Health

Running Through Walls 19
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Health, Uncategorized
- July 8, 2025
“My heart feels like it’s going to jump out of my chest!” Eric yelled out as he stopped short of the finish line. “What?” “My heart! It’s never felt like that before! That’s why I stopped!” We were running laps after his indoor baseball practice. I was frustrated with his sprints during conditioning at the
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To V*ccinate or Not? Seeking Cooler Heads in the V*x Conversation 10
- Culture, Featured, Health, MomThink
- December 13, 2024
Would you like to spend your evenings pulling out your hair? Do you have a sadistic streak? Have you ever considered Chinese water torture as a pastime? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then researching both sides of the vaccine debate may be just the thing for you. Talk about a contentious and
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Reforming Birth One Baby at a Time 8
- Health, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 5, 2024
This week, I had the opportunity to talk about my birth experiences at a local university. I was one member of a panel of three women representing ICAN, the International Cesarean Awareness Network, to speak to a women’s studies class about the issue of birth and women’s treatment by the medical community. About half of
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What Kind of Health Care Did American Women Really Want When They Deserted Kamala?9
- Culture, Featured, Health, MomThink, Politics
- November 26, 2024
Donald Trump’s stunning victory has everyone talking, especially about the surprising gains that he made with minority, youth, and women voters. As a woman, I was told that most of us would be voting for Harris because she was a champion of women’s health. It didn’t happen. In fact, Harris barely won the majority of the
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The Therapeutic Power of Stories 2
- Featured, Health, Literature
- November 8, 2024
Stories hold a powerful sway over the human spirit. They reach us on the deepest levels, moving, inspiring, instructing, and even healing us, as modern therapeutic practice has shown. Stories and poems consolidate and interpret random occurrences and emotional and sensory activity—the raw inputs of experience—into a meaningful whole. This allows us to understand reality
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Big Pharma and Media: Partners in Profit 8
- Health, Featured
- October 17, 2024
Seventy-five percent of the revenue from Fox News’ evening news is from pharmaceutical companies. This is according to an interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did with Valuetainment at the beginning of 2024. These pharma ads air during prime-time slots, and despite the decline in legacy media, as recently as April of this year, 1.9 million
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