judgements about other humans, categorizing them into neat groups. This predisposition to categorize means we often sympathize and identify with those that are most familiar—those that look most like us, or those that align with society’s perception of the ‘default human’. The ‘default human’ is crafted by media portrayals, and […]
Casual Diagnosing
Many years ago, when I was still single, I began chatting with a man online. His behavior, while initially charming and funny, quickly devolved into demands for my phone number so he could send me photographs of his penis. I had just met him online, and I honestly found that to be the least interesting […]
The 5 Obstructions To Happiness (and how to remove them)
It took me a long time to figure out how to be happy. Most of us are not raised to be happy, we are raised to be perfect, or accommodating, or accomplished. This leaves a lot of us anxious, frustrated, or angry. I was all three. Of course part of my struggle was at times […]
Life Isn’t Fair
Life isn’t fair. We lose loved ones to illness and age, even as we suffer with our own aging and illnesses. Things, like people, become lost or broken in time. The nature of life is that it ends. Life isn’t fair, not when anyone is cheated, abused, or harmed by others. But in these instances […]
The Age of Narcissism
We are living in an age of narcissism. Nothing is more celebrated than the self. Lives are carefully curated into content – images, opinions, experiences – that are then idealized, digitized, publicized, and monetized. Narcissism is usually described as extreme selfishness and self absorption, with grandiose views of talents and accomplishments, and grandiose needs for attention […]