3 Surprising Ways Your Mother Still Controls How You Eat, Part 2: The Traditionalist

Last week, I wrote about how an emotional eater can inadvertently harm three generations of a family, and how to begin to overcome it. This week […]

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3 Surprising Ways Your Mother Still Controls How You Eat, Part 1: The Emotional Eater

With the holidays coming up, I’ve been reflecting on why I have developed healthy eating habits, such as avoiding refined sugar and fried foods, which were a […]

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Belonging as a Universal Design Principle: Bioneers 2017

As a behavioral scientist, it’s always inspiring and affirming when others get to the lowest common denominator and it’s behavior change. It happened last week at […]

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Dance Beats Fitness Training for Memory and Balance

I was just in Gold Coast, Australia for a family wedding. Needless to say, there was a lot of dancing. I’ve been somewhat dance-deprived for […]

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How Poetry Makes You Smarter

I’ve been writing poetry for over 25 years. I’ve published some of it via 8 books. I’m not sure where it comes from, only that it keeps […]

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Design Thinking for Good Governance

Back in grad school, I wrote an National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal called Policy as Design. It was an extension of my work with the Research […]

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2 Tips to Reach Your Highest Potential At Work

In follow up to an earlier post about collective intelligence, I want to dig deeper into what makes us give our best at work. In response to my […]

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Lower Your Cholesterol with Plant-Based Foods

In my previous blogs, I have been focusing on wellness and reducing risk factors for lifestyle diseases, because these are preventive and behavioral approaches. This is […]

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8 Scientific Practices That Make You Happier

I’ve been following the science behind happiness for some time now, and examining the implications for engagement and wellness. From my Vipassana training, I learned that […]

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Awakened Living: Book Launch

As I started working on my new book, Awakened Living, I noticed that it was the right time. This book focuses on how inner trauma […]

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